The idea of a “Disney horror movie” certainly sounds like a contradiction in terms. While Disney has certainly branched out into more mature fare thanks to the likes of Marvel and the acquisition of 20th Century Fox, the Disney name is usually still only attached to fairly family-friendly content. If you have a Disney+ subscription, however, you can now finally watch one of Disney’s attempts to break into horror with the 1983 adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes.
I remember seeing Something Wicked This Way Comes as a kid. While the movie has been almost entirely unavailable for years, it was the sort of movie that showed up on cable television regularly decades ago. Now that the film is finally off the list of classic Disney content conspicuously missing from Disney+, I took the opportunity to rewatch it. In some ways, it was everything I remembered and more, and in some ways, it was a great deal less.
