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'It has the appeal of an actual horror': How Return to Oz became one of the darkest children's films ever made (www.bbc.co.uk)
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[–] VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I read once that there's a scene in that movie, I believe the opening mental hospital scene, where the filmmakers consulted child psychologists to find out what might be too intense for a child to see onscreen. Then purposefully did all the stuff they advised against.