Pretty sure Dorthy is suppose to be like 12-15 years old in the story, it’s literally a story about the dangers of running away from home as a child. You could even consider most of her experiences to be how a child would interpret aspects of the adult world.
L. Frank Baum was a prolific children's book author and playwright. He wrote 13 Oz books. I know it's popular to think there's secret codes in stuff, but sorry to disappoint, it was never his intention. Truth isn't as fun.
Yeah, that is definitely a horror adaptation. But it is also not bad. I saw it 2 years ago. I'm to old for it to scare me, but it is nightmare fuel for younger audience
Fun Fact: While The Wonderful Wizard of OZ IS in the public domain, the name "Wizard of Oz" as depicted in the 1939 film is considered copy protected due to the specific character portrayals and visual elements established in that movie, meaning you cannot freely use the name "Wizard of Oz" without potentially infringing on copyright, particularly if you are closely mimicking the film's imagery, which this movie has done to some degree and this is why they never say the movies full name. The movie and name "Wizard of Oz" will enter public domain in December 31, 2034 due to the writes holders somehow renewed their copyrights in 1963, giving the movie and name a 93 year protection.
It's to tell women to get back to the kitchen after the war, it's inherently about wanting women out of the work place and to try and prevent exactly what happened after the war. It has no lesson for kids because they wanted this to be seen by adult women (that's why Dorthey is the main character because even though she's an adult woman she's treated like a child as all women were back in the day)
@ I don’t know where you heard that but they lied to you. Dorothy is a girl because the original author changed the character during the writing process from a boy to cheer up a young real life relative who was a young girl as she died of TB. He did that in the 1800s. He made the character a young child to teach kids they were capable of big things. Judy Garland was 17 at the time playing a girl around 14. Outside of cults who consider adulthood starting at puberty, she was a child actress playing a younger child. Garland always looked older because compared to today everyone looked around 10-20 years older. The Wizard was only 48 and looks to be in his late 50s to early 60s. Women moved into the workforce in the 1940s during WWII, which is what people mean like when they write about The War. They were forced out in the late 1940s. The Wizard of Oz movie came out in the 1939, years before WWII even started. It also came out during the Great Depression when women, with very few gender role exceptions, absolutely were not in the workplace. Those that were absolutely were not doing what would have been considered men’s work and were making no more than boys in the child labor market. People were literally starving to death due lack of employment. If anyone in your home had a legal job they were protected at all costs regardless of their gender. If the were a runaway minor in a city they could find employment doing what runaways today often end up doing, often against their consent, especially if they were a teenage girl. It’s so rare to come across a statement so absolutely factually wrong about a topic that has so much cultural significance and history behind it. Whoever tricked you into believing those things is quite a skilled trickster. I’m impressed.
I would like a solid Scary Tin Man/Scarecrow/Lion movie. Like maybe After Glenda used Dorothy and her pals to get rid of all of her competition for power (house death, melt death, dude left on his own)- she becomes a tyrant and The three slowly fall into madness over their role in her rise to power, and they start blaming the real world for what has happened to Oz, so they find a portal that can allow them to move freely into the real world, but only during a 3 day harvest moon on a day of Harvest celebration, like Thanksgiving or Feast of Tabernacles. So they travel here to take out Dorothy only to discovery she's long dead, so they just keep searching for something to satisfy their desire for revenge and target rural family's with increased farm hands due to the harvest. Huge pool of victims, wide variety of ways and means to kill with woods, fields, and townships for geography. Tinman cleaves through a hardware store, Lion destroys a farm with lots of guard dogs ready to scrap, scarecrow... does scary scarecrow sh*t. Their only weakness being artifacts from Oz- which some intrepid hero can discover in an Oz museum in Kansas- because WoOz is still a real movie/book, but not known that it was based on a real event, lightened up for children's books but it really was a gruesome civil war where the good guys didn't know they were on the side of the worst gal. Scarecrow is cunning, darkly humorous and talks too much, like Freddyesque. Lion doesn't talk but only attacks from the shadows because he's still a little yellow on face to face conftontations. Tinman's only heart was broken, so he's going to keep taking others until he finds the right one. No singing, but the killers themes could be a shared track, twisting them all together. Less final girl, more like a collective of youths who didn't get along but now have to, etc. Whenever they're "killed" a portal opens and evil munchkins come out to collect them so get can take them back to the guild and resurrect them, making them harder to kill with each remergence because they can't be killed or tricked the same way again, especially not Scarecrow. Yeah, that's the one. There's a movie in there, I'm sure if it.
The lessons of the wizard of oz is not "dont bite more than you can chew and stay in your place" both movie and book, the lesson is that that what you are looking for might already be inside you, like becoming brave, the strength within yourself or being more clever than what others think if you, even if is a bit murky how the movie put it, but the idea is that Dorothy has to search and fight for herself and what she wants, which is keeping her dog toto and then getting back at her home The home part might feel contradictory having in mind with the toto deal since she runned away to keep him, but thast the point, she is running away, ultimately is better confronting the problem head on, thats why returning home is part of the process
Your explanation is a bit murky. I get the homecoming aspect, but how do you "stay in your place" when you've straight up been isekai'd? I'll grant you Dorothy stayed polite mostly. She also chased Toto Into danger on several occasions. So yeah, explain. And I have read the book, although it was a Very long time ago.
@@Nutshellbound The first line is that “stay in your place” _wasn’t_ the lesson. It’s said in the vid a bit before 5:20, with receipts/quoted from the first film (and noted to have been odd).
actually the moral of the book is about how if we want to use fiat currency and move away from the gold standard we'll be living in a world of imagination where fake things are real and there's a green city that seems to have power but really it's all a scam that will lead to those at the top flying away with a balloon and leaving behind inflation the movie is about what you were saying, though
I feel that the town summoned something by obsessing over the movie. Watching the movie until the film tears itself apart, building a concrete path in the woods and naming it 'Yellow Brick Road'. That, or something possessed them into these actions. Something that then made them all walk off into the forest on the road, never to be seen again.
You said it yourself... This is a cosmic horror movie. The Yellow Brick Road trail is less a place and more it's own cosmic entity with an alien will humans could never truly understand and it feeds on Teddy's al consuming thirst for knowledge. He HAD to know what was at the end of the trail (also, if you pay attention you will see that the usher from the ending is also the man from the beggining who gives Teddy the info and sets him on this course to their own demise - clearly an 'avatar' of the Yellow Brick Road itself. And at the end, he finds only death, darkness and just how insiginficant mankind is to such a cosmic horror and goes mad. It's a common theme for HP Lovecraft.
@@Indyawillis85 that’s one of the most unexpected and well executed “let’s take a REALLY DARK turn here” moments in any film I’ve seen. I remember watching it and thinking “WTF Did I just see?”lol STAY AWESOME. ✌️😎 Philadelphia, USA
Yellow Brick Road is one of my favorite horror movies. To me it’s less about how well it’s written but more about how it makes you feel when watching it. Which is unsettled. I watched it for the first time in my early 30s and it was the first time in years, probably since I was a teen or kid that a movie gave me nightmares. With one of the last kills, the government guy who goes insane (well they all go crazy) but he’s chasing the woman and while she’s hiding she senses he’s nearby in the bushes and she resigns to her fate that he’s going to kill her so she asks out “does it have to hurt?” And he responds “yes” omgosh that gave me goosebumps and reverberated in my nightmares for like a year. Great movie. My wife only watched it once with me and refuses to watch it again lol
This is a sick little movie with a vicious streak of unpredictability & a Twilight Zone bent mindframe that punches above its production budget & brings some eerie thrills to its weird tale, thanks for reviewing!
You're the only person I've heard touch on the underlying message fed to us through television, that being to reach for the stars but never actually do anything to grasp them .
So i read about it after i saw it years ago and the ppl who made it said they ran out of money near the end. They couldnt finish it the way they wanted (and it seemed they had it well fleshed out too) so had to come up with a cheaper, quick ending unfortunately. I wish they had more money, as i think it could have been really geeat. As it is, i like the movie. It was "eerie" and i loved the disappearance concept and the music and everything. Inly a couple parts looked hokey. They did what they could with what they had. Hehe the void and color out of space are really great cosmic horror movies.
I watched this as a teen and it was the most upsetting thing I ever watched. To keep myself from thinking about it I literally blocked it out of my memory. All I can recall is the theater scene at the beginning and the unsettling ending. You couldn’t pay me to watch it again.
Im so glad to see more people discussing this movie. i saw it when i was 15 and i am a huge horror fan (been watching them since i was 2, haha) and normally it takes a lot to freak me out but there was something extremely ominous and foreboding about yellowbrickroad. the scene you are omitting is escalated so suddenly it genuinely stupefied me. i come back to it every now and then, and yeah it has its downsides, but i agree wholeheartedly that it has plenty of interesting qualities and genuinely unnerving moments mingled in. (also im glad to hear you mention the trite feeling of all these public domain cash grabs being made), Definitely subscribing and recommending!
Nice to see a video about this underrated little gem (flaws and all)! I saw it at a horror festival In Edinburgh back in 2010 and (despite autodestructing at the end) thought it the most exciting film of the event (beating off the likes of Cold Fish and Tucker & Dale vs. Evil). Glad you dug it.
This was a real surprise find for me, loved it. The shot with the guy crawling from one side of the shot to the other whilst weird sounds play is somehow simultaneously stupid, absurd, hilarious, audacious AND genius.
Great video but I just want to point some things out. 1) Dorothy ran away from her home after her dog came back. Infact the first part of the movie (black and white part) is everything she will experience in OZ. Her uncle's where dumb, scared and heartless. There's a wicked lady. She travels down a road... She witness an "wise" man with a crystal ball. In the end she returned home cause something wrong with her aunt. All this was in was in the real world and Oz. 2) The message was or should be not to run away from home and any problems you may have could be solved with family. 3) You forgot the Banana Splits... They turn them into a fnaf rip-off
YBR is my third-favorite horror film. (First is Ringu, second is the Signal - which also stars Anessa Ramsey.) I have a thing for sick places. That low-key cosmic horror where people end up in a place not meant for human life. I put YBR in the same sub-genre as House of Leaves. The ending could be a little bit better-executed, but I feel that this film doesn't get nearly the respect it deserves. Funny bit about Anessa's involvement in 2/3 of my top 3 films, I knew her personally before she moved out to Atlanta and started doing movies. Nothing special about it, we just ran in the same circles. I went to see the Signal in the theaters because she was in it, actually driving 3 hours to reach a theater showing it. YBR? I had no real idea it was her until I was reading the credits.
I usually don’t sub after just one video but this is the kind of low key breakdowns i like. So i just had to sub :p also the name of the channel what just the right amount of funny and also lets you know what the channels about so im in
One thing is the wizard wasn't entirely false. He was a wise old con man that understood what people needed. One thing I think we need is a further exploration of the James Franco character. Deeply flawed, and the cause of a lot of his own problems. Not Wicked, but another interesting branch.
Something about this movie, when I watched it on a quiet saturday in the office, hit me in a certain way. The scene where the girl decides to take a long walk off a tall cliff after she had eaten the last of the survivor's rations, the absolute call to annihilation, The Void being one step to the left, and taking it without second guessing or being missed, it struck me in a terrifying way that few other points in media have ever come close to.
I do want to say that The Wizard of Oz movie came out in 1939 like 2 weeks before WWII started. So the messaging of stay in your own backyard could be influenced by the fact that a lot parents were probably hoping their kids would/could stay home. Tensions were high before WWII broke. Not to mention people were still a lil traumatized by their kids never coming home from WWI. It's in a lot of books I've read so I think thats where the messaging of stay home partially comes from. In their own way, they just wanted them to be safe.
Can say for modern audience the Wizard of Oz can be seen as just cause it seems like a good idea, doesn't mean it is. Also taking whole movie into account, would say it's more about not running away from your problems because that can make things worse. Dorthy had ran away from home instead of trying to deal with the conflict with the neighbor (one she in part causes cause she allows her dog to run free over to the neighbors to dig up their garden.
Totally unrelated but I noticed the poster on your wall, Smoking Causes Coughing was such an odd film. I watched it subbed and I wasn't originally expecting the humor to be so dry (though it is french). It didn't really lean into the parody aspect, and the random stories taking up such a long run time made it feel like a vehicle to have other short films that they couldn't just make regularly.
I think "whatever this thing is" is an Argo 6x6 with an add-on windshield and top. I've been a 6x6 fan since the Amphicat that was dressed up slightly as the "moon buggy" in "Space:1999" and as the "banana buggies" in "The Banana Splits Show". Over hill and highway the banana buggies go. Coming up to bring you the Banana Splits Show. There are currently maybe 4 companies currently making small 6x6 ATVs.
The ending of YellowBrickRoad, with everyone in the theater to review their errors forever, reminded me of the theater scenes from Xenoblade Chronicles 3, which was portrayed as the same way of reviewing "the events", without spoiling the game. It was a good parallel, even if there was nothing more than a shared origin for an afterlife idea.
I've actually been to the town where this was filmed. They had an _excellent_ concert called Small Town Loud Fest, and there's a nice brewery there called the Copper Pig. Also, there's a place that sells really good andouille sausage.
If you are into stupid shit like the Blair witch I am sure it's awesome. I needed up watching this movie damn near twice I had forgot all about it made it half way through and stopped because I was bored out of my mind. Movie name is misleading as fuck. And actual horror movie based in OZ would have been far more entertaining instead of weird noises now and then.
I actually do remember this movie! I watched a lot more indie films back then and I remember thinking this one was pretty interesting. The one scene that still sticks out in my mind is the one where the siblings are fighting over a hat. Anyone who has seen it probably knows exactly why that scene sticks out to me. *shudders*
The Blair Witch Project DID include the witch as a monster, but the director didn't tell the actors about her, so when she jump scared them they got genuinely too scared to film her and simply ran, with the camera facing away from her.
With that prominent mirror in the background it would be interesting in a horror movie review if you did a video where the reflection starts moving on its own while you’re talking 😂😂😂
A Wizard of Oz horror movie could go really hard. Imagine Wizard of Oz by way of I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream. Just a miserable, mind breaking trek to salvation that ultimately leads to nothing but more woe.
There's supposed to be a horror movie based on Wizard of Oz coming out in 2025, called Gale. It started as a short by Daniel Alexander. That said, I still want to check this movie out as well.
David Lynch's Wild at Heart is heavily influenced by The Wizard of Oz, featuring numerous thematic and visual parallels. Both films depict characters on a transformative journey through a surreal landscape, with Wild at Heart incorporating elements like the Yellow Brick Road and characters resembling those from Oz, such as a "Good Witch". Lynch himself acknowledged this influence, stating that references to The Wizard of Oz permeated Wild at Heart, transforming it into a unique blend of romance and dark surrealism.
I highly recommend The Void as a Cosmic Horror film, it's a rather low budget indie film that surprisingly enough is able to have some visceral special effects that truly feels like a tribute to 80s horror classics like my favorite Cosmic Horror "From Beyond" based on H.P. Lovecraft's short story of the same name (basically a sequel while the short story is the opening, CW; instances of s*xu*l *ss*ult).
"Stay at home and achieve nothing"? Clearly you do not get it. "Over The Rainbow" is all about dreaming of better things, and the moral of the story is about relying on yourself to achieve things rather than external powers. Dorothy learns the power of choosing to be content wherever you happen to be on your life's journey.
If you want to watch more cosmic horror I highly recommend checking out A Color Out Of Space,it's a bit of a slow burn but it's super pretty and just a blast imo, it's not the best movie ever but I absolutely love it though I will admit part of my love may come from the fact that it's got Nick Cage. Another good one that's not amazing but I still enjoy a ton is The Void, it's got more emphasis on the horror part right of the bat and some really great practical effects all throughout.
My mom and dad had a black dvd case for damn near since the late 90's and it was just filled with blank cds and old worn down dvds and some burned copies and a few of them were actually in pretty good condition and one of them was this movie my mom had no idea who it belonged to or when it was put there and my dad had passed away by that point so i couldnt ask him so i played it and honestly it was hella enjoyable it was just weird how nobody knew how it got there
Definitely lovecraftian, the building sense of dread and threat ... I really rate this little film because it isn't full on massive effects nor does it go the gore fest. It relied on the actors, radio and lore.
Fun Fact: The messaging about "don't wander and don't try new things" was not in the book at all, and Dorothy is repeatedly rewarded for being creative and resourceful. -but it was the 30s and actual women's-rights feminism was starting to gain traction and women had just gotten the right to be gainfully employed; literally they just got the right to go work for themselves and make a living for themselves as independent parties, so when you're adapting a book who's second-to-last arc is literally a girl learning to fend for herself, and you're a marketing mogul in the 30-40s and you're mad that women are getting rights what do you do?
I sorta believe that the ending of this movie means that they didn't know how to end the movie, it feels more like it could've ended when he's sitting there on his knees and he lets the wind take the note from him. Doomed to walk the road for eternity, but vague enough to leave his fate undecided. Instead they opted to give us an ending where basically the end of the road is purgatory, and had he just turned back then they all would have made it out, since its his desire that the road is feeding off of and now they are trapped in a hell of his design. I dunno though because again the ending I think is just the creators of the film not exactly knowing how to end it.
I've seen it. AND LOVE IT. I wouldn't compare this to Blair Witch. This is more The Shining as road movie (by way of hiking) when you actually get into it
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You forgot the Mini Sifi "Tin Man"
I'm dead and, the last 5 hours, trilogies is awesome too
Pretty sure Dorthy is suppose to be like 12-15 years old in the story, it’s literally a story about the dangers of running away from home as a child. You could even consider most of her experiences to be how a child would interpret aspects of the adult world.
actually I'm pretty sure it's about fiat currency vs the gold standard but I mean idk
@ or oil and railroad monopolies.
L. Frank Baum was a prolific children's book author and playwright. He wrote 13 Oz books. I know it's popular to think there's secret codes in stuff, but sorry to disappoint, it was never his intention. Truth isn't as fun.
I still think Return to Oz is the best horror adaptation of the wizard of oz
It's not a horror adaptation, it's a kids movie.
Anyone who read the books knows there is plenty of horror in them already.
Yeah, that is definitely a horror adaptation. But it is also not bad. I saw it 2 years ago. I'm to old for it to scare me, but it is nightmare fuel for younger audience
That was one my favorite movies as a kid.
Ozma was terrifying
Fun Fact: While The Wonderful Wizard of OZ IS in the public domain, the name "Wizard of Oz" as depicted in the 1939 film is considered copy protected due to the specific character portrayals and visual elements established in that movie, meaning you cannot freely use the name "Wizard of Oz" without potentially infringing on copyright, particularly if you are closely mimicking the film's imagery, which this movie has done to some degree and this is why they never say the movies full name.
The movie and name "Wizard of Oz" will enter public domain in December 31, 2034 due to the writes holders somehow renewed their copyrights in 1963, giving the movie and name a 93 year protection.
You can thank Disney for the copy right extension. They want the property but due to their greediness; they can’t get it.
5:24 More of a warning not to run off to the city with nothing but hope. Lots of kids died during the great depression trying that little trick.
It's to tell women to get back to the kitchen after the war, it's inherently about wanting women out of the work place and to try and prevent exactly what happened after the war. It has no lesson for kids because they wanted this to be seen by adult women (that's why Dorthey is the main character because even though she's an adult woman she's treated like a child as all women were back in the day)
@ I don’t know where you heard that but they lied to you.
Dorothy is a girl because the original author changed the character during the writing process from a boy to cheer up a young real life relative who was a young girl as she died of TB. He did that in the 1800s. He made the character a young child to teach kids they were capable of big things.
Judy Garland was 17 at the time playing a girl around 14. Outside of cults who consider adulthood starting at puberty, she was a child actress playing a younger child. Garland always looked older because compared to today everyone looked around 10-20 years older. The Wizard was only 48 and looks to be in his late 50s to early 60s.
Women moved into the workforce in the 1940s during WWII, which is what people mean like when they write about The War. They were forced out in the late 1940s. The Wizard of Oz movie came out in the 1939, years before WWII even started.
It also came out during the Great Depression when women, with very few gender role exceptions, absolutely were not in the workplace. Those that were absolutely were not doing what would have been considered men’s work and were making no more than boys in the child labor market. People were literally starving to death due lack of employment. If anyone in your home had a legal job they were protected at all costs regardless of their gender. If the were a runaway minor in a city they could find employment doing what runaways today often end up doing, often against their consent, especially if they were a teenage girl.
It’s so rare to come across a statement so absolutely factually wrong about a topic that has so much cultural significance and history behind it. Whoever tricked you into believing those things is quite a skilled trickster. I’m impressed.
I would like a solid Scary Tin Man/Scarecrow/Lion movie. Like maybe After Glenda used Dorothy and her pals to get rid of all of her competition for power (house death, melt death, dude left on his own)- she becomes a tyrant and The three slowly fall into madness over their role in her rise to power, and they start blaming the real world for what has happened to Oz, so they find a portal that can allow them to move freely into the real world, but only during a 3 day harvest moon on a day of Harvest celebration, like Thanksgiving or Feast of Tabernacles.
So they travel here to take out Dorothy only to discovery she's long dead, so they just keep searching for something to satisfy their desire for revenge and target rural family's with increased farm hands due to the harvest. Huge pool of victims, wide variety of ways and means to kill with woods, fields, and townships for geography. Tinman cleaves through a hardware store, Lion destroys a farm with lots of guard dogs ready to scrap, scarecrow... does scary scarecrow sh*t.
Their only weakness being artifacts from Oz- which some intrepid hero can discover in an Oz museum in Kansas- because WoOz is still a real movie/book, but not known that it was based on a real event, lightened up for children's books but it really was a gruesome civil war where the good guys didn't know they were on the side of the worst gal.
Scarecrow is cunning, darkly humorous and talks too much, like Freddyesque.
Lion doesn't talk but only attacks from the shadows because he's still a little yellow on face to face conftontations.
Tinman's only heart was broken, so he's going to keep taking others until he finds the right one.
No singing, but the killers themes could be a shared track, twisting them all together.
Less final girl, more like a collective of youths who didn't get along but now have to, etc.
Whenever they're "killed" a portal opens and evil munchkins come out to collect them so get can take them back to the guild and resurrect them, making them harder to kill with each remergence because they can't be killed or tricked the same way again, especially not Scarecrow.
Yeah, that's the one. There's a movie in there, I'm sure if it.
Fck a movie this is a book wtf I love it. I’d buy it immediately.
Solid! I'm sold...and the end could be they just wait out the time. The portal sucks the killers in.
Sounds like that would make a solid American McGee game.
There is the Dorothy must die...it could be a good serie
@raipe125 red the first3, but need to read the last.
The lessons of the wizard of oz is not "dont bite more than you can chew and stay in your place" both movie and book, the lesson is that that what you are looking for might already be inside you, like becoming brave, the strength within yourself or being more clever than what others think if you, even if is a bit murky how the movie put it, but the idea is that Dorothy has to search and fight for herself and what she wants, which is keeping her dog toto and then getting back at her home
The home part might feel contradictory having in mind with the toto deal since she runned away to keep him, but thast the point, she is running away, ultimately is better confronting the problem head on, thats why returning home is part of the process
Your explanation is a bit murky. I get the homecoming aspect, but how do you "stay in your place" when you've straight up been isekai'd? I'll grant you Dorothy stayed polite mostly. She also chased Toto Into danger on several occasions. So yeah, explain. And I have read the book, although it was a Very long time ago.
@@Nutshellbound The first line is that “stay in your place” _wasn’t_ the lesson. It’s said in the vid a bit before 5:20, with receipts/quoted from the first film (and noted to have been odd).
@@alecLogan Yeah. Misread apparently.
actually the moral of the book is about how if we want to use fiat currency and move away from the gold standard we'll be living in a world of imagination where fake things are real and there's a green city that seems to have power but really it's all a scam that will lead to those at the top flying away with a balloon and leaving behind inflation
the movie is about what you were saying, though
I feel that the town summoned something by obsessing over the movie. Watching the movie until the film tears itself apart, building a concrete path in the woods and naming it 'Yellow Brick Road'. That, or something possessed them into these actions. Something that then made them all walk off into the forest on the road, never to be seen again.
You said it yourself... This is a cosmic horror movie. The Yellow Brick Road trail is less a place and more it's own cosmic entity with an alien will humans could never truly understand and it feeds on Teddy's al consuming thirst for knowledge. He HAD to know what was at the end of the trail (also, if you pay attention you will see that the usher from the ending is also the man from the beggining who gives Teddy the info and sets him on this course to their own demise - clearly an 'avatar' of the Yellow Brick Road itself. And at the end, he finds only death, darkness and just how insiginficant mankind is to such a cosmic horror and goes mad. It's a common theme for HP Lovecraft.
Think it's possible the movie also overlaps themes with "The King In Yellow"?
@@sxatcychan1988 unfortunately, the only thing these two pieces of media share is that "yellow" is in the title.
Close your parentheses
This movie freaked me out. The scene where the brother hacks his sister's leg off with a rock is burned into my mind.
I know right
@@Indyawillis85 that’s one of the most unexpected and well executed “let’s take a REALLY DARK turn here” moments in any film I’ve seen. I remember watching it and thinking “WTF Did I just see?”lol
STAY AWESOME.
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Yellow Brick Road is one of my favorite horror movies. To me it’s less about how well it’s written but more about how it makes you feel when watching it. Which is unsettled. I watched it for the first time in my early 30s and it was the first time in years, probably since I was a teen or kid that a movie gave me nightmares. With one of the last kills, the government guy who goes insane (well they all go crazy) but he’s chasing the woman and while she’s hiding she senses he’s nearby in the bushes and she resigns to her fate that he’s going to kill her so she asks out “does it have to hurt?” And he responds “yes” omgosh that gave me goosebumps and reverberated in my nightmares for like a year. Great movie. My wife only watched it once with me and refuses to watch it again lol
This is a sick little movie with a vicious streak of unpredictability & a Twilight Zone bent mindframe that punches above its production budget & brings some eerie thrills to its weird tale, thanks for reviewing!
You're the only person I've heard touch on the underlying message fed to us through television, that being to reach for the stars but never actually do anything to grasp them .
I loved yellowbrick road. Creepy as hell, great cast, it gets really dark. Thanks for posting man. Well done.
So i read about it after i saw it years ago and the ppl who made it said they ran out of money near the end. They couldnt finish it the way they wanted (and it seemed they had it well fleshed out too) so had to come up with a cheaper, quick ending unfortunately. I wish they had more money, as i think it could have been really geeat. As it is, i like the movie. It was "eerie" and i loved the disappearance concept and the music and everything. Inly a couple parts looked hokey. They did what they could with what they had. Hehe the void and color out of space are really great cosmic horror movies.
The Void is amazing
I watched this as a teen and it was the most upsetting thing I ever watched. To keep myself from thinking about it I literally blocked it out of my memory. All I can recall is the theater scene at the beginning and the unsettling ending. You couldn’t pay me to watch it again.
Interesting movie. Never heard of it till this video.
Nice vid btw; straight to the point.
HOLY..... Where WAS this ? Dystopian.....
Great little rainy day movie that kept my attention. The epilogue/monologue at the end was downright haunting.
Im so glad to see more people discussing this movie. i saw it when i was 15 and i am a huge horror fan (been watching them since i was 2, haha) and normally it takes a lot to freak me out but there was something extremely ominous and foreboding about yellowbrickroad. the scene you are omitting is escalated so suddenly it genuinely stupefied me. i come back to it every now and then, and yeah it has its downsides, but i agree wholeheartedly that it has plenty of interesting qualities and genuinely unnerving moments mingled in. (also im glad to hear you mention the trite feeling of all these public domain cash grabs being made), Definitely subscribing and recommending!
Nice to see a video about this underrated little gem (flaws and all)! I saw it at a horror festival In Edinburgh back in 2010 and (despite autodestructing at the end) thought it the most exciting film of the event (beating off the likes of Cold Fish and Tucker & Dale vs. Evil). Glad you dug it.
This was a real surprise find for me, loved it. The shot with the guy crawling from one side of the shot to the other whilst weird sounds play is somehow simultaneously stupid, absurd, hilarious, audacious AND genius.
Great video but I just want to point some things out.
1) Dorothy ran away from her home after her dog came back. Infact the first part of the movie (black and white part) is everything she will experience in OZ. Her uncle's where dumb, scared and heartless. There's a wicked lady. She travels down a road... She witness an "wise" man with a crystal ball. In the end she returned home cause something wrong with her aunt. All this was in was in the real world and Oz.
2) The message was or should be not to run away from home and any problems you may have could be solved with family.
3) You forgot the Banana Splits... They turn them into a fnaf rip-off
YBR is my third-favorite horror film. (First is Ringu, second is the Signal - which also stars Anessa Ramsey.) I have a thing for sick places. That low-key cosmic horror where people end up in a place not meant for human life. I put YBR in the same sub-genre as House of Leaves. The ending could be a little bit better-executed, but I feel that this film doesn't get nearly the respect it deserves.
Funny bit about Anessa's involvement in 2/3 of my top 3 films, I knew her personally before she moved out to Atlanta and started doing movies. Nothing special about it, we just ran in the same circles. I went to see the Signal in the theaters because she was in it, actually driving 3 hours to reach a theater showing it. YBR? I had no real idea it was her until I was reading the credits.
This movie was amazing. The music that plays still haunts me a little 😅.
Severely underrated movie.
Saw this on Shudder and just decided to check it out. Very bizarre little gem but I got into it
Thx 4 postn..💛. Saw "Yellowbrick Road" back in the day... I may watch again 🍿🍻 take care til the next upload...
I usually don’t sub after just one video but this is the kind of low key breakdowns i like. So i just had to sub :p also the name of the channel what just the right amount of funny and also lets you know what the channels about so im in
Thanks for making an actual analysis on the film instead of a recap with a surface level 'explanation' at the end
First video I've seen of yours and it was great; I'm subscribed. Keep it up 👍 You're going places.
Okay the Robert Eggers twist I did not see coming…my jaw dropped lol
One thing is the wizard wasn't entirely false. He was a wise old con man that understood what people needed. One thing I think we need is a further exploration of the James Franco character.
Deeply flawed, and the cause of a lot of his own problems. Not Wicked, but another interesting branch.
Oz The Great And Powerful was supposed to get a sequel but it never got made.
My neighbor had one of the 6 wheeled things when I was a kid he called it a Gator. It's also known as an ARGO Frontier.
It's a Banana Buggy !
@@juanlauda2300 immediately thought the same thing 🤣 Tra la la, tra la la, la
*I have:*
*•* _Heard_ of it.
*•* _Seen_ it.
*•* _Loved_ it ever since that first viewing.
Something about this movie, when I watched it on a quiet saturday in the office, hit me in a certain way. The scene where the girl decides to take a long walk off a tall cliff after she had eaten the last of the survivor's rations, the absolute call to annihilation, The Void being one step to the left, and taking it without second guessing or being missed, it struck me in a terrifying way that few other points in media have ever come close to.
They split up, that's usually when bad juju comes down with a bunch of Scooby characters.
I do want to say that The Wizard of Oz movie came out in 1939 like 2 weeks before WWII started. So the messaging of stay in your own backyard could be influenced by the fact that a lot parents were probably hoping their kids would/could stay home. Tensions were high before WWII broke. Not to mention people were still a lil traumatized by their kids never coming home from WWI. It's in a lot of books I've read so I think thats where the messaging of stay home partially comes from. In their own way, they just wanted them to be safe.
If this movie falls flat for you check out Return To Oz. It is a movie made for kids but for me it also falls under the horror type of movie
I can't believe I've never heard of this film. Thanks, I'll check it out.
Dude this kovie is amazing and
My girl scout trope watched this back in 2011 or 2012. The end freaked us all out, so we switched to a Christmas movie lol
I watched this and Tank 432 in the same night... I wasn't really expecting either to be what they were but loved them both 😅
Great video, homie
I love this movie and have recommended it to many friends. It's low budget but better than anything currently playing in theatres.
Based solely on your comment. I'm gonna watch this movie. I didn't give it a chance. But I will now
Oh my!! That’s so cool! Thanks for giving it a chance 😀
Can say for modern audience the Wizard of Oz can be seen as just cause it seems like a good idea, doesn't mean it is. Also taking whole movie into account, would say it's more about not running away from your problems because that can make things worse. Dorthy had ran away from home instead of trying to deal with the conflict with the neighbor (one she in part causes cause she allows her dog to run free over to the neighbors to dig up their garden.
Great video, keep it up!
Thanks for this. I Never heard of the movie before and now I want to watch it.
Love this movie! Awesome vid!
Totally unrelated but I noticed the poster on your wall, Smoking Causes Coughing was such an odd film. I watched it subbed and I wasn't originally expecting the humor to be so dry (though it is french). It didn't really lean into the parody aspect, and the random stories taking up such a long run time made it feel like a vehicle to have other short films that they couldn't just make regularly.
Hey, I was watching the video when I saw a mysterious guy through the mirror, he seemed to be mimicking your actions, who was that?
Great video! New subscriber from New Zealand 🤗
I think "whatever this thing is" is an Argo 6x6 with an add-on windshield and top. I've been a 6x6 fan since the Amphicat that was dressed up slightly as the "moon buggy" in "Space:1999" and as the "banana buggies" in "The Banana Splits Show". Over hill and highway the banana buggies go. Coming up to bring you the Banana Splits Show. There are currently maybe 4 companies currently making small 6x6 ATVs.
Finally someone reviewed this movie. There are so many good b movies out there; this one is top tier
This movie was trippy and that ending 😮
The ending of YellowBrickRoad, with everyone in the theater to review their errors forever, reminded me of the theater scenes from Xenoblade Chronicles 3, which was portrayed as the same way of reviewing "the events", without spoiling the game. It was a good parallel, even if there was nothing more than a shared origin for an afterlife idea.
Solid video!
I've actually been to the town where this was filmed. They had an _excellent_ concert called Small Town Loud Fest, and there's a nice brewery there called the Copper Pig. Also, there's a place that sells really good andouille sausage.
I saw shortly after its release and I remember enjoying it at the time, I'll have to revisit it and see how I feel about it now.
Oh I know yellow brick road. I was big into horror movies during that time. I dug it.
I actually have seen this movie. It's really good, more people should watch it.
Yellow brick road was good. When you watch it you'll remember scenes randomly for years
If you are into stupid shit like the Blair witch I am sure it's awesome. I needed up watching this movie damn near twice I had forgot all about it made it half way through and stopped because I was bored out of my mind. Movie name is misleading as fuck. And actual horror movie based in OZ would have been far more entertaining instead of weird noises now and then.
I actually do remember this movie! I watched a lot more indie films back then and I remember thinking this one was pretty interesting. The one scene that still sticks out in my mind is the one where the siblings are fighting over a hat. Anyone who has seen it probably knows exactly why that scene sticks out to me. *shudders*
Ok 3:28. Yeah, not feeling it. OZ was a brilliant dark interpretation. Not outright horror but yeah, im just going to let that live in my mind.
Omg I watched this when I was like 8, memory unlocked
The Blair Witch Project DID include the witch as a monster, but the director didn't tell the actors about her, so when she jump scared them they got genuinely too scared to film her and simply ran, with the camera facing away from her.
I actually really enjoyed this one. I saw Yellow brick and Toad Road on the same night loved both.
With that prominent mirror in the background it would be interesting in a horror movie review if you did a video where the reflection starts moving on its own while you’re talking 😂😂😂
A Wizard of Oz horror movie could go really hard. Imagine Wizard of Oz by way of I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream. Just a miserable, mind breaking trek to salvation that ultimately leads to nothing but more woe.
This movie was GREAT....
sorta.
Cosmic horror movies...
Check out THE VOID, THE CALL OF CTHUHLU (obviously), and EVENT HORIZON.
There's supposed to be a horror movie based on Wizard of Oz coming out in 2025, called Gale. It started as a short by Daniel Alexander. That said, I still want to check this movie out as well.
David Lynch's Wild at Heart is heavily influenced by The Wizard of Oz, featuring numerous thematic and visual parallels. Both films depict characters on a transformative journey through a surreal landscape, with Wild at Heart incorporating elements like the Yellow Brick Road and characters resembling those from Oz, such as a "Good Witch". Lynch himself acknowledged this influence, stating that references to The Wizard of Oz permeated Wild at Heart, transforming it into a unique blend of romance and dark surrealism.
What an incredible Movie.
I highly recommend The Void as a Cosmic Horror film, it's a rather low budget indie film that surprisingly enough is able to have some visceral special effects that truly feels like a tribute to 80s horror classics like my favorite Cosmic Horror "From Beyond" based on H.P. Lovecraft's short story of the same name (basically a sequel while the short story is the opening, CW; instances of s*xu*l *ss*ult).
I can’t believe they had a cast that size on that kind of budget.
"Stay at home and achieve nothing"? Clearly you do not get it. "Over The Rainbow" is all about dreaming of better things, and the moral of the story is about relying on yourself to achieve things rather than external powers. Dorothy learns the power of choosing to be content wherever you happen to be on your life's journey.
WTF did I just listen to? 🫠😂🫠😂
It’s like people need to read a book on media/film before critique… oh content without critical thought.
I rather liked this movie. I had no idea it was made for that cheap. It’s really good for that budget.
Even just thinking about this movie gives me chills
Don’t forget Emerald City. The one season streaming show.
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If you want to watch more cosmic horror I highly recommend checking out A Color Out Of Space,it's a bit of a slow burn but it's super pretty and just a blast imo, it's not the best movie ever but I absolutely love it though I will admit part of my love may come from the fact that it's got Nick Cage. Another good one that's not amazing but I still enjoy a ton is The Void, it's got more emphasis on the horror part right of the bat and some really great practical effects all throughout.
My mom and dad had a black dvd case for damn near since the late 90's and it was just filled with blank cds and old worn down dvds and some burned copies and a few of them were actually in pretty good condition and one of them was this movie my mom had no idea who it belonged to or when it was put there and my dad had passed away by that point so i couldnt ask him so i played it and honestly it was hella enjoyable it was just weird how nobody knew how it got there
Definitely lovecraftian, the building sense of dread and threat ... I really rate this little film because it isn't full on massive effects nor does it go the gore fest. It relied on the actors, radio and lore.
Wasn't this officially distributed on a peer-to-peer platform or something? I seem to remember it being a gimmick like that.
There's also a shortfilm called Stay Away From Oz which I honestly hated but I feel like with a longer runtime it could have been great
I found it was really good at pushing my personal cosmic horror buttons. It's a flawed film for sure, but what it got right struck me to my core.
Where can I watch?
I could never stay focused on this movie
Fun Fact: The messaging about "don't wander and don't try new things" was not in the book at all, and Dorothy is repeatedly rewarded for being creative and resourceful.
-but it was the 30s and actual women's-rights feminism was starting to gain traction and women had just gotten the right to be gainfully employed; literally they just got the right to go work for themselves and make a living for themselves as independent parties, so when you're adapting a book who's second-to-last arc is literally a girl learning to fend for herself, and you're a marketing mogul in the 30-40s and you're mad that women are getting rights what do you do?
I still remeber trying to watch this with my sister and stopping when they just pull off a person's limb...
I sorta believe that the ending of this movie means that they didn't know how to end the movie, it feels more like it could've ended when he's sitting there on his knees and he lets the wind take the note from him. Doomed to walk the road for eternity, but vague enough to leave his fate undecided. Instead they opted to give us an ending where basically the end of the road is purgatory, and had he just turned back then they all would have made it out, since its his desire that the road is feeding off of and now they are trapped in a hell of his design. I dunno though because again the ending I think is just the creators of the film not exactly knowing how to end it.
when i was a kid the 2nd wizerd of OZ was gave me nightmares
Have you seen Mandy or color out of space with nick cage.
Liv was my favorite... and I'll never forget their bag of candy 😄
80s movoe Return To Oz was nightmare fuel when i was a kid
Speaking of the yellow brick road from the original Wizard of Oz I wonder what would happen if you followed the red brick road?
After Agatha All Along, I wonder if this was somehow the TV show was inspired from... The killing people part.
I haven't read the later books, but didn't Dorothy go back to Oz at some point.
Yes, she did. Several times in fact.
I love this movie, I watched it years ago and noone has ever heard of or watched it
Wasn’t there a horror movie that didn’t go well called gale horror movie
I have seen the cover of this scrolling through Netflix years ago.
::Cutting Room Ceiling Title Card::
Me: (A surprisingly full chested,) "HA!"
I've seen it. AND LOVE IT.
I wouldn't compare this to Blair Witch. This is more The Shining as road movie (by way of hiking) when you actually get into it
I like how yellow brick road and wicked titles should be changed