
What would you give a man who could make your deepest dreams come true?
In a small American town, a diabolical circus arrives, granting wishes for the townsfolk, but twisted as only the esteemed Mr. Dark can make them. Can two young boys overcome the worst the devil himself can deal out?
- 6.4
- 1983
- Released
- 1h 35m

Jason Robards
Charles Halloway
Jonathan Pryce
Mr. Dark
Diane Ladd
Mrs. Nightshade
Royal Dano
Tom Fury
Vidal Peterson
Will Halloway
Shawn Carson
Jim Nightshade
Mary Grace Canfield
Miss Foley
Richard Davalos
Mr. Crosetti
Jake Dengel
Mr. Tetley
Jack Dodson
Dr. Douglas
Bruce M. Fischer
Mr. Cooger
Ellen Geer
Mrs. Halloway
Pam Grier
Dust Witch
Brendan Klinger
Cooger as a Child
James Stacy
Ed the Bartender
Angelo Rossitto
Little Person #1
Peter Risch
Little Person #2
Jill Carroll
Teenage Girl
Tony Christopher
Young Ed
Sharan Lea
Young Miss Foley
Scott De Roy
Cooger as a Young Man
Sharon Ashe
Townswoman
Arthur Hill
Narrator (voice)
Phil Fondacaro
Demon Clown (uncredited)
Jerry Maren
Demon Small Person (uncredited)![James Horner: Something Wicked This Way Comes Theme [Extended by Gilles Nuytens]](https://img.youtube.com/vi/qERREJ5c5CQ/hqdefault.jpg)


Released
en
$20,000,000.00
$8,400,000.00
- #witch
- #dreams
- #based on novel or book
- #elephant
- #lightning
- #circus
- #child murder
- #maze
- #spider
- #clown
- #black magic
- #carnival
- #decapitation
- #storm
- #tarantula
- #gothic
- #sideshow
- #autumn
- #lightning rod
Reviews

_**Something Slow & Dull This Way Comes**_ In 1932, a mysterious carnival comes to an Illinois town where weird things start happening and people strangely go missing. Jason Robards plays a librarian while Jonathan Pryce is on hand as the shadowy head of the carnival “Something Wicked This Way Comes” (1983) is spooky fantasy written by Ray Bradbury (based on his book). The studio, Disney,

It might not be as great as it could've been, but I did enjoy watching <em>'Something Wicked This Way Comes'</em>. Jonathan Pryce definitely carries events as Mr. Dark, who is a character that suits him very nicely. I'm a fan of Pryce from other films, so it's little surprise that I like him here. Jason Robards is good too, if a little muttered throughout. The child actors, meanwhile, are passa

By the pricking of my thumbs... Beset by production issues, Disney being horrified by the horror of the piece and etc, Something Wicked This Way Comes proved to be a most divisive picture. Yet it's actually a spooky family friendly horror yarn. Plot sees the Pandemonium Carnival roll into a small American town and mysteriously grant the residents their wishes. Of course it's a "too good to b











