Can you imagine living in a world where rainbows shine around every corner, there are miles and miles of deadly gorgeous poppies, little people pop out on queue to sing songs about candy and inanimate objects miraculously come to life? Me neither. But it sounds familiar, right? Of course it does and unless you’ve lived under a rock all your life, you know I am talking about the land of Oz .
I know I am going to catch a ton of flack for this, but I hate this movie with a passion. Well actually, at first I thought it was a great movie – during the first five minutes. You know, when it was in black and white! Then Dorothy and Toto get swept up by a tornado and landed in some weirdo acid trip – instead of a nearby farm in Kansas. You know, like what would have happened in real life.
So Dorothy finds herself in this creeptastic place and ends up befriending her cleverly disguised farmhands (the scarecrow, lion and tin man) all of whom are all missing integral body parts or personality traits. Why am I always the only person that seems to recognize that this is weird? Really - it is. Then she has to dodge a hideous witch that keeps threatening to kill her and her little dog, too. Oh, and let us not forget these gruesome, kidnapping little flying monkeys - and if they don’t creep you out….
Then a melting witch surely would, right?
And please don’t even get me started on the Lollipop Guild creepfest.
This movie is filled with disturbing images and frankly, what were they trying to do to little kids with a movie like that? It traumatized me for life and I will never, ever, ever let my kids watch that horror show.
Ok, I’m ready – let me have it.
To each her own…but I LOVE it, and even at 50, I still pull it out and watch it at least once a year!
I am on your side, I hate it….I also hate Mary Poppins and have been called inhuman for it. Just way too cheery and singy for my taste. I do agree the Wizard of Oz is a giant creep fest though. No heart, no courage and no brain. Sounds like a typical ex-boyfriend to me…not something I would exactly call entertainment. Not to mention the scarecrow really creeps me out since, ya know, I live near farms and all.
I never liked it either. It’s like somebody’s acid trip immortalized in film.
lol I always liked the Wizard of Oz but both my kids dislike it. I’m a sucker for happy endings.
Personally, I love it, but the Boyfriend agrees with you 100%. He thinks it’s a creepfest from start to finish.
Those monkeys always freaked me out. Truly horrid!
OMG. I hate this movie, bores me to tears, is weird as hell and I don’t think I have ever sat through the entire thing…..unfortunately my husband LOVES it. ugh
I used to like it, now I hate it. You have to find Tim Wilson and hear what he has to say about it you will crack up
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OMG, I watched that movie in horror with my sister as a child and was completely convinced that the wicked witch would fly in through my window at night which was directly over my bed. And I had nightmares for years. That movie STILL creeps me out!
Stopping by from Follow Me, Chickadee. From this post alone, I’m already glad I’ve found your blog. I AGREE. I do actually enjoy the movie now as an adult, but I cannot imagine showing it to younger kids. There’s too many creepy elements. (And, I think I would be bludgeoned to death with questions. Who needs that?)
I like “Over The Rainbow” and the arrival of Glinda, but after that I think the movie drags.
It’s my all-time favourite movie. Ever. But I promise I won’t stab you. Much.
Other horrible children’s movies:
Bambi (the Mom DIES. Scarred me for life)
Land Before Time (AGAIN the Mom dies! I got sent home from birthday parties because it would upset me so much)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (the old creepy one with Gene Wilder or whatever creeping around and singing about children almost dying and whatnot… I could never watch more than a few minutes of it until just a few years ago)
The Ant Bully, Antz, Bug’s Life, etc because EW, BUGS. Gross.
Also, Charlotte’s Web freaks me out and I still close my eyes at the spider parts, especially when the 5 million baby spiders fly around and probably land in someone’s hair.
The witch & flying monkeys? Not a problem.
The Lollipop Guild? Freckin’ terrifying!!
You’re not alone. I even hated it as a kid and that’s never going to change.
I have to add, I did laugh at Futurama’s take on the wizard of oz.
see your not alone, many Wizard of Oz haters. i can take it or leave it i guess.
i think it’s weird that i don’t remember the first time i saw it,it’s like it’s always been there in my mind ahhhh!
my mother in law was friends with one of judy garland’s husbands.he owned a house here in Cleveland that is suppose to be haunted,it’s called The Franklin Castle,i always thought that was interesting.
I’m with you. Never liked it, never will.
I loved Wizard of Oz but i never thought about it like that but i guess most older movies were filled with creepy weird stuff lol.
Ever seen Signs? The one where the aliens start leaving crop circles all around?
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In the end when they are facing the aliens, the little girl throws her water at it and it’s starts melting…. Now you know where all those flying monkeys got to after Dorothy killed their boss…
Other than that, Signs is like a high budget version of “Night of the Living Dead. Zombie aliens as they really were before Hollywood got to them.
I didn’t have a TV growing up. The only times I saw it was on friend’s TVs. I never really got the movie. I kept thinking there must be some hidden meaning or moral truth in a scarecrow; a first generation feller-buncher*; a really bizarre looking lion; and a woman that melted when she got wet. That maybe because I didn’t see it in color until I was in my twenties…
*A feller-buncher is a timber harvesting device used to clear large amounts of forest in a very short time.
Of course I love the Wizard of Oz.. but i am old (48). Always so disappointed with the wizard himself…such a poser behind that curtain! I have 8 kids — three grown and not in prison/psych wards. I think kids need a little good and scary in their lives….Once they grow up and do it on their own they need to be prepared for all sorts of crazy shit! Flying monkeys=mother-in-laws, melting witches=kids who won’t take a bath, lying wizard=many men who will disappoint them, brainless scarecrow= (fill in the blank),
Actually it’s only the little scrawny dog that has it’s shit together!
I used to love this movie, but as I got older I now find myself annoyed/disturbed by it as well. My biggest problem though is the cowardly lion. He has got to be one of the most annoying characters in a movie ever.
Lisa
This is the first movie I ever had nightmares from. When I first saw it as a child I saw the Wicked Witch flying around my room.