Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/26/83; site ihuxr.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!wivax!linus!allegra!eagle!mhuxt!mhuxi!mhuxa!houxm!hocda!spanky!burl!we13!ihnp4!ihuxr!lew From: lew@ihuxr.UUCP Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Something Wicked This Way Comes Message-ID: <450@ihuxr.UUCP> Date: Tue, 31-May-83 18:05:52 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxr.450 Posted: Tue May 31 18:05:52 1983 Date-Received: Tue, 7-Jun-83 10:50:43 EDT Organization: BTL Naperville, Il. Lines: 20 I saw "Something Wicked This Way Comes" over the weekend and I liked it quite a bit. I think several reviewers have remarked that the special effects are used judiciously, and I concur. It is very stylized, which makes it vulnerable to charges of "wooden acting", but I thought that this tone was important to the movie. It is a morality play and not a slice of life. There were several scenes that I found especially effective, notably the schoolteacher before the mirror and Jason Robards's temptation in the library. The former gave me a chill with almost no special effects at all, and the latter was a good example of an effect being used to support a scene, instead of being made the centerpiece. With people going gaga over all the pyrotechnical movies out these days, I think this movie is a refreshing change. It satisfies by giving you something a little different instead of trying to give you more than anybody ever gave you before of what you've already had plenty of. Lew Mammel, Jr. ihuxr!lew