@@murtazarizvi368 Wizard Of Oz 1939 is based on the book, The Wonderful Of Oz. Return to Oz on the other hand is based on the 2nd book called, The Marvelous Land Of Oz.
@@murtazarizvi368 Far more faithful in spirit. This scene is very close to a scene in the books. The Oz universe from the books is a lot weirder and more surreal than the 1939 musical version.
I'm curious, you said you thought it was a nightmare. Did you believe you were Dorothy, walking into the display room with all the heads in the cases? I'd be too scared to sleep if I thought this was a nightmare from my imagination. When I first saw this in the theater, I lost a night of sleep. It gave me the worst case of heebie jeebies.... And then came The Blair Witch Project...
I saw this in theaters when it was released in 1985. When the headless girls began to scream and Mombi chases Dorothy, people we're getting up and leaving, especially the ones who had little kids with them who started crying. It was a total flop, because it was considered too dark and wasn't like the 1939 film people expected. Sadly, after that people just forgot about it. I think it was a good film, just ahead of it's time that's all. Still better than Oz the Great and Powerful! :)
I didn't see it in the theater but I saw it shortly after when it was first released on VHS. I get you though. I saw Labyrinth in the theater and liked it at the time but it wasn't until I was an adult that I learned it had been a box office flop.
The movie suffered from disastrous mis-advertising. People were led to believe it was a *sequel* to 1939's The Wizard of Oz. The two movies are based on the same source material, but that's where the similarities end. I think if audiences had been given proper warning that this was *much* closer to the books than the Judy Garland movie, it could have done fine.
Dairo512 Dorothy is so bad ass lol she’s like “LOOK SISTER! I slaughtered two Wicked Witches and you think you can just take my head and I’m not gonna fight you? Think again! I’m Dorothy Gale, and as we say in Kansas, this ain’t my first time at the rodeo.”
@@Emper0rH0rde it is, that is actually pretty accurate to the book. What I don't get is why they decided to rename princess Langwidere from Ozma of Oz to Mombi from The Marvelous Land of Oz.
This movie would not be memorable without Fairuza Balk. She played Dorothy beyond her years but still managed to retain that innocence and curiosity. I think they found the best actress for this movie. The scariest scene (and my favorite) will always be where Dorothy steals the key and wakes up all the heads and runs from the display gallery. That scene gave me heebie jeebies for nights after the movie first came out!
I think return to Oz was nearly better than the Wizard of Oz...it had some good action...compelling villian's like princess mombi...scared the hell out of me....the fantasy scenes were better well done....even tho this movie was much frightening in some parts to be a children's movie.. especially the ending when gnome king is being defeated and those cave rocks come to life and show a terrifying facial expression and make creepy moaning sounds...I would have given this movie a PG rating and not a G rating.
What's most disturbing to me in this scene is that Mombi has the power to make those severed heads all have her own consciousness and personality. (With slight differences depending on which head she's wearing, of course.) The consciousness of each girl she's killed and decapitated is basically gone and replaced with her own, but a minor base part of the original girls' heads remains to make slight alterations to Mombi's mood depending on what head she wears. Like having multiple eyes in different locations.
Actually I think the heads still have their own original consciousness, at 1:21 when Dorothy introduces herself if you listen carefully you can hear the rest of the heads start to whisper to each other. One even seems to say "She can set us free" That would actually make it the predicament even more horrifying for these women. Stuck as just a head on a pedastool, locked in a glass cabinet for weeks or even months on end. And they only time they get to see outside the cabinet is when a magical headless body takes full control of them.
She didn't kill anyone; Ozites can't die. The Nome King turned everyone to stone, then took the heads of thirty beautiful women for Mombi to wear as she saw fit. In the book "Ozma of Oz," it was Princess Langwidere of Ev who owned the thirty heads, which were apparently her own. Her birth must have been an interesting occasion to say the least!
In the restoration scene, the two women who explain what the Nome King and Mombi did are the owners of the very heads we saw Mombi wearing in her first scene.
@@MaskedMan66 Yes Lanfwidere wasn't really evil, just eccentric... It never told how she got the heads... I remember in a children's cartoon of that book, it was HATS instead of heads.... I guess to be less scary for kids lol
This movie was sooooo good and this whole sequence with the head collecting princess, being locked in the palace, building the flying couch, stealing the powder, it all still stuck with me to this day.
Totally creeped out by this movie when I was a child, yet still a favorite of mine to this day. It's got an eerie, mystical nostalgia to it which you only find in 80s flicks. Sigh.
This scene is so brilliant, just look at all those heads in the background, they all just stare at her and once in a while move or blink, the camera didn't focus on them, but that's exactly what makes it creepy
I always wondered, did the heads have memory of the their lives or were they all an extension of her The heads having memories is pretty horrifying. That means the moment she puts them on she erases their personality and takes control of their flesh. Yikes...
I wondered about that. When their heads were restored to their rightful bodies they were their own selves. Otherwise they were a part of Mombi while she was wearing one of them.
@@daustin8888 Didn't they all scream when Dorothy stole the key? If I'm remembering that right, then that would probably make them vassals to Mombi, regardless of whether they were on her body or behind the glass. Also, the one with the dark hair that she puts on in this clip was already speaking as Mombi even before she put it on her shoulders. I'm guessing it's like the Rick and Morty episode where they all share the same consciousness. Interesting thought though about them having memories of their lives before she took their heads. Shoot, now I want to read the whole book series.
"I believe you will not!" Man, that took a lot of guts! Meanwhile, other kids who are close to Dorothy's age are getting nightmares just from watching this!
“I think you’re very beautiful” specific part in the scene instills something in me other than fear, sadness. Dorothy tries to see the good in everything no matter how evil they might seem. it’s upsetting that she gets shit from everybody
I remember being 7-8 years old and wanting her bedroom/ hall of heads. It didn't scare me at all. Return To Oz is my #1 favorite film of all time. I am currently in the process of making my own replica head cabinet. A tribute to the film and this, my favorite scene.
ONLY JUST NOTICED THE CREEPY WHISPERS FROM OTHER HEADS AT 1:22!!! Total Masterpiece this film. If people can't get over the fact that this is NOT Wizard of Oz 1930's, that's their problem.
@@zatchfan202 Dorothy never stole a key and the heads never cried out from their cases; their owner, Princess Langwidere, has had those heads from her birth, which must have been a very noteworthy occasion.
I dont know why I came back here after all these years but I feel a lot of nostalgia. Its scary as hell when you see it as a kid but now that I am older, I actually find this scene visually beautiful and the idea of a princess changing her looks by changing her head is actually pretty cool
The musical score by David Shire was also top notch.. I loved the mandolin music and the whole movie's soundtrack which beautifully accompanied each scene and act.
I remember when our teachers, nuns, showed this movie to us all, we were 6 years old. Some kids cried, one fainted, the nuns went on panick mode. Parents had to deal with our nightmares for weeks. But i loved it, especially this scene !
Mombi's head was in cupboard 31, as you saw was very plain. The other heads are from women in Oz. You also notice that when Mombi has her own head on, she looks like Nurse Wilson from the sanatorium that her aunt sent her to.
^the woman in the Patty wagon at the end of the film is Nurse Wilson, who was the nurse in the sanitarium Dorothy was in at the beginning of the movie. She got arrested.
I'd love to know where they got the inspiration for Mombi's dress. It looks exactly like what I would expect a princess in a fantasy film to wear. And it's just gorgeous.
In the original books, Princess Mombi (Langwidere) Wore a simple yet elegant white dress, one that matched with every head she had in her collection. She was so vain that she felt every moment spent wondering what costume to wear would take away from a moment spent admiring the beauty of the head she was wearing. I suppose the costume in the movie is appropriate, but not book accurate.
So many people say this film scared them as children. I watched this when i was 6 years old and i loved it. Then again, i started watching 1980s horror at a very young age.
It's considered one of the scariest kids movies ever, I'm not surprised in the slightest. I also really admire how the film is pretty accurate to the books, The Wizard of Oz is normally depicted the exact opposite of dark in movies, so this movie really is a treat.
This is an Oz film, and children are the main audience for Oz, though adults enjoy it too. There is nothing in this movie that isn't in the books. The Wheelers, as is shown in the movie, are largely ineffective creatures who are basically just toadies and stooges to whomever's in charge.
MaskedMan66 Well she gets saved at the last minute but that's what they intended to do to her. By the way I completly agree with your other comment so i'm not trying to hate on you or anything.
As a child this whole scene and later when Dorothy steals the Powder of Life scared the life out of me...... Now I'm in awe of it, the acting, visuals, story, everything! ❤
I can't believe i found it! I was about 4 or 5 yrs old when my sister was watching this on tv. This part was the only thing that stood out and stuck in my head for years but didn't know what movie it was. 26 years later, i googled woman with heads in glass and found it!
A lot of people don't like this film for being too scary, despite the fact that this film is actually more loyal to the original Oz book series than the 1939 fillm.
is it me, or was Fiona Victory (Dark hair Mombi) actually quite a bit more creepier than Jean Marsh (Real Mombi)? The way she looks like Dorthy like prey was particularly unsettling.
Number 4 Mombi should have been the real Mombi. The predatory, borderline wild, look in her eyes is *deeply* unsettling. I have no doubt little Fairuza Balk was intimidated.
My husband thought she was the most beautiful head of the bunch when he saw this. But, when she puts her hands on Dorothy and threatens to take her head, being an helicopter father that he is to out daughters, he says and I quote: "I would've smacked that lady's hand if she ever touched my daughter like that." LMAO!
After watching Return to Oz i honestly can't rewatch Wizard of Oz anymore. That movie just feels so fake and campy to me now. After seeing the dark version of Oz i can't sit through the one portrayed in the original lol
@@ARBLACKx I feel the same because there's just something more engaging with the dark side of Oz. It just makes the fantasy world feel scary and intriguing at the same time.
@@amykanilia8860 Its a shame we never got to see adaptations of the other books with the same dark fantasy tone of Return to Oz. Instead hollywood just made that bad prequel movie with James Franco
The wizard of oz, was inspired by a little girl who was dying from a very extreme case of the measles way back in 1904. She finally died when the book 'the wizard of oz' was published. The whole story is really a death experience. And when the girl died it can also be seen as returning to Oz, but this time returning for good.
Wrong. L. Frank Baum did name Dorothy Gale after Dorothy Gage, his wife's niece who died in infancy, but the story was in his mind for years beforehand, and he told parts of it to his sons and their friends until his mother-in-law told him to put it all together and publish it. The story is about a little girl who travels to a real fairyland, and in subsequent books she goes back four more times, finally bringing her aunt and uncle to live there. And other stories feature other American characters coming to Oz from outside, so there's nothing metaphysical going on.
@@enolamsamoht Which documentary? There are a lot of crackpot documentaries out there. Steer clear of any that claim that it's about economics or politics.
For me this was the best It's not only for the post apocalyptic feeling of it but also for the creepiness of it When I watch this I think of how Dorothy feels to see her entire world that she knew is gone And how utterly terrifying that must feel For me this movie was just great and is a classic with me forever
As a child, I loved so many scenes of this movie that I would often reenact them. I wished to have a sandwich from a strawberry lunch bucket from the beginning of her time in Oz, to painting a ceramic chicken of my own and naming it "Balena". I made my own ruby key of Mombi's from a red pipecleaner with translucent pony beads. I even loved the sound of the comb being dragged across the pumpkin in the asylum, that I tried it myself. My family frequently went to antique shops so I was always on the look out for a piece that could summon the scarecrow (emerald paperweight). To imagining that I was eating the food of the gnome king (Popeyes biscuit). XD I loved this film dearly and still do!
I had an OZ Key that I found at a second hand store! I wore it as a necklace for many years! Fairuza Balk was a family friend growing up and she inspired me to be an actress! Celeste White Steele Much Love She is very cool!
Everybody talks about how creepy and scary this movie was. Meanwhile, 5 year old me wore out my VHS tape of this movie because it was one of my favorite movies growing up, right next to Labyrinth. Anyone else?
Oh I just loved this movie as a kid. I still do. I've watched it quite a few times over the last 37 years. I wanted to be Princess Mombi soooo bad. Hell, if I could be her now, I'd jump at the chance. This movie never creeped me out. I don't know what all these people are talking about.
This bitch, the freaking Wheelers, and the scene in which the Tin Man gets flattened by that machine have been living rent free in my head for over 18 years😭😂this movie was a feverdream😂😂
I absolutely agree. I am in the process of making a replica head cabinet as a tribute to this film. It's my favorite film of all time. That clicking sound...it's unique and VERY satisfying.
I feel very sorry for all those kids and viewers who were damaged by this movie. I was born in 1984, a year before the movie came out and I loved this movie!
@@TommyLellan In a lot of the older Tarzan movies, Tarzan's hair would always be short and very neatly trimmed. A modern trend is for men to have facial hair in a style that I call "grow it out or shave it off." It's one of my gripes about the _Superman and Lois_ T.V. show; Superman shouldn't be scruffy.
Probably the most horrifying scene in movie history. Just watched it now for the first time in years since I was a kid and still, her staring straight through my soul made my heart sink. :(
I remember watching this as a kid in 2002-2003 time. It fucked me up. I started crying when she started dragged Dorothy my mom just pushed the eject button and put it back in the blockbuster case. This movie was definitely not for kids 😂😂😂
I loved this movie as a kid. (Still do) I watched it constantly along with the labyrinth. It was a little scary at times, but I think that’s what made it so intriguing to me.
I was 12. The scene in this room later in the movie freaked me out. I never forgot it either. Although tbh I was a bit vague on details until I looked it up on here, as I haven't watched the movie for years. I did remember the heads though.
Same here! I didn't find this movie scary at all when I was a kid. Intense yes but not scary. However seeing it now, I do find it pretty creepy! Then again I've never seen the scene of Mombi's headless body slowing walking towards Dorothy until I was older cause that part was cut in the TV version which is what I saw growing up.
Legit when i was 9, i did not find this scene scary at all even when the heads start screaming when she try to take the powder of life from the cupboard. I dunno i just felt fascinated and its so freaking cool to be able to change different beautiful heads. Maybe i’m a weird kid. I have the vhs tape to record it on tv when it aired. I got upset when it broke cause i watch it so many times.
Fun Fact: The character of Princess Mombi potrayed in this movie is actually a combination of both Princess Langwidere and Mombi from the original Oz series.
The fact that Oz has become dark is the plot complication that must be undone, and it certainly is. Frankly, we should have seen more of the restored Oz; Dorothy didn't have to rush off so quickly. In the books, she frequently stayed for at least a week before going home.
It's funny how Disney nowadays forces diversity into everything they produce, but in this scene all heads are white (the book states that 30 heads were of different ethnicities and represented different kinds of beauty).
Yup but imagine if the princess in the books changed her skin color magically to match the head so it wouldn’t look awkward of a non white head on a white body
crescentfreshbret Yes, Princess Langwidere. Except, in the book, she's spoiled and vain, but otherwise mostly harmless, and her heads are essentially items of clothing, rather than the heads of girls she killed, although she does threaten to take Dorothy's head at one point.
@@MaskedMan66 They represent us. Me and you. The unwashed masses of stooges that will bend the knee to our masters. We do what we are told and when. We fight each other and think how we are told. Those of us that say we think for ourselves are even more consumed and wasted. We are scum.
I must've been a weird kid growing up. You see, I would freak out during the head explosion scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark, but you show me this scene and I thought it was awesome.
because explosions are real and that scene was just plain gory and gross. Here's it's already impossible to be headless and put on different living heads like a dress, so the revulsion doesn't hit as much.
@@yellinghayfire4935 The Colonial Radio Theater version of "Ozma of Oz" uses some squidgy sound effects when Langwidere takes a head off and puts another one on, and her maid Nanda makes "Ew" noises.
I saw this movie when I was just in 5th grade on those old BETAMAX players... I kept repeating the movie since the story was dark and yet very artistic and at the same time so fantastically real... Tick Tock is my favorite...
Return to Oz was a brazen effort. It was a great film. The foreboding atmosphere, the dreadful creations (but in a good and fascinating way) such as Mombi & the Wheelers made it a fantastically dark and gloriously eerie film. Still love it, even to this day.
In fact, the character who could change heads in the Oz universe was Princess Langwidere, but she was not evil, rather envious, in addition, she acted as the regent of the country of Ev, due to the lack of a royal family, which was sold to the Nome King by her uncle King Evoldo. Princess Mombi was based on the false witch Mombi and, of course, Princess Langwidere.
I put this in the Princess Bride category of great fantasy movies of the 1980s. Conan, Willow, Robin Hood, etc. If you saw it, memories of this movie will last you a life time. The Wheelers were epic.
This movie is really a mind trip, I wish they could have made it look and feel a little more like the original but i really appreciate it for what it is.
I was actually only 5 when my mum took me to the cinema to see this. She as a bit skeptical it might be frightening but i was a hardy kid. I absolutely loved it. I was obsessed with the Wheelers i went home and garthered up all the roller skates and I wasn't afraid of Mombi's heads or any of it. Apparently I was sat bolt upright the whole time in my chair watching quietly. One of my favourites from my childhood.
+Ocean Sage I don't understand what is so scary about it. It's an imaginery fantasy movie, the movie is true to the book. I saw it when i was 7 and became one of my most favorite movie ever.
This movie is one of those rare moments where the production team actually cared about and respected the source material.
Yep, and they made an all time classic! Just didnt get rewarded by the box office.
so return to oz is more faithful to the books than the 1939 version?
@@murtazarizvi368 Wizard Of Oz 1939 is based on the book, The Wonderful Of Oz. Return to Oz on the other hand is based on the 2nd book called, The Marvelous Land Of Oz.
@@murtazarizvi368 Far more faithful in spirit. This scene is very close to a scene in the books. The Oz universe from the books is a lot weirder and more surreal than the 1939 musical version.
@@ytanonymity3585 RtO borrows elements from "Marvelous Land," but also from the third book, "Ozma of Oz."
I'm 28 and this whole time I thought I made up this nightmare in my head. Just figured out it's from a movie.
No kidding!!!!!!
SAME OH MY GOD
I'm curious, you said you thought it was a nightmare. Did you believe you were Dorothy, walking into the display room with all the heads in the cases? I'd be too scared to sleep if I thought this was a nightmare from my imagination. When I first saw this in the theater, I lost a night of sleep. It gave me the worst case of heebie jeebies....
And then came The Blair Witch Project...
Glad I'm not the only one. Mental
Same. I'm 30 and I could never forget this movie.
I saw this in theaters when it was released in 1985. When the headless girls began to scream and Mombi chases Dorothy, people we're getting up and leaving, especially the ones who had little kids with them who started crying. It was a total flop, because it was considered too dark and wasn't like the 1939 film people expected. Sadly, after that people just forgot about it. I think it was a good film, just ahead of it's time that's all. Still better than Oz the Great and Powerful! :)
+Jesse New Haha "just A HEAD of it's time"
i saw it when i was 9 or 10 and it scared me half to death. now that i am in my 20s i think it's creepy but i love the horror of it!
I didn't see it in the theater but I saw it shortly after when it was first released on VHS. I get you though. I saw Labyrinth in the theater and liked it at the time but it wasn't until I was an adult that I learned it had been a box office flop.
The movie suffered from disastrous mis-advertising. People were led to believe it was a *sequel* to 1939's The Wizard of Oz. The two movies are based on the same source material, but that's where the similarities end. I think if audiences had been given proper warning that this was *much* closer to the books than the Judy Garland movie, it could have done fine.
Ruben T exactly!
"I believe you will not!" Dorothy has all the sass.
Meanwhile, other kids who merely *watched* this scene are getting nightmares.
Dairo512 I love this movie, still do after all this time ❤️
Dairo512 Dorothy is so bad ass lol she’s like “LOOK SISTER! I slaughtered two Wicked Witches and you think you can just take my head and I’m not gonna fight you? Think again! I’m Dorothy Gale, and as we say in Kansas, this ain’t my first time at the rodeo.”
That line is straight from the book, too.
@@Emper0rH0rde it is, that is actually pretty accurate to the book. What I don't get is why they decided to rename princess Langwidere from Ozma of Oz to Mombi from The Marvelous Land of Oz.
I think 💭 it would make more sense for mombi two Make Dorothy her daughter and raise her to be evil 🦹♀️ Do you agree?
this scene is really great. the concept of headless queen with so many heads. its really awesome
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She wasn't headless; she had 31 of the things.
She was adapted from Princess Langwidere from Ozma of Oz, the regent of the Land of Ev
In the book the Princess had only thirty heads. In the movie it was thirty-one. Head number 31 was Mombi's true head.
This movie would not be memorable without Fairuza Balk. She played Dorothy beyond her years but still managed to retain that innocence and curiosity. I think they found the best actress for this movie. The scariest scene (and my favorite) will always be where Dorothy steals the key and wakes up all the heads and runs from the display gallery. That scene gave me heebie jeebies for nights after the movie first came out!
I remember this movie being the scariest thing ever as a kid... watching this brought back weird memories.
And coraline
Nicole Naher me too. So crazy. Haven’t watched it in 20 years!!
I think return to Oz was nearly better than the Wizard of Oz...it had some good action...compelling villian's like princess mombi...scared the hell out of me....the fantasy scenes were better well done....even tho this movie was much frightening in some parts to be a children's movie.. especially the ending when gnome king is being defeated and those cave rocks come to life and show a terrifying facial expression and make creepy moaning sounds...I would have given this movie a PG rating and not a G rating.
@@gretakournikova5031NO Return Of Oz Is trash Wizard Of Oz rules dummy
@@gretakournikova5031 YOU BITCH
What's most disturbing to me in this scene is that Mombi has the power to make those severed heads all have her own consciousness and personality. (With slight differences depending on which head she's wearing, of course.) The consciousness of each girl she's killed and decapitated is basically gone and replaced with her own, but a minor base part of the original girls' heads remains to make slight alterations to Mombi's mood depending on what head she wears.
Like having multiple eyes in different locations.
Actually I think the heads still have their own original consciousness, at 1:21 when Dorothy introduces herself if you listen carefully you can hear the rest of the heads start to whisper to each other. One even seems to say "She can set us free"
That would actually make it the predicament even more horrifying for these women. Stuck as just a head on a pedastool, locked in a glass cabinet for weeks or even months on end. And they only time they get to see outside the cabinet is when a magical headless body takes full control of them.
She didn't kill anyone; Ozites can't die. The Nome King turned everyone to stone, then took the heads of thirty beautiful women for Mombi to wear as she saw fit.
In the book "Ozma of Oz," it was Princess Langwidere of Ev who owned the thirty heads, which were apparently her own. Her birth must have been an interesting occasion to say the least!
In the restoration scene, the two women who explain what the Nome King and Mombi did are the owners of the very heads we saw Mombi wearing in her first scene.
@MaskedMan66 I love that scene. I love hoe Mombi smirks. She's basically saying, I'd take your heads again in a heart beat
@@MaskedMan66 Yes Lanfwidere wasn't really evil, just eccentric... It never told how she got the heads... I remember in a children's cartoon of that book, it was HATS instead of heads.... I guess to be less scary for kids lol
This movie was sooooo good and this whole sequence with the head collecting princess, being locked in the palace, building the flying couch, stealing the powder, it all still stuck with me to this day.
It was all in the books first, except for the part about stealing the heads. Somehow, all thirty of Princess Langwidere's heads were her own.
Totally creeped out by this movie when I was a child, yet still a favorite of mine to this day. It's got an eerie, mystical nostalgia to it which you only find in 80s flicks. Sigh.
Yes specially the heads in the display glass, thats very creepy for sure
Sameeee
totes. Absolutely magical movie.
This scene is so brilliant, just look at all those heads in the background, they all just stare at her and once in a while move or blink, the camera didn't focus on them, but that's exactly what makes it creepy
I always wondered, did the heads have memory of the their lives or were they all an extension of her
The heads having memories is pretty horrifying. That means the moment she puts them on she erases their personality and takes control of their flesh.
Yikes...
I wondered about that. When their heads were restored to their rightful bodies they were their own selves. Otherwise they were a part of Mombi while she was wearing one of them.
@@daustin8888 Didn't they all scream when Dorothy stole the key? If I'm remembering that right, then that would probably make them vassals to Mombi, regardless of whether they were on her body or behind the glass.
Also, the one with the dark hair that she puts on in this clip was already speaking as Mombi even before she put it on her shoulders. I'm guessing it's like the Rick and Morty episode where they all share the same consciousness.
Interesting thought though about them having memories of their lives before she took their heads. Shoot, now I want to read the whole book series.
@@kevlarkittens Well, it is better that they are all under her control 24/7 as opposed to being conscious of what is going on
@@daustin8888 I agree. Ignorance really is bliss. You learn that when you hit a certain point in adulthood 😆
"I believe you will not!" Man, that took a lot of guts! Meanwhile, other kids who are close to Dorothy's age are getting nightmares just from watching this!
This gave me nightmare when I was little
lol, me too
frieswithmayo Me too haha
When I was younger I could watch it without hands in front of my eyes.
frieswithmayo me too
me too
“I think you’re very beautiful” specific part in the scene instills something in me other than fear, sadness. Dorothy tries to see the good in everything no matter how evil they might seem. it’s upsetting that she gets shit from everybody
Hardly everybody.
This scene has been tattooed in my head since I was a kid. I remember wishing I had countless of heads to choose from too. Nostalgic.
Only thirty.
me too i wish there was a male version of it lol
@@scrappycoco6282 "Male version?"
I remember being 7-8 years old and wanting her bedroom/ hall of heads. It didn't scare me at all. Return To Oz is my #1 favorite film of all time. I am currently in the process of making my own replica head cabinet. A tribute to the film and this, my favorite scene.
I love how Mombi gets progressively scarier with each head she subsequently wears.
Those heads were from the dancing girls
ONLY JUST NOTICED THE CREEPY WHISPERS FROM OTHER HEADS AT 1:22!!!
Total Masterpiece this film. If people can't get over the fact that this is NOT Wizard of Oz 1930's, that's their problem.
What they also don’t understand is that this movie was staying true to the source material. This really happened in the Oz books.
@@zatchfan202 Dorothy never stole a key and the heads never cried out from their cases; their owner, Princess Langwidere, has had those heads from her birth, which must have been a very noteworthy occasion.
As much as I loved the classic 1939 film, I agree this is a 1980's version with a twist and adventure.
Ditto Justin
Ah nothing like sobbing in bed after a good kids movie.
This isn't a kid's movie, dumbass. It is a family film.
I’m in this comment and I don’t like it
Oh no
I take it you missed the restoration of the Emerald City and Dorothy's return home.
I dont know why I came back here after all these years but I feel a lot of nostalgia.
Its scary as hell when you see it as a kid but now that I am older, I actually find this scene visually beautiful and the idea of a princess changing her looks by changing her head is actually pretty cool
Have you ever read "Ozma of Oz?"
The musical score by David Shire was also top notch.. I loved the mandolin music and the whole movie's soundtrack which beautifully accompanied each scene and act.
I remember when our teachers, nuns, showed this movie to us all, we were 6 years old. Some kids cried, one fainted, the nuns went on panick mode. Parents had to deal with our nightmares for weeks. But i loved it, especially this scene !
*smh*
Mombi's head was in cupboard 31, as you saw was very plain. The other heads are from women in Oz. You also notice that when Mombi has her own head on, she looks like Nurse Wilson from the sanatorium that her aunt sent her to.
She felt entitled to those other heads.
The boldness
Omg your right. *spoiler alert* and you even see a woman who looks like Mombi locked in a paddy waggon looking at Dorothy at the end.
^the woman in the Patty wagon at the end of the film is Nurse Wilson, who was the nurse in the sanitarium Dorothy was in at the beginning of the movie. She got arrested.
Jean Marsh played both Mombi and Nurse Wilson
Omg thank u!!!! Mr IMDB
My all time child hood favourite. Hauntingly beautiful. This castle is everything. Eerie stunning music 👸🏼
I'd love to know where they got the inspiration for Mombi's dress. It looks exactly like what I would expect a princess in a fantasy film to wear. And it's just gorgeous.
Can we take a moment to appreciate the bonkers costume design for Mombi? The art nouveau ornaments and those bonkers spiked wings?
I was always impressed by that.
Some folks think Bonkers is gum.
🍎 🍇 🍊
They know it’s candy now!
In the original books, Princess Mombi (Langwidere) Wore a simple yet elegant white dress, one that matched with every head she had in her collection. She was so vain that she felt every moment spent wondering what costume to wear would take away from a moment spent admiring the beauty of the head she was wearing. I suppose the costume in the movie is appropriate, but not book accurate.
Skeksis like
So many people say this film scared them as children. I watched this when i was 6 years old and i loved it. Then again, i started watching 1980s horror at a very young age.
This scene didn’t frighten me when I was a child; I was fascinated. I would’ve loved to see Princess Mombi in all the heads in her collection.
This was meant to be a kids film and everything about it was creepy.
The wheelers were the most terrifying thing i'd seen as a kid.
It's considered one of the scariest kids movies ever, I'm not surprised in the slightest. I also really admire how the film is pretty accurate to the books, The Wizard of Oz is normally depicted the exact opposite of dark in movies, so this movie really is a treat.
Not to mention the fact that Dorothy gets electric shock therapy in an asylum filled with screams.
This is an Oz film, and children are the main audience for Oz, though adults enjoy it too. There is nothing in this movie that isn't in the books. The Wheelers, as is shown in the movie, are largely ineffective creatures who are basically just toadies and stooges to whomever's in charge.
+Nivada Strikes Dorothy does not get electroshock therapy.
MaskedMan66 Well she gets saved at the last minute but that's what they intended to do to her. By the way I completly agree with your other comment so i'm not trying to hate on you or anything.
As a child this whole scene and later when Dorothy steals the Powder of Life scared the life out of me...... Now I'm in awe of it, the acting, visuals, story, everything! ❤
Most true to the books, and dark enough for the adults to be immersed too... Loved this take on Baum's works. Brilliant!
Adults don't need "dark" to be immersed in a fantasy tale. ;-)
Pans labyrinth is a great adult fairy take
I can't believe i found it! I was about 4 or 5 yrs old when my sister was watching this on tv. This part was the only thing that stood out and stuck in my head for years but didn't know what movie it was. 26 years later, i googled woman with heads in glass and found it!
It should have taken you to the book "Ozma of Oz."
My nephew is 8 now and he LOVES this movie sooo much.
Imagine the heads in the cabinet are the Disney Princesses
Amazing
Why?
子供の頃に観て、物凄く印象に残ってる映画の1つです。DVDが欲しい❗❗❗❗❗❗
A lot of people don't like this film for being too scary, despite the fact that this film is actually more loyal to the original Oz book series than the 1939 fillm.
It's a movie with scary bits, like any good fantasy tale; but it isn't a scary movie.
@@MaskedMan66 I know right.
Love the Edwardian aesthetic of this movie.
Tail-end of Victorian, early Edwardian, yup! That was true to the time that the earliest Oz books were published.
I remember seeing this movie at 5 years old and to this day it's one of my favorite movies ❤️
is it me, or was Fiona Victory (Dark hair Mombi) actually quite a bit more creepier than Jean Marsh (Real Mombi)? The way she looks like Dorthy like prey was particularly unsettling.
Number 4 Mombi should have been the real Mombi. The predatory, borderline wild, look in her eyes is *deeply* unsettling. I have no doubt little Fairuza Balk was intimidated.
My husband thought she was the most beautiful head of the bunch when he saw this. But, when she puts her hands on Dorothy and threatens to take her head, being an helicopter father that he is to out daughters, he says and I quote: "I would've smacked that lady's hand if she ever touched my daughter like that." LMAO!
No.
@@Emper0rH0rde I'm sure she wasn't. She knew as an actress that it was all pretend.
I love this version of Oz so dark.
This is the only Oz film adaption that really replicates the dark nature of the books near-perfectly.
@@WillowTitov I completely agree that's why I love this sequel. It's just dark and unsettling which adds more depth to the world of Oz.
After watching Return to Oz i honestly can't rewatch Wizard of Oz anymore. That movie just feels so fake and campy to me now. After seeing the dark version of Oz i can't sit through the one portrayed in the original lol
@@ARBLACKx I feel the same because there's just something more engaging with the dark side of Oz. It just makes the fantasy world feel scary and intriguing at the same time.
@@amykanilia8860 Its a shame we never got to see adaptations of the other books with the same dark fantasy tone of Return to Oz. Instead hollywood just made that bad prequel movie with James Franco
The wizard of oz, was inspired by a little girl who was dying from a very extreme case of the measles way back in 1904. She finally died when the book 'the wizard of oz' was published. The whole story is really a death experience. And when the girl died it can also be seen as returning to Oz, but this time returning for good.
Wrong. L. Frank Baum did name Dorothy Gale after Dorothy Gage, his wife's niece who died in infancy, but the story was in his mind for years beforehand, and he told parts of it to his sons and their friends until his mother-in-law told him to put it all together and publish it. The story is about a little girl who travels to a real fairyland, and in subsequent books she goes back four more times, finally bringing her aunt and uncle to live there. And other stories feature other American characters coming to Oz from outside, so there's nothing metaphysical going on.
@@MaskedMan66 if I'm wrong then, so is the documentary about the wizard of oz.
@@enolamsamoht Which documentary? There are a lot of crackpot documentaries out there. Steer clear of any that claim that it's about economics or politics.
In my childhood...I would say...this was so unbelievable good and scary.The best film of my childhood ❤❤❤
I like how she touches Alice.
"Alice" 💀💀💀
For me this was the best It's not only for the post apocalyptic feeling of it but also for the creepiness of it When I watch this I think of how Dorothy feels to see her entire world that she knew is gone And how utterly terrifying that must feel For me this movie was just great and is a classic with me forever
As a child, I loved so many scenes of this movie that I would often reenact them. I wished to have a sandwich from a strawberry lunch bucket from the beginning of her time in Oz, to painting a ceramic chicken of my own and naming it "Balena". I made my own ruby key of Mombi's from a red pipecleaner with translucent pony beads. I even loved the sound of the comb being dragged across the pumpkin in the asylum, that I tried it myself. My family frequently went to antique shops so I was always on the look out for a piece that could summon the scarecrow (emerald paperweight). To imagining that I was eating the food of the gnome king (Popeyes biscuit). XD I loved this film dearly and still do!
I had an OZ Key that I found at a second hand store! I wore it as a necklace for many years! Fairuza Balk was a family friend growing up and she inspired me to be an actress! Celeste White Steele
Much Love
She is very cool!
Everybody talks about how creepy and scary this movie was. Meanwhile, 5 year old me wore out my VHS tape of this movie because it was one of my favorite movies growing up, right next to Labyrinth. Anyone else?
Oh I just loved this movie as a kid. I still do. I've watched it quite a few times over the last 37 years. I wanted to be Princess Mombi soooo bad. Hell, if I could be her now, I'd jump at the chance. This movie never creeped me out. I don't know what all these people are talking about.
Omg me too! And the labyrinth:)
Me too..still love this movie until now
Me too. I recommend to everyone of a similar temperment.
I love it too, when I was a kid I use to draw pictures of this movie.
LOVE the music for this. And how it messes with your head the first time you see it.
This bitch, the freaking Wheelers, and the scene in which the Tin Man gets flattened by that machine have been living rent free in my head for over 18 years😭😂this movie was a feverdream😂😂
I really enjoy listening to the clicking sounds when a head is unscrewed and re-screwed onto Mombi’s person. It’s satisfying to me.
That's all coming from her collar.
I absolutely agree. I am in the process of making a replica head cabinet as a tribute to this film. It's my favorite film of all time. That clicking sound...it's unique and VERY satisfying.
Loved this flick as a kid, love it as an adult.
The doctors think there’s something wrong with me.
The doctors are obviously quacks.
Cs Lewis has something to say about that
I watched this part with my husband the other night. I said it terrified me, he said I was as beautiful as Head#4. 🥰
I feel very sorry for all those kids and viewers who were damaged by this movie. I was born in 1984, a year before the movie came out and I loved this movie!
Born 82 and I was 4 and thought it was scary but fun
She's got 50 heads and every one of them with an 80s perm.
Tesselation 31 not 50
@@TommyLellan In a lot of the older Tarzan movies, Tarzan's hair would always be short and very neatly trimmed. A modern trend is for men to have facial hair in a style that I call "grow it out or shave it off." It's one of my gripes about the _Superman and Lois_ T.V. show; Superman shouldn't be scruffy.
Probably the most horrifying scene in movie history. Just watched it now for the first time in years since I was a kid and still, her staring straight through my soul made my heart sink. :(
YES!! When she's trying to steal the powder, and those eyes shot open! And the creepy men on wheels.🙈
hahahah yes its all too much :(
A nine year-old child has more courage than you.
I'm glad you took my comment so literally and seriously.
How else is one to take plain words on a page unaccompanied by anything to indicate irony or facetiousness?
I remember watching this as a kid in 2002-2003 time. It fucked me up. I started crying when she started dragged Dorothy my mom just pushed the eject button and put it back in the blockbuster case. This movie was definitely not for kids 😂😂😂
Oh, for PITY'S SAKE! Fine woman, your mom, letting you stay scared instead of letting you see the part where DOROTHY RESCUED HERSELF!
Some of those head do look very beautiful.
All aboard the Nope Train!
Choo! Choo!
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I loved this movie as a kid. (Still do) I watched it constantly along with the labyrinth.
It was a little scary at times, but I think that’s what made it so intriguing to me.
You show me a fantasy tale with no scares and I'll show you a dud.
@@MaskedMan66 that’s right
I seen Labyrynth and had to give you a thumbs up.
I watched this movie when I was really little. Like 3 or 4 and I have never forgotten this scene.
I was 12. The scene in this room later in the movie freaked me out. I never forgot it either. Although tbh I was a bit vague on details until I looked it up on here, as I haven't watched the movie for years. I did remember the heads though.
We watched this in kindergarten 😱
Hooked ever since!
I must have been a brave kid! This scene creeps me out more, now, than it did 30 years ago.
Maybe I'm just extra brave, because I never found this scene to be all that scary.
@@baalfgames5318 bravery is not the absence of fear but taking action despite fear
@@justoneguy2487 does chuckling at how cheesy the moving heads were count as an action?
Same here! I didn't find this movie scary at all when I was a kid. Intense yes but not scary. However seeing it now, I do find it pretty creepy! Then again I've never seen the scene of Mombi's headless body slowing walking towards Dorothy until I was older cause that part was cut in the TV version which is what I saw growing up.
Legit when i was 9, i did not find this scene scary at all even when the heads start screaming when she try to take the powder of life from the cupboard. I dunno i just felt fascinated and its so freaking cool to be able to change different beautiful heads. Maybe i’m a weird kid. I have the vhs tape to record it on tv when it aired. I got upset when it broke cause i watch it so many times.
You're not weird, you're in the correct groove. 🙂
I remember this movie very vaguely from my childhood, I cant believe I've found this
I watched this as a kid and loved it. Kids nowadays couldn't handle this movie.
Must watch this movie again, it was brilliant 😊
I have been looking for this movie for years thank you so much 💓
In the book the character with multiple heads was Princess Langwidere, Disney mixed her up with Mombi who is actually depicted as an old witch.
This was one of my favorite movies as a child.
I've been searching this movie's title for years. Finally got it!
Fun Fact: The character of Princess Mombi potrayed in this movie is actually a combination of both Princess Langwidere and Mombi from the original Oz series.
Cool.
@@jessienewmar8733 Thank you.
Don't forget Ozma of Oz!
@@WillowTitov I already knew that. This movie is also based on The Marvelous Land of Oz as well.
@@disneyrules7808 Thank you! I'm glad I'm not the only one that noticed this! 😊
Actually this is a perfect kids movie, dark, scary, magical and wonderful at the same time, with a good story.
The fact that Oz has become dark is the plot complication that must be undone, and it certainly is. Frankly, we should have seen more of the restored Oz; Dorothy didn't have to rush off so quickly. In the books, she frequently stayed for at least a week before going home.
What about Willy wonka?
I am 31 years old. This scene is still horrifying for me.
Whata wuss
Unique film. Loved how it stayed so faithful to the original book series by L. Frank Baum.
Don't worry, Fairuza. You'll be a powerful witch one day too. Then... you'll go insane.
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@@MaskedMan66
A reference to The Craft.
Haha! Knew Fairuza growing up in Vancouver, BC, Canada! She inspired me to be an Actress!
She is so adorable with those big eyes
I assume you mean Dorothy?
It's funny how Disney nowadays forces diversity into everything they produce, but in this scene all heads are white (the book states that 30 heads were of different ethnicities and represented different kinds of beauty).
Yup but imagine if the princess in the books changed her skin color magically to match the head so it wouldn’t look awkward of a non white head on a white body
This movie is so weird and creepy. I love it! My brother and I watched it all the time and we never got scared. Lol.
Same watching it with my sister growing up, although I got scared from this
Weird is normal for fantasy. As for creepy, bits of it are, but hardly most of it.
I watched this movie on shrooms and it was a fucking trip
The sets made for this film were great
I really loved this scene as a kid
Best childhood film of mine love it
Why The Hell Would This Be In A Kids MOVIe
+gino mendoza Kids are a lot more resilient than we give them credit for.
+Emper0rH0rde . . .at least we USED to be. . . .
+gino mendoza "Jesus Christ, it's DISNEY!" - Nostalgia Critic, 2013
Well, there was a princess with interchangeable heads in one of the original books on which this is based, which were written for kids.
crescentfreshbret Yes, Princess Langwidere. Except, in the book, she's spoiled and vain, but otherwise mostly harmless, and her heads are essentially items of clothing, rather than the heads of girls she killed, although she does threaten to take Dorothy's head at one point.
Between this and the wheelers made me a fearless adult
The Wheelers are a bunch of empty-headed stooges.
@@MaskedMan66 They represent us. Me and you.
The unwashed masses of stooges that will bend the knee to our masters.
We do what we are told and when.
We fight each other and think how we are told.
Those of us that say we think for ourselves are even more consumed and wasted.
We are scum.
Wheelers are pushovers
I must've been a weird kid growing up. You see, I would freak out during the head explosion scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark, but you show me this scene and I thought it was awesome.
because explosions are real and that scene was just plain gory and gross. Here's it's already impossible to be headless and put on different living heads like a dress, so the revulsion doesn't hit as much.
@@yellinghayfire4935 The Colonial Radio Theater version of "Ozma of Oz" uses some squidgy sound effects when Langwidere takes a head off and puts another one on, and her maid Nanda makes "Ew" noises.
Dorothy Gale… AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Fairuza Balk did grow up remarkably pretty
That she did! Her smile just melts the heart.
Finally got watched this movie at 28. Disturbing and magical, I loved it.
I saw this in elementary or middle school. I had nightmares and weirdly exciting dreams for a month! I forgot it existed until 5 or so years ago.
The scene when the headless Mombi gets up out of bed is still haunting my mind after all of these years, God knows why I'm reliving any of it LOL
Loved this movie!!😎😎😎
I found this movie SO interesting and creative as a child. It's still interesting now as an adult watching these clips.
I saw this movie when I was just in 5th grade on those old BETAMAX players... I kept repeating the movie since the story was dark and yet very artistic and at the same time so fantastically real...
Tick Tock is my favorite...
Return to Oz was a brazen effort. It was a great film. The foreboding atmosphere, the dreadful creations (but in a good and fascinating way) such as Mombi & the Wheelers made it a fantastically dark and gloriously eerie film. Still love it, even to this day.
In fact, the character who could change heads in the Oz universe was Princess Langwidere, but she was not evil, rather envious, in addition, she acted as the regent of the country of Ev, due to the lack of a royal family, which was sold to the Nome King by her uncle King Evoldo. Princess Mombi was based on the false witch Mombi and, of course, Princess Langwidere.
I just realized that this little girl is Fairuza Balk. WOW! 😲😲😲
This film was DARK GENIUS!! Total cult film...soundtrack is SUPERB!
No, just genius. Nothing "dark" about it except the evil spell which Dorothy brought her light to destroy.
I put this in the Princess Bride category of great fantasy movies of the 1980s. Conan, Willow, Robin Hood, etc. If you saw it, memories of this movie will last you a life time. The Wheelers were epic.
The Wheelers were comic relief.
The wheelers think they are scary but pushovers
This movie is really a mind trip, I wish they could have made it look and feel a little more like the original but i really appreciate it for what it is.
1939 wasn’t the original there were silent films and this is closer to the Oz books
I was actually only 5 when my mum took me to the cinema to see this. She as a bit skeptical it might be frightening but i was a hardy kid. I absolutely loved it. I was obsessed with the Wheelers i went home and garthered up all the roller skates and I wasn't afraid of Mombi's heads or any of it. Apparently I was sat bolt upright the whole time in my chair watching quietly. One of my favourites from my childhood.
この作品大好きで絶対100回は観てる
DVD出してくれないかなぁ…本当切望してる
Best movie ever
I remember a few years ago seeing this on T.V. I am 20 and it still freaked me out. Fuck this shit!
LOL Read the books!
Billy Barnett FUCK NO!
+Ocean Sage The books are nowhere near as terrifying.
crescentfreshbret Yes they are
+Ocean Sage I don't understand what is so scary about it. It's an imaginery fantasy movie, the movie is true to the book. I saw it when i was 7 and became one of my most favorite movie ever.
I watched this movie as a child in the 90's (shown on finnish tv in the 90's). I liked the movie so much and this particular scene sticks in my mind.
This will always be in my top 10 movies - 🖤🖤🖤