Tom Fury Knows… Something Wicked This Way Comes
Something Wicked This Way Comes is an amazing film. Its gnostic christian telling of “The Crew That Never Rests” creates a perfect ambiance of american gothic spiritual horror.
Our desires, regrets and fears are the leverage points that evil uses to twist us into its control, into personal damnation. But on this pandaemonium’s tail is god’s fury, coming to wash away this corruption. We don’t know when this storm is coming but our task is to keep faith, to resist temptation, just long enough for divine wrath to clear away our danger.
The tightness of the movie’s narrative completeness frankly boggles the mind. There is nothing shown or touched upon that is not there for a purpose, no loop is opened that is not closed. We simply do not get films like this anymore. That the screenplay was written by the author of the original novel, Ray Bradbury, may well be a factor in its classical completeness.
The true star of this film, however, is the soundtrack.
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