Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983) - Newspaper Ad

San Francisco Examiner - April 15, 1983

Despite my not being all that well versed in Ray Bradbury's literary output at the time, I was nonetheless very excited and intrigued by both the premise and promise of this film adaptation of Something Wicked This Way Comes.

That excitement was the result of my reading several articles about the film in both Fangoria and The Twilight Zone magazines. The former featured a stellar interview with Bradbury, conducted by Lawrence French, that described a sequence that had a "train magically [transform] itself into a standing carnival. Steam from the locomotive develops into tents and cages, which house all kinds of strange creatures." [Fangoria #27, Pg. 28]

My mythical-god, that sounded so cool. I also remember reading a description about a spider's web being transformed into a ferris wheel, which might have appeared in The Twilight Zone. I cannot fact check that memory, though. Because I no longer have the June 1983 issue that features the coverage. So it goes.