What is one of the scariest movie scenes you know? For me, it has to be the subway peddler scene from THE WIZ (1978), one of my all-time favorite films. It’s a slow, wordless nightmare, with no payoff: the last time we see the clown puppets, they’re still nonchalantly roaming the subway, looking for prey.
When Dorothy and her friends flee up the stairs, the patterns on the floor look like pools of blood.
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#the wiz #movies #puppets #subway #clowns #wizard of oz #nightmare #1970s #70s #horrorWhat is one of the scariest movie scenes you know? For me, it has to be the subway peddler scene from THE WIZ (1978), one of my all-time favorite films. It’s a slow, wordless nightmare, with no payoff: the last time we see the clown puppets, they’re still nonchalantly roaming the subway, looking for prey.
When Dorothy and her friends flee up the stairs, the patterns on the floor look like pools of blood.
“I thought it over and green is dead
'Till I change my mind, the color is red”
Set (and costume) design by Tony Walton for THE WIZ (1978)—specifically, the eerie, dreamlike scene at the World Trade Center. So sinister, and so 1970s.
Costume designs for The Wiz (1978).
The Wiz is a musical, but there’s nothing jolly about it. It’s a sinister film. Dorothy and her companions travel through a strangely abandoned, urban Oz; and whenever they do encounter other characters, they are often hostile in a quiet but persistent way, casually cruel and colorful, like bizarre survivors of a nuclear holocaust (the nightmarish Subway Peddler, above, is one of those characters). It seems like it’s Sunday for most of the time, about 6 o’clock in the evening: it’s dusk, dim, the sky is overcast, the streetlights are on, though they light the way for nobody.
The last of the batch: costume and set designs for one of the scariest films I know, The Wiz (1978).
The first batch can be found HERE.
Publicity images for THE WIZ (1978). Nightmares. One of my favorite films.
The Yellow Brick Road, leading to the Twin Towers. Set design from The Wiz (1978), one of my favorite films.
Everybody come out and let’s commence to singing joyfully… The world of THE WIZ (1978). I can never adequately express how much I love this film.
Designs by Tony Walton for THE WIZ (1978).
A few fonts and things from WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (1971). I always thought the candy in the film looked so unappetizing. Like jars of painted kidney stones. The chocolate river in the factory seemed filled with baby diarrhea or something, or like the murky stream near a refinery. But anyway—the film is a classic of course, and Gene Wilder is supreme in it: a cordial demon.
