Return to oz

Shock therapy! Decapitation! Talking chickens! Oh my!

It’s the 40th anniversary of ‘Return to Oz’ – so Ben and Claire take a look back at this infamously dark, surreal film that is blamed for traumatizing many 80s children, but may be truer to the spirit of L. Frank Baum’s writing than many other ‘Oz’ movies.

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About the Podcast

Welcome to ‘Swords, Sorcery & Synthesizes: The 80s Fantasy Movie Podcast’, where two passionate cinephiles Benjamin Orchard and Claire Fitzpatrick look back upon the fantasy movies of the 1980s and discover what lies beyond the nostalgia.

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