‘Return to Oz' (1985) The plot of Return to Oz might seem a little outlandish ... Return to Oz was the first ever Disney film ...

He was called “The Great and Terrible,” but that might have been a little ... Oz tales inevitably evoke strong feelings — witness the early reception to Disney’s 1985 fantasy sequel ...

Murch managed to preserve a lot of that uneasy spirit in Return to Oz ... chicken sidekick Billina, voiced by the late Denise Bryer). In an odd bit of Hollywood filmmaking ephemera (fun fact ...

A darker and non-musical follow-up to MGM’s 1939 classic, Return to Oz stars young Fairuza Balk ... the metallic Tik-Tok and Billina the talking chicken. There were challenges from the start ...

I’m talking, of course, about Return to Oz. Released in 1985 ... Instead, Dorothy is accompanied back to Hell Oz by “Billina,” a chicken that acquires the ability to talk during their ...

In 1983, the Walt Disney ... Return to Oz exists in a post-apocalyptic hellscape where “Wheelers,” monsters with wheels that squeak like Dorothy’s gurneys, threaten to chop little girls ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The leaves have begun to turn colors, the weather has begun to cool, pumpkin spice everything ...

If not an outright lie, then the DVD blurb on Disney’s 1985 Return To Oz is, at the very least ... but with a talking chicken. Would you like to go for a ride, Dorothy? The film opens on ...

LOS ANGELES — Returning to the mystical land of “The Wizard of Oz” took more than 70 years and several hundred million dollars. Disney released its highly anticipated prequel to the 1939 ...

Almost 40 years ago, Disney debuted a dark sequel to ‘The ... darker and non-musical follow-up to MGM’s 1939 classic, Return to Oz stars young Fairuza Balk as Dorothy, who is called back ...

Disney even had to pay MGM to use Dorothy’s ruby slippers from the original The Wizard of Oz, though it fully owned the overall rights to Baum’s catalog at the time of Return to Oz's release.