By the pricking of my thumbs ... but I'm getting ahead of myself.

Disney and horror aren't exactly synonymous, but that almost changed in the early 1980s. Hoping to emulate some obscure '70s movie about space wizards ( "Zardoz," I think it was called? ), the Mouse House decided to try making films that skewed a little older and more mature. Bear in mind, the studio had been struggling creatively and financially since Walt Disney died in 1966, so a change of pace was fitting. And as has historically been the case when Disney's suffering as a company , this era would soon give rise to some of the most artistically innovative and otherwise interesting movies ever produced by The House That Mickey Built.

Perhaps most notably, this was when Disney developed a pair of honest-to-goodness

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