DAYS & NIGHTS DON’T FEEL THE SAME
The online journal of Sparrow Hall

July 2, 2009

The Journey That Begins Where Everything Ends

Filed under: Uncategorized — Sparrow @ 4:24 pm

Remember when Disney looked like this?

The Black Hole. Think: Star Trek meets Donnie Darko.

The late 70s through the mid 80s was a bizarre chapter in the life of Disney, and my favorite by far. This was the pre-Eisner era, when you could make existentialist thrillers where children were tormented by black magic and distopian societies.

Here are just a few of the movies that were greenlit back in those glory days.

Tron (1982)
Who needs to read Orwell when you can play the video game instead?

Return To Oz (1985)
Dorothy gets institutionalized and is prescribed shock treatments, catapulting her imagination back into a now-ravaged Oz.
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