Exploitation-style Oz Dorothy Gale is no longer a little girl, but she still lives in Kansas with her good uncle Henry, along the way, in her spare time, sprinkling literary opuses about a certain magical land of Oz (Frank Lyman Baum turned over in his coffin for the first time). One day, Dorothy is invited to New York to present her creations and it becomes the beginning of a very unusual story.
World cinema has known many adaptations of the famous children's book about the country of Oz by Frank Baum of varying degrees of quality, but the best, of course, is a classic picture with Judy Garland. In 2011, with the light hand of the American thrashmaker Lee Scott, a lot of "masterpieces" for the company "Asylum", in which the venerable director pretty trampled on the Hammer heritage, the film "Witches of Oz" comes out, which became perhaps the worst and disgusting variation of the cult children's story, at the sight of which Baum clearly turned over in the coffin more than a dozen times. Representing a modernist variation, "Witches of Oz" is clearly focused on a very specific audience, because as for a children's film, the tape is too rough and vulgarly-erotized (The Witch of the East performed by Eliza Swanson appears as a kind of red version of Paris Hilton, and Dorothy herself, played by Paulie Rojas, although an adult aunt, but mentally turned out to be a child), the visual in the picture, which is at the level of the most ugly thrash, does not interest the viewer, but only rejects the third version of Paris Hilton, and the filmmaker's the first one from the viewer's perspective.
Lance Henriksen (and once starred in James Cameron and Sidney Lumet!), the eternal “reanimator” Jeffrey Combs, Christopher Lloyd and Billy Boyd and Sean Austin who migrated from The Lord of the Rings did not decorate the film at all, because the acting in the picture of all actors without exception is terrible to the teeth. No character is remembered due to the absolute set of clichés and poorly written characters.
The camera work of Lee Scott and the soundtrack did not give much pleasure either, because there is nothing catchy in them; everything is cheap, but not angry, because the quality of the film, even as for TV, simply drives into a natural state of depression.
So Lee Scott’s The Witches of Oz is a really horrible and idiotic movie. Watching children from 6 to 96 years old is forbidden!
3 out of 10