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This week on Total Movie Recall, we acknowledge that The Wizard of Oz is, yes, a classic. However, it\\u2019s missing a certain je ne sais quoi, and we try to put our fingers on exactly what it needed. We conclude that classic, whimsical children\\u2019s film needed more childhood lobotomy, forced imprisonment, Queens pulling their own heads off, and Veruca Salt. Or Fairuza Balk? Potato potato.

Return to Oz\\xa0(1985)

d. Walter Murch
Based on books by L. Frank Baum

Starring:
Fairuza Balk as Dorothy
Nicol Williamson as the Nome King
Jean Marsh as Mombi
Piper Laurie as Aunt Em
Brian Henson as Jack Pumpkinhead\\xa0

Dorothy discovers she is back in the land of Oz, and finds the yellow brick road is now a pile of rubble, and the Emerald City is in ruins. Discovering that the magical land is now under the control of an evil empire, she sets off to rescue the scarecrow, the tin man and the cowardly lion with the help of her new friends.

Things discussed in the show:

Electroshock Therapy / Electroconvulsive therapy\\xa0(ECT)

The Willies - Labyrinth - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Tik-Tok of Oz

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Ozma of Oz

PEN15\\xa0(Maya Erskine,\\xa0Anna Konkle,\\xa0Sam Zvibleman)

Booksmart\\xa0(Olivia Wilde,\\xa0Emily Halpern,\\xa0Sarah Haskins,\\xa0Kaitlyn Dever,\\xa0Beanie Feldstein,\\xa0Jessica Williams,\\xa0Jason Sudeikis,\\xa0Lisa Kudrow,\\xa0Will Forte)

Lady Bird\\xa0(Greta Gerwig,\\xa0Saoirse Ronan,\\xa0Laurie Metcalf,\\xa0Tracy Letts)

Is the expression "call a spade a spade" racist?

Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde

Superbad\\xa0(Greg Mottola,\\xa0Seth Rogen,\\xa0Evan Goldberg,\\xa0Michael Cera,\\xa0Jonah Hill,\\xa0Christopher Mintz-Plasse,\\xa0Bill Hader)

Raised by Wolves (Aaron Guzikowski, Ridley Scott, Travis Fimmel,\\xa0Amanda Collin,\\xa0Abubakar Salim)

Dune - 1984 (David Lynch, Frank Herbert, Kyle MacLachlan,\\xa0Virginia Madsen,\\xa0Francesca Annis, Sting, Dean Stockwell)

Alien: Covenant (Ridley Scott, Michael Fassbender,\\xa0Katherine Waterston,\\xa0Billy Crudup, Danny McBride)

American Murder: The Family Next Door (Jenny Popplewell)

Lifetime made for TV movies

8 Inch Betsy - The Mean Days

Army Wives (Katherine Fugate, Brian McNamara,\\xa0Wendy Davis,\\xa0Catherine Bell, Sterling K. Brown, Terry Serpico, Sally Pressman, Kim Delaney, Drew Fuller)

Unsolved Mysteries

Rescue 911 (William Shatner,\\xa0David Teschendorf,\\xa0Gene Babb)

Last Podcast on the Left (Ben Kissel,\\xa0Marcus Parks,\\xa0Henry Zebrowski)

My Favorite Murder (podcast, Karen Kilgariff, Georgia Hardstark)

Paradise\\xa0Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills

Paradise\\xa0Lost\\xa02: Revelations

Paradise\\xa0Lost\\xa03: Purgatory

How The Satanic Panic and the novel Michelle Remembers ruined lives.

Siskel and Ebert hated this movie

The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, Judy Garland,\\xa0Frank Morgan,\\xa0Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, Billie Burke, Margaret Hamilton)

Flying Monkeys

Sucker Punch (Zack Snyder, Emily Browning,\\xa0Vanessa Hudgens,\\xa0Abbie Cornish)

Veruca Salt

Willie Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (Mel Stuart, Roald Dahl, Gene Wilder,\\xa0Jack Albertson,\\xa0Peter Ostrum)

The Waterboy (Frank Coraci, Tim Herlihy,\\xa0Adam Sandler, Adam Sandler,\\xa0Kathy Bates,\\xa0Henry Winkler, Fairuza Balk, Clint Howard, Rob Schneider)

The Craft (Andrew Fleming, Peter Filardi, Robin Tunney,\\xa0Fairuza Balk,\\xa0Neve Campbell)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo\'s Nest (Milos Forman, Ken Kesey, Jack Nicholson,\\xa0Louise Fletcher,\\xa0Michael Berryman, Scatman Crothers, Danny DeVito, Christopher Lloyd, Will Sampson)

Frankenstein (James Whale, Colin Clive,\\xa0Mae Clarke,\\xa0Boris Karloff)

PTSD, Soldier\'s Heart, Shell Shock

Schindler\'s List (Steven Spielberg, Liam Neeson,\\xa0Ralph Fiennes,\\xa0Ben Kingsley

Invasion of the Triffids / Day of the Triffids (Steve Sekely, Howard Keel,\\xa0Nicole Maurey,\\xa0Janette Scott, killer plants)

White Fang (Randal Kleiser, Jack London, Ethan Hawke,\\xa0Klaus Maria Brandauer, Bill Moseley)

George Lucas

The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, Marlon Brando,\\xa0Al Pacino,\\xa0James Caan, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton)

The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola, Al Pacino,\\xa0Robert De Niro,\\xa0Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton)

The Godfather Part III (Francis Ford Coppola, Al Pacino,\\xa0Diane Keaton,\\xa0Andy Garcia, Diane Keaton, Joe Mantegna, Talia Shire, Bridget Fonda, Sofia Coppola)

Apocalypse Now (John Milius,\\xa0Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Sheen,\\xa0Marlon Brando,\\xa0Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest, Sam Bottoms, Laurence Fishburne, Harrison Ford, Dennis Hopper)

Star Wars Clone Wars S4/E8 - "The General" (James Arnold Taylor, Dee Bradley Baker, Dave Fennoy)

Alice in Wonderland

Commando (Mark L. Lester, Arnold Schwarzenegger,\\xa0Rae Dawn Chong,\\xa0Dan Hedaya, Alyssa Milano, Bill Duke)

DMT (drug)

Punk archetypes (Rocksteady and Beebop, punks in the Toxic Avenger, Oingo Boingo, Sex Pistols)

Uncanny Valley

Se7en (David Fincher, Andrew Kevin Walker, Morgan Freeman,\\xa0Brad Pitt,\\xa0Kevin Spacey, Gwyneth Paltrow)

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Rainbow

Slayer - Reign in Blood

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull\\xa0(Steven Spielberg,\\xa0David Koepp,\\xa0George Lucas,\\xa0Harrison Ford,\\xa0Cate Blanchett,\\xa0Shia LaBeouf)

Pantera - Cowboys from Hell

Joel Silver

Pumkinhead (Stan Winston, Lance Henriksen,\\xa0Jeff East,\\xa0John D\'Aquino)

Excalibur (John Boorman, Nigel Terry,\\xa0Helen Mirren,\\xa0Nicholas Clay, Liam Neeson, Patrick Stewart)

James Earl Jones

Garden Gnome

Amelie

Alchemical Elemental beings (Gnomes, Sylphs, Salamanders, Udines)

Eastbound and Down (Ben Best,\\xa0Jody Hill,\\xa0Danny McBride, Steve Little,\\xa0Katy Mixon)

Joseph Campbell

The Ramones - "Psycho Therapy" & "Teenage Lobotomy"

Dexter (James Manos Jr., Michael C. Hall,\\xa0Jennifer Carpenter,\\xa0David Zayas)

American Horror Story\\xa0(Brad Falchuk,\\xa0Ryan Murphy,\\xa0Lady Gaga,\\xa0Kathy Bates,\\xa0Angela Bassett,\\xa0Evan Peters,\\xa0Sarah Paulson,\\xa0Denis O\\u2019Hare)

Babe Pig in the City

Oz the Great and Powerful (Sam Raimi, James Franco,\\xa0Michelle Williams,\\xa0Rachel Weisz, Mila Kunis, Zach Braff, Bill Cobbs, Bruce Campbell, Ted Raimi)

Next week: The Sixth Sense