Paolo wrote: Wed Mar 10, 2021 12:08 pm At the risk of going off-topic again, here is a bit of info about the story "The Black Ferris". It's too hard to copy and paste with all the images and such, so read it while it's there:
The Haunted Closet: The Black Ferris (1953, Ray Bradbury) (the-haunted-closet.blogspot.com) (https://the-haunted-closet.blogspot.com ... dbury.html)
It's interesting to note that this story came BEFORE the more popular "Something Wicked This Way Comes," which was inspired by "Black Ferris".
Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983) - IMDb (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086336/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0)
SWTWC was published as a novel in 1962, and later adapted into a movie. It would not be immediately released, though, and many fans noted that in the dream sequence the boys have, they appear older and their voices are breaking. This is because it would a couple years later, that the boy actors were called back to add the scene in, when the movie was finally "ready" for release. It cost $19 million to make, and only made back $8.4 million on the theatrical run.
I've always enjoyed Bradbury, but it seems to me as if he began telling the same stories over and over again.
As for this one, well, let's just say that Cinema Sins would have a heyday with this episode.
In The Black Ferris the dad is a dick who orders his boy to strip naked
is actually a father son story. The father and son love each other but are distant. They need to find someway to show their love for each other. Fighting the bad guy is their common ground.
It's too bad that Bradbury never wrote about castration. I'm sure his insights into the subject would've been interesting.
