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“First of all, it was October” is how Something Wicked This Way Comes begins, and while Halloween is barely mentioned by name, the movie is drenched in the spirit of spooky season. It’s framed as a memory from the narrator’s adolescence, but it also digs deep into the regret-laden conscience of the boy’s aging father.
Oh, and its central menace is a diabolical traveling carnival that preys mostly on adults but doesn’t hesitate to threaten meddling 12-year-old boys. That’s heavy…
