first and foremost and i love the novel by ray bradbury . it the kind of horror that get under your skin and stick with you later . it be one of his best book and with and you know and fahrenheit 451 and dandelion wine . i a just hop that this movie would be all right . it have lot of chance and with a great cast and like jason robards and jonathn pryce . and bradbury even write the script himself . and on top of all that and it have pam grier . how could it fail . there may be spoiler within . first of all and it be dumbed down . much of the horror from the book be lose a bradbury must have be force to keep the violence to a minimum . all the visuals from the book . go . everything that make you squirm . go . and then there the acting . like a lot of movie that disney throw out in the 80 and the kid in this movie can not act . and and this bug me a lot and neither of them look 13 but 9 or 10. their strong friendship wasn not address . it be more like they be acquaintaces . you would think jason robards and jonathan pryce could pull this off in their role of mr. halloway and mr. dark . but here it like they just do not care . all they want to do be somehow pay off some mortgage or something . this be far from be some of their best performance . pam grier be fine a the witch and but the charecter of the dust witch herself wasn not well pull off . she a lot less evil and doesn not have the presence a she do in the book . and everything that be leave out of the book . the ballon night chase and the marking of jim house and the real death of mr. dark and what happen to mr. coogan on the merry go round and the fate of the lightening rod salesman and the real death of the witch and and oh so much more . and the special effect be bad and even for the 80 . the merry go round of doom for one thing with the superimposed horse go around wasn not really creepy and and that weird green mist that really have nothing to do with anything . i could keep go about how this movie rip apart the original novel and but it make blood boil . don not see this movie but read the book . it a classic of bradbury .