"This fantasy masterpiece is as bizarre as it is beguiling; more frightening than enchanting for younger children. Its malevolent hag, flying monkeys and Scarecrow dismemberment are bad enough, but the moment when the Wicked Witch sets the Scarecrow afire featured prominently in Empire's Scariest Moments readers' poll, alongside horror movies and shockers galore... What the film brilliantly seizes on is that The Wizard Of Oz is one of the great world stories, not because of the wonderful things the wizard does, but because it's the Odyssey myth for children. Amid the colourful characters and delightful songs, it plays on their most instinctual fears." - Angie Errigo, Empire