While Wicked: For Good dominates the box office and The Wizard of Oz continues to immerse viewers at Las Vegas’ Sphere, horror fans have three twisted reimaginings of L. Frank Baum‘s classic story to look forward to. Up first is Gale: Yellow Brick Road, due out in select theaters on February 11, 2026. Decades after […]
While Wicked: For Good dominates the box office and The Wizard of Oz continues to immerse viewers at Las Vegas’ Sphere, horror fans have three twisted reimaginings of L. Frank Baum‘s classic story to look forward to.
Up first is Gale: Yellow Brick Road, due out in select theaters on February 11, 2026.
Decades after her fantastical journey, Dorothy Gale is now a reclusive elderly woman, haunted by the dark secrets of her past adventures. When her granddaughter Emily inherits Dorothy’s rural Kansas home, she unwittingly becomes ensnared in a generations-old curse that threatens to drag her into the twisted remnants of Oz.
‘Gale: Yellow Brick Road’
As Emily uncovers the truth about her family’s connection to this otherworldly realm, she must confront the horrors that have been patiently waiting for her arrival. With each step down the decaying yellow brick road, Emily discovers that the line between reality and nightmare has blurred, and the once-magical land of Oz has become a terrifying playground for malevolent forces beyond her imagination.
With time running out and sanity slipping away, Emily must face her deepest fears and unravel the mysteries of Oz to break the cycle of terror – or risk becoming another lost soul.
Daniel Alexander makes his feature directorial debut from a script he co-wrote with Matthew R. Ford, expanding on their 2023 short Gale: Stay Away from Oz.
Chloë Crump, Karen Swan, Tenisha White, Laura Kay Bailey, and Josef Hyland star in Gale: Yellow Brick Road. Watch the trailer below while you wait.
Set on Halloween night in Marin County, California, the film follows a group of college basketball players who are mercilessly preyed on by terrifying manifestations of Dorothy, the Wicked Witch of the West, the Tin Man, the Scarecrow, and serial killer clowns.
The campus becomes a battlefield as each murder uncovers deeper layers of torment, including haunting visions of the land of Oz. As dark secrets rise to the surface, the students becomes both hunter and hunted, consumed by their own inner demons.
‘Dorothy: The Haunting of Oz’
22-year-old writer-director Elijah J. Alvarez makes his feature debut, blending elements of psychological thriller, supernatural slasher, coming of age, and science fiction.
Michael Sullivan, Logan Laurel, Heidi Appe, Melissa Foster, Aaron Byrd, Rocky Velasco, Angela Michaela, Yvonne Orozco, and Ava Barone star.
Last but not least…
Originally due out this month to capitalize on Wicked: For Good, Wicked of Ozis still awaiting release.
‘Wicked of Oz’
In the film, a freak tornado pulls Dorothy into the wicked world of Oz just in time for the down-on-her-luck Kansas farm girl to confront Glinda, a starving cannibal who finds herself all out of Munchkin meat.
And things go down from there, as Dorothy goes head-to-head (literally) against a skull-cracking Scarecrow, a Tin Man whose hobby is to collect still-beating hearts and a Cowardly Lion who pleases his master by ripping apart anyone he sees.
Oz becomes Ooze as Dorothy – armed with scavenged weapons – battles her way through hordes of psychotic enemies until she happens upon her ultimate nemesis, the Wicked Of Oz.
Aaron Mirtes directs from a script he co-wrote with Nathan Illsley, based on a story by James Cullen Bressack and Scotty Mullen (Sharknado 5: Global Swarming, The Last Sharknado: It’s About Time).
Kenzie Wynne, Chelsey Fuller, Patrick Sharn, Destinee Monét, Zach Lazar Hoffman, Brad Belemjian, and Carson Butcher star.
‘Wicked of Oz’
To tide you over until these films are released, check out 2010’s YellowBrickRoad, which was originally released as part of the Bloody Disgusting Selects line.
Of course, 1985’s Return to Oz also offers a surprisingly creepy take on the material.
