Through the Windmill

Through the Windmill is a 2021 American computer-animation fantasy horror drama action film produced and released by Walt Disney Pictures.

Film Summary
As a little girl, Kyla Victor loved to play around her grandfather Stepney's windmill. Since her grandfather's passing and now as a young adult, she goes back to relive her childhood, but stumbles into the ghost of her grandfather in his 30s and she has to go with him on a dark adventure through the windmill and discover her grandfather's true past and identity.

Cast

 * Ashley Johnson as Kyla Victor
 * John Travolta as Sam "Stepney" Victor
 * Harrison Ford as old Stepney.

Critical response
Through the Windmill received universal acclaim for it's horror influenced undertones, being considered darker than other Disney films, messages on family and death and voice performances of Johnson and Travolta and it has been named one of the best films of 2026. The review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes reports that 98% of critics gave the film a positive review based on 247 reviews, with an average score of 8.5/10. The site's consensus states: "With it's horrific undertones and powerful messages, Through the Windmill adds a whole new amazing new chapter to Disney's library." Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 from top reviews from mainstream critics, calculated a score of 90 based on 48 reviews, indicating "Universal acclaim." In CinemaScore polls, cinema audiences gave Weird World an average score of "A+" on an A+ to F scale.