It takes a lot of strict rules, tight security and unrelenting cheeriness to craft the fantasy of Walt Disney World. But as Stolen Kingdom makes immediately clear, the most magical place on Earth is “not immune to crime.” In fact, there’s a whole online community of people who trespass into the abandoned and off-limits areas of the theme parks, wandering away from the watchful eye of the Mouse.

The documentary, which screened on Saturday at Milwaukee Film’s Dialogues Documentary Festival , introduces us to a colorful cast of self-described urban explorers, accompanied by eerie footage of their (illegal) exploits hopping around closed rides or inside Walt Disney’s private jet, for example. “It’s like opening a casket,” Dead Mall filmmaker Dan Bell says about the allure. “It’s somethi

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