Willy's Wonderland
2021 comedy horror film by Kevin Lewis / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Willy's Wonderland is a 2021 American action comedy horror film directed by Kevin Lewis from a screenplay written by G. O. Parsons.[4] The film stars Nicolas Cage, who also served as producer, along with Emily Tosta, Ric Reitz, David Sheftell and Beth Grant. It follows a quiet drifter who is tricked into cleaning up an abandoned family entertainment center inhabited by eight murderous animatronic characters who are possessed with the souls of a cannibalistic killer and his seven psychotic colleagues.
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Directed by | Kevin Lewis |
Screenplay by | G. O. Parsons |
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Cinematography | David Newbert |
Edited by | Ryan Liebert |
Music by | Émoi |
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Distributed by | Screen Media Films |
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Running time | 88 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $5 million[1] |
Box office | $457,144[2][3] |
The project was announced in October 2019, with screenwriter Parsons having conceived the idea. It caught Cage's attention, who agreed to participate as both an actor and a producer.[5] Lewis was hired as director in December 2019 while the main cast joined in February 2020.[6]
Willy's Wonderland was originally set for a worldwide theatrical release on October 30, 2020, but was postponed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, it was released through video on demand, with a simultaneous limited theatrical release in the United States, on February 12, 2021, by Screen Media Films. The film received mixed-to-positive reviews, with praise to Cage's performance, the dark humor and the animatronics' realistic movements but with criticism for its screenplay, plot and characters.