Nicolas Cage is not any stranger to unhealthy motion pictures. He’s been in loads of good ones, too however seems to thrive amidst the chaos of low-budget, action-packed motion pictures that allow him go wild. Willy’s Wonderland is one such movie. Released in 2021, it sees Cage play the hero towards a bunch of possessed, murderous animatronics.
That plot might sound acquainted, and that’s as a result of it’s. Five Nights at Freddy’s and its wacky animatronics first got here to fruition as a online game in 2014, and have been subjected to dozens of spin-offs, endless lore evaluation, and just lately, a film. Simply put, a safety guard is tasked with maintaining a tally of Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza after they discover the animatronics getting a bit of freaky at night time; quickly sufficient, issues flip violent.
Willy’s Wonderland could be very a lot the identical narrative, besides our protagonist – a anonymous janitor with Nic Cage’s face – has wound up cleansing an leisure complicated in alternate for getting his automotive mounted. What he doesn’t realise (or does, you’ll be able to’t fairly inform), is that he’s truly meant to be the leisure complicated’s subsequent sufferer, with the townsfolk having gotten into the behavior of sending unsuspecting people to it as sacrifices to the brutal animatronics that can’t be quelled.
This isn’t any hassle for our janitor, although, who doesn’t communicate a single phrase throughout the film’s one hour and 28 minute runtime. He’s acquired a job to do if he desires his prized possession again in working order, and cleansing up clearly contains placing an finish to the animatronics on his tail. As quickly as he’s set to work, we see him cleansing and taking common breaks lording it up within the arcade with power drinks. Soon sufficient, his cleansing job takes a flip when these terrible, Furby-looking creatures attempt to homicide him by any means doable. The janitor, nevertheless, is totally unphased and totally brutal as he tears these animatronics to shreds. It helps that they respect his breaktime within the arcade, too. Fun and video games for everybody!
As the janitor mops up the messes these creatures create with out breaking a sweat, a bunch of youngsters who’ve got down to destroy the complicated wind up inside, attempting to rescue him from the horrors he’s cleansing up after. This janitor – to place it merely – doesn’t give a fuck. He’s right here to get his automotive mounted, and he’s not leaving till he holds up his finish of the discount; if killing off animatronics and cleansing their corpses is included, then so be it. Nothing, not even some youngsters, are able to coming in between this janitor and his automotive.
Five Nights At Freddy’s positively has extra going for it when it comes to plot growth and lore, whereas Willy’s Wonderland takes the identical murderous animatronics narrative and refuses to take them too severely. It employs the tropes of dozens of slasher movies earlier than it; we’ve acquired characters incapable of constructing a very good choice to avoid wasting their lives (actually), characters punished for his or her sexual exercise, and a remaining woman. Its spotlight, nevertheless, is none aside from the janitor and his escapades. Without uttering a phrase, he takes on these animatronics as if they’re online game bosses, with the arcade’s pinball machine being his minigame of selection.
Overall, Willy’s Wonderland is unimaginable enjoyable. It’s equal components camp and brutal, usually foolish, and solutions the query of ‘What if somebody truly killed these animatronics?’ whereas executing its premise in model by way of flashy motion scenes and a few surprisingly spectacular cinematography. It’s Nicolas Cage being as weird as he has all the time been, and people motion scenes present him at his greatest.
If you’re in want of an amusing, informal watch with pals after taking within the FNAF film, Willy’s Wonderland ought to be subsequent in your listing. Those who’ve an affinity for FNAF will little doubt discover some pleasure in it, and people who are followers of camp, goofy slashers will most likely deem it higher than FNAF altogether. Sorry, not sorry.
