# Willy's Wonderland may be the greatest movie of all time **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [January 18, 2021, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willys-wonderland-may-be-the-greatest-movie-of-all-time/930773 "2021-01-18T03:49:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2021, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willys-wonderland-may-be-the-greatest-movie-of-all-time/930773/1 "2021-01-18T03:49:00Z")
OPEN SPOILERS AFTER THE FILM OPENS ON 12 FEBRUARY 2021! I just stumbled across this trailer: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/PxUjErnINU4/maxresdefault.jpg "Willy's Wonderland - Official Trailer (2021) Nicolas Cage, Emily Tosta") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxUjErnINU4) Of course, this movie could suck. It could be really, really bad. It could be so bad it’s good. Or… it could just be an awesome movie. So I have high hopes for this one. I know it’s just a trailer, but the content (creepy abandoned amusement park/funhouse; anti-hero-with-no-name, a sense of vengeance rather than desperation, etc.) checks off a lot of cool boxes IMO. And Mr. Cage has been on something of a roll lately… even the poorly-named _Jujitsu_ looks like a fun _Predator_-meets-_Highlander_ movie. I’m not sure where it’s going to air; I suppose many questions will be answered in a few weeks when it premiers. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2021, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willys-wonderland-may-be-the-greatest-movie-of-all-time/930773/2 "2021-01-18T03:51:17Z")
Believe it or not, I just came here to start a thread about that movie. I so want to see this hot mess! ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2021, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willys-wonderland-may-be-the-greatest-movie-of-all-time/930773/3 "2021-01-18T03:53:47Z")
Of course you did; you have excellent taste! I’m looking for more info, including where it is going to air. Apparently it’s going right to home streaming/viewing. Here’s the IMDB page: > **[Willy's Wonderland (2021) ⭐ 5.5 | Action, Comedy, Horror](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8114980/)** > > 1h 28m | TV-MA And the Wikipedia page: > **[Willy's Wonderland](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy%27s_Wonderland)** > > Willy's Wonderland is a 2021 American action comedy horror film directed by Kevin Lewis from a screenplay written by G. O. Parsons. 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 colleag Here’s the premise: > [@](#): > > Stranded in the remote town of Hayesville, Nevada, a quiet drifter agrees to work as a night-shift janitor at Willy’s Wonderland, a once-successful family entertainment center. However, his tasks suddenly become an all-out fight for survival when the restaurant’s eight animatronic characters come to life and try to kill him. Now, teaming up with a group of teens who also found their way into the building, he will be forced to defend himself in a desperate race to survive until the next morning. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2021, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willys-wonderland-may-be-the-greatest-movie-of-all-time/930773/4 "2021-01-18T04:05:25Z")
This is basically The Man With No Name vs. Chucky Cheese. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2021, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willys-wonderland-may-be-the-greatest-movie-of-all-time/930773/5 "2021-01-18T10:33:12Z")
The [video game](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Nights_at_Freddy%27s_(video_game)) came out in 2014; it has a certain horrific atmosphere when you are playing it. Did that successfully translate to the film? ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2021, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willys-wonderland-may-be-the-greatest-movie-of-all-time/930773/6 "2021-01-18T11:00:44Z")
I dunno, I’ve played the “Nick Cage is in it, he can’t do another bad movie, can he?” a lot, 20 odd movies. I know he’s done pretty good recently with Mom and Dad, Color out of Space, Spiderman into the spiderverse and Mandy, but there’s about TEN other movies during that time too. I’ll hang back for the reviews, but he’s firmly in the “wait for three positive reviews before considering it” category of actors, ie: you rent it DESPITE he’s in it. Actors who will make me watch a film: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Clive Owen, Nick Offerman, Timothy Olyphant, Mary Steenburgen, Sam Elliott, I even watched a bunch of shit because Jason Stathan was in it, until he did the shitty car movies. Actors who will make sure I don’t watch it. Van Damme, Seagal. Actors on the Danger list: Bruce Willis, Nicolas Cage. ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2021, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willys-wonderland-may-be-the-greatest-movie-of-all-time/930773/7 "2021-01-18T11:17:43Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > This is basically The Man With No Name vs. Chucky Cheese. And I’m fine with that. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2021, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willys-wonderland-may-be-the-greatest-movie-of-all-time/930773/8 "2021-01-18T12:02:32Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > This is basically The Man With No Name vs. Chucky Cheese. Looks to me like someone wanted to make a Five Nights At Freddy’s movie but couldn’t afford the rights. ---
**Author:** ![CoconutPete](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coconutpete/32/5294_2.png) [@CoconutPete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CoconutPete)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2021, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willys-wonderland-may-be-the-greatest-movie-of-all-time/930773/9 "2021-01-18T13:43:50Z")
I love Nicolas Cage you can count me in for this one! ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2021, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willys-wonderland-may-be-the-greatest-movie-of-all-time/930773/10 "2021-01-18T15:26:07Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > I know it’s just a trailer, but the content …checks off a lot of cool boxes IMO. That’s what I thought about Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. I’ll wait for further reviews. Now, if they had set this movie at Willy Wonka’s factory, and were faithful to the Gene Wilder movie, I’d be there on opening day! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2021, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willys-wonderland-may-be-the-greatest-movie-of-all-time/930773/11 "2021-01-19T15:14:09Z")
I just saw the trailer for this one this weekend at the Virtual Arisia convention. Hadn’t heard a word about it, but it looks bizarrely wonderful. I figured it fit well in this thread: **Psycho Goreman** [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/L4tizc0IAVQ/maxresdefault.jpg "PG: Psycho Goreman - OFFICIAL TRAILER") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4tizc0IAVQ) [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNmngdUaQd8) > **[PG: Psycho Goreman](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/pg_psycho_goreman)** > > Siblings Mimi and Luke unwittingly resurrect an ancient alien overlord who was entombed on Earth millions of years ago after a failed attempt to destroy the universe. They nickname the evil creature Psycho Goreman (or PG for short) and use the... ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2021, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willys-wonderland-may-be-the-greatest-movie-of-all-time/930773/12 "2021-01-19T16:47:10Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Looks to me like someone wanted to make a Five Nights At Freddy’s movie but couldn’t afford the rights. No, that was [the Banana Splits Movie.](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9831136/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0) ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2021, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willys-wonderland-may-be-the-greatest-movie-of-all-time/930773/13 "2021-02-13T15:37:17Z")
I have just three things to say: Oscar, Oscar, Oscar. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2021, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willys-wonderland-may-be-the-greatest-movie-of-all-time/930773/14 "2021-02-13T18:08:47Z")
By which you mean, it smells and belongs in a garbage can? ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2021, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willys-wonderland-may-be-the-greatest-movie-of-all-time/930773/15 "2021-02-14T02:46:19Z")
You induced me to watch it. LOL ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2021, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willys-wonderland-may-be-the-greatest-movie-of-all-time/930773/16 "2021-02-14T02:56:13Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > This is basically The Man With No Name vs. Chucky Cheese. I was thinking _From Dusk till Dawn_ meets _Westworld_ (the movie not the TV series). ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2021, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willys-wonderland-may-be-the-greatest-movie-of-all-time/930773/17 "2021-02-15T04:27:28Z")
To quote Nicolas Cage from this movie: “…” ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2021, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willys-wonderland-may-be-the-greatest-movie-of-all-time/930773/18 "2021-02-15T04:31:40Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Looks to me like someone wanted to make a Five Nights At Freddy’s movie but couldn’t afford the rights. First thing I thought of. I made my kid watch the trailer to see if she’s think the same thing. It was the first thing she said.