Film review: Willy's Wonderland

 Genre: Horror, Thriller 

Director: Kevin Lewis

Screenwriter: G.O. Parsons 

Starring: Nicolas Cage, Caylee Cowan, Beth Grant, Emily Tosta, Terayle Hill, Grant Cramer, David Sheftell, Mark Gagliardi, Chris Schmidt Jr., Taylor Towery, Ric Reitz, Jessica Graves Davis, Christian Delgrosso, Jiri Stanek, Jonathan Mercedes 

Running time: 1h 28min 

Parents advised to read before viewing film as some scene may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.

Sex & Nudity:  a couple having sex

Violence & Gore: There are moments with bloody gore, mainly machine blood throughout

Profanity: strong

Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: None

Frightening/Intense Scenes: while the film is kind of a horror their isnt have intense moments

Story: A quiet loner (Nic Cage) finds himself stranded in a remote town when his car breaks down. Unable to pay for the repairs he needs, he agrees to spend the night cleaning Willy's Wonderland, an abandoned family fun centre. But this wonderland has a dark secret that the "The Janitor" is about to discover. He soon finds himself trapped inside Willy's and locked in an epic battle with the possessed animatronic mascots that roam the halls. To survive, he must fight his way through each of them. 

Likes: Willy's wonderland is it any good ? I'm not gonna full say yes it good there are some flaws in the writing of this film, while there are some moment that does give you a chuckle with the over the top cheesy horror moment.  

Nick cage does a Great job through the whole movie, not speaking at all, its kind of the way he no bothered with what unfolds that give a mystery to his character while he beat the crap of machinal robots. 

The premises of the film is pretty easy to follow, which give a Chucky vibe which explains the characters coming to life in the most cheesiest 80s style with a five nights at Freddy feel to the concept of the film, playing around with their victim's which sometime felt repetitive at time, but it one of those film's you leave you're brain at door film.

The Abandoned Theme party attraction is great, which does give the film somewhat of edge with puppets that keep children entertain with there birthday parties, that added with the Animatronic real set the tone. A horror film is without the Dumb teenage getting them self in to a situation that get one one killed, which the film does offer some bloody moments.

The film focus more on cage character as he cleaning the place while beat the crap of of these things, there are moment that he does thing that leave you saying "did he just do that" which was really odd special for a certain moment in the film, the film as whole is a Quirke 80s style B horror. 

This has the potential to be a Cult classic B movie in the future, but it a love or hate movie depending on you're taste of movies.          

Dislikes:  While the film is great to watch the biggest issue with this film is the exposition, there is way to much scene with exposition that slows the film down, where nothing is really happening, There's a is lot of exposition special at the 40-minute mark that tries to make sense of the ridiculous plot. Fifteen minutes later, there's another long exposition scene.

This is the one thing that lets the film down because it becomes boring and repetitive at time through the movie, which i feel the low budget hurt the film. The mistake here with the non creative one dimensional characters, the teenage are the worst part of this film with the lack of fear which made the film very tone down which again hurts the film. 

I do feel that the film could've been so much better budget, maybe gone with a Theme park instead of a small kids entertainment party place, with more people maybe this would have been better for this theme, but it like i said the budget and exposition scene let this film down.    

Overall: Great film to watch with a Five night a Freddy's with a chucky feel, too much exposition lets the film down.

Rating: 4.3 out of 5 for Entertainment / 7 out of 10 for concept