Wendell and Wild (2022)

Original title

Wendell & Wild

Directed by

Henry Selick

Genre

comedy film, comedy horror, horror film, dark fantasy, satanic film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 45m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 387 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two demon brothers named Wendell and Wild scheme to get back to the Land of the Living to build their dream amusement park. They trick a teenage girl named Kat into summoning them to her hometown. She must face her grief and a corrupt corporation to save the town from demonic chaos.

whimsicaldarkspookyplayfulfast-pacedvisually ornatemacabregothic

What happens

Wendell & Wild is a 2022 American animated Gothic comedy horror film directed by Henry Selick from a screenplay written by Selick and Jordan Peele (who are also producers), based on Selick's and Clay McLeod Chapman's unpublished book of the same name. It stars Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele as the titular characters with Angela Bassett, Lyric Ross, James Hong, and Ving Rhames in supporting roles. This was Selick's first feature film since Coraline (2009). Selick began developing his stop-motion animation feature with Key and Peele set to star in November 2015. The distribution rights were picked up by Netflix in March 2018. Other voice cast were confirmed in March 2022. Production was done remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic, with filming taking place in Portland, Oregon. It premiered at the 47th Toronto International Film Festival on September 11, 2022, was released in select theaters on October 21, 2022, and made its streaming release in Netflix on October 28, 2022. It received generally positive reviews from critics who welcomed Selick's return and praised its stop-motion animation and characters, but criticized its screenplay and the overloaded plot. The film is dedicated to Mark Musumeci, an electricity consultant who worked on almost all of Selick's previous stop-motion features since The Nightmare Before Christmas, who died during production. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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