
Empire Magazine
Come for Nic Cage fighting a robot alligator with a mop. Stay for some inventive licks on the dead-by-dawn horror-movie template...
Full reviewNicolas Cage is trapped in a twisted amusement park and must fight demonic animatronics until dawn in this tongue-in-cheek horror.
Stranded in remote Hayesville, Nevada, a quiet drifter (Cage) agrees to work the night shift as a janitor at Willy's Wonderland, a dilapidated entertainment park. The gig suddenly become an all-out fight for survival when eight animatronic characters come to life and try to kill him. Teaming up with a group of teens also trapped in the building, he's in a desperate race to survive until morning.
Come for Nic Cage fighting a robot alligator with a mop. Stay for some inventive licks on the dead-by-dawn horror-movie template...
Full reviewTo its credit, the film doesn't take itself in the slightest bit seriously, because with a premise like that, really how could it?
Full reviewNobody without a spear through their head could sincerely describe Willy's Wonderland as a good film.
Full reviewBuilding out the world of "Willy's Wonderland" diffuses a lot of its originality.
Full reviewCage has been accused of sleepwalking through some of his recent choices... That's never been truer than here.
Full reviewAt this point, Cage's movies don't have to be reviewed, but rather stamped with official certificates of weirdness.
Full reviewHas the garish stop-and-go rhythm of an '80s slasher film, and I mean that as a compliment.
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