![]() In other words, the generic roads that our hero is travelling are clearly sign-posted. And hell, even Michael Herz and Lloyd Kaufman’s The Toxic Avenger(1984) had a janitor for its ultraviolent protagonist. WALLY WONDERLAND MOVIEChildren’s mascots inhabited by the souls of serial killers are well known from the Chucky series, while their animatronic upgrades featured in Lars Klevberg’s Child’s Playreimagining (2019) and Danishka Esterhazy’s The Banana Splits Movie (2019). Being locked overnight into a sideshow attraction with murderous freaks is straight out of Tobe Hooper’s The Funhouse (1981) or Rob Zombie’s 31(2016). The community with a sinister secret is a cliché as old as time. Indeed, the film’s trajectory is mapped out in a prologue which shows a terrified family being pursued through the party rooms and back corridors of children’s entertainment centre Willy’s Wonderland. WALLY WONDERLAND SERIESNone of those lines, however, come from the film’s hero (credited only as ‘the Janitor’) – a classic Man With No Name who also utters not a single word.Īs this laconic stranger, just passing through in his leathers and mirror shades, gets stuck in the small town of Hayesville, he is also trapped in a series of familiar genre routines. Parsons, who throws in lines like “suspicious smells coming from Willy’s” and “Willy, I’m so sorry about this prick”. Still, the penile innuendo of the original name was almost certainly integral to the intentions of screenwriter G.O. Someone clearly noticed this at a late stage in the production, and panicked – for Kevin Lewis’ film is now being released in several regions under the altered and altogether less nodding-and-winking title Wally’s Wonderland. ![]() ![]() ‘ Trash‘ is one such word, ‘ turkey‘ is another – and ‘willy’ too, which brought hilariously unfortunate pro-nudist associations to Simon Wincer’s family film Free Willy (1993), and which now graces Willy’s Wonderland. There are words which, when placed in a title, promise a certain something – not necessarily affiliation to a particular genre, but at least adherence to a sensibility. ![]()
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