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Wendell & Wild is a 2022 American stop motion-animated horror comedy 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a screenplay written by Selick and Jordan Peele (who are also producers), based on Selick's and Clay McLeod Chapman's unpublished book of the same name.
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is a stop-motion animated movie from Henry Selick. The movie is about on two scheming demon brothers who are hatching a plan to defeat their arch-nemesis while helping a girl going with tragedy through her life.
"Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele star in this stop-motion animation adventure about two demon brothers who escape the Underworld."
—Official Netflix synopsis
"From the delightfully wicked minds of Henry Selick and Jordan Peele, comes Wendell & Wild, an animated tale about scheming demon brothers Wendell (Keegan-Michael Key) and Wild (Peele) - who enlist the aid of Kat Elliot - a tough teen with a load of guilt - to summon them to the Land of the Living. But what Kat demands in return leads to a brilliantly bizarre and comedic adventure like no other, an animated fantasy that defies the law of life and death, all told through the handmade artistry of stop motion."
—Official Netflix synopsis
In the town of Rust Bank at a carnival, Young Kat Elliot is with her parents, Delroy and Wilma, who own a brewery and are refusing to sell to the wealthy Klaxon family. On their way home, a storm starts, giving Wilma enough concern to ask Delroy to pull over, but he keeps driving. Kat bites into an apple and is frightened when a two-headed worm crawls out. She screams, causing Delroy to swerve off a bridge into the river. Wilma helps Kat escape through the window, but she and Delroy tragically perish. Kat carries the guilt of this for the next few years.
Down in the underworld, a gigantic demon called Buffalo Belzer operates an amusement park for souls called the Scream Faire on his belly. His twin sons, Wendell and Wild, work on the top of Belzer’s head to apply hair cream since his hair is always falling out. Wild ingests the cream because of the sensation it gives him, and he shares some with Wendell. They then appear to see a vision of Kat before Belzer orders them to get back to work.
In the present day, Kat has been in and out of juvenile hall. She is being taken by her handler Ms. Hunter (Tantoo Cardinal) to a new school, RBC. On the way there, they drive over the bridge where Kat lost her parents, and she sees that the brewery they ran has burned to the ground, and the arsonists were never caught. Rust Bank overall has fallen on hard times since it was taken over by the Klaxons and their business drove others out of town.
Kat arrives at RBC and meets a trio of cheery girls – Siobhan, Sweetie, and Sloane, who have a pet goat named Gabby. They begin calling Kat “Kay-Kay” to her annoyance (her full name is Katherine Koniqua). From up above, a fellow student, Raul Cocolotl, watches as Kat interacts with the girls. Kat briefly sees a vision of herself pushing Siobhan out of the way from a falling stone, but in reality, she does it to push Siobhan away because she is annoying her. Raul accidentally pushes against the falling stone, and Siobhan thinks Kat saved her life after being pushed.
Kat meets the school’s headmaster, Father Level Bests, who accepted Kat’s entry to help give the school funding. She begrudgingly puts on her school uniform and blasts her boombox in the halls on the way to class. Her teacher, Sister Helley, gives a lesson with a mimic octopus. When she calls Kat to the front, the octopus takes a hideous shape and causes the classroom to start shaking and turn dark. Sister Helley pulls Kat out of the classroom and sees that there is a mark on Kat’s left hand that looks like teeth. Sister Helley tells Kat she can protect her and tells her not to tell anybody else about the mark. Wendell and Wild receive news from an entity called Bearz-a-bub to inform them that Kat has been chosen as their Hell Maiden. The guys realize Kat can summon them to the Land of the Living, where they want to build their own Scream Faire that will be way better than Belzer’s.
Lane and Irmgard Klaxon, who are also Siobhan’s parents, are on a golf course as they bemoan how the city council, led by Raul’s mother Marianna, have blocked their attempts to build prisons in Rust Bank. They are met by Father Bests, who is working with them in the hopes that they may deliver funding to the school. Unfortunately for the Klaxons, the only ones who could help vote for approval are the members of the old guard, who are all dead. When Father Bests brings up how the two were responsible for the brewery fire, they distract him, so Irmgard bludgeons him with a golf club before they throw Father Bests into the icy water.
•Keegan-Michael Key as Wendell
•Jordan Peele as Wild
•Angela Bassett as Sister Helley
•Lyric Ross as Kat Elliot
•Ving Rhames as Buffalo Belzer
•Gabrielle Dennis as Wilma Elliot
"From the delightfully wicked minds of Henry Selick and Jordan Peele, comes Wendell & Wild, an animated tale about scheming demon brothers Wendell (Keegan-Michael Key) and Wild (Peele) - who enlist the aid of Kat Elliot - a tough teen with a load of guilt - to summon them to the Land of the Living. But what Kat demands in return leads to a ...
Sep 12, 2022 · Release date: Friday, October 21 (Netflix) Cast: Keegan-Michael Key, Jordan Peele, Lyric Ross, Angela Bassett, James Hong, Ving Rhames. Director: Henry Selig. Screenwriters: Henry Selick, Jordan...
Wendell & Wild: Directed by Henry Selick. With Lyric Ross, Keegan-Michael Key, Jordan Peele, Angela Bassett. Two scheming demon brothers, Wendell and Wild, enlist the aid of 13-year-old Kat Elliot to summon them to the Land of the Living.
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- Animation, Adventure, Comedy
- Henry Selick
- 2022-10-28
Oct 21, 2022 · Henry Selick’s Wendell & Wild brings the enduring artform of stop-motion animation to Netflix. The film’s story follows Kat, a teenager who becomes a Hell Maiden for two not-so-terrible demons.
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Oct 28, 2022 · The Nightmare Before Christmas and Coraline director Henry Selick returns to stop-motion with Wendell & Wild, an original story about a troubled girl and her literal demons.
