Great pick this we... damn it. Well I was always gonna watch this anyway so I might as well talk about it here. This is a GREAT film, with one of my favorite Nic Cage performances since Mandy. He doesn't even speak besides a few grunts here and there, and it is an inspired choice, like a silent video game protagonist going through each level dutifully, stoically and with purpose. On that note, it will be hard to escape accusations of FNaF plagiarism here, but let's not act like moving animatronics were started by that series anyway. Intensely popularized maybe, but it's all really just an extension of a long lineage of killer inanimate objects dating back to the 1920s with Waxworks. Like many of those movies, Willy's Wonderland mainly embodies the slasher genre, with some of the most disposable teen characters I've seen in awhile, and it doesn't reject what it is, instead choosing to bathe in its neon colors and blood-soaked ultra-violence as intense synthwave blares throughout its soundtrack (I want this film's soundtrack BTW). It's a film that knows what it wants to be front and back and is made all the better for it, what's old is new again, the slasher cliches seemingly dead and buried with 2010s' cynicism brought back to consciousness in a film that's simply interested in supplying the gleeful carnage we've all been craving for again. It's that primal relief the classic slashers were built on, but instead of focusing on its killers, Nic Cage's zen-like charming toughness is the death dealer fighting against representations of chaos, depravity and hopelessness. For a horror fanatic like me, it's just what the doctor ordered.