Willy Cage - Stag Party Joke

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As John Serba wrote in his review for Decider, Nicolas Cage “makes many cruddy, cruddy movies now, and phones it in on some of them, and this is definitely one of them … [ Willy’s Wonderland is] one very silly idea that lacks the necessary bunch of smaller, sillier ideas in support. And that circle of awareness — that unique relationship he has with his own reputation and the fans who show up to see how he’ll live up to it — is what makes every new year of his career stand out. It’s the effect of the relationship Cage has fostered with the camera and with moviegoers for years, from Raising Arizona to Vampire’s Kiss, from Mom and Dad to Mandy to Color Out of Space, from Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse to now.

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Attention has now turned to Willy’s Wonderland, a 2021 movie starring Nic as The Janitor, who is pitted against animatronic animals during a wild night of survival. Cage chooses his moments wisely, stretching out his enunciation of “testicle” from three syllables to what feels like a whole sentence, crescendoing in a shriek: “Test-ih-cuuuull! Drew Barrymore Breaks Down In Tears For The 2nd Time This Week On 'Drew Barrymore Show' — And It's Only Wednesday!

It isn’t even that conventional, but it can’t help coming off as “normal” when bookended by the Lewis and Sono movies. The film was released through video on demand courtesy of Screen Media Films, and was initially scheduled for theatrical release in October 2021. Willy’s Wonderland suffers from an overabundance of exposition, and a cast of supporting characters written into the movie just to get dead, as curious teens always do in schlock horror. He grunts and growls, grimaces and glares, in turn battering the monsters with mop handles and dismembering them with his bare hands, unbothered by spraying oil as he goes about his work.

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The parody versions of the songs here are pretty funny, as is Cage’s solemn devotion to his job, down to his insistence that he takes a pinball game break at intervals throughout the film. The spiritual relative of Scott Cawthon’s Five Nights at Freddy’s horror-game series, Willy’s Wonderland challenges Cage to forgo his voice, long considered his best asset.The pair also revealed that Cage liked the no-dialogue premise of the film so much that he vetoed one being added at the end. There will be sniggering once word gets out about this ridiculous horror film featuring a former kids’ birthday venue/game arcade occupied by evil, life-size animatronic puppets. By now, Cage is such a master of his style that his viewers know he’s speaking to them and to their expectations of him, even when he doesn’t appear to be. Willy’s Wonderlandstars Nicolas Cage as a man known as The Janitor, a drifter who is offered a cleaning gig at an abandoned family pizza joint in exchange for a new car tire. However, to its credit, the film doesn’t take itself in the slightest bit seriously, because with a premise like that, really how could it?

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he roars in a rousing climatic speech to the Ghostland’s citizens, inciting them to fight the Governor’s pervy tyranny. The great character actor Beth Grant ( Mrs Sometimes I Doubt Your Commitment to Sparkle Motion in Donnie Darko) plays the local sheriff who gets to give the big explication monologue about the building’s history, real estate deals and satanic possession. In films like that one, Cage fully honed his niche as a presentational actor, someone who, either through direct notice or mannerisms, acknowledges that they’re playing directly to an expectant audience. First came Kevin Lewis’ Willy’s Wonderland, then Michael Sarnoski’s Pig, and finally, Cage brought the year home in Sion Sono’s Prisoners of the Ghostland. It’s a waking nightmare made of gore, suffering, and hallucinatory slow-mo, soundtracked by Cage’s inchoate howls of rage and grief over his lost love Mandy (Andrea Riseborough).

But in Cage’s gruff, muffled speech pattern, there’s an abiding kindness that Rob that holds in reserve until he needs it. In Pig, he comes off as a thespian, a real actor, one devoted to his craft and the pursuit of greater truths through fiction.