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This is a Horror Film (spoilers, possibly)

posted 8 years ago by GameraMothraGodzilla
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I have always been addicted to horror movies and have seen almost every horror film you can think of! From Romero's zombie movies, to Nosferatu (1922) it's even getting hard to find good horror I've not yet seen.

However, ever since being a child there was always something creepy and even terrifying about Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. There's something about a film that pretends it's not supposed to scare you or at the very least make you uneasy.

Everybody knows about the infamous Wonkatania boat scene, but just the way that Wonka acts! Pure psychopath/sociopath.

Wonka always tries to assure people that there's no danger in his factory and that his victims will be alright. But how do we know for sure? Just because he says so? The movie ends before we can verify if anybody actually did survive other than Wonka and our "heroes".

Honestly, I've seen MANY horror films that are WAY LESS scary (and they're not even "bad" horror films), so what does that tell you?

I also found some trailers of this film that show it as the horror film it truly is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9Cby33ZR98

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ_fEM1vYeQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Jx7qM1Ru5c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2NFIWvNMLE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGExElaKDaU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t8peKvzfnw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0StNLTS3WOA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbbxutN0G2w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjCQWIbtt6w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69cO0ijQjQw

This may give people afraid of demons nightmares:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVTGN9Uuf2U

No one in their right mind would ride on a buggy driven by Klaus Kinski.

[–] Mhjm6 8 years ago

Really???

[–] Rick_Grimes_RG 8 years ago

Agreed. I like how they disguised this so perfectly that parents didn't know for sure. Can't think of too many movies like this.

-Rick Grimes

[–] dejuanp 8 years ago

I just saw it for the first time at age 37, yesterday. I'm looking at it from a total adult perspective. Really creepy movie. I liked it, but I guess I see my own 'temptation' issue in this movie. The people of the town were so tempted to see the inside of the factory - which I don't really get the obsession - to where it almost cost everyone their demise. Let's you know that people always want more. Even grandpa jumped out of bed once tempted enough.

R.I.P. Michael Jackson
R.I.P. Heath Ledger

[–] drunkbear 8 years ago

Regarding whether or not we knew at the end of the movie whether the other kids were okay: in the book, when the glass elevator rockets up out of the factory, Charlie sees the other kids leaving the factory with their chocolate. They're 'okay' in a sense; Augustus is made of fudge, Violet is purple, Veruca and her father are covered in garbage, and Mike is stretched out tall and thin.

They included that scene in 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.'

It's still got plenty of creepiness to it; Roald Dahl's works generally do have that side to them.

"You may have come on no bicycle, but that does not say that you know everything."

[–] parknourie 8 years ago

Excellent and interesting post.
Thank you.

Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down and a Wagging Finger of Shame

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[–] DrSleepandMrMercedes 8 years ago

Here are two more that show it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6W7_N0hP0A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po-kwO32QmE

Enjoy. And thanks for the links.

[–] TheSolarSailor 8 years ago

Hilarious stuff. What was that last link? It is no longer available.

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[–] pferreira86 8 years ago

You know what's more scary? People thinking this is a horror movie because they're over analyzing it! 

[–] DrSleepandMrMercedes 8 years ago

Here are some more:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aem1PiYMl_w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPo-V82XADQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fcPzvZkriw