Wendell & Wild (2022) on Netflix
PG-1320221h 45mAdventureAnimationComedy
Kat Elliot blames herself for her parents' deaths and is sent to a Catholic school in Rust Bank. Demon brothers Wendell and Wild want her to summon them into the living world.
- Netflix3.6/5
- IMDb6.4/1015,177 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes80%
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Plot summary
Kat Elliot lives in Rust Bank, where her parents Delroy and Wilma owned a root beer brewery. After they die in a car accident, Kat blames herself; five years later she is enrolled at the town's all-girls Catholic school, run by Father Bests, while the Klaxons' private prison company backs the school and has taken over the town. In the Underworld, the demon brothers Wendell and Wild apply hair cream to their father and dream of an amusement park of their own. When a skull-like mark appears on Kat's hand, the brothers name her their hell maiden and promise to restore her parents if she summons them. Sister Helley tells her to hide the mark and tell nobody.
Cast
- Gary Gatewoodas Delroy Elliot (voice)
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- Serelle Stricklandas Young Kat (voice)
- Phoebe Lamontas Bearz-A-Bub (voice)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Wendell & Wild (2022)
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- Wendell & Wild is dedicated to Mark Musumeci, an electricity consultant who worked on almost every Henry Selick stop-motion feature since The Nightmare Before Christmas; he died during production of the film.
- Production on Wendell & Wild was done remotely from Portland, Oregon, during the COVID-19 pandemic, and producer Ellen Goldsmith-Vein said the crew had also suffered through fires and political and social unrest, calling it a very challenging movie.
- Henry Selick felt stop-motion had grown so smooth it was indistinguishable from computer animation, so on Wendell & Wild he deliberately allowed flaws, keeping the seam lines on the replacement faces visible and shooting fewer frames per second in some scenes.
- Part of Wendell & Wild was made as cutout animation, with puppets of tin coated in silicone to make them look two-dimensional, and some scenes were done as silhouette animation mixing physical cutouts with CGI, an idea inspired by the shadow puppets of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1.
- Henry Selick said Fishbone, a black punk band playing punk, ska and funk, came before the term Afro-punk; he met them in the 1980s, they are still performing, and one of their songs is in the film.
