With "Wendell & Wild," visionary director Henry Selick ("The Nightmare Before Christmas," "Coraline") returns with his first movie in 13 years, a roller-coaster ride inside his dark sensibilities and the place where they collide with those of fellow horrorphile Jordan Peele.
Peele co-wrote the screenplay with Selick, whose stop-motion animation technique brings his haunted sense of humor to life. Here it's a boarding school where demons are brought back from the dead, the devil runs a theme park and corporate greed is scarier than all the other ghoulish elements combined.
Kat Elliot (voiced by Lyric Ross) is sent to a boarding school on a hilltop in the dead-end town of Rust Bank, which daylight seemingly never touches, after her parents died when they veered off a bridge and plunged into the waters below. Kat escaped the crash, which she believes she caused, which only further feeds into her trauma. ("Wendell & Wild" is animated but it's definitely not for children; take that PG-13 rating seriously.)
