Dark Theory Claims Willy Wonka Is Performing The Cabin In The Woods Ritual
One popular theory suggests that Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is actually the story of the titular chocolatier performing the ritual from The Cabin in the Woods. Based on Roald Dahl's children's book, 1971's Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory follows the eponymous confectioner as he takes five contest winners on a tour around his magical factory. An iconic and beloved family film, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory has now been entertaining audiences for over five decades.
Despite its colorful and supposedly family-friendly nature, Willy Wonka is considered a gateway horror movie by some. This is because almost all of the lucky contest winners who are given unprecedented access to Wonka's factory each meet an unpleasant end during the tour. Over the course of the film, the children are whittled down by traps set for them until only one remains: Charlie, who Wonka then announces as his successor.
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Interestingly, the events of the film share a remarkable number of parallels with another more overt horror movie, The Cabin in the Woods. Everything that the latter film establishes as part of its Ancient gods-appeasing ritual fits perfectly within Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory's story: the role that each of the five children plays, and the added context of the ritual, all gels well with Willy Wonka. These parallels not only draw similarities between the family film and The Cabin in the Woods' horror, but paint Wonka's factory tour as a carefully planned instance of the ritual sacrifice intended to appease the Ancient Ones.
The Cabin in the Woods spends much of its story establishing an airtight premise regarding the ritual.
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