2022, Henry Selick (Coraline) -- Netflix
Not horror, definitely Halloween.
ed. note: finishing this writing looooong after viewing.
Kat's parents run a very famous local brewery. Apparently its supposed to be root beer, but my craft beer blinders were on and I saw a lovely local craft beer factory! I loved the addition of craft beer as a beloved family business, and the fact the family is black. Craft Beer is a very very white world, so happy to see some inclusion here. So, you can see, that is where my mind was and is.
Unfortunately, Kat (Lyric Ross, This Is Us) loses both her parents in an accident, leaving the brewery's future unknown. She is sent to live in an orphanage (or Catholic School or.... ?). Many orphanages, as she is a bit of a punky wild child, finally being sent to one in her home town, where upon her return, she catches a glimpse of the brewery, which has burned down.
Meanwhile, down in Hell, the titular demons Wendell (Keegan-Michael Key, The Predator) & Wild (Jordan Peele, The Twilight Zone) are using up daddy's hair creme as an intoxicant, and get a vision of Kat. Of note, daddy demon Buffalo Belzer (Ving Rhames, Death Race 2) is colossally big, and they are tasked with applying the creme one follicle at a time.
Kat is weird, sorta punky, very off-putting to her fellow schoolmates, who still seem to adore her, even when she gets all mixed up in the Hell driven hijinx. The story is rather convoluted but focuses around saving the town from the evil land developing Klaxon family, while Wendell & Wilde both plotting against Kat and working with her, lots of machinations going on, and boat loads of weird & wonderful characters (undead Father Bests [James Hong, Big Trouble in Little China] and Manberg, a wheel-chair bound custodian who collects demons in jars [Igal Naor, Riviera]). A recap would be loooong. The art style is a whole buncha fun, mixing the 3D with flat, almost 2D visuals. That said, I need a rewatch as it all is rather fuzzy in my head.
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