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Podcast: Slashers
Episode: Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory (1971)
Description: “It’s scrumdidilyumptious! It’s everybody’s non-pollutionary, anti-institutionary, pro-confectionery factory of fun!”
What do chicken beheadings, child kidnappings, and a psycho in a tophat all have in common? That’s right, people, we are talking about Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory--the 1971 horrifying children’s classic tale of a chocolate factory tour gone awry.
This is not to be confused with the god-awful Tim Burton adaptation (and while we all love Burton, Danny Elfman and Johnny Depp, that movie should rot in the depths of hell from which it surfaced).
But in all seriousness, Roald Dahl, the beloved author, created something...