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Nightmare Fuel / Willy Wonka Makes an Oompa Loompa

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The animation is only about six minutes long but, dear God, it is crammed with horror.

  • Firstly, we're introduced to an Oompa Loompa on a boat in a dark tunnel, shackled by iron chains, with blood on his hands before crying out, along with several other Oompa Loompas in the same situation. Notably, they have more tan or brown skin and dark hair. The orange Oompa Loompas we're used to are rowing and stare on with absolute indifference. Then Wonka appears, standing over them, saying he takes good care of his workers.
  • The entire tunnel begins changing colours while the Oompa Loompas stare at the walls flashing images of their home. Except the ones rowing, they are still indifferent, even to their home. The images get more and more intense, with Lofti sounding like he's about to have a panic attack, before it stops all when Wonka says one word "Dream."
  • Lofti, and seemingly the rest of the Oompa Loompas, are transported back to their birth. All while still in the tunnel, looking terrified at Wonka.
  • In general, the Loompa Land section is a reprieve from the horror and an interesting look into another culture. That is, with the exception of the crocodile snatching a deer and dragging it away. It comes out of nowhere and is pretty brutal.
  • What Wonka did when the Oompa Loompas don't shake his hand. It's...extremely brutal. He cuts off an elder's hand while he screams and cries, shoots fleeing people (with a lovely Freeze-Frame Bonus showing the bullet slicing through their neck and exposing bone), and kills and enslaves an unknown amount of Oompa Loompas.
  • The one solace that Lofti had, his child, is taken away from him by Wonka. He appears in a black void holding the infant while Wonka recites a poem similar to the 1971 version before saying "Hold it close. And let it all...Go." The moment he says "Go", Lofti's expression changes from pained happiness to indifference, dropping the baby into the black water at his feet.
  • When Lofti regains his senses, he delivers a blood-curdling scream as he digs into the water to look for his child. Wonka tells him that his dream was "Hollow, no flavour, no imagination, just agony from a weary world trying to pull you into it's muck" While this is happening, Lofti is still screaming, his flesh falling off to reveal a crying skeleton that sinks into the black water. It's equal parts disturbing and heart-breaking.
  • Wonka welcomes them to "Paradise" which is the most intense section of the whole video. As Wonka says "Welcome to Paradise", the scene shifts between Wonka, Lofti's father, and Lofti's crying skeleton. Wonka explains how he led them from the horrors of Loompa Land (we're shown scenes of the deer and the crocodile being replaced with an old woman and a crocodile, for example) and offers them a "good land" and "a safe and pure land". He also sounds increasingly insane, culminating with a close-up of him grinning while saying the Oompa Loompas "are mine, nothing less, nothing less, and there is no dream sweeter than that." All while the silhouette of Lofti turns into the classic white and brown overalls.
  • The sequence ends with Wonka casually saying "We're there" where the scene changes to them sitting in a boat in the 1971 Chocolate Room. Wonka recreates the handshake earlier except this time, Lofti shakes his hand. We're then shown the rest of the Oompa Loompas, now with orange skin, and green hair, but absolutely dead inside. Just like all the others.

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