10 Movies That Should Have Been Horror

At its core, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is a story about a deranged old man housing an exotic group of unpaid workers, who goes out of his way to revel in throwing various children into his strange machines and contraptions.

The 1971 film directed by Mel Stuart and starring Gene Wilder as Wonka may have been nominated for Academy Awards and Golden Globes and become a real cult classic that most people know most of the words to, but its slightly shady premise is quite hard to look past when an audience actually stops to think about it.

Then there's the fact that the film itself seems to begin question whether it actually wants to be a harmless child-friendly release or not during its runtime. Wilder's performance might be iconic to many, but his portrayal of a man whose emotions swing dangerously around the place have been put under the microscope plenty of times over the years.

Throw on top questionable scenes such as the infamous trip down the chocolate river, which crew members and the actors on set genuinely took as Wilder going insane, and there's an argument to say that Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is already well on its way to becoming a classic horror flick.