“I submit to you that Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is nothing more nor less than a decent into the abyss, a journey through a dark, stygian underworld, a descent into the depths of Hell.”
— Sci-fi author and buzzkill Lou Anders, making the argument that Roald Dahl’s children’s classic is nothing more than a candy-coated version of Dante’s Inferno. Only tastier.