Beloved family film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is often quite scary. These are seven of the most terrifying scenes from the film.

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory' is everyone's favorite version of the story, but the 1971 Gene Wilder delight was born ...

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory has stood the test of time as a family classic, but the ending proves how much it ...

A LETTER Gene Wilder wrote to the director of Willy Wonka went unpublished for more than 40 years — but shows an amazing insight into the late actor’s genius. Wilder penned a handwritten note ...

"And you killed it, Gene...you will forever be in our hearts the one and ONLY Willy Wonka," one wrote. "Wilder’s interpretation is what makes this film so special," another fan gushed.

From The Producers to Young Frankenstein, Stir Crazy and Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, the late Gene Wilder is easily one of the most entertaining, hysterical and iconic actors in film history.

Warning: some light SPOILERS for Wonka are in play ... of little gestures that we use. Willy says, ‘Scratch that, reverse it,’ which is a line that Gene Wilder has in the movie and I don ...

Cut to the '71 film, where Wonka's business is booming, but he's shut out the world to keep the secrets of his sweets from the spying eyes of his rebounding rivals. Wilder's Wonka is an eccentric ...

The original “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” film, which starred Gene Wilder and was released in 1971, sought to bring Roald Dahl’s 1964 book “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ...

While Chalamet is a "big fan" of the Burton adaptation, he says the new "Wonka" is "really the companion piece to the first film, to the Gene Wilder film." “This is sort of how Willy Wonka would ...