Wendell & Wild (2022)

Eight-year-old Katherine "Kat" Elliot (Lyric Ross) lives with her parents Delroy and Wilma, who own a root beer brewery in the town of Rust Bank. Kat's parents are killed when her father loses control of their car, sending it off a bridge.

In the underworld, demon brothers Wendell (Keegan-Michael Key) and Wild (Jordan Peele) spend their days installing hair plugs and rejuvenating hair cream on their balding father, Buffalo Belzer (Ving Rhames), as punishment for dreaming of building an afterlife amusement park to rival his. They taste the cream, causing them to hallucinate a vision of Kat.

Five years later, Kat has become a juvenile delinquent who blames herself for her parents' deaths. She is enrolled in Rust Bank's all-girls Catholic school, headed by Father Level Bests. Kat saves Siobhan Klaxon (Tamara Smart), whose parents Lane and Irmgard's private prison company Klax Korp back the school and took over the town, from a falling brick through premonition, earning her respect. Meanwhile, Marianna Cocolotl investigates the burning of the brewery and is convinced that the Klaxons purposely burned it with its workers. The Klaxons murder Bests, the last living witness to the brewery arson, when he protests their refusal to keep funding the school.

During a class taught by Sister Helley (Angela Bassett), Kat receives a mouth-like marking on her hand, and is told to hide it and tell no one. Wendell and Wild are alerted, and they identify Kat as their "hell maiden." They appear to her in a dream, falsely promising to revive her parents if she summons them to the living world. Kat steals a teddy bear, Bearzebub, from Helley's desk and goes to her parents' grave with Marianna's trans son Raúl, serving as her witness. However by taking the wrong way, the brothers appear in a different part of the cemetery, where Kat believes she has been stood up.

Wendell and Wild discover their father's hair cream can resurrect the dead. They test the cream on Bests. The resurrected Bests convinces the Klaxons to pay him, and the brothers to revive the deceased members of the town council, giving the Klaxons the votes needed to demolish Rust Bank and expand their prisons, on the condition that nobody else is revived. The brothers force Kat to serve them, still lying about her parents' resurrection. After being forced to exhume the council members, whom the brothers revive, Raúl steals the cream, reviving Delroy and Wilma himself. Reunited with her parents, Kat helps Raúl escape the brothers.

After the zombie council approves the Klaxons' plans, paying Bests and the brothers, Siobhan discovers her parents' lies about their prisons' conditions. Helley and Manberg (Igal Naor) subject Kat to "soul binding", confronting her memories, severing her alliegance to the brothers, and getting her to acknowledge her parents' death was not her fault. The ritual grants Kat control of her precognition, which Helley reveals are from her hell maiden powers.

Bests and the demon brothers kidnap Kat's ressurected parents, and take them to the cemetery to kill them, though Kat's group intervenes. Siobhan, who followed her pygmy goat Gabby Goat to the cemetery, reveals that her parents paid Bests and the brothers worthless company money. Belzer discovers the brothers' deception, but seeing a mural Raúl painted across the roofs of Rust Bank's houses inspires Belzer to be a better father. Learning they are Belzer's children, Manberg releases his collection of jarred demons in exchange for the release of Kat's group. Belzer apologizes to Wendell and Wild, approving their plans for their Dream Fair. Bests dies again, and Belzer confirms that the cream's effects are temporary.

Her parents tell a worried Kat that her powers can help change Rust Bank. Recalling that Raúl's mother needed a witness to prove the Klaxons guilty, Kat has him use the last bits of cream to revive as many deceased brewery workers as possible. The allies fend off the bulldozers, sent to demolish the town and driven by the zombie council, while Raúl revives three brewery workers to testify to the Klaxons' crimes, resulting in their arrest. The cream's effects wear off on Kat's parents, but before they die, Kat shows them a glimpse of the future where Rust Bank is revived. Wendell and Wild offer them VIP passes to their afterlife fair. Kat makes peace with her life, considering everyone her friends, even Wendell and Wild themselves.