Key and Peele Are Evil Brothers in Halloween-Ready 'Wendell & Wild' Teaser

"Kat, it's time to face your demons," begins the trailer for Jordan Peele and Henry Selick's Halloween-ready stop-motion movie "Wendell & Wild." And in the face of her demons, teenage protagonist Kat does just that, meeting two people who try to persuade her to help them return to the land of the living.

Director Selick is also known for directing 'Coraline' and 'The Nightmare Before Christmas,' and 'Wendell & Wild''s beautiful and haunting stop-motion animation style is reminiscent of both. Beloved comedy duo Keegan-Michael Key and Peele voice the two titular demons, Wendell and Wild, and Peele — known for modern horror classics like "Get Out" and the alien thriller "Nope" — co-wrote the screenplay with Selick and serves as co-producer.

For Selick, the horror comedy-drama is rich in social commentary, featuring "kids getting kicked out of school and put on the school-to-jail pipeline, and bad guys exaggerated elitists, who want to build a prison [to separate the undesirables],” he told IndieWire on September 6. "The underworld in our movie is hell, but it's not hell," he told Forbes. "This is a place for the souls of the danged, not the damned, and who are the danged? Crooked lawyers. Some of these DMV employees, maybe housekeepers from a few yards, people who are mean, but not mean."

For the stop-motion animation, he wanted to opt for a more raw and authentic look than what production studio Laika - the force behind "Coraline" - often favors. “I wanted stop-motion to be more obviously stop-motion,” he said. "There are more flaws. We shot more in 2s, even 3s. Laika does the most beautiful stop-motion in the world, but sometimes I feel like it's CG and I wanted to make our film a bit more raw."

While "Wendell & Wild" was originally supposed to focus on Angela Bassett's character, the nun Sister Helley, Peele suggested Lyric Ross' Kat be the focus, according to a nerdist fe ...