Bendy and the Ink Machine (film)

Bendy and the Ink Machine is an American horror film based on the survival horror game of the same name. The film was directed by Derek Kolstad and Rob Stanton Bowman and produced by Mike Mood, Boockpast and Lawrence Bender, and also writting by J. J. Abrams. The film was composed by theMeatly. The film was created by Warner Bros. Pictures and was distributed by Summit Entertainment.

Synopsis
Henry Stein, a retired animator returns to his old animation studio Joey Drew Studios from the 1930s after an invitation from his old employer Joey Drew (David Eddings), and discovers a nightmare of cartoon characters seemingly brought to life by the titular Ink Machine.

Plot
In 1963, former Joey Drew Studios animator Henry Stein receives a letter from Joey Drew, director of the now closed studio and an old friend of Henry. In the letter, Joey asks Henry to come to the old studio because he wants to "show him something." Upon arrival, Henry finds an empty studio, painted walls and ink dripping from the ceiling. Around is full of symbolism in the form of the star of the studio's cartoons - the little devil Bendy. It appears here on posters and as cardboard cutouts. Henry finds a large room in the studio with a deep shaft. Finding two batteries and inserting them into the generator, Henry presses the lever and picks up what is hidden below. It turns out to be an Ink Machine - a huge device that creates ink, which was intended for the manufacture of three-dimensional objects and living figures, with their help it was even possible to animate cartoon characters. Henry decides to fix and start the Ink Machine. After examining everything, he finds the mutilated corpse of Wolf Boris - the cartoon character Joey. Henry searches and collects the six items needed to activate the Ink Machine (a wrench, a music record, a gear, a Bendy plush toy, an inkwell, and the Illusion of Life by Joey Drew). After placing them on their pedestals, Henry turns on the ink supply, finding a valve in the studio theater hall. After that, Henry finally turns on the Ink Machine and goes to look at it. But he sees a lot of ink marks and that the passage to the Ink Machine is boarded up. Suddenly, Ink Bendy appears behind the boards - a creepy version of Bendy animated by ink, tries to grab Henry, but quickly disappears.

The studio begins to collapse and Henry runs to the exit, but when he has almost reached the door, the floor beneath him suddenly collapses, and Henry finds himself in a room flooded with ink. With the help of a valve, he drains the ink and does it several more times, going down the stairs. Henry walks to a room that is boarded up. He finds an ax, with which he clears the way and gets to a room with a pentagram on the floor and three coffins. Henry has eerie visions: he sees the Ink Machine, a wheelchair and Ink Bendy, after which he faints.

Waking up and finding himself in the center of the pentagram, Henry picks up his ax and moves on. In the following rooms, he finds more coffins and pentagrams, as well as an audio recording of Sammy Lawrence, director of the studio's music department. It can be understood that Sammy is possessed and worships Bendy. As Henry walks down a corridor flooded with ink, he sees a masked ink figure passing by, carrying Bendy's cardboard cutout. Henry tries to call out to him, but it turns out that the stranger has disappeared. Then he looks for three switches in the boxes on the wall to open the electric gates, after which he ends up in the music department. After Henry turns on the light here, he is attacked by the Seekers, legless ink humanoids. Henry fights them off with an ax. In the same place, in the music department, there is a staircase with an exit, but it is flooded with ink. The lever needed to drain the ink is in the office of Sammy Lawrence, but the entrance there is also blocked by an ink leak. To stop the leak, you need to find two valves. In one of the urns, Henry finds the keys of the janitor Wally Franks, opening a locked storage room. In the pantry there is an audio recording of Sammy, who tells what musical instruments to play and in what order to access his hideout (the combination of instruments is generated randomly). After that, you need to turn on the projector, which is located in the projectionist booth Norman Polk, and while the projector is working, you need to play a combination on the instruments in the orchestra hall, after which the entrance to Sammy's hideout will open. There Henry activates the first valve, after which the Seekers attack him again. While Henry fights them, someone wearing a Bendy mask is watching him from a projection booth. After that, Henry goes to the infirmary, where the second valve was supposed to be, but it is not. He descends into the studio sewers in search of a valve, which is in the hands of "Massive Jack" - former studio lyricist Jack Fane, now the Seeker. Unlike other Seekers, he does not attack Henry, but disappears every time he approaches. Henry drops the crates on Jack, takes the valve and puts it in place, turning it over. Finally, Henry enters Sammy's office and lowers the lever, removing ink from the stairs. On the way to the stairs, someone stuns Henry with a blow to the head. Henry wakes up tied up in the center of another pentagram and sees a masked stranger in front of him. It turns out to be Sammy Lawrence himself, who has become an ink monster. Lawrence informs him of his intention to sacrifice him to the Ink Demon ("Bendy"). Sammy goes to another room and begins to sing a ritual song, summoning the Demon, but the ritual gets out of hand and Ink Bendy kills Lawrence. Henry is freed from captivity and, again defending himself with an ax from the Seekers, runs away further, after which the ax breaks. Ink Bendy suddenly appears and chases the hero. Henry escapes from him through a maze of corridors, and eventually escapes from the Ink Demon. Henry enters the room, where Buddy Boris is walking around the corner safe and sound...

Later Henry wakes up in his new friend Boris's hideout. The exit door from there is closed, and there is no knob from the switch to open it, which prevents Henry from continuing on his way. He cooks bacon soup for Boris from cans found in the hideout, after which Boris gives Henry the pen he needs. Using it, the two of them leave the shelter. On the way, they encounter a very dark corridor, to pass through it, Henry finds a lantern. After passing through a dark corridor, they find themselves in a dead end. Boris decides to crawl into the ventilation to find a way to open the gate, and Henry gives him the lantern. After opening the gate, Henry finds himself in a large recreation room along with a small plush toy factory. The way further is blocked by hanging cabinets with toys. Henry fixes the toy car by removing stuck toys from the pulleys, and then gets the opportunity to move the cabinets and move on. In the next room, the light suddenly turns off and Alice's Angel song begins to play, at the end of which an animated and distorted version of Alice reveals itself with a scream. She talks to Henry in the dark and disappears while Henry continues on his way. He finds himself at a fork in two paths - the Angel and the Demon, and the player has to make a choice which path to take. The plot does not practically change from the choice, but the first rooms of the paths differ. Then Henry meets Boris, who gives him a weapon - a piece of pipe. Henry and Boris go through the toy warehouse to get to the elevator, you need to open the gate. Henry must find one of the levers while Boris activates the second. As Henry approaches the lever, a distorted version of Charlie (Piper), the character from the studio's cartoons about the Butcher Gang, emerges from the poster. After defeating this monster, he opens the gate and they enter a room with an elevator that allows you to move between some floors. In the elevator, Distorted Alice talks to Henry, who says to go to her, to Level 9. There they find themselves in her residence, Henry and Boris go to her through a kind of morgue. In this ink-flooded room, the protagonist and his companion discover many gnawed remains of copies of the studio's cartoon characters, who have fallen prey to Distorted Alice's quest to “become perfect” at the expense of their inky guts. Manipulating Henry's desire to get out of the studio, Alice forces him to carry out his orders, again and again endangering the hero's life, which ultimately leads Henry to a clash with Ink Bendy, enraged by the destruction of the growth figures with his image, and a new monster - the Projector, which is the inky embodiment of the studio's projectionist - Norman Polk. Despite the specificity of the passage and the high level of threat to the protagonist, this chapter is notable for the fact that under certain conditions it is possible to get a Thompson automaton in it [1], and Alice, despite the instability of behavior, provides the protagonist with various kinds of support: for example, for his confrontation with the hated Ink Bendy, whose appearance is betrayed by ink stains spreading on the walls, she advises to hide - for this, safe zones called "Little Miracle Stations" are suitable, and the extensive toolkit that she gives Henry to complete each of her tasks, in some cases can be very effective against specific monsters. After completing all the tasks of the Distorted Alice, Henry finally gets the opportunity to leave the studio in the elevator, but Alice again dramatically changes her behavior model, informing that she will not let the hero take away from her the "perfect Buddy Boris", which she needs to become an ideal, and, having gone into a rage, allows the elevator car to fall down. After the abrupt fall of the elevator, Buddy Boris tries to revive the stunned Henry, unaware that Distorted Alice is approaching him from behind. Henry is left only to helplessly watch the abduction of Buddy, after which the hero loses consciousness.

He later wakes up next to a broken elevator on floor S near Grant Cohen's office. After finding a valve from the door to the archives in the office, Henry finds himself in a round room full of books and notes (before that, he sees a group of ink-like humanoid mannequins near the Bendy statue, which do not attack; they later disappear). To enter the next zone, you need to find and click on 5 books that open a secret passage; from time to time, the hero has hallucinations - for a short time he sees that the doors of the cabinets are slamming with eerie sounds, and later he sees many hands protruding from the walls. The next room is a room with hanging cages and a gap in the middle. Now we need to find a way to get to the other side. Finding a fat seeker in the back room, Henry takes a portion of thick ink from him and, using an "ink converter", turns it into a gear (among the options for what can be made from this ink are a cup, a radio, and a bone; the creation process can be repeated endlessly, but every previous unused thing disappears when a new one is made) and, with the help of a suspended platform, moves to the other side.

On the way further Henry hears the voice of "Alice" claiming that "he'd better hurry, because it's so hard for Boris to stay whole," and he ends up entering a room full of ink people - lost who don't move (one of them sobs in the corner, and another mutters that he “wants to go home” and “he was deceived”). Further, the path goes through the ventilation, in which Ink Bendy can be seen behind the bars. After that, Henry gets out of the ventilation. Then he discovers the inscription "Come up and see me." At the top are plans and layouts of the Bendy Land (Land crossed out and written Hell), as well as an audio recording of the park's main creator, Bertram Piedmont. After that, the door opens to warehouse 9, which contains various attractions prepared for the park (shooting gallery, knocking down bottles, power meter). The next task is to turn on the electricity, for which you need to find and press 4 switches (each in a separate room, and these rooms open only one after the other). In one of the rooms, you need to bypass the Butchers Gang, distracting them by throwing soup cans to the side; in the second - to fight with Bertram-monster, which appears in the form of a huge carousel, and in the third to press the switch, while avoiding the returning Spotlight. While escaping from him, Henry will see an unexpected picture: "Bendy and the Projectionist start to fight and in the end the first one kills the latter, and then just leaves Henry alone."

Turning on the current, Henry sits in the trailer of the "Attraction of Fear", which takes him on. On the way, he again hears the voice of "Alice", wondering "why he is still here and why he came at all", and claims that "she has a surprise." The surprise is the appearance of "Insensible Boris", who attacks the hero. You need to hit him three times with a piece of pipe from the same "ink converter" as at the beginning of the chapter (the "fuel" for the converter is, again, thick ink, which Boris runs out from time to time). After the third blow, Boris falls, turns into a puddle of ink and disappears. Alice in a rage rushes at Henry, but does not have time to reach him - she is pierced through from the back with a machete, and she dies. Henry's saviors are Angel Allison and Tom.

Allison and Tom keep Henry locked up for a while, with Tom making it clear that he doesn't like Henry. Ellison, on the other hand, is more loyal to Henry. She also says that she once discovered many hidden messages on the walls, which are visible only in reflections, and gives him a "magic mirror" - a glazed frame through which these messages can be seen (during this conversation Henry sees the inscription on the wall behind Allison: " She will leave you to die ”). Later, Allison and Tom hurriedly leave the hideout, as Bendy is already outside, but they have to leave Henry. He is freed by reading the hidden message on the other wall and following his instructions. Following Ellison and Tom, he finds himself at the river of ink, from which the "Giant Hand" crawls out. After that, Henry reaches the village of the Lost, where he is attacked by a suddenly revived Sammy. Based on his words, it can be understood that Sammy most likely confused Henry with Bendy. After the hero takes off his mask, Sammy, in a rage, pushes Henry to the floor and is about to chop off his head, but in the end he is killed by the nearby Tom. Immediately, a huge number of seekers and the lost appear from the ink puddles, with whom Henry, Allison and Tom enter into battle. Having defeated them, the three go on, but Henry falls into a hole in the floor and ends up in the administration department.

To go further, the pipes need to be repaired by collecting the thick ink and making the missing fragments out of them using the already familiar "ink converter". To do this, you need to find especially thick ink flowing from one of the pipes not far from Joey Drew's office, which is not so easy, since the “Butchers Gang” roam the corridors, and the hero has no weapons. During searches in the rooms, you can find audio recordings from which it becomes clear that the Ink Machine was purchased for the purpose of creating figures from ink, from the Gent company; the first experiment failed, and most likely it was Ink Bendy. After fixing the pipes, Henry moves on and finds himself in the vault of films, a hidden message in which states that "The demon has already taken IT." Allison arrives in time and tries to dissuade Henry from continuing, but he decides to finish the job (although it is not clear to the very end why all this is happening to him), and she agrees to go further with him. Having found the "Giant Ink Machine" surrounded by an ink river, Henry is about to go there, but Allison claims that he and Tom cannot cross the ink-flooded area, since "a drop is easily lost in the ocean" (referring to the fact that she herself and Tom are animated figures). Henry has to go on alone. Inside, he discovers a large room with a large number of flasks, which are lost. Reaching the center of Ink Bendy's lair, Henry discovers a small room with many projectors showing fragments from Bendy cartoons, and a sort of throne in the center; next to it are Joey's latest audio recording and a stolen reel labeled "The End." In the audio recording, Joey admits that things went downhill after Henry left; tickets for cartoons began to sell poorly, workers began to quit, and as a result the studio was closed, leaving only “shadows of the past” in it. However, Bendy never knew one thing: “He lived from the very beginning, but he never saw…. The end". Immediately after this, the ink demon himself appears, which transforms into "Beast Bendy". The final battle begins. After a short chase through the corridors, Henry lures Beast Bendy into a hall with four glass columns, forces the demon to break them, returns to the lair and puts the reel found in the projector. Bendy runs into the room, but it's too late: all the projectors display the same frame - the final title "The End", and the Ink Demon dies.

Henry finds himself in Joey's apartment and finds in one of the rooms a board with pinned letters and notes that mention many of the characters in the game. Entering the kitchen, he talks to Joey, and it becomes clear that Henry left the studio for the sake of his family, and Joey stayed, and in the end: "You are a happy family, I am a dishonest empire." At the end of the conversation, Joey says that “I want to show you something,” Henry walks through the nearest door and finds himself back in the studio and the very first phrase is said: “Okay Joey, I'm here. Let's see what you want to show me. " - the whole scene was a flashback to the game. the credits tell about those who voiced the characters

Post-credits scene: Henry's drawing of the cartoons Boris, Bendy and Alice is shown, with the caption: “Congratulations! Your best friend, Henry Stein, "and a child's voice says," Tell me another story, Uncle Joey. "

Cast

 * theMeatly as Henry Stein - A former employee of the studio Joey Drew Studios must get out of the trap he fell into, while simultaneously revealing all the secrets of the studio.
 * Doug Jones as Ink Demon Bendy - An ink creature that hunts for henry. The main antagonist.
 * Adrian Brody as Boris the Wolf - An animated Bendy cartoon character who wandered around the studio with Henry for a while.
 * Edward Norton as Sammy Lawrence - A distraught studio worker who wants Bendy to free them.
 * Lauren Singer as Alice Angel (Monster) - The studio monster that tricked Henry into destroying Boris, turning him into Brute Boris. She was killed by Allison and Tom.
 * James Franco as Projectionist - A monster with a spotlight on its head. He is the inked form of Norman Polk.
 * TBD as Butcher's Gang - Three monsters that come to life. They are cartoon characters based on Bendy.
 * Jim Carrey as The Lost Ones - Ink people who, like Sammy, believe that Bendy will free them. They hate angels.
 * John Goodman as Joey Drew - The owner of Joey Drew Studios.

Soundtrack
See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMmiaKJ5Dm4

Credits
See: Bendy and the Ink Machine (film)/Credits

Trivia
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Gallery
See: Bendy and the Ink Machine (film)/Gallery