Hello, Sidney — er, Minnie.
A trailer for a brand new horror film starring a knife-wielding Mickey Mouse dropped Monday — the similar day the 1928 model of the Disney character featured within the quick movie “Steamboat Willie” entered the general public area.
Titled “Mickey’s Mouse Trap,” the trailer includes a “Steamboat Willie” model of the rodent taking part in a deadly sport of cat and mouse with a gaggle of younger adults who should Donald duck his blade.
The movie was shot, edited and directed by Jamie Bailey and written by Simon Phillips, who additionally assumes the function of the murderous mouse, Entertainment Weekly reported. Phillips additionally posted the trailer to his YouTube account.
The upcoming film isn’t simply having enjoyable at Disney’s expense. It appears to be lifting iconography from different beloved franchises as nicely. In the teaser, the killing spree is about in an amusement park arcade — a setting higher fitted to one other well-known mouse, Chuck E. Cheese. The villain on this film additionally wears a twisted-looking Mickey Mouse masks that vaguely resembles Ghostface’s within the “Scream” motion pictures. If that looks as if a stretch, a personality within the trailer actually says: “Like, if he was in a horror movie, you’d never say, ‘I’ll be right back.’ Because then you don’t.”
In the unique 1996 “Scream” film, a personality says the road: “Never ever ever under any circumstances say ‘I’ll be right back’ because you won’t be back.”
The thought to mannequin a murderous Mickey after Ghostface could seem a bit lazy, however it is smart if you wish to slap collectively a trailer rapidly sufficient to launch it the identical day the copyright on the “Steamboat Willie” movie expired.
Creators are solely allowed to make use of “the more mischievous, rat-like, non-speaking boat captain” featured in “Steamboat Willie” of their work, in response to copyright regulation, The Associated Press reported. So, modeling a murder-happy Mickey that’s not allowed to speak after the principally silent Ghostface — who hardly ever speaks in particular person and normally makes his legendary quips over the telephone — creates a pleasant loophole.
“Mickey’s Mouse Trap” isn’t the one “Steamboat Willie” horror providing we’re going to get, both. A online game from Nightmare Forge, titled “Infestation 88,” additionally launched a trailer Monday that includes a way more sinister Mickey. Director Steven LaMorte is about to work on an untitled horror-comedy primarily based on “Steamboat Willie” that may begin manufacturing within the spring, Variety reported. But this time the “sadistic mouse will torment a group of unsuspecting ferry passengers.”
This can be not the primary time filmmakers have had the concept to show a beloved youngsters’s character right into a horror film villain as quickly because it turns into public area. Jagged Edge Productions, a U.Ok.-based indie movie studio, launched the slasher “Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey” earlier this yr after selling it closely all through 2022, the yr Pooh Bear entered public area.
