The first day that the 1928 Disney short, Steamboat Willieentered the public domain, a trailer for a horror comedy film was released featuring none other than Mickey Mouse like the murderer.
Now, anyone can do pretty much anything they want with Mickey Mouse, as long as they’re dressed in black and white and don’t do any modern Mickey business.
The synopsis of the film, called Mickey’s Mouse Trapsays: “It’s Alex’s 21st birthday, but she’s stuck in the arcade on a night shift, so her friends decide to surprise her, but a masked killer dressed as Mickey Mouse decides to play a game she has to play. survive”.
The trailer features, yes, a person dressed as Mickey Mouse, wearing what looks like a hockey jersey without the letters, attacking a victim and stalking others inside a type of place. Five Nights at Freddy’s. There is also a reference to Scream about the horror genre, including a character who predicts that another will be killed because he says, “I’ll be right back.”
“Well, he’s dead. If he was in a horror movie, you would never say, ‘I’ll be right back,’ because then… you wouldn’t,” he explains.
The trailer also includes the words: “A place to have fun, a place for friends, a place to hunt. The mouse is out.”
“We just wanted to have fun”
The film was directed by Jamie Bailey, who said in a statement: “We just wanted to have fun with it all. I mean, it’s the Mickey Mouse of Steamboat Willie murdering people It’s ridiculous. “We had fun doing it and I think it shows.”
The characters find an old projector that makes noise and plays Steamboat Willie and there is a poster of Steamboat Willie on the wall. The trailer post on actor Simon Phillips’ YouTube page reads: “This film uses the public domain only Steamboat Willie Mickey Mouse”.
The film stars Sophie McIntosh, Callum Sywyk, Allegra Nocita, Ben Harris, Damir Kovic, Mackenzie Mills, Nick Biskupek and Simon Phillips and was produced by Paul Whitney, Mark Popejoy, Alexander Gausman and Andrew Agopsowicz, with co-production by Mem Ferda from Filmcore.
The film does not yet have a release date, but the producers are aiming for March. It’s unclear if there is a distributor on board or what platform the producers are targeting.
Mickey’s Mouse Trap follow last year’s horror movie Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, which was made possible after Milne’s original Winnie the Pooh entered the public domain two years ago. Pooh’s friend Tigger also enters the public domain this year.
But it will not be the only horror film with the mouse as the protagonist, as we already announced days ago. Filmmaker Steven Lamorte will begin production on his horror film in March, and it will follow a sadistic mouse who torments a group of unsuspecting ferry passengers named none other than Steamboat Willie.
Clearly, neither horror film is coming to Disney+.