It's Mickey Mouse unlike you've seen him before. Definitely unlike you've ever seen him. A trailer for a horror comedy film featuring the icon as the killer dropped the same day that Walt Disney's ...

Mickey Mouse might seem the most unlikely character to ensnare viewers in a horror flick, but an expiration in copyright protection means an early version of the Disney mascot will stalk film screens.

Gaby Shedwick is a senior author for Collider, joining in December 2023. During her undergraduate Sociology degree at the University of Warwick, she found a real love for horror cinema, writing her ...

The ‘Steamboat Willie’ version of Mickey Mouse is now in the public domain. Filmmakers are taking advantage of that –– for horror movies. Disney, though, maintains the copyright on more modern ...

When Disney’s 1928 short , the rush began for horror films utilizing Mickey Mouse — or at least that particular version of the character — to enter production, offering a diabolical twist on the ...

The next Mickey Mouse horror movie to be released in theaters is Screamboat, which gives a deadly twist to the classic Disney animated short Steamboat Willie – however, the first official look at the ...

"The Mouse is out." Surprise, surprise, they've already turned Mickey Mouse into a horror icon. Mickey's Mouse Trap is the first ever Mickey Mouse horror movie from filmmaker Jamie Bailey. If you didn ...

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The Steamboat Willie version of Mickey Mouse has finally escaped copyright protection—so here come the horror adaptations. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

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