The trailer for a horror comedy film featuring a killer Mickey Mouse was dropped just as Disney‘s 1928 short Steamboat Willie entered the public domain. The synopsis for the film, called 'Mickey’s Mouse Trap', reads: "It’s Alex's 21st birthday, but she’s stuck at the amusement arcade on a late shift so her friends decide to surprise her, but a masked killer dressed as Mickey Mouse decides to play a game of his own with them which she must survive."
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00:00 The trailer for a horror-comedy film featuring a killer Mickey Mouse was dropped
00:04 just as Disney's 1928 steamboat Willie entered the public domain.
00:08 "Where the hell did he go?"
00:09 The synopsis for the film, called Mickey's Mouse Trap, reads,
00:17 "It's Alex's 21st birthday, but she's stuck at the amusement arcade on a late shift,
00:21 so her friends decide to surprise her. But a masked killer dressed as Mickey Mouse decides
00:26 to play a game of his own with them, which she must survive." The trailer features a slasher
00:30 Mickey Mouse costume attacking a victim and stalking others inside a Chuck E. Cheese-like
00:35 establishment. The movie was directed by Jamie Bailey, who said in a statement,
00:39 "We just wanted to have fun with it all. I mean, it's Steamboat Willie's Mickey Mouse
00:43 murdering people. It's ridiculous. We ran with it and had fun doing it, and I think it shows."
00:48 Mickey's Mouse Trap follows last year's horror film Winnie the Pooh Blood and Honey,
00:52 which was made possible after that character entered the public domain two years ago.
00:56 This film does not yet have a release date, but producers are aiming for March.
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