The discharge of Pooh: Blood & Honey just a few years again gave start to a rising development within the B-movie horror style. In case you’ve ever wished to see traditional public area characters like Bambi get reimagined as slasher villains with grim backstories and ugly kills to dispense, the Twisted Childhood Universe has bought you coated. And wouldn’t you understand it, the area is growingn with two new entries in 2025, each of which bought trailers simply forward of the weekend.
Our first is Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare, which bought a primary look again at Comedian-Con this previous summer season. The movie sees a grown-up Wendy Darling (Megan Placito) embark on a quest to avoid wasting her little brother Michael from an evil model of Peter Pan performed by Martin Portlock. In line with director Scott Jeffrey, that is “exremely darker” to the Blood & Honey movies, tone-wise, and that undoubtedly seems to be the case. This model of Peter is….form of in all places; at the beginning of the trailer, he’s appearing like Pennywise from It, then for the remainder of it, he’s form of a mixture between Michael Myers, the Joker, and likewise form of the Grabber from Black Telephone? It’s an odd factor, even moreso when it’s teased that he can fly and we see him viciously homicide a bunch of individuals earlier than the title card hits.
Subsequent up is Screamboat, which isn’t linked in any method to the TCU (and never the slasher Steamboat movie from earlier this year), however you wouldn’t know that from the setup. This one is alleged to be extra of a horror-comedy and facilities on a “mischievious mouse” stalking some New Yorkers on a late evening ferry experience. Ugly because it seems to be, director Steven LaMorte advised IndieWire the film served two functions: one, it could possibly be a “love letter” to Steamboat Willie, which entered the public domain earlier this 12 months. And two, it let him make a horror movie on the Staten Island Ferry, a challenge he’s spent years longing to do. “I might both make a random film concerning the ferry or I might do Steamboat Willie,” he stated. “Which one do you suppose individuals are going to need to go see?”
For the sensible horror followers, LaMorte additionally talked up the homicide mouse as a “100%, in-camera sensible creature” designed as a puppet and costume by Quantum Creation FX, a studio that’s labored on The Predator, The Mandalorian, and several other Marvel films. Due to the creature’s measurement, the creature pulls off some “fairly robust” however “actually loopy” kills all through the movie. The kills are apparently so gnarly that LaMorte felt he’ll “should have an ungainly dialog with my mom about after we’re completed.”
Screamboat will sail to theaters someday in 2025, whereas Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare has a barely extra concrete window of early within the 12 months.
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