The discharge of Pooh: Blood & Honey a couple of years again gave delivery to a rising development within the B-movie horror style. In case you’ve ever needed to see basic public area characters like Bambi get reimagined as slasher villains with grim backstories and grotesque kills to dispense, the Twisted Childhood Universe has acquired you lined. And wouldn’t you understand it, the area is growingn with two new entries in 2025, each of which acquired trailers simply forward of the weekend.
Our first is Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare, which acquired a primary look again at Comedian-Con this previous summer time. 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 accordance 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….type of everywhere; in the beginning of the trailer, he’s performing like Pennywise from It, then for the remainder of it, he’s type of a combination between Michael Myers, the Joker, and in addition type of the Grabber from Black Cellphone? 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 related in any technique 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 claimed to be extra of a horror-comedy and facilities on a “mischievious mouse” stalking some New Yorkers on a late evening ferry trip. Ugly because it seems, director Steven LaMorte instructed IndieWire the film served two functions: one, it may very well be a “love letter” to Steamboat Willie, which entered the public domain earlier this yr. And two, it let him make a horror movie on the Staten Island Ferry, a challenge he’s spent years longing to do. “I may both make a random film concerning the ferry or I may do Steamboat Willie,” he stated. “Which one do you assume individuals are going to wish to go see?”
For the sensible horror followers, LaMorte additionally talked up the homicide mouse as a “one hundred pc, 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 powerful” however “actually loopy” kills all through the movie. The kills are apparently so gnarly that LaMorte felt he’ll “need to have a clumsy dialog with my mom about after we’re performed.”
Screamboat will sail to theaters someday in 2025, whereas Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare has a barely extra concrete window of early within the yr.
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