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On January 1, 2024, the earliest versions of Mickey Mouse – seen in the animated shorts Plane Crazy, The Gallopin’ Gaucho, and most famously Steamboat Willie – became public domain… which, of course, means we’re now going to get multiple horror movies that feature characters inspired by Mickey Mouse. Within the first three days of the year, we saw the short film The Vanishing of S.S. Willie, a trailer for the slasher movie Mickey’s Mouse Trap, and an announcement that Terrifier 2 producers Steven Della Salla and Michael Leavy and director Steven Lamorte, who previously made the Grinch-inspired horror movie The Mean One, were teaming up for a Steamboat Willie-inspired horror flick that we now know as Screamboat. And there’s more: Mouseboat Massacre, I Heart Willie, The Dark Domain: Mvw Mickey-vs-Winnie. If you’ve been wondering why Minnie Mouse has been left out of the action – well, writer/director Brett Bentman has been wondering,...

In 2023, Rhys Frake-Waterfield wrote, directed, and produced Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey. The slasher horror took one of the most famous childhood characters and turned it into a vicious killer.

After its immense success, a sequel followed one year later, and it later turned into a franchise. The Twisted Childhood Universe film series is expected to feature many beloved characters as terrifying, blood-thirsty killers, and now a new favorite has received their turn: Minnie. PerDeadline, Steamboat Willie's mate, Minnie, will be the new star of a low-budget horror movie, Minnie's Midnight Massacre.

Minnie's Midnight Massacre has already received an exciting update, as filming has already wrapped last week. Per the description, Minnie goes on a killing spree when trying to get revenge against the childhood bullies who tortured her as a teenager. The upcoming slasher also received a first look at the character, which shows Minnie with a mask on,...

With Disney’s animated short Steamboat Willie now in the public domain, horror filmmakers are free to do whatever they want with the characters. The most notable film of the bunch thus far is Screamboat starring David Howard Thornton as a killer Steamboat Willie, but it’s certainly not the only Mickey Mouse-inspired horror movie to come along in recent months.

But this next horror project to spawn from the public domain status of Steamboat Willie is taking a different approach. Minnie Mouse becomes a slasher in Minnie’s Midnight Massacre.

Deadline brings us a first look image from Minnie’s Midnight Massacre this week, announcing that filming just wrapped up last week on the upcoming low budget indie horror effort.

Director Brett Bentman’s film sees Steamboat Willie’s first mate, Minnie, go on a killing spree when seeking revenge against the childhood bullies who tortured her as a teenager.

Exclusive: Filming wrapped in the U.S. last week on low-budget horror movie Minnie’s Midnight Massacre, exec-produced by Winnie The Pooh Blood and Honey exec-producers Stuart Alson and Nicole Holland.

The film sees Steamboat Willie’s first mate, Minnie, go on a killing spree when seeking revenge against the childhood bullies who tortured her as a teenager.

Airplane 25 and Stiletto actress Hannah Hueston leads the cast. Producers are Tiffany McDonald and Derrick Redford. Brett Bentman is writer-director (90 Feet From Home).

ITN Distribution is handling sales on the movie, of which you can see a first-look image below.

Bentman told us: “We wanted to bring the black and white sidekick to life. We’d see Willie in all these reimaginings, but what about Minnie? Why not give her some spotlight?”

Low-budget horror Winnie The Pooh Blood and Honey and its 2024 sequel both made $7M at the box office.

"Whatever it is you girls do, I'm sure it's nice and innocent." The Asylum has a brand new comedy B-movie out in theaters right now to watch. It's called Airplane 2025, and obviously it's a 2025 spoof-of-a-spoof comedy riff on the classic Airplane! movie from 1980. The original Airplane!, starring Leslie Nielsen and directed by Jim Abrahams & David Zucker & Jerry Zucker, is an all-timer classic that was already a disaster movie spoof making fun of many of the 70s disaster movies. This new 2025 version focuses more on the sex: A group of repressed college co-eds decides to join the sexual revolution... at 30,000 feet. This stars Tom Arnold, Tania Fox, Cody Renee Cameron, Landon Tavernier, Hannah Hueston, and many other unknown actors you won't recognize. Airplane 2025 is playing in select theaters now and is also out on VOD (as of 4/20 of course) to watch at home for anyone who wants to see...

The Retaliators director Samuel Gonzalez Jr. returns to the director’s chair for the indie Stiletto starring Charlotte McKinney.

In the upcoming exotic horror movie, “A year after the grisly murder of a local exotic dancer, the victim’s sister, Lyric (Gigi Gustin), searches for the serial killer responsible as he stalks and kills his favorite dancers on the night of the anniversary.”

The film stars Gigi Gustin (Night of the Missing) Charlotte McKinney (Fantasy Island) Colleen Camp Meghan Carrasquillo (Hider in My House), Swerve “Stephon” Strickland (Night of the Missing), Pancho Moler (3 from Hell), Hannah Hueston (The Pom Pom Murders), Stephen Blackehart (Guardians of the Galaxy), Russell Todd (Friday the 13th Part 2) and Mia Challis (Outer Banks)

The film is also written Gonzalez Jr. with Gustin receiving a story by credit.

Matthew Hersh and Gigi Gustin serve as producers, with Gustin serving as an executive producer as well.