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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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00:00The trailer for a horror comedy film featuring a killer Mickey Mouse was dropped
00:04just as Disney's 1928 Steamboat Willie entered the public domain.
00:09Where the hell did he go?
00:13The synopsis for the film, called Mickey's Mousetrap, reads,
00:17It's Alex's 21st birthday, but she's stuck at the amusement arcade on a late shift,
00:21so her friends decide to surprise her.
00:23But a masked killer dressed as Mickey Mouse decides to play a game of his own with them,
00:27which she must survive.
00:28The trailer features a slasher Mickey Mouse costume attacking a victim
00:33and stalking others inside a Chuck E. Cheese-like establishment.
00:37The movie was directed by Jamie Bailey, who said in a statement,
00:40We just wanted to have fun with it all.
00:41I mean, it's Steamboat Willie's Mickey Mouse murdering people.
00:44It's ridiculous.
00:45We ran with it and had fun doing it, and I think it shows.
00:48Mickey's Mousetrap follows last year's horror film Winnie the Pooh Blood and Honey,
00:52which was made possible after that character entered the public domain two years ago.
00:56This film does not yet have a release date, but producers are aiming for March.
01:03For more on this story, head to THR.com.
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