The trailer for the slasher movie was released as the cartoon character entered the public domain.

It’s Mickey, but not as you’ve ever seen him before.

A trailer for a slasher film, featuring a masked killer dressed as Mickey Mouse, was released on 1 January, the day that Disney’s copyright on the earliest versions of the cartoon character expired in the US.

“We wanted the polar opposite of what exists,” the movie’s producer said.

A new Mickey-inspired horror game, showing the rodent covered with blood stains, also dropped on the same day.

Steamboat Willie, a 1928 short film featuring early non-speaking versions of Mickey and Minnie, entered the public domain in the US on New Year’s Day.

It means cartoonists, novelists and filmmakers can now rework and use the earliest versions of Mickey and Minnie.

  • @Khanzarate
    20•11 months ago

    Yeah.

    Just like how people are more likely to want to stay standing up after having to sit for 8 hours for work/school.

    There’s a social rubberbanding effect, just gotta get it out of our collective system so the tension is released, and then better content will come after that release.