Now, that both Mickey Mouse and Winnie The Pooh are both in the public domain, studios and creatives have taken advantage of making horror movies based on the characters. Well, one studio is doing something a little different.
According to Deadline, Untouchables Entertainment, collaborating with the genre website iHorror, is currently in the works on a project titled Mickey vs. Winnie. Directed by Glenn Douglas Packard, known for his Emmy-nominated choreography and his work as a filmmaker on Pitchfork, the film will be based on his own screenplay.
The film follows two convicts in the 1920s who escape into a cursed forest only to be dragged and consumed into the depths of the dark forest’s muddy heart. A century later, a group of thrill-seeking friends unknowingly venture into the same woods. Their Airbnb getaway takes a horrifying turn when the convicts mutate into twisted versions of childhood icons Mickey Mouse & Winnie-The-Pooh, and emerge to terrorize them. A night of violence and gore erupts, as the group of friends battle against their now monstrous beloved childhood characters and fight to break free from the forest’s grip. In a horrific spectacle, Mickey and Winnie clash, painting the woods in a gruesome tableau of blood—a chilling testament to the curse’s insidious power.
Packard will oversee production under his banner, Untouchables Entertainment, in collaboration with his creative partner Rachel Carter. Anthony Pernicka, the founder of the genre blog iHorror, will serve as a producer through his company bearing the same name.
It should be noted, that this movie is not connected to the Winnie-Th-Pooh: Blood and Honey franchise or the upcoming Mickey Mouse slasher Mickey’s Mouse Trap.
