For some strange reason indy horror makers have this fascination of turning Mickey Mouse into a slasher villain. As this film is the first of at least FOUR maybe even more then that Mickey Mouse based slasher films that are due to come out this year as we also have the very recently announced I Heart Willie , Screamboat and The Mouse Trap: Welcome To The Mickeyverse all of which feature the mouse as a slasher villain and that does seem like over kill as it can kill the novelty of having a beloved childrens characters be the villain in the a slasher movie and so then join me as I review the review the film that features not one but TWO Disney characters as the villains with the film in question being called simply just "Mouse Of Horrors" enjoy.
The plot of this film is a bunch of teenager go to the fair where they stalked by a man dressed as a mouse and one dressed as a bear both of which are trying to kill them for there body parts and both of which the teens must avoid if they want to survive the night. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really bad as it just seems like a carbon copy of the plot of The Mouse Trap only done a little bit better with this films plot not really being all that interesting either as it's clear that this films plot was a n afterthought once the idea of the making Mickey Mouse the main villain came into the minds of the people that made this film and as such this films plot is one that on paper should have worked but due to the fact that nothing about this films plot feels all that well thought out and developed it instead comes across as being good idea that was wasted on a good film and even if this film did copy The Mouse Trap with it's setting and killer they still should have learned from the mistakes of that films plot and at least put in some effort into crafting a good story which is something that the makers of this film sadly don't do with the plot of this film not really being really rather entertaining nor is it really rather engaging either in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this film is Lewis Santer as The Killer , Stephen Staley as The Bear and Chris Lines as Dr. Rupert. Also starring in this film is Natasha Tosini as Chloe , Allie Moreno as Kim , Erin Sanderson as Meg , Rosie Edwards as Lucy , Harry Giubileo as Charlie , Nichaela Farrell as Brandy , Jake Watkins as Jake , Danielle Scott as Taylor , Thomas K. Murphy as Michael , Tessa Wood as Janet , Eve Vice as Dana , Misti Taylor as Molly , Johnny Vivash as Paul Chamberland , Nicholas Soden as Ryan The Runner , Michelle Bauer as Silvia Sand and Geretta Geretta as Sinthia Sharp.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty just as bad as you'd really want it to be. As let's be honest here these types of slasher movies don't really command good acting in them and while some of them do have some decent acting in them like Winnie The Pooh: Blood And Honey 2 for example this film is not that film as the acting in this film whilst it's not as bad as the acting in The Mouse Trap was it's still pretty bad but at the same time tho you can tell that all of the films actors are at least trying to make the films script work for them the issue is tho is that this films director and producer Brendan Petrizzo really has no idea of how to get a good performance out of his actors and as such all of this films actors just feel lost and unsure of what kind of performance to give in this film as there just so unsure of what to do in this film from a performance perspective with this films acting not really being helped by the fact that this films script is just so bad as it gives none of this films actors absolutely nothing to work with interms of what it is that there respective characters personalities is even meant to be in the first place which s something that really does help to lower the overall quality of the acting that's in this very film.
As was mentioned at the start of this review this film does technically have two Disney characters as it's main villains. With the other one being oddly enough Winnie The Pooh with the makers of this film even using the original design from the first Winnie The Pooh: Blood And Honey film even down to the cheap looking mask and while this film is NOT set within the confides of the Twisted Childhood Universe it does feel weird seeing that version of Winnie The Pooh show up in this movie and it's not like he's a just a cameo character either he plays a slightly big role in the film and is in it quite alot and this is something that does make you wonder why the makers of this film even watched the first Winnie The Pooh: Blood And Honey film because if they did then they'd know that people hated that look for the character so much so that the makers of the sequel actually took the time to improve upon the characters design which just makes the makers of this film look lazy as they use the design that nobody liked all for no reason and while yes the character is in the public domain it still doesn't change the fact that the makers of this film didn't bother to change anything about the look of the character to make it fit there world and instead chose to go with the design and mask that alot of people who would watch this film would straight away pick up on as this is something that does also make there film look even more cheaper then what it already is.
In case it's not made clear by both the name of the movie nor who the main villain's mask and name is meant to be but one of this films main villains is quite clearly Mickey Mouse. While having Mickey Mouse as the main villain does indeed have it's novelty it's one that thanks to low budget indie horror film makers it's one that's sadly starting to loose it's novelty as there's only so many times that you can see this character turned into a horror film villain before it's not only starts to get old but also really boring as well say what you will about the Winnie The Pooh horror films but at least there was only two of them so far thus meaning that the novelty of seeing that character in a horror film setting is still there and yet with Mickey Mouse we are due to get dozens of them all within the next five years alone and that is something that is ultimately going to do more harm then good as by the time the last one comes out whenever that is no matter how good that film might look nobodies going to want to see as they've already seen a horror film where Mickey Mouse is the main villain some times waiting and seeing is the best thing and if your not going to do anything new with the character then what's the point as this film doesn't do anything new or interesting with the character as it's just a man dressed up in a Mickey Mouse mask and that's it and yet the film does nothing interesting with the fact that it has someone who is blatantly meant to be Mickey Mouse as it's main villain something that it very easily could have done with just a few lines of dialog and that in the end would help the film standout more from all of the other Mickey Mouse based horror films both out there and that are yet to come as well.
While it is hard to say just how big this films budget was exactly it's clear as day that this film didn't have a very big budget. As the films has a passable Mickey Mouse mask and it straight up reuses the Winnie The Pooh design from Blood And Honey 1 but this film also has some really painfully laughable CGI which makes the effects in Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania look good by comparison with all of this films CGI effect being the best part of the film just due to how bad that they are and no joke one of them near the end of the movie is so bad and so laughable that I had to actually stop and rewind the movie just so I could see it again as it's just that bad granted this film would have a very small budget but you have to work within your limitations or find creative solutions something that the makers of this film quite clearly didn't do as they didn't work within there limitations at all and they didn't find creative solutions to all of the bad looking CGI look say what you will about The Mouse Trap but at least that film worked within it's small budget and found creative solutions that came up because of it's small budget here the bad CGI and the bad sound effects whilst they do make the film really painfully to watch to watch they also emphasise just how cheap that this movie was to maker with that quality really dragging the film down even further as at least with the first Blood And Honey film for the most part barring the bad costumes for both Piglet and Winnie The Pooh you couldn't tell that that film had a really mall budget where as here you can tell right from the first shot that this has a really small budget.
To give this film some very small amount of credit it does know exactly what kind of film that it is and because of that the film does become more of a horror comedy then a straight up slasher film. With some of this films jokes working and others just not working all together which is exactly the route that indie horror film makers should take when there making a beloved kids animated TV show character in a horror villain as then they can lean into the campiness of the original character and lean into the cheesiness that films like this do more often then not have and it's when this film leans into those elements that it does become more fun to watch and actually watchable but the film doesn't lean into those very elements all that often and even when it does it's usually for a scene or two and that's really it with the rest of the film completely playing it straight which means that the concept of having Mickey Mouse as the main villain doesn't really work as the film can't have any fun with that idea and when the whole film banks on that idea working then everything else surrounding the film just straight up doesn't work as we the audience aren't here to watch this films dreadful attempt at compelling or even good character we want to see Mickey Mouse act as a villain for a change and part of that does mean leaning into the more campy and more cartoonish aspects of the character instead of only going half way which makes the film alot less fun to watch when a film like this just due to it's concept alone really should be the most fun to watch.
Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and twenty three minuets and twenty six. Which is pretty much the bogstandard for all of these Mickey Mouse based horror films and while the film does have more then enough there interms of plot to really cover that amount of running time this film really didn't need to be this long as you very easily could have cut this film down to about one hour hour and fifteen minuets and you wouldn't loose anything that's actually important to the plot of the film as the plot isn't that well developed in the first place. With this film not even taking that full advantage of it's running time by developing it's characters as all of this films characters both hero and villain are just very one dimensional and bland characters with it being obvious that the makers of this film don't care about making us the audience actually care for it's characters as they thought that having Mickey Mouse be the main villain would be more then enough to get people to watch the film and while that might be the case if you want your film to actually be good then you need to have good characters and a good plot to go with them otherwise what's the point in even trying to make a film a first place as your audience just won't care about your characters and if our audience doesn't care about your characters the you've already lost the battle but I really will admit that this film really does have some really bad pacing to it tho.
So now then as this is a slasher film that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. As this film does have some really good looking gore and kills in it but what lets this film is the one thing that lets alot of this film down and that's the fact that it's a cheap film that in this case also has alot of really cheap sounding sound effects and while that might sound like a nit pick but a good sound effect can make or break a kill as every kill in every slasher movie ha to sound like it hurt to watch and in this case they just don't as they sound like alot of sound effects that you can use for free which is great if your making a home movie with your friends but for a low budget indie horror movie there really should have been more effort into creating actually good hearing sound effects as those will make the kills alot better with this film not having a standout kill as the sound effects just kill every little bit of tension that the film does at least try to build up and while all of the kills in this very do have some decent gore effects in them those aren't enough to make up for the poor sounding sound effects as all they do is remind you that your watching a very bad movie which is something that just isn't the case for either of the Blood And Honey films as they at least have decent sounds effects that make the kills in those movie actually sound like that they actually really do indeed hurt in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall while The Mouse Trap was the worst movie that I watched last year this one is very serious contender for my worst movie of this year as it's just a flat out bad movie that can at times be a chore to sit through and watch but when this film does get entertaining it can also be a really entertaining film to watch as well you just have to sit through alot of the bad stuff to get to a few moments of the good stuff in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 4.5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images hat I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and a well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Disney fandom wiki page , Tenor and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this film being Google Images simply because Google Images actually has images from this film really are up and on Google Images and plus pretty much much all of the images that I personally found on Google Images were all really very fairly high quality and as well as being as really very fairly high definition as well and so then horror fans we end this review as we always do with really our one and true goddess Elvira wishing us all some really very unpleasant dreams.
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