@@MrSwinefuzz it’s an old episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark. For children’s television, the monster in it is pretty frightening and it still holds up
Personally i can somehow see a Horror movie based on Steamboat Willie. You just need to make it about a horrific Mouse Man who is used for public entertainment on a Riverboat show and things go wrong fast. Heck, make him a local legend somewhere in the swamps of Florida and have it kill of teens who think he is fake. And go goofy with it. It's a horror Mickey Mouse. Just have fun making something decent at best.
I had a haunted swimming pool script going with Wild Eye in 2017. but ours was about haunted pool toys and once this started to rev up they killed the project. I still wanna make my version 1 day
This movie reminded me of The Bye Bye Man. All the suspenseful dialogue is immediately ruined when the characters actually mention the premise. "We have to get out of here. The pool is doing something to you." The mention of the pool just takes me out of it
If you want a horror parody of Mickey Mouse then check out Bendy and the ink machine series. That’s a creepy game about trying to bring classic cartoons to life only for them to come out as warped and cracked versions of themselves.
When I hear about a haunted pool, I expect a haunted pool, water ghosts, the pool filling with the blood of the spirits, all kinds of crazy ass stuff, not “it’s a wishing well that needs blood” so stupid
At first I thought the movie was about a Lovecraftian creature who drags people in the pool to a nightmare world...but then saw the second trailer and knew it's not worth watching
Wolfula: "Guess what, Ghoulash? I got you haunted pool. Go for a swim." Ghoulash: "Is that why you gave me Wednesday Pancakes first?" Wolfula: "Watch out for Mickey Mouse Steamboat toy."
There's a ton of characters from mythology and folklore that are in the public domain and that are perfect for horror movies. Why would you use characters like Winnie the Pooh and Mickey Mouse (aside from shock value)?
attention, people would be more interested in seeing a character made famous by disney in a horror flick because they would be more recognizable. no one would watch an Icarus horror movie because no one gives a fuck about that fable.
because its literally all about shock value. They don't care about making something "good" they want to make something to shock people. The hilarious thing with Blood and Honey is that its NOT the Disney version of Winnie the Pooh that is in the public domain, its the illustrations from the books. Which is why the garbage trash sequel to a garbage trash movie, is leaning more into the illustrations from the books. Disney's design of Winnie The Pooh is still safe and copyrighted by Disney, its only existed since the 60s
@@AnAverageGoblin I'm not talking about Icarus, but about something like the Yokai from Japanese folklore. I understand that Disney characters are more recognizable, but it would be refreshing to see a movie about lesser known folkloric and mythological characters (there are already Japanese Yokai movies that show their potential as horror characters). There's a rich vein of stories and characters that could be used to create cinematic horror universes.
It's been awhile since I've seen it, but oddly enough, there's an episode of Codename: Kids Next Door that takes the idea of something being supernatural about a backyard swimming pool and puts a way more interesting spin on it. From what I can remember, anyone who dives in resurfaces in a parallel universe. I might find the episode and give it a rewatch instead of checking this movie out. Great video as always, though, Doc.
I wasn't expecting much but had a good time with this. It reminded me of an expanded episode of The Twilight Zone or a reconfigured Monkey's Paw. I thought the creature sucked but the movie's attempts at psychological horror using the characters wishes made it interesting enough to keep me engaged. 15 million dollars is a pretty low budget. Typically movies like those go to streaming. Although this movie wasn't a masterpiece, I wouldn't mind seeing studios release more low-budget horror to theaters.
Same here. Just saw it yesterday in theaters, and I enjoyed it. Sure it was far from a masterpiece. But for a low budget horror it was good. I liked the idea of the spring water wanting sacrifices, since it reminded me of Mayan human sacrifices for better crops, by throwing someone in a spring well to drown them. I feel the movie was suggesting that the spring itself was not magic, but had a form of demon inside, and would grant wishes for sacrifices.
Here’s the thing. I hate all these Mickey Mouse horror products. No, I don’t give a shit what bone you have to pick with the company that owns him, Mickey Mouse the character doesn’t deserve to be made into a monster. It saddens me that the moment Mickey fell into Walt and Ub’s lap, they made a world changing feat of animation with him as the rapscallion hero. But the only thing generations later can think to do with him once they’re allowed to play with him is to hurt him for what amounts to “fuck you Dad! I can’t hurt you, but I can break your things.”
On the subject of the Mickey Mouse horror films, I think they could use Mickey as a symbol for the evil company that he has represented for 70 years...Disney. They can't make a movie saying that Disney is evil without getting into trouble, but if Mickey is public domain then they can use that as a metaphor for how Disney is buying up all the intellectual properties they can get their hands on and trying to have a monopoly on the entertainment industry. Mickey could represent that capitalist spirit of trying to take everything over. It'd be more psychological rather than a standard slasher film. You could have the victims be representations of the various properties that Disney has bought out, like a comic book nerd as a reference to Marvel or a science fiction fan as a representation of Star Wars and Doctor Who or a professor of classic literature representing all the fairy tales that are now associated with Disney...that sort of thing. It'd be a film about capitalist greed with the Mickey getting fatter with every kill. By the end of the film, he's the size of WWE legend Yokozuna (who weighed something like 900lbs at the end of his life). Disney has also stopped producing physical media of any of their properties in Australia and I suspect that they're testing the waters before they start doing that worldwide. They want to force people into paying them on a monthly basis to access Disney Plus in order to see the content that they want which is utterly disgusting in my opinion. So I am all for some kind of take down of Disney in the form of a horror movie, I just hope that someone good makes one and not just the lazy cash grabs we've seen with The Mean One and Winnie The Pooh.
I've seen three reviews of this movie so far, including yours, and they're all negative. I'm starting to feel bad for everyone involved in the production of this movie. LOL
What an surprise, a horror movie released in dumping ground January is a piece of 💩. this just in: grass is green, fire is hot and blood is red. more at 11. The trailer alone made me feel like this was going to be a boring piece of 💩 and this just confirms it. Also, the concept alone just sounds like something so dumb that even a coked out of his mind Stephen King would call it 💩 and he gave us evil hedge animals that work for an haunted mountain top hotel.
Me when the trailer started: Ooo, James Wan horror! Me partway through the trailer: OPEN YOUR EYES ALREADY! The trailer would've made me more excited if it was literally half the length. But this feels like another one I'll skip.
So cool to wake up to a Dr video! Super excited for these Disney horror films because blood and honey was easily one of docs best, look at that fat fuck run! So the Mickey one, bring it on
fun fact: the only reason i saw this movie was because it had James wan attached to it. it was only after i saw the movie that i found out he only produced it. 😭
Honestly, I’m not too happy that he’s entering the public domain but what are we gonna do so to Mickey Mouse good luck night. Swim is kind of giving me a rip off vibe of Jaws and the Simpsons treehouse of horror with the dolphins for some reason.
I love how the movie had such little substance to it that he couldn't even fit it into a full video so he had to talk about steamboat willie for the first half. Thats how bad this movie is.
When Doc spends the first half of the video talking about Steamboat Willie instead of the movie he's supposed to be reviewing, that shows you how much of an embarrassing turd Night Swim is! 😂
