Of Course the First Steamboat Willie Horror Movie Is Already Here
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The start of 2024 saw a major milestone in U.S. copyright law as Steamboat Willie—and with it the very first versions of Mickey and Minnie Mouse—entered public domain for the first time. As with classics before it, in record time people took to announcing what is now inevitable for any new public domain work: what if this classic work was dark and twisted actually?
After Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey already turned A.A. Milne’s children’s tale into a gory, atrocious horror film, now Jamie Bailey’s Mickey’s Mouse Trap aims to do much the same for the 1928 animated short.
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It’ll take time to see what people really want to do—and are emboldened to do given how much of Mickey Mouse Disney still has legal ownership of beyond that 1928 appearance—with Steamboat Willie now that it’s in the public domain. For now, we’re simply in the age of mousploitation. It just happens to be in the hands of the public this time, rather than from the House of Mouse itself.
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