All aboard! Get your tickets right here to the newest trailer for the latest brutal, bloody, and bonkers feature to come from filmmakerSteven LaMorte. Today, the boat is leaving port, in the teaser forScreamboat— a horror take on the classic 1928 animated Mickey Mouse flick,Steamboat Willie. As one would expect fromThe Mean Onedirector who previously turnedThe Grinchinto a bloodthirsty, Who-executing, baddie (although to be fair, he was mere moments away from that in the original movie),Screamboattakes a beloved childhood character of yesteryear and turns him into the monster under your bed. With a leading performance from the one and only, Art the Clown — er — we meanTerrifier’sDavid Howard Thornton, the teaser promises plenty of chills, thrills, and maybe even a few laughs from the movie thatarrives on April 2.
Welcoming riders on the Staten Island Ferry (where all dreams go to die),the setting ofScreamboatcouldn’t be more believable. It’s here that the trailer introduces us to the movie’s harbinger — in this case, a homeless man who warns a tired and very much over-it EMT that “we’re all going to die.” The underpaid medical professional is clearly sick of hearing the man spitting off the same wild theories, so she quickly shuts him up — but in a nice way. However, when the doors slide shut and the boat pushes away from the dock, it immediately becomes apparent that this man is not in any way, shape or form crazy and that there reallyisahuman-sized “demonic rodent with shorts and a hat”searching for cheese. And by cheese, we mean guts.
The film is directly in line with other titles to come from LaMorte and Fuzz on the Lens Productions, the latter of which is one of the creative teams behind thesecondandthirdinstallments in theTerrifierfranchise. With body parts flying left and right, quotable one-liners, and an unbelievable costuming job that transforms Thornton into a killer mouse,Screamboatlooks to be the next big children’s movie turned-pure nightmare fuel.
Who Else Stars in ‘Screamboat’?
Joining Thornton in his latest ghoulish role is a lineup of performers that includesTyler Posey(Teen Wolf),Jarlath Conroy(Day of the Dead),Kailey Hyman(Terrifier 3),Allison Pittel(The Brawler),Jesse Posey(Station 19),Jesse Kove(A Taste of Love),Amy Schumacher(The Mean One) and more. The movie is the latest to cash in on classic charactersentering the public domain, with those behindScreamboatmore than ready to pull the trigger and announce the horror-comedy project just one day after theSteamboat Willieversion of Mickey Mouse became fair game.
Check out the trailer forScreamboatabove and see it when it sails into theaters on April 2.
