Still recovering from Covid I decided to have a more chilled blog weekend this time around. The sole feature length film I planned to watch it turns out I had already reviewed last year (Pandemonium), so decided to be lazy and head to YouTube to pick a random short horror film. With Steamboat Willie era Mickey Mouse falling into public domain recently, I just had to check out the four minute horror Mickey Mouse, to see what they would do with it.
Camille (Erin Sunisa - The Nun) is home alone late one night watching a YouTube video that asks its viewers to do the 'Mickey Mouse Challenge'. Basically, if you whistle the same tune that Mickey whistles in Steamboat Willie after midnight then something spooky is meant to happen. She does it, but is unsurprised that nothing appears to happen, so she decides to go and take a bath. Little does she now that there is now a mouse themed intruder who has appeared in the house...
Prolific and somewhat idea devoid short film maker Alex Magaña (Grimace Shake, Serbian Dancing Lady) is behind this one, and like many others, he has a decent idea but appears unable to reach a satisfying conclusion. This follows a familiar format, with the protagonist having summoned something, but just about oblivious to the fact. The antagonist (Kaylie Cho) looks great in the Mickey Mouse costume, pretty freaky, the only issue is that this person doesn't actually do much other than loom around. It leads to some nice shots, but also leads up to an underwhelming and abrupt end that had me yearning for bloodshed of some type. Still, I liked the use of clips from Steamboat Willie, I think it's pretty fun that all these iconic things are slowly dripping into the public domain. Check out Mickey Mouse for yourself, at four minutes long it is worth a watch.
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