Mouse of Horrors

I recently watched the UK film 🇬🇧 Mouse of Horrors (2025) on Tubi. The story follows Dr. Rupert and his latest creation-a killer mouse-who stalks a coastal city's amusement parks, collecting body parts in hopes that the doctor will build him a female companion.

Directed by Brendan Petrizzo (Devil's Triangle), the film stars Lewis Santer (Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2), Stephen Staley (Curse of Bloody Mary), Natasha Tosini (Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey), and Allie Moreno (Don't Blame Karma).

The premise, story, and overall execution are about as bad as you'd expect. That said, the kills and settings were exactly what I was hoping for. While there's an overuse of intestines-especially characters playing with them-the kill scenes are surprisingly entertaining, executed with intensity and more solid gore than I anticipated. I also appreciated the nods to the Pooh horror universe. Yes, the CGI corpses and flies were awful, but the kill sequences held my attention.

In conclusion, Mouse of Horrors is a bad movie, but it has a few elements that dedicated horror fans might enjoy. I'd rate it a 3.5/10 and only recommend it with the right expectations.

Yes, it's another sort-of Mickey Mouse (& in this case, a sort-of Winnie the Pooh), but unlike The Mouse Trap, this time we have a British fun fair rather than an American Amusement Arcade. Again, it's a killing spree, though there is a plot and it's loosely a gory Bride of Frankenstein remake.

And again, Mickey is not mentioned by name, even calling him a rat (likewise for Pooh, it is a creation who looks similar but the inspiration is not named).

Sure, the editing isn't brilliant, while the sound effects are way OTT, and the effects, acting and direction are, well, low-budget, but the film is entertaining enough.

Credit has to go to Quint, who provide all the music tracks.

Despite all the nay-sayers, it's not that bad! Okay, so that's not a full recommendation, but if you like low-budget horror, especially slasher films, watch it with an open mind (and preferably a few drinks).

If you have the time to watch this epic failure, don't. It would be more enjoyable to be stuck in traffic while holding in diarrhea. Seriously, I have done both and shatting myself at least had some relief.

Now for this doodie bomb. Brendan Petrizzo "directs" this disaster that makes no sense and has no story. The sound is more horrible than the "cinematography". You can't hear anyone. It looks like it was shot on an early iPhone but saying that would be an insult to the hard working people at Apple. I wonder what it was like to be on set and say "Cut, I think we got it. Moving on." And then "editing" it? The nerve!

How does one have that confidence or show their face in public?

There's so many films out there waiting to be made and somehow this stinker squeezed out through the Tubi cocky tube.

It isn't all bad to be completely fair.

Save for some of the random victims, the acting's fine. The movie doesn't look inherently bad and the gore and kills are all decent to well done.

But the movie ignores the characters you're supposed to care about to a ridiculous level. That might be fine but there's little to no backstory or character interaction at all in the meantime. It's just killing. No rhyme, no reason, and more often than not, not entertaining.

Ultimately it's slow. There's shockingly little story and just focusing on the characters doesn't even happen. It's genuinely difficult to spoil anything about it.

Gratuitous. Kinda the only word.

I'd skip this one.

This is easily the worst movie I've ever had the displeasure of watching. It was garbage from start to finish.

The acting is easily the worst I've seen. In scenes where they're being hunted down, everyone looks kind of bored. It felt like it's a college project where they had $50 to make a whole movie, didn't focus on writing a script at all, and used the $50 to buy day passes to their local amusement park. The only direction they gave the mouse character was "act like Art the Clown if he were given no direction, no props, and tragically bad acting to bounce off of".

The sound effects made me realize that there aren't any rules against hiring a 3 year old to do the heavy lifting in the editing booth. They spammed the same few sounds the entire movie, it felt like the days of Vine where the boom sound effect was spammed every 5 seconds. The punching and walking sound effects were the most egregious use of sound effects editing out of hundreds of movies that I've watched. I'm nearly certain they repurposed the Minecraft walking sound for this.

It works much better as a comedy because of how stupid it is. Wow. I actually can't believe this.