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Tyler Perry recently released a psychological crime drama film called Straw. The movie, which debuted on Netflix on June 6, has been a hit with viewers.

Per ScreenRant, the latest thriller from Madea creator Perry has closed out its first weekend on Netflix with some solid reviews from viewers. At the time of writing, Straw holds a 76% approval rating via review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes' user-generated "Popcornmeter," as averaged across more than 250 user-submitted ratings. Although there are not currently enough critical ratings to generate a "Tomatometer" score for the film, early reviews from critics point towards it being a general success.

Written and directed by Perry, who also produced alongside Angi Bones and Tony Strickland, Straw stars Taraji P. Henson as Janiya Wiltkinson, a single mother living with her often ill daughter Aria. Over the course of the film, a series of minor crises eventually build up to a full-blown lethal breakdown...

Stars: Tyler Posey, David Howard Thornton, Jared Johnston, Brian Quinn, Jesse Kove, Anthony E. Williams, Kailey Hyman, Brian Scolaro, Sarah Kopkin, Jesse Posey | Written by Steven Lamorte, Matthew Garcia-Dunn | Directed by Steven Lamorte

As someone who’s appreciated films like Jack and Jill, and Three Blind Mice but then didn’t adore Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey and its sequel, I approached Screamboat with a blend of intrigue and scepticism. The film delves into the growing trend of turning classic public-domain characters into horror icons, transforming the cheerful mascot of Steamboat Willie into a bloodthirsty nightmare. With David Howard Thornton, known for his silent yet menacing performance as Art the Clown in Terrifier, stepping into the role of this twisted rodent, I had cautious optimism.

The story unfolds aboard a late-night Staten Island ferry, where an unlucky group of passengers finds themselves trapped with a monstrous, mutated mouse that has one goal: slaughter.

A new image has been revealed for the upcoming movie Screamboat. The film serves as a horror spoof of Steamboat Willie, the classic animated short that first introduced the Mickey Mouse character.

In 2024, Steamboat Willie officially entered the public domain. While later incarnations of Mickey Mouse are still protected by copyright law, the introductory version as shown in Steamboat Willie can legally be spoofed. This is part of a new trend that's picking up following the success of Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, which took another beloved children's character and turned him evil thanks to the copyright protection going away. How Screamboat will turn out remains to be seen, but the first look at David Howard Thornton (the Terrifier trilogy's Art the Clown actor) in the role of the killer Willie has been revealed.

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Set in 1993, Hulu’s horror film Mr. Crocket centers around a bunch of missing children in Shurry Bottom, Pennsylvania. Each and every kid who mysteriously disappeared from their parents’ house was linked to a cursed VHS tape of a 1970s children’s television show, Mr. Crocket’s World. [Spoiler Alert] The film’s ending revealed that before dying, the titular character made a deal with the devil. Satan gave Emanuel Crocket a “magical marker” and a “paradise” of his own to save all the children who had been abused or mistreated by their parents in the real world. In short, Emanuel used the demonic powers to target kids living in abusive households and later would send them the cursed VHS tape to hypnotize them and control their minds. Later, he would arrive at their house and kill their abusive parents and bring the kids to his paradise with the help of a...

One of horror's more divisive trends continues in the Screamboat teaser trailer. The movie hails from director Steven Lamorte, who previously made a name for himself by directing 2022's The Mean One, a slasher horror twist on Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas. Screamboat will center on a group of New Yorkers who come under attack by a figure who looks akin to Mickey Mouse aboard a late-night ferry, with the project entering development after Steamboat Willie entered the public domain.

Now, some eight months after the movie was first announced, Iconic Events Releasing has debuted the first Screamboat teaser trailer.

The video, as seen above, offers a brief glimpse at the upcoming slasher horror movie, largely keeping the killer twist on Mickey Mouse offscreen while instead focusing on the various potential victims of the film. The footage does, however, offer a quick tease of the killer's design, with...