We’ve seen public domain-based horror movies inspired by Winnie the Pooh and Mickey Mouse, but the upcoming The Dark Domain: Mickey vs. Winnie is set to be the first to pit the two pop culture icons up against each other. Glenn Douglas Packard (Pitchfork) directed the film for Untouchables Entertainment, and Variety debuted the official trailer today.

The upcoming horror film “follows two convicts in the 1920s who escape into a cursed forest only to be dragged and consumed into the depths of the dark forest’s muddy heart.”

“A century later, a group of thrill-seeking friends unknowingly venture into the same woods. Their Airbnb getaway takes a horrifying turn when the convicts mutate into twisted versions of childhood icons Mickey Mouse & Winnie-The-Pooh, and emerge to terrorize them. A night of violence and gore erupts, as the group of friends battle against their now monstrous beloved childhood characters and fight to break free from the forest’s grip.

“In a horrific spectacle, Mickey and Winnie clash, painting the woods in a gruesome tableau of blood—a chilling testament to the curse’s insidious power.”

Dark Mickey is played by Daniel Wilkinson, with Dark Winnie played by Chris Boudreaux.

“I love that we can take these iconic childhood characters from A.A. Milne’s original Winnie-the-Pooh and the 1928 Steamboat Willie version of Mickey and create a whole new wicked universe,” Packard said in a statement this week. “Our film is like the Upside Down World, with these public domain icons getting into a horror smackdown akin to Freddy vs. Jason.”

Check out early poster art below and find the trailer on Variety now.

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We had learned this past Halloween season that Paul W.S Anderson (Event Horizon, Alien vs. Predator, Resident Evil film franchise, Monster Hunter, In the Lost Lands) is returning to the horror genre with an upcoming movie adaptation of the video game The House of the Dead, which will be coming along over 20 years after Uwe Boll’s infamous adaptation.

Paul W.S Anderson will write and direct the new adaptation of SEGA’s zombie game, which debuted back in 1996 and spawned a franchise as well as a remake in 2022. In a new chat with Variety this week, Anderson details his “very, very scary” vision for the upcoming movie.

“It’s going to be immersive and very, very scary,” Paul W.S. Anderson promises. “It’ll all play out in real time, so it reflects the experience of playing the video game. The only time it stops is when you beat the game or you die. That’s going to be the only way out.”

He adds, “The script is almost done. We’re aiming to shoot in the fourth quarter of this year.”

Anderson is of course no stranger to bringing video games to life on the big screen, having previously adapted both Mortal Kombat and Resident Evil. He tells Variety, “I’m really going to push the envelope on this one. It’s going to be something different for me.”

Paul W.S. Anderson’s The House of the Dead will be specifically adapting the 2002 game The House of the Dead 3, with the filmmaker recently describing the film as a “full-on terror ride.”

In The House of the Dead 3, set 20 years after the previous game, “Lisa Rogan and Agent G are searching for Lisa’s missing father, when they uncover a new zombie infestation.”

The original video game was unleashed in 1996, the very same year the original Resident Evil came along. Both games are credited for kickstarting the zombie resurgence of the time.

The images used in this article are early concept art for Anderson’s movie.

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