Here’s Mickey!
A Canadian horror director is riding a wave of viral buzz for turning Disney’s most famous character into a gruesome slasher flick.
The trailer for “Mickey’s Mouse Trap” was released on Jan. 1, the same day the earliest iteration of the beloved animated rodent entered the public domain, and it’s been making headlines.
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“We kind of shook the world,” says Toronto-based filmmaker Jamie Bailey, 46, who has been fielding interview requests from the likes of ABC News and Rolling Stone over the last few days.