This development is so edgy, proper? I assume if you wish to fulfill your inside youngster who’s into this form of factor, The Mean One is perhaps for you; it undoubtedly seems to show that the bottom types of leisure maintain it “real” by bastardizing kids’s IP with none actual intention outdoors of creating Bambi, Pooh, and now the Grinch go homicidal.
This Dr. Seuss parody—whose price range clearly went all in on the make-up for “the mean one” and for casting Terrifer 2‘s David Howard Thornton—seems cheaper than an Asylum movie and shot in a rando city retrofitted as a slasher. Like, that’s it and I don’t know who’s asking for this. The trailer, launched by means of IGN, is giving extra Christmas cringe than killer vibes.
As you possibly can inform, I’m already over this darkish parody of varied kids’s characters accomplished for these with cynical chilly hearts that by no means grew three sizes. Don’t get me mistaken, although—horror comedies with children and holidays like Anna and the Apocalypse or the upcoming Violent Night, accomplished with earnest intent and camp with intelligent re-imaginings, work. Just… not right here, the place you can inform the hassle didn’t go additional than “wouldn’t it be sick to make the Grinch homicidal in a small town?”
Directed by Steven LaMorte, The Mean One hits U.S. theaters on December 9.
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