you know what that sound means it's another episode
of game for a movie where we ask are you game
for a movie my name is mike i will be your host
this evening honestly this may be one of the
best horror movies i've ever done one of the
best worst ones obviously because we are a bad
movie podcast this one i was excited for i was
ready for and it delivered it absolutely crushed
it i'm going to say right now i do not recommend
any of you watch this movie, but in terms of
it is exactly as bad as I wanted it to be, it
was perfect. It was absolutely just nailed it.
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time. Let's talk. We are going to talk about
from 2024, The Mousetrap. The Mousetrap is an
hour and 20 minutes long. It is a horror mystery
thriller. Here is the Rotten Tomatoes description
of it. Stuck working the late shift at the amusement
park arcade, Alex receives a surprise visit from
her friends on her 21st birthday. However, their
night of fun soon turns into a fight for survival
when a killer dressed as Mickey Mouse crashes
the party. Yes, Mickey Mouse is crashing the
party, killing them off one by one. This is because
Steamboat Willie is in the public domain, so
they were able to get the original Mickey Mouse
design from the Steamboat Willie cartoon. They
were able to use that in this movie. It has no
critic score, which I'm not shocked by, and it
has a 17 % audience score. Mike, that doesn't
sound very good. Why are you calling this a perfect
movie? Well, I'll be honest. It's not good. I
do not recommend this for anybody. But because
I had seen the trailer, because I had seen the
idea, I was so ready for this. Like, so ready
for this. It was everything I wanted it to be
in the fact that it was absolutely terrible.
So... If you're looking for a movie that you
know is going to be bad, an hour and 20 minutes
of your life, you can laugh with this. Trust
me, I did plenty. So here's a couple of my favorite
reviews. I'm just going to read you two of them.
This is an audience review from Jacob M., who
gave it 0 .5 out of 5. He said, makes Winnie
the Pooh, Blood and Honey look like The Conjuring.
And this is from a reviewer from The Decider.
John Serba is his name. He called it Mouse Crap.
Yes, the Mouse Trap, Mouse Crap, whatever you
want to call it. It's a movie that exists. It's
considered a B -whore, dark comedy, dark fantasy,
slasher whore, all that kind of stuff, whatever
you want to call it. It has one nomination for
an award. It's the Fangoria Chainsaw Awards,
and it was a 2025 nominee, Best Public Domain
Resurrection. I kind of want to see what the
other ones... were at that time. So here were
the other nominees and the winner that won for
Best Public Domain Resurrection. Obviously, we've
got The Mousetrap. All three of the Popeyes movies
were in this. Popeyes Revenge, Popeye the Slayer
Man, and Shiver Me Timbers. Of course, we also
had Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare. And the
winner was Screamboat. Screamboat for the Best
Public Domain Resurrection. So Mickey won still.
Just not with this one, is what I will say. Totally
understand why. I haven't seen Screamboat, but
I have heard it's a superior film in the fact
that it's just better. Maybe a little more coherent.
This movie comes to us from Canada, and it was
filmed mostly at the Funhaven Arcade in Ottawa,
Ontario, Canada. The estimated box office budget
was $800 ,000. And the estimated gross worldwide
was $109 ,000. Yeah, it did not recoup its losses.
So, yeah, about that. Only making an eighth back.
Probably not very good. The director of this
film was Jamie Bailey. Jamie Bailey doesn't have
a lot of movies to his name. So, if you don't
know who that is... It's okay. Trust me. You
probably have never heard of some of their other
movies. Jamie Bailey was a producer on this film
and was working with the other producer, who
was also the writer, who also was, of course,
Mickey Mouse. That's Simon Phillips. Simon Phillips
is an Irish actor. And Simon Phillips has been
in a lot of things, actually. Including... There's
some things he's actually been in that you kind
of actually know. He was in an episode of FUBAR,
the show with Arnold Schwarzenegger. He was in
an episode of The Witcher, Murdoch Mysteries,
that kind of stuff. He's a lot of like one episode
here or there kind of thing. Mostly makes his
living in lesser known movies is what I will
say. Uh, usually though having a big role, including
he's been in two horror movies as Santa Claus.
He was not the problem with this is what I will
say. Um, for the most part, you know what, for
the most part, I don't think his acting was not
the worst that I've seen. So that's what I will
give it at least. All right, Mike, we want to
know the details. Tell us everything about this
movie. So that I don't have to watch it. I don't
want to waste an hour and 20 minutes actually
watching this movie. The very beginning starts
with a Star Wars -esque crawl. And they make
sure it's known that they are not associated
with Disney. And that this is a parody movie.
This is a satire kind of thing. They make sure
that it's known. It also has knockoff Star Wars
music. And at the very end of it, it says this
is a generic space crawl not related to anything
as well because, again, we are not associated
with Disney. It just kind of sets the stage that
don't sue us, I guess, really. We are using this
well within the public domain. And, yeah. It
is Friday the 13th. And we are introduced to
Detective Cole and Marsh, and they are doing
an interview of Rebecca. Rebecca, we are told,
is one of the few survivors of the Funhaven massacre.
Rebecca is kind of like, she's a goth. That's
really what she is. She's the stereotypical goth
girl. The funny thing is... She really isn't
a big part of the group in any of the group scenes.
It's just she's our narrator for what happened
at Funhaven. Basically, they are doing good cop,
bad cop. Detective Marsh is the bad cop, and
Detective Cole is more the good cop. Detective
Marsh is a little older than Detective Cole.
And Rebecca basically calls him out. She goes,
You guys are trying to do this by the books.
Don't try to do this by the books. This is not
a normal case. And it's not. It is very much
not a normal case. And she kind of says nothing
at first because she says by saying nothing,
once you know, you can't unknow. And that kind
of sets in motion the start of what happened.
And these credits start playing over Steamboat
Willie and some like. horrible butt rock music
that's trying to like sound scary and we are
introduced to fun haven fun haven is the amusement
park this takes place at it is an indoor amusement
park um it's kind of like a dave and busters
more so it's like an arcade more so than amusement
park but there's a couple rides in there like
smaller rides that kind of thing that are in
there there's lots of close -ups of arcade games
for the beginning like it's just kind of showing
people at arcade games or like the arcade games
themselves It's a good like 30 to 40 seconds
where you're just kind of like, is this still
just showing us Funhaven? Okay. Okay. Yeah. There's
a kid who his knee is bleeding. And so he is
being fixed up by our main character, Alex. Alex
is played by Sophie McIntosh. Another one. You
probably don't know her from very much of anything.
And so she's fixing this kid up. and we also
meet jana jana is a girl that works with alex
they're kind of close but not really jana is
the popular girl phone constantly blowing up
constantly has a date you know that kind of stuff
and we also get introduced to tim tim is their
manager and he tells the girls unfortunately
you need to stay late there's a party that got
a last minute booking it's for eight for three
hours after the door closes but it's double time
so alex says it's fine sure how hard can it be
you know you can tell they're both disappointed
but they're going to stay because it's trip or
it's double time so they're going to get more
pay that kind of stuff I didn't write down anything
important for it because nothing really happens
in the scene, but I do want it to be clear. Like
it keeps flashing back and forth between the
detectives interviewing Rebecca and fun Haven
just keeps going back and forth randomly throughout
this. Um, just to get that point out there right
now. So while the girls are getting ready for
this party, Tim is in the back, like back office
and he is pouring himself a drink. Um, His office
is kind of like a private movie theater. And
so it has like a projector and like a screen
and stuff like that. It also has a bunch of movie
memorabilia, including the Mickey Mouse mask
and a DVD copy, of course, of Steamboat Willie.
So he like picks up the DVD, puts it on, starts
running through the projector, I guess. I don't
know why. That makes no sense, but it does. It's
very obviously a DVD. It's very obviously a projector.
Somehow, someway, it just happens to work. So
he starts watching Steamboat Willie. As he's
watching it, he hears like a creepy laugh behind
him. And he kind of gets spooked. And he was
pouring himself a drink. He spills his drink
on an exposed wire. I thought this was going
to be more important. It was not. No. So he stands
up and like gets closer to the screen. And he
starts hearing evil Mickey who was calling to
him. And then Mickey says, do you want to see
what I see? And Tim kind of like shakes his head.
And this is where then he looks at the mask.
And this is where our Mickey comes from. So originally,
my thought about this was that it was going to
be he stepped on the wire or something like that
because it was like sparking, you know, and that
kind of stuff. And like I thought, OK, this is
what was going to happen. No, he just. Like,
here's an evil Mickey and becomes obsessed with
Steamboat Willie and just wants to be Mickey,
I guess. So we go back to the girls, Jaina and
Alex. Jaina is smoking and smoking weed while
Alex is cleaning the tables. You can tell now
that Jaina kind of has something. Something's
going on. She's playing nice, and she wants something
from Alex. What she wants is she wants to pop
out and go see a guy. And, you know, the horizontal
squeaky on the bed kind of thing. Alex kind of
sees what she's doing and knows that she won't
come back. She still says that Jaina can go anyway.
So Jaina. so happy that her best friend alex
let her off the hook she goes off to meet with
this guy so alex is all by herself waiting for
this party that still hasn't gotten there yet
so she starts playing some of the games but it's
like Very obvious she's not playing any of these.
You know, it's like the demo screen kind of thing
where it's just kind of showing you how the game
is played. She's not actually playing any of
them. She's just kind of like jumping on the
gun shooter game, you know, but not actually
shooting anything. And then her game playing
is interrupted by the main phone ringing behind
the front desk. So she goes to answer the phone,
but nobody says anything. So it's clear to her
that somebody's on the line, but not that they're
saying anything. She hangs it up. No problem.
All of a sudden, the Mickey Wilson or the sorry,
the Steamboat Willie whistle song like the you
know, the the song that plays in Steamboat Willie.
I don't I don't think I would get sued because
it was included in the movie. But I'm not going
to whistle it for you because I think you know
what I'm talking about. It starts playing over
the loudspeaker. So she starts to go looking
for the source. And this is when we see Mickey
for the first time. And he is messing with some
chains. And she's kind of just like, what the
fuck? Like, what the hell is happening kind of
thing? And Mickey is wearing a black and red
hockey sweater and then the Mickey mask. This
is important for later, so I just want to make
sure I get this out there. Now, this is the important
thing. It's the black and red hockey sweater.
So she's kind of weirded out by the chains and
the Mickey, so she runs away. And she runs into
the party, which is a group of her friends. And
they're throwing her a surprise party for her
birthday. Mind you, it's two weeks early. So
it actually is like a surprise. She's not expecting
any of this at all because it's two weeks before
her birthday. And in this group also is Jackie.
It's her birthday before Alex's even, and they're
still doing the surprise party. So here is our
main group of characters. We've got Alex, Jaina.
We've got Tim, who is Mickey. And then our group
of friends are Ryan, Marcus, Gemma, Paul, Jackie,
Rebecca, Marie, and Danny. These are the important
ones to know. A quick rundown of everybody's
characters. Paul and Jackie are a couple and
they're just constantly like wanting to have
sex with each other. They can't keep their hands
off each other. Marcus is the nerd who is kind
of like organizing it. You can kind of tell there's
a little bit of a romance angle for him and Alex.
The person who's taking credit is Ryan. who is
the captain of the hockey team. The hockey team
wears black and red hockey sweaters. Rebecca,
I told you before, is our goth girl. Marie and
Gemma are just kind of there as like eye candy.
Both of them don't really have a lot of personality.
And then Danny. Danny, we don't learn a lot about,
but he's kind of Marcus's friend and he just
wants to like smoke weed and do his own thing.
So that's kind of the quick version of who these
people are. Yeah. We learned they wanted to have
the party there because Marcus, who's been friends
with Alex since forever, she kind of said something
when they were younger about always having their
birthdays at Funhaven. And so that's why he wanted
to do the surprise party there. So that group
of eight that booked last minute, yeah, that
was for her surprise party. There's no actual
kids or anything like that. And great. Cool.
This place also has booze. So Alex is able to
get everybody drinks and everything. And they
give her the cake. And of course, the cake has
boobs because Paul picked it. Paul is like the
horndog with Jackie. After they kind of eat a
little bit of cake, I don't actually know if
I saw anybody actually eat any of it, but they
all got a plate and cake or whatever. They leave
the knife in the cake. And they walk away to
go play a drinking game at the Papa Shop. Now
we go back to the detectives and they're asking
Rebecca why the group split up, why they walked
away from each other. And Rebecca goes, well,
you know how these groups go and everything like
that. Dominant personalities are going to butt
heads or when they have feelings for the same
girl or whatever, you know, that kind of thing.
So Danny and Marcus are kind of off to the side.
Ryan. being the uber competitive person he is
of course gets the basketball first and keeps
missing and he's terrible at basketball apparently
he should just stick to hockey he's terrible
at basketball misses and he yells fuck every
time and it's just kind of like you just as danny
and marcus are kind of talking literally you
just hear ryan in the background fuck fuck fuck
just all this time over and over and over again
Paul is talking with Marcus and Danny and is
explaining that it's obvious that Ryan is looking
to get Alex drunk because he wants to score.
Marcus obviously likes Alex and doesn't want
that to happen. So this is kind of where you
see the butting of the heads and why the group
splits up. Paul then gets a text message, but
really it's a voice message from Jackie. And
she plays it, or he plays it. And it's literally
Jackie just like, come find me. You'll get what
you're looking for. And he plays this in front
of not only Danny and Marcus, but also Gemma
and Marie are there as well. And they all hear
it. And so Paul just kind of is like trying to
play like, oh, nothing's going to happen. Sorry,
I just need to go find her real quick. And she's
walking into the play area or the play place
or whatever they call it, the jungle gym, the
jungle gym. So she walks in there. He goes to
find her and he says, I'll be right back. And
then Marcus says, he's totally dead. And the
two girls, Gemma and Marie and Danny are like,
what's going on? And he explains like the horror
movie, I'll be right back rules. And they just
go with like. You're obviously a serial killer,
so the girls walk away. This is probably one
of my favorite throwaway things that they talk
about is the I'll be right back rules kind of
thing. This movie takes a lot of inspiration
from a lot of different things, but you can tell
it kind of wants to be along those horror comedy
kind of thing, like Scream, where we've got this
guy that knows all the rules about horror movies
and that kind of stuff. But also, they kind of
want it to be like... The nerd gets the girl.
You know, it's definitely looking that way from
the beginning. This is when the cops start to
question Rebecca. Like, how is she hearing all
of these things? How is she putting all this
together? Because remember, she is the only one
giving them this information. But somehow, someway,
she's able to give all this information to them,
including the fact that Jackie and Paul were
definitely getting it on. So as they start making
out and stuff, Of course, in the background,
Mickey is watching. So it leaves the jungle gym
and we go to Ryan. And Ryan is talking on the
phone and he is talking with his hockey buddies,
like his other teammates and stuff like that.
And basically the plan is that they're going
to leave this place and Marcus is going to be
beat up by the hockey team. They want to do that
because Marcus takes an interest with Alex. We
also kind of learn that, like, Ryan's dating
somebody. He just wants to fuck Alex. That's
it. Like, he doesn't want to actually be with
her. He wants to just fuck her. And then this
introduces us to the hockey guys. None of them
are named. They're all Hockey Guy 1, Hockey Guy
2, Hockey Guy 3, Hockey Guy 4. But they're talking
about that they're at Funhaven and how it's owned
by their old captain, Tim Collins, who took a
few too many pucks to the head. So it goes back
to Rebecca telling the detectives that the hockey
team never made it to Funhaven. Well, because
Ryan is on the phone and because Alex sees this,
she comes up with a great idea. She's like, we're
supposed to be partying. We're supposed to be
having a good time with each other's company.
Let's put all our phones in a bag and put it
away. Nobody has their phones. Great. Cool. I
don't remember why this happened, but this happened.
And I guess it was because Ryan's kind of being
a dick to Alex. Gemma and Marie see that Rebecca's
kind of looking at them like pretty intently.
And they're just like, oh, somebody has feelings
for Ryan. And she goes, no, no, I don't. No,
no, no. And then she looks again. And the two
girls look at each other and just like, oh. So
Rebecca is. also kind of interested in alex uh
yeah so that's it's it's never really a big deal
in this it's just kind of throwaway thing where
it's cool yeah um okay you're interested in her
got it okay so there's three people that are
interested in alex now goes back to the jungle
gym jackie and paul are naked making out uh mickey
says hey to them trying to get their attention
and like Paul's gets all like alpha male kind
of thing and Mickey runs at them to kill them
so those two are dead Jackie and Paul gone um
you don't really see it it's off camera but they're
dead and I was pretty confident from the beginning
that they were dead like it wasn't a question
that they were dead uh but we do get confirmation
that they are dead dead It's back to the friends.
They go to get another drink at the bar, but
they learn that the knife is missing. Remember
how it was in the cake? Yeah, it's missing. Nobody
makes a big deal of it. They're just like, oh,
the knife's missing. Okay, where'd it go? We'll
find it eventually. No big deal. Alex then goes,
well, I don't really want to have my birthday
here. Let's go to a bar or something so I can
get my first legal drink. Remember, this party
is two weeks early. This is... This is in one
of the goofs, but this also like stood out to
me immediately. You're not getting a legal drink
anywhere, girl. You're not actually 21 yet. They
all agree that they're going to go to another
bar and Ryan pulls Alex off to the side. He is
trying to ask her out, which she, of course,
knowing that he is with Jennifer. I don't know
who Jennifer is, but he's with Jennifer. She
calls him out. and Ryan just doesn't understand.
He doesn't seem to understand that it's him that
turns people off, and so he kind of is just not
meaning to be, but he's like an uber competitive
douche at this point. He's just like, oh, no,
I only care about you, really. Like, I only care
about you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's also drank
the most out of anybody at this time, so that's
another thing that's not helping. Rebecca grabs
the bag of phones. They head towards the exit.
And they see that the door is chained shut. From
the inside, chains wrapped around the door. They
aren't getting through that way. The group assumes
that it's Paul and Jackie. They're pulling a
prank. And they also learn that their phones
that they left in the bag, yeah, those have been
replaced with toy phones. They are not the actual
phones anymore. And then the loudspeaker comes
on and it plays Jackie saying, come find me.
You'll get what you were looking for. Which they
think means the key to the escape. And their
phones and everything like that. But it's obviously
the same message that she sent to Paul earlier.
Just being played over the loudspeaker. It played
in front of Gemma and Marie. And yet neither
one recognizes it. It also played in front of
Danny and Marcus. Nobody recognizes this message.
Because it's obviously the recorded voice message.
It's not actually... her talking on the thing
well instead of trying to like play their game
they try to go to the fire escape but it's also
locked this is the area where alex saw mickey
earlier again she's kind of thinking now especially
she goes there's like remember she saw mickey
she knows that somebody is dressed like mickey
mouse there but she kind of thinks now i guess
i'm putting thoughts into her own head but she
kind of thinks like this is just Paul and Jackie
they're they're making a game that kind of stuff
they're doing a prank whatever so Alex offers
free drinks for the night like she'll buy all
the drinks to whoever finds the couple first
so the group kind of splits up goes their own
way to find the couple and it's a game for them
and everything like that that's why they split
up but Marcus takes this as a chance to talk
to Alex and they're talking a little bit and
she kind of like in no and not hidden words tells
him that he needs to go for what he wants basically
she was saying that she doesn't like ryan that
way but she likes that he goes and gets what
he wants and i like that and then um marcus kind
of says well can i give you your real present
now and she goes yeah and they walk off All right.
So before the bloodbath commences, besides our
murdered couple already, I'm going to take a
quick break. And I will be back with the bloodbath
that is the mousetrap as we get to some of the
more fun and unbelievable things. All right.
We are back. So remember the couple. They they're
dead. Yeah, they're dead. They died in the jungle
gym and the group is looking for them. Marcus
and Alex are together. Ryan's on his own. Gemma
and Marie started together, but they're kind
of split up and Rebecca's on her own and Danny's
on his own. I always forget Danny because Danny
kind of disappears. Partially through this, like
he you think he's going to be a bigger part and
then all of a sudden he's just not there anymore.
So Marcus is taking Alex to give her her present.
Ryan is in the jungle gym and he kind of sees
like splatter of blood, not a lot, but a splatter
of blood. And then he runs into Mickey. Mickey
wearing the black and red hockey sweater. He
thinks is one of his hockey buddies. And he's
like, oh, good call. Wearing a mask. Yeah, this
is a great idea. You know, go go mess up that
Marcus guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Rebecca. Also runs
into Mickey. While in the jungle gym. But in
a different part of the jungle gym. So. She runs
into him. And he starts swinging his knife at
her. Just. And she's like freaking out. And she
falls. And her flashlight starts strobing. Like
strobe effect. And she shoots it at him. And
he runs off. So Rebecca's okay. But her flashlight.
kind of like protected her um we don't know why
uh it protected her uh marie is also kind of
in the jungle gym a lot of people go to the jungle
gym first because that's where they saw them
last so that i guess that makes sense uh marie
is in the jungle gym and she finds mickey and
mickey is kind of just like standing there and
then shows her the knife and kind of flicks it
at her and a bunch of blood splatters on her
face from the knife flicking at her now she's
able to get down the slide and escape away from
him uh jemma she starts playing a vr game just
because there's no reason behind it just she
wanted to do it she wanted to try it so she goes
and does it and then marcus sits alex down at
a table and there's a bunch of cups and all the
cups have like a different flag in it and it's
every sour candy from every country because she
told him long ago that she wanted to try every
sour candy from every country and so he got her
like a bunch of different sour candies from different
countries and he remembers like everything about
her and so alex takes one of them and like tries
it and everything and it's super sour but she's
like happy like this is this is a thoughtful
gift it's weird i will say that Not every country
is definitely represented. So if it's supposed
to be every country, they're a little short.
But, you know, it's just a show. He remembers
things about her. Alex asks for a birthday wish.
And Marcus is like, of course, yeah, you can
have a birthday wish. And she tells him to ask
her out. And he's about to do so. He's going
to ask her out. This is finally going to happen.
Marcus is finally going to get together with
Alex, probably. Well, they get interrupted by
Marie because Marie is hysterical. She's just
like, she thinks it's Ryan that's doing this
because he's wearing his hockey sweater. So they
go and get out of there. They're basically like,
we're going to go to the office. We're going
to turn off the music. We're going to turn on
the lights, find everybody, get out of there.
So Alex goes to the office by herself, leaving
Marie and Marcus together at the table. Alex
tries to log into the computer and it's just
plain Steamboat Willie over and over and over
again. Just like the same scene of Mickey over
and over again. So now she's like, OK, we need
to call somebody. We're going to try the landline.
And Mickey picks it up and he says they are going
to play hide and seek. This is going to be game
time now. They're going to play hide and seek.
Now it goes to the bar where the hockey guys
are. And they're like, okay, we haven't heard
anything from Ryan in a while. Let's just go
to Fun Haven. Let's go beat up Marcus. And then
we'll come back to the bar and drink. Because
the one guy is like, well, why are we waiting
for him here? And the other guys are just kind
of like, well, you know, he's going to come here
after. They're going to another bar, everything
like that. And he goes, but. I don't want to
get kicked out of this bar. So they go, oh, cool,
good idea. Let's go to Funhaven. As they stand
up to go to Funhaven, Mickey enters the bar.
And he is wearing a hockey sweater, and he doesn't
say much of anything. They think it's Marcus
for some strange reason. I have no clue still
to this moment why they think it's Marcus, but
they think it's Marcus. The guys go to attack
him with hockey sticks. Like they have their
sticks with them. So they go to attack him and
he is able to disarm one. And then he's able
to beat all of them up with just one of the hockey
sticks. Like he just do, do, do. I think they
thought they were trying for like Kingsman, you
know, where the manners make it man scene where
it's just one person just. locking the door and
like beating the shit out of four people at the
same time. It's nowhere near as cool. It's a
lot of fight choreography that doesn't hit. Like
it's very obvious. He like swings at him and
the other guys already moving to the side to
like avoid getting hit. It's that bad. Like you
can tell as it's happening, it's that bad. So
the hockey guys, um, we don't know if they're
dead or not. But they're not making it to Funhaven.
That was the important thing of this situation.
We have no clue. They might be dead. They might
be alive. Who knows? The thing that was important
is they're not making it to Funhaven. Goes back
to Funhaven. And Danny, our resident smoker,
he went to go smoke in the roller coaster. And
he fell asleep. So he's just sitting in the roller
coaster asleep. uh mickey shuts the bar down
on him and then starts the ride so danny wakes
up because obviously the ride is going now and
then we see the rest of our gang the rest of
our gang uh they run to the fire exit again so
this is marie alex and marcus just the three
of them really um we don't know what happened
to ryan and rebecca and we don't know jemma's
still playing her vr game so I don't know. She
plays for a while, I guess. I guess that's that's.
Yeah. So the three Marie, Alex and Ryan, they
run to the fire exit again. And Jackie and Paul's
bodies are there. And there's a sign around them
that says this game isn't for couples. Marie's
pissed because she still thinks this is Ryan.
And she's like she blames Alex for not hooking
up with Ryan. And this is what made him go crazy.
And Alex just calls her out and goes, that's
a great idea now that he's murdering people.
Danny is just keep going over and over and over
on the ride. And he's asking Ryan to turn it
off because, again, he thinks it's Ryan. Mickey
does. And Danny is able to try to run away, but
he can't get very far because he's dizzy. Our
three at the fire exit. are talking about potentially
like splitting up. And Marcus is like, haven't
you seen any horror movie ever? And Marie goes,
no, Marcus, I have a sex life. Good line. Ridiculous
in the moment though. So they're going to stick
together and their plan is to like break a window
or something and get out before Mickey gets them.
That is their big plan. They were a little worried
about how loud it was going to be, but they've
decided this is probably the best plan. Gemma
is still playing her VR game, and mind you, she's
not, like, doing anything. Like, they keep showing
what the game is. It's supposed to be, like,
a knight fighting a dragon, and it just keeps
showing, like, the knight kind of, like, raising
its sword to fight, but not actually doing anything.
It's just kind of, like, wah -ding, wah -ding.
So it keeps showing like this knight preparing
to battle the dragon, but Gemma isn't actually
like doing anything in the game. Mickey shows
up behind her and is kind of watching what she's
doing. She has like the headphones and the goggles
on, so she can't hear or see anything. So Mickey
is just kind of like toying with her from behind.
I don't know why, but just playing with his food
kind of thing. So this is the part where it's
like Mickey is kind of just. toying with his
food a little bit um because he leaves Gemma
alive Rebecca is alive Danny's alive everybody
is alive still except for Jackie and Paul and
maybe the hockey guys but we don't care about
them the only one we have a question about is
Ryan we don't know either way um it's back to
present day and Rebecca is saying to the detectives
how she was watching the CCTV And seeing that
he wasn't going to laser tag, she thought that
would be a good spot to hide. And this is where
the detectives are just like, the CCTV footage,
all of that been wiped. You were the only one
who said you were even anywhere near that. Why
did you wipe it? It's Detective Marsh more than
Detective Cole. Detective Marsh, the bad cop,
he thinks Rebecca might have done this. Nobody
knows, but he thinks that Rebecca might have
done this. So she's in laser tag and Danny happens
to find her too. And she explains to the cops
that she was able to survive in laser tag because
of Danny. We don't get to see that scene right
away. Marie, Alex, and Marcus, they go to the
front and they see that Mickey is outside. And
then he says over the loudspeaker, it's time,
I'm coming to get you. So Marcus comes up with
the idea at this point to run the fire alarm
because at least if they can run the fire alarm,
if they run the fire alarm, the fire department
can get there and they can get them out. That's
the thought anyway. And that's a good one. And
they also think if they run the fire alarm, they
can run up to the roof and the roof only has
like one way to it. So they can kind of like
barricade themselves on the roof, at least to
buy them enough time for the fire department
to get there. That was the idea behind it. So
Alex goes on her own to pull the alarm and Marie
slash Marcus wait at the front. When Alex pulls
the alarm, Mickey hears it and goes to laser
tag. Don't know why he went to laser tag, but
he went to laser tag. That was the idea behind
it. Maybe that's where the system is that they
can stop it. I don't know, actually. Marcus then
tells everyone over the loudspeaker that they
need to go to the roof. So everybody knows they're
going to the roof. Alex is in the back after
pulling the fire alarm and she runs into Gemma.
Gemma is finally done playing her VR game. And
Mickey appears behind her and slits her throat.
So Gemma's gone. Yeah. So we got three people
dead now. Rebecca and Danny are trying to run
out of the laser tag because they saw that Mickey
was coming their way. But of course, Rebecca
trips. Mickey cuts her ankle, but she yells at
Danny to run. She basically is about to sacrifice
herself so Danny can get out. But Danny, of course,
grows a pair and is going to try to fight Mickey.
But remember, Mickey can teleport. And Danny
can't. And he's also high. And he's also still
kind of a little dizzy from the roller coaster.
So Mickey teleports, peers behind him, and stabs
him straight in the head. Like straight through
the head. Alex was able to get past wherever
Mickey was with Gemma and is able to reconnect
with Marcus and Marie. And this is where she
finds out that he can teleport. So he tells them
that he can teleport. Rebecca, who's still stuck
in laser tag because her ankle got sliced up.
So like she probably doesn't have an Achilles
tendon right now. She's just a sitting duck.
But Mickey somehow got distracted, I guess. So
he goes after the three of them. But guess who
comes back in the picture? It's Jaina. She's
looking a little disheveled. She definitely just
had some good sex with whoever this guy was.
She is coming back to help Alex clean up the
rest of the stuff. Like the party's probably
over. She's coming back to help. So she gets
the door. She tries to open it. It's chained
from the inside. And Alex is trying to like tell
her to like turn around and get out of there.
But Mickey teleports behind her, stabs her multiple
times in front of Alex. Alex, like, falls to
her knees with Jaina sliding down bloody and
is, like, crying. And this is, like, Mickey makes
fun of her crying. It's really kind of goofy,
but, like, a little sadistic, honestly. So Alex
then goes back to Marcus and Marie, and they're
holding items at Ryan. Like, weapons kind of
at Ryan. And Ryan is awake. He had passed out.
And that's it. That is what happened. Ryan, he
was perfectly fine because he passed out from
drinking too much. And they're trying to explain
what's going on because it's becoming obvious
that, yeah, he doesn't know what's going on.
So they're going, there's a man dressed as Mickey
Mouse killing people. And then another person's
like, and he can teleport. Like they say it just
like that. Or it's just. Mickey Mouse is killing
people, and he can teleport. While they're interrogating
Ryan, Mickey grabs a wrench. And Ryan's just
kind of like, guys, it's fine. It's my friends.
They're going to rough Marcus up a bit. They
took it a little too far. I'll tell them to stop.
And so he sees Mickey, and he's like, cool, I'm
going to talk to them and basically tell them
to stop. He goes to talk to him, thinking that
it's a teammate. He walks up to him, and he gets
absolutely just cold cocked with the wrench and
knocked out again, pretty much. Not exactly,
but pretty much. Alex flashes a flashlight at
him, and this sets him off. He starts running
towards them. Running, not teleporting. Running.
And Marcus is able to grab a baseball bat, and
he hits Mickey. Ryan is... trying to like hold
him down so Marcus can go to town like beating
him. But Ryan gets his ankle beat in with the
wrench. So now he's fallen off. Marcus can't
hit him anymore. And Mickey teleports away. So
how was Ryan, half of Ryan, able to like hold
him down so that Marcus could beat him? That's
what they're trying to figure out now. Well,
they realize it's the light that hurts him because
it traps him. He's not able to teleport away
because he's trapped in the light. So they are
coming up with a plan to get him. And the line
is said, a game of cat and mouse where the only
way to win is to catch that goddamn mouse. I
love it. Great line. Terrible line, but great
line. So the plan is to get a light on him that
is out of reach where he can't like make it go
away or anything like that. and so this is the
plan that's that's the plan they're going to
put a light that's out of reach that's going
to trap him so then they can hold him down and
just like beat him senseless knock him out kill
him whatever they need to do to get rid of this
mouse so that is their plan it's back to the
detectives and the detectives are just like you
were found in laser tag How do you know all this
shit that happened? Like, how do you know everything
that is happening right now? You were near none
of these people. And she was, like, basically
on her own for most of this movie. The only real
time she's dealing with people are in the beginning,
before people start getting killed, and when
she is working with Danny. She says, basically,
that maybe a paramedic told her. Okay. Whatever.
I mean, I don't really care. The detective scenes
are miserable. that's what i'll say those are
absolutely miserable because it's just ham it
up detectives because one is like so goody two
-shoes and the other is just like i hate you
just because i'm told to hate you and rebecca
just knowing everything about everything even
though she has done she's seen none of these
so alex is waiting for mickey in the jungle gym
and like mickey's just like okay cool i'm ready
like he's hanging at the bottom floor they're
all kind of like above him and alex then shines
this light on him and turns it on and it's facing
him and she makes it like strobe he's stuck in
this light he can't move so as the he's stuck
there marcus and ryan like they go one at a time
like they run by hit him run by, hit him, you
know, where he can't get them. And they're able
to get him to his knees. And so they're holding
him down. And Alex comes down from the top of
the jungle gym and is like ready to like do the
killing blow. And she's like monologuing about
how dare you do this? Well, we came up with this
plan. We are going to trap the rat. We're going
to kill him, that kind of stuff. And then he
starts creepy laughing. like super creepy laughing.
And then he kind of just like jolts forward,
not, not getting up off the ground, but just
kind of like a little jolt thing. And he's able
to turn the lights off and then he's able to
teleport away. And we think that's it like legitimately.
Cause then it goes to the detectives and Rebecca
again. And the detectives are like upset that
Rebecca is not more upset. She isn't like sad
or angry that her friends are dead. and they
turn off the recorder, and they just basically
say, like, how can you just... I guess... Basically,
they're just kind of like, well, I guess that's
the end of the story, because Alex said she could
sense that he's gone and not coming back. And
so they turn off the recorder, and they leave
her in a jail cell as they walk away, kind of
like... reminding her that she should be more
upset she should be angry or sad or whatever
but doesn't seem like she cared about them at
all so yeah that's the end of the movie right
very much wrong it goes back to the jungle gym
alex can sense that he's gone and not coming
back well he does he does come back and he uses
these big ass scissors to cut alex's head off
and then he teleports away again And her head's
just sitting there. And Marcus goes, I didn't
even get to ask her out. And he cut her head
off. And then Marie goes, yeah. And then teleported
away. Roll credits. Where did these big fucking
scissors come from? I have no clue where this
comes from. But it also felt like one of those
movies that there was something after the credits.
So, yes. I sat there and I watched the credits,
and guess what? There was. Mickey opens the jail
cell door for Rebecca and tells her to come play
with him. There's so many people to meet, and
we are just getting started. And it's not wrong.
Mousetrap Welcome to the Mickeyverse is coming
in 2026 from the same writer, same director,
same Mickey Mouse. Yes. I'll be there. I'll watch
that. I know this was terrible, but I will watch
this. So here we go. Let me start with a rating
first. On a good movie scale, this is a 0 out
of 5. This is an absolute train wreck of a movie.
It is terrible writing. It is horrible cinematography.
That everything takes place in just the one amusement
park is kind of stupid as hell. That we don't
see a lot of the kills is also dumb. If you're
going to make a horror movie, make it bloody.
Make it fun. Make Mickey kill people in creative,
fun ways. They didn't do that. So, this movie
is a 0 out of 5 on the good movie scale. On what
I wanted and what I got, it is a 5 out of 5.
A complete 5 out of 5. It was awful, cheesy,
terrible. Everything and more about this movie
was bad. Every way they could have gone, they
took the worst possible way. And I loved every
second of it. I thought it was stupid. I thought
it was hysterical. I thought it was fun. Like
I said, they should have made it more inventive,
more fun, that kind of stuff. I would actually
probably have had a better time on the good movie
scale if they had made the kills a little more
fun, a little more Mickey -esque. The only one
that was more Mickey -esque was him with the
big scissors. And that came out of fucking nowhere
because I have no clue where those big scissors
came from. All of a sudden, he just had a big
pair of scissors and he chopped off Alex's head.
great cool awesome that was what what the fuck
yeah so um i would have loved some mickey ask
more kills but some of the dialogue is just absolutely
so bad it's good where it's just mickey mouse
is killing people and he can teleport they constantly
bring up the teleportation in that same style
where it's just constantly like yeah he can teleport
He can teleport. He can teleport. He can teleport.
Yeah, he teleports. That kind of stuff. Great.
Greatness. Honestly, through and through, I am
all for that. That was everything I can want
and more from a terrible, terrible movie. So
I'm a big fan of The Mousetrap. I completely
understand why it has terrible ratings, and it
should. This is not a good movie. Like I said,
I'm not trying to defend it. For me, this was
exactly what I wanted. That is exactly what I
wanted. So, yeah. I'm a big fan. I'm a big fan.
It's not good. Alright, so everything about this
is bad. And I'm not even going to try to hide
it. It is. And I understand why people rate it
the way they do. Because it is bad. The voice
that Mickey does is terrible. Kills are boring.
They're not very fun. But for whatever reason,
I had a great time with this. I think it was
cheesy to the max. I thought it was so stupidly
written that I laughed hysterically at multiple
parts that I probably wasn't supposed to laugh
at. But I laughed anyway because it honestly
was that kind of cheesy good. Yeah. I can't say
enough about this movie in the fact that it was
exactly what I wanted it to be. It is not a good
movie, and that is exactly why I think it worked
for me. I found with a lot of these movies we
did for spoopy season, none of them were good
necessarily, but they had a lot better chance.
And that kind of made it worse. I don't know.
It's weird to say that, but that's kind of how
it feels. Like, a lot of these ideas, they had
a chance to be good, and they had certain things
about them that were fine and everything like
that, and that made it almost worse for me because
they were bad movies that were actually, like,
okay, you know? This one was just a bad movie.
Like, straight up just a... Bad, bad movie. And
I think that's what made it better for me. I
think that is the thing that made it for me so
much fun was none of this was redeemable. None
of it. I couldn't find a single moment where
I'm like, yeah, I like that. I like that. I like
that. I see where they were going. Cool. Right.
Whatever. No, they were in an amusement park.
One location. Because of budget. It took, principal
photography was eight days. Eight days on this
movie at one location. And you didn't need a
whole lot of other locations. So like, I get
it. It's fine. Yeah. Do that. Great. So we were
at one location. We had a bunch of terrible cheesy
dialogue. They go multiple times to the same
fire escape knowing that it's chained shut. Like,
nothing changed since the last time you went
over there. So why do you think this time, if
you go back, it's going to be okay? And I haven't
even started talking about the fact we know this
killer is a human. We know it. He is a regular
human that we saw, just the manager of Funhaven.
That is all that it is. did he know how to teleport
and it's just it's never explained just in the
middle of the movie all of a sudden he just teleports
he's able to go it makes no sense we know he's
human we know it we know who the killer is right
off the bat yet he is able to teleport somehow
okay sure great i'm here for it and flashlights
hurt him cool i played a video game like that
i think a lot of people have alan wake was a
great game you have to stun him with the light
before you're able to kill him cool that's an
interesting idea i like it i mean you stole it
off the video game but i like it cool whatever
yeah yeah um god damn this movie Like I've said
multiple, multiple times, this is a bad, bad
movie. I am not recommending it for any of you.
Do not watch this movie unless you really, really
want to. Apparently, Screamboat is better. Do
that. Save yourself some time. Go watch Screamboat.
I don't know what the... Let's see if I can pull
it up real fast. Screamboat. Let's see. Come
on. This is from 2025. This one is an hour and
41 minutes, but it's a 79 % audience score. So
that's definitely a better Mickey Mouse inspired
kill movie. So do that. Go with that. That also
stars David Howard Thornton, who is Terrifier.
He's Art the Clown in Terrifier. He is the Grinch
in You're a Mean One. This is an actual pedigree
movie. If you want to see Mickey killing people
for a better movie, you probably should watch
Screamboat. If you are morbidly curious and want
to watch a terrible version of Mickey killing
people, do The Mousetrap and laugh your ass off
like I was. So yeah, that is The Mousetrap. Incredibly
awful movie that I had a blast watching. Like
I said, on the good movie scale, it is zero out
of five. It is zero. Zero, zero, zero. I would
give it negative if I could, but a zero. Absolute
zero out of five on the good movie scale. On
my personal having fun with a stupid movie scale,
it is a five out of five. What do we want to
call it? Let's give it five out of five strobing
flashlights. Yeah, perfect. Great. So, yeah,
the mousetrap. Do not do it to yourself. But
if you have even the tiniest bit of curiosity,
just know it's going to be bad. You can have
some fun with it and laugh your ass off like
I was. That'll do it for the end of spoopy season.
We are back to our normal coverage for our next
episode. All the spoopy season, all the public
domain characters and horror movies. That was
the theme for this year. Next year, I already
have the theme. I'm ready to go. We are doing
all things Amityville. There is at least 133
Amityville movies. We are going to find five
of the worst, four of the worst, whatever, however
much I can commit to. We are going to do Amityville,
terrible Amityville movies. Just to give you
an idea, there is movies like Amityville Vibrator,
Amityville Karen, Amityville in Space. Like there
is some... absolute trash we are going to find
next year. It's going to be awesome. I'm going
to have a great time with that one. I love spoopy
season. I'm glad that I was able to bring you
four episodes for spoopy season. I know it's
like November 10th while I'm recording this and
I didn't make my Halloween deadline. Sorry, life
gets in the way. I still wanted to give you this
last spoopy season episode because this is exactly
what I wanted it to be. And I knew I wanted to
close out with this one. So the mousetrap. Terrible
movie. Had a lot of fun with it. Thank you guys
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