THE GRINCH Is Reimagined As A Murderous Maniac On First Poster For THE MEAN ONE

THE GRINCH Is Reimagined As A Murderous Maniac On First Poster For THE MEAN ONE

There seems to be something of a trend emerging of children's classics being given a horror twist, and this latest feature from Atlas Film reimagines The Grinch as a bloodthirsty maniac...

By MarkCassidy - Nov 25, 2022 08:11 AM EST
Filed Under: Horror

It looks like Winnie The Pooh: Blood and Honey might have opened the floodgates!

Atlas Film Distribution has announced that its The Grinch horror parody, The Mean One, is set for a theatrical release on December 9th, and you can check out the poster art (via FearHQ.com) below.

Since this is an "unofficial" parody, they can't use the word Grinch or any of the other main character's names, but based on the synopsis, director Steven LaMorte and writers Flip and Finn Kobler have managed to stick pretty close to the original children's classic... gruesome violence and murder aside, obviously.

The Grinch was always a bit of a grump, but something tells us this guy won't be allowing the Christmas Spirit to fill him with joy at the end of The Mean One.

"In the audacious new parody, The Mean One (Terrifier 2‘s David Howard Thornton) is a hairy, green-skinned grump in a Santa suit, living on a mountain high above the town of Newville, despising the holiday season. Young Cindy You-Know-Who (Krystle Martin), whose parents were butchered by The Mean One twenty Christmases earlier, is returning to town to seek closure… but when the Mean One launches a new reign of terror that threatens to destroy Christmas, Cindy finds a bold new purpose – trapping and killing the monster."

The Mean One also stars Chase Mullins, John Bigham, Erik Baker, Flip Kobler, and Amy Schumacher.

A trailer should be with us fairly soon, so be sure to keep an eye out.

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Fares
Fares - 11/25/2022, 8:19 AM
The age of Superheroes is over.

The time for the horror reimagining of children's stories has come.
Feralwookiee
Feralwookiee - 11/25/2022, 8:32 AM
Hollywood has now reached the point of cynicism and perversion where the Scrooged movie parodies have come true.


They are unironically taking morality tales for young children and twisting them into something ugly and dirty.
"“Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made.”
regularmovieguy
regularmovieguy - 11/25/2022, 8:39 AM
@Feralwookiee

What major Hollywood studio is producing this flick? Because this and that Winnie the Pooh movie look like they don’t have any money behind them.

But, sure. Let’s take ourselves a little too seriously here.
marvel72
marvel72 - 11/25/2022, 9:21 AM
@Feralwookiee - I'd watch the shit out of The Night The Reindeer Died.
marvel72
marvel72 - 11/25/2022, 9:25 AM
This looks alright from the poster and still.

Release the trailer
DoubleD
DoubleD - 11/25/2022, 9:53 AM
Looks great didn't even know this movie was coming out. Will be there opening weekend.

Terrifier 2 is my favorite Horror movie so far for 2022. True Gore fest not for the weak of stomach. 5 Stars / 5 Stars :)

TERRIFIER 2 2022, Holiday/Horror, 2h 18m
85% TOMATOMETER

CRITICS CONSENSUS
Terrifier 2 outdoes the original in every way -- which makes it bad news for the squeamish, but a bloody good time for genre enthusiast

Nov 8, 2022
This type of extreme gore isn’t normally my favorite, especially at a running time of 138 minutes. But the film delivers. Its plot elements are derivative, but it gets creative with the way it stages the violence.

Terrifier 2 delivers on it's promise of the most bombastic, bloodthirsty slasher in years, with a good bit of the supernatural mixed in. And one must boast Sienna, easily the best "final girl" to come along in ages.

An absolutely soulless, reprehensible piece of cinematic nihilism celebrating sadism. The people responsible for making it should be ashamed. It has no redeeming value and is a brutal exercise in gleeful maiming and the tearing of flesh. How I love it so.



DCfan84
DCfan84 - 11/25/2022, 4:46 PM
@DoubleD - Dude! He scares the shit outta me!

GhostDog
GhostDog - 11/25/2022, 10:58 AM
C I N E M A
Vish617
Vish617 - 11/25/2022, 12:24 PM
Amy Schumacher is in this?? High hopes for it then…!
Kinda hope her character gets “dealt with” in this.
Splash
Splash - 11/25/2022, 1:29 PM
We sure this isn't a porn parody?
Slotherin
Slotherin - 11/26/2022, 11:14 PM
@Splash - half the excitement is not knowing
AC1
AC1 - 11/25/2022, 5:49 PM
I don't like to judge things without giving them a fair shot, and I'm willing to admit I might be absolutely wrong and this might actually be a brilliant movie... But man this emerging trend of Horror adaptations of children's movies seems so [frick]ing lazy, tacky and uninspired.
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