“Screaming boat“Won’t sail on its official theater trip until April 2, but the film’s Star Skipper already sees clear sky.
“I have been in two of the shows so far, and the audience’s reactions have been fantastic. They’ve really got what we are trying to do, ” David Howard Thornton Told indieview – before the trailer’s exclusive debut. “I like to call it” Splat-Stick “comedy because it’s just an absurd concept when you think about it. I mean, it’s a mutant mouse walking around on a boat that kills people.”
Led by Steven Lamorte And co-written with Matthew Garcia-Dunn, “Screamboat” sees Thornton take off his typical “Terifier” -Make -up To disappear in the role of a serial killer steamboat Willie. The upcoming slasher is the latest in a string of genre films that twisted beloved childhood memories into a Indie film movement. The possibility of spinning Disney’s black and white cartoon from 1928 to a bloody creature function that was put on the state of Island Ferry came when the IP rights ceased at the beginning of this year.
“I’ve been a lifelong fan,” Thornton said, describing his relationship with Disney. “The first voice I ever discovered that I could do characterly was silly during a story time in the first class. I built all my voices from Goofy and Donald and Mickey over the years. My first lead role I ever had outside a church theater was in my production of high school by ‘Mickey’s Christmas Carol.’ I played Mickey as Bob Cratchit. So it’s a full circle for me. “
“Screamboat” reunites Thornton, Lamorte and much of the team behind 2022’s “The Mean One” – another horror parody that saw Thornton playing grinch. The hours he spent to be fuzzy about that movie helped him spend almost four hours each day transforming into a small, razive fear of “screaming boat.” It also put him in perfect position to land every meta-joke and Easter eggs for hardcore fans of both scary movies and sideways adaptations. .
“For Willie, I wanted to base many of his movements and everything from the original cartoon, and of course I went back and looked at the original several times just to get how he bits a little,” Thornton said. “I also discovered a few things with the dentures as well, where I could get my nose to jerk if I wanted to, if I breathed in a certain way. So there is a scene in the movie where my nose jerks while I smell the air, and it was actually I just thought it from the inside. ”
“Inventive wealth” and Thornton have become synonymous, and the characters he plays are symbols of the horror’s increasing power over the independent film market. During 2025 Indie Spirit AwardsCalled Sean Baker out the films “Terifier” in his Semi-Viral Best Manager of Acceptal Hall for “anora.”
“It was kind of Bonkers,” Thornton said when he asked for his reaction. “I thought it was fun that they have these indie prices and we get the name lost that way, but we were not even invited to it. Last year, we broke a world record with the “Terifier” films to be the highest intensive unclassified film of all time. It should have received us some kind of invitation, right? “
Coming from the success of last fall’s “Terifier 3” to a year that has already been good for horror comedies (see “The Monkey” and “Heart Eyes”), “Screamboat” should have no problems finding their passengers – but Thornton is happy to help recruit.
“We are not like one of these larger studios. We are very Indie, he said. “So we trust the fans to get the word. That is why we have made these advanced views. Theaters are doing another thing now where movies do not get a run unless they get advanced ticket sales. So we get the word out. “
Everything on board! Look at the exclusive trailer “Screamboat” below:
Distributed by iconic events released and Deskpop entertainment and“Screamboat” is in theaters April 2.
