Last Updated on August 26, 2025 by FANGORIA Staff
The public domain crossovers have officially begun, with today bringing the first trailer from Untouchables Entertainment's upcoming feature The Dark Domain: MVW Mickey-Vs-Winnie, a horror imagining that sees Disney’s Steamboat Willie Mickey and Winnie-the-Pooh coming face-to-face and “haunting a killable group of childhood friends.”
Billed as the “first public domain crossover film”, The Dark Domain: MVW Mickey-Vs-Winnieis directed by Glenn Douglas Packard and shot by Little Bites cinematographer Andy Patch.
In The Dark Domain: MVW Mickey-Vs-Winnie:
A century ago, two convicts disappeared into Hell Forest, a place feared for its dark legends and whispers of a malevolent curse. Their mysterious vanishing marked the beginning of tales about a sinister force lurking within the forest, feeding on those who dared to enter.
In the present day, a group of childhood friends, each haunted by their own unresolved traumas and fears, feels an inexplicable pull to return to the reform school they once attended. Nestled in the center of the forest's dark heart, the abandoned hell-camp stands as a decaying monument to their lost innocence. Its walls echoing with secrets and forgotten horrors. Each of them is drawn by a force they cannot understand, as if the forest itself is calling them to confront the darkness of their anxieties, regrets, and unhealed wounds.
The forest takes shape in the grotesque forms of twisted versions of two beloved childhood figures: Dark Mickey and Dark Winnie. These monstrous entities, born from the darkest corners of the group's psyche, embody their worst fears and regrets—Dark Mickey, a sinister manipulator and bloodthirsty force of chaos, and Dark Winnie, a feral predator who thrives on destruction.
As the two clash in a violent, unrelenting battle, their fight becomes more than just a physical confrontation. These twisted incarnations, born from the group's own inner demons, force them to face not only the nightmarish creatures but also the darkness within themselves.
The IP horror also features makeup developed by Emmy-winning artist Daniel Phillips (The Hobbit, Oz the Great and Powerful).
The Dark Domain: MVW Mickey-Vs-Winnie ventures to launch a “Dark Domain Universe,” not to be confused with the upcoming “Poohniverse” crossover horror from Jagged Edge Productions.
In a statement, Packard compared The Dark Domain: MVW Mickey-Vs-Winnie to another iconic horror crossover:
“I love that we can take these iconic childhood characters from A.A. Milne’s original Winnie-the-Pooh and the 1928 Steamboat Willie version of Mickey and create a whole new wicked universe […] Our film is like the Upside Down World, with these public domain icons getting into a horror smackdown akin to Freddy vs. Jason.”
Watch the new trailer for The Dark Domain: MVW Mickey-Vs-Winniebelow:
