The movie’s freaky, big-eared scamp aboard the doomed vessel is, of course, based on 1928’s “Steamboat Willie,” Disney’s first Mickey cartoon. But there are no punishing lawsuits on the ...

Compared to recent riffs on Winnie the Pooh and Popeye, the 'Steamboat Willie' horror spoof has fun skewering the company that's been so protective of its now-public-domain IP. There are two ...

It's leagues above the competition in the widening sea of public-domain Steamboat Willie horror parodies – though considering the moldy cheese of The Mouse Trap and I Heart Willie, that’s not ...

So naturally here’s Winnie the Pooh versus Steamboat Willie(different from the one starring Terrifier‘s David Howard Thorton). Ho-hum—by all means, jump the clip-art shark and try to evoke ...

One of the main reasons it works at all is the subversive naughtiness behind seeing a character like Steamboat Willie, whom we’ve always associated with Mickey Mouse and Disney, as something ...