Popeye Will Pop Eyes Out in This Gruesome New Horror Film

You’ve seen Winnie the Pooh arsenic a killer. You’ve seen a sinister Steamboat Willie too. Next you’ll spot Popeye the Slayer Man: “Toot, toot!” A trailer has conscionable been released for one of 2 antithetic Popeye fearfulness films coming retired successful the adjacent future, this 1 with an evident borderline successful presumption of unthinkable titles.

Popeye the Slayer Man follows a radical of teenagers who sneak into an aged spinach-canning mill hoping to movie a documentary connected a legendary “Sailor Man” who seemingly haunts it. This, of course, does not spell arsenic planned erstwhile they recognize the stories are true. Check retired the perfectly hilarious, ultra-gory trailer for Popeye the Slayer Man, courtesy of Bloody Disgusting.

They had america arsenic “contaminated spinach.”

So let’s interruption this down a bit. This is Popeye the Slayer Man, a movie from Salem House Films, Millman Productions, Ron Lee Productions, and Otsego Media. It’s directed by Robert Michael Ryan from a publication by John Doolan and stars Jason Stephens arsenic Popeye on with a slew of young actors.

“We can’t hold for audiences to get a load of this gory and scary mentation of Popeye,” shaper Jeff Miller told Bloody Disgusting. “We went old-school and focused connected utilizing existent applicable effects, and not relying connected CG for the gore. We’re talking with precise enthusiastic and funny buyers now.”

All of which is wholly antithetic from Popeye, another slasher movie from ITN Studios and manager William Stead. ITN is the institution down the Poohverse, an MCU-style fearfulness beingness combining slasher films with Pinocchio, Bambi, and astir famously Winnie the Pooh (it did each the fashionable Winnie the Pooh Blood and Honey films). But, Popeye—one word—is not portion of that universe—and that film, of course, has thing to bash with Popeye the Slayer Man.

Such is the satellite of nationalist domain, right?

No connection connected a merchandise day oregon strategy for Popeye the Slayer Man but adjacent twelvemonth is much than likely.

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