Why Is The New Mutants Movie Horror

The knives have been out for this movie ever since the first delay and the press tour for the film where journalists myself.

Why is the new mutants movie horror. The trailer was pretty great and many horror fans had begun to actively anticipate the film. Dark phoenix became the biggest box office bomb of 2019 the new mutants seems headed in a different direction reportedly leaning heavily into the horror elements over those of a classic superhero tentpole. New mutants is the newest installment of a franchise x men that hasn t been as successful with recent entries in the past therefore it needs something unique and different to kickstart it in another direction. While new mutants and morbius aren t the only superhero movies crossing over into horror they are two that could use the boost the most.

If you haven t seen it already definitely. Principal photography ended back in 2017 with the first teaser capturing the attention of the. The set of the new mutants is uncommonly dark at least for an x men movie. Production began july 2017 in massachusetts on the same location martin scorsese used to shoot his insane asylum.

The new mutants hits theaters this weekend as the last of the fox era of marvel movies. The new mutants is a 2020 american horror film in the superhero genre based on the marvel comics team of the same name and distributed by 20th century studios it is the thirteenth and final installment in the x men film series the film was directed by josh boone from a screenplay he wrote with knate lee and stars maisie williams anya taylor joy charlie heaton alice braga blu hunt and. Director josh boone said from the beginning that he intended new mutants to be a straight up horror movie albeit featuring marvel characters and set within the x men world. However since disney s marvel studios gained the rights to the characters the new mutants is now understood to be the last instalment of the x men movie series.

That s what made fox s the new mutants special. I can tell you that i went into the new mutants wanting to like it. The first trailer for the new mutants launched today and well it looks like they ve made a full on horror movie in the x men movie universe.