First trailer for reimagined The Grinch horror movie released

First Winnie the Pooh, then Bambi, now this?! When will it stop!?

⁠⁠A parody of Dr. Seuss's classic children's story, How the Grinch Stole Christmas! takes a terrifying turn when The Grinch - known as The Mean One - kills her mum while dressed as Santa Claus.

⁠⁠Two decades later, the ravenous monster begins to terrorise the sleepy mountain town of Whoville and threatens to ruin Christmas.⁠⁠

Directed by Steven LaMorte with a script by Flip and Finn Kobler, The Mean One stars David Howard Thornton (Terrifier 2) as “a hairy, green-skinned grump in a Santa suit, living on a mountain high above the town of Newville, despising the holiday season.

Young Cindy You-Know-Who (Krystle Martin), whose parents were butchered by The Mean One twenty Christmases earlier, is returning to town to seek closure… but when the Mean One launches a new reign of terror that threatens to destroy Christmas, Cindy finds a bold new purpose – trapping and killing the monster.”

As the film isn’t exactly official, The Mean One trailer does cut around saying Mr. Grinch out loud, but there are plenty of references to the classic tale to be had.

The Mean One also stars Chase Mullins, John Bigham, Erik Baker, Flip Kobler, and Amy Schumacher.