As it goes in the world of horror, when one movie becomes a surprise hit, or merely eeks out a small profit, other productions soon follow. In 2023, the producers behind “Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey” elected to take advantage of the treasured character’s entry into the public domain, turning the lovable bear into a mass murderer. The feature was awful, but it attracted attention, and with cult interest came a little box office hustle. Now there’s “The Mouse Trap,” with director Jamie Bailey (“What Lurks Beneath,” “Deinfluencer”) and screenwriter Simon Phillips out to do something hostile with Mickey Mouse’s addition to public domain usage, working with “Steamboat Willie” imagery to generate a slasher film involving a collection of clueless young characters and their battle against a man in a mouse mask. It’s “Blood and Honey” all over again, with limited effort put into the final production, which is caught between becoming one big goof and one colossal bore. “The Mouse Trap” merely exists to collect a quick buck from the curious. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com