The Mouse Trap is a 2024 Canadian slasher film[1][2] directed, shot and edited by Jamie Bailey and written by Simon Phillips.

The film stars Phillips as a hypnotized manager masked as Mickey, who traps and terrorizes a group of friends inside an amusement arcade.

A while in the past, arcade employees Alex and Jayna are told by their boss Tim Collins to stay on a late shift due to a last-minute booking.

Worried, Alex attempts to flee but stumbles upon her boyfriend Marcus and her other friends—Ryan, Paul, Jackie, Gemma, Danny, Marie, and Rebecca— as it is revealed the booking was arranged by them to throw a surprise birthday party for her.

Alex activates the arcade's fire alarm in order to alert emergency services but Mickey kills Gemma and Danny, teleports into the laser tag arena and slits Rebecca's ankle.

In a post-credits scene, Mickey arrives at the police station, frees Rebecca from her cell, and tells her that there are some people he wants her to meet.

On January 1, 2024, the first animated works starring Mickey Mouse, notably Steamboat Willie, entered the public domain in the US and Canada.

[3][4] The day the copyright lapsed, the film—then titled Mickey's Mouse Trap—was revealed to the public as its first trailer was released online along with several other works based on the short, such as Infestation: Origins, a Mickey-themed independent horror game.

"[1] Bailey also expressed surprise that there were not more similar projects and that they were among the first to create such a film, as the crew "thought we'd be lost in the shuffle, to be completely honest".

[10] Variety's Dennis Harvey wrote, "There's no attempt to mimic the famous squeaky voice, to parody or even reference anything else in the Mouse House universe.