THE NEW MUTANTS Promises a Different Kind of X-Men Flick

While my gripes with the X-Men movies being utterly bland are well-known at this point, I'll admit I'm onboard with this new shift in direction Fox is taking these movies (even if I think they're probably going to screw up the Dark Phoenix story arc yet again). Nevertheless, with Logan feeling like a 70s-era Western and the FX show Legion feeling like a Lynch/Cronenberg-esque psychological sci-fi thriller, its good to see there's at least one franchise out there that's trying to do something truly different with the superhero genre. Today, we just got the first teaser trailer for Josh Boone's upcoming cinematic interpretation of The New Mutants. Take a look at it if you haven't already.

Most of what I've heard of this production beforehand is how the creative team was going into full-on horror movie territory within the established X-Men film continuity and they weren't kidding. If you cut out the Marvel logo in the opening, this is almost indistinguishable from the crop of scary flicks that usually hit the multiplexes lately (in ways both for better and for worse). Then again, I do commend what Boone's going for here and what little footage is seen here already leaves me with questions upon questions about what exactly we're in for here. Besides, we've never had a true horror superhero flick. Sure, we've had movies based around supernatural superheroes (Constantine and Blade being among the few good ones) and movies based on actual horror comics; but, we haven't been getting anything quite like this. Plus, it has a decent cast of famous newcomers and relative unknowns. That should be interesting. 

THE NEW MUTANTS arrives April 13th, 2018. Here's hoping we're in for something special.