From the producers of Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey comes another nursery rhyme that turns into a macabre horror film full of very insane and torturous kills.

Abigail is a young woman who has a very serious addiction to drugs ever since she started a relationship with her dealer. Her family and friends have tried interventions, but they have all failed. Finally, with the help of Cara, a drug addiction specialist, Abigail finally relents and decides to go with her to a retreat in the woods to help her quite cold turkey. Cara also invites the entire group who helped in an attempt to save Abigail.

As Abigail begins to lash out at her family and friends as a result of the withdrawls, tensions grow further within Abigail’s inner circle. When Abigail attempts to escape only to be confronted then comforted by her father, they are soon attacked and kidnapped. Waking up, Abigail finds three mutated human-mice hybrids who begin to slowly torture them. As the rest of the group look for Abigail and her father, they soon find themselves victimized by the “three blind mice”. Can they escape before it’s too late?

With the recently released Mary Had a Little Lamb bringing a modern-day “nursery rhyme horror film”, the duo of Rhys Frake-Waterfield and Scott Jeffrey team with director Pierre B and writer David Malcolm to bring this story to life in their brand of horror. Where Mary Had a Little Lamb had a vibe similar to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, this one seems to have inspiration from possibly The Hills Have Eyes and even Dee Snider’s Strangeland in some ways.

With her performances in Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey and Mary Had a Little Lamb, May Kelly is definitely one of this year’s Scream Queens. Here, she gets to do it again but this time play a recovering drug addict who is forced to quite cold turkey after numerous times of intervention fail. Kelly plays Abigail with such disdain for those around her. She is arrogant, stubborn, and won’t admit to her failures. It is only when she is forced to spend a weekend in the cabins that chaos is set to ensue. A lot of the second act of the film sees exactly why she could be the Scream Queen of 2023.

I thought the film would go in one direction because you have the one in charge for Abigail’s recovery to force everyone to give up their phones and judging from the opening scene, which features another Blood and Honey alum, Natasha Tosini, one would think said person would be involved with the “mice”, but we soon learn that is not the case.

The “mice” of the film are a hybrid of humans and mice that look to have their eyes sewn shut, hence the title of the film. They torture their victims in a very gruesome manner akin to both blinding them and slowly at times disemboweling them as well. What’s interesting is that we learn about the backstory of the mice in the third act, and we learn exactly why they became that way, but kudos goes to Danielle Ronald, Julia Quayle, and Samantha Cull, who play the titular mice.

Three Blind Mice is very much a good indie horror film that takes the classic nursery rhyme, adds a dose of Dee Snider’s Strangeland in the mix and gives us a very flawed protagonist in the great to watch May Kelly. If you liked Mary Had a Little Lamb, then chances are you will like this film.

WFG RATING: B

Uncork’d Entertainment presents a Dark Abyss Productions film. Director: Pierre B. Producers: Rhys Frake-Waterfield and Scott Jeffrey. Writer: David Malcolm. Cinematography: Dom Hopking. Editing: Pierre B.

Cast: May Kelly, Lila Lasso, Karl Hughes, Lynne O’Sullivan, Marcus Massey, Helen Fullerton, Keith Eyles, Danielle Roland, Julia Quayle, Samantha Cull, Natasha Tosini.

The film will be released on Digital and DVD on October 17.