[Trailer] Popeye the Slayer Man: A Terrifying New Twist on a Traditional Icon

On March 21, 2025, Vantage Media will launch director Robert Michael Ryan’s anticipated horror movie Popeye the Slayer Man in theaters and on VOD, which brings a terrifying new twist to a beloved icon. Since its announcement, the movie has created super pleasure and ensures a spine-chilling journey via its creative transformation of Popeye. 

The horror movie Popeye the Slayer Man, a joint effort by Salem Home Movies, Millman Productions, Ron Lee Productions, and Otsego Media, combines sensible horror results with a gripping narrative to ship a recent, terrifying illustration of the traditional sailor.

Sean Michael Conway and Elena Juliano crew up with scream queens Angela Relucio and Sarah Nicklin to painting a bunch of pals who enter an deserted spinach canning manufacturing unit to find the reality about ‘The Sailor Man” legend earlier than realizing it actually exists.

Ryan, along with producers Jeff Miller and Cuyle Carvin, makes use of the ’70s and ’80s horror strategies alongside sensible results to ship an exciting expertise for audiences. Make sure you expertise some of the anticipated movie releases of 2025.

Try the official press launch beneath:

Director Robert Michael Ryan’s a lot buzzed-about horror function Popeye the Slayer Man is ready to sail into theaters and on VOD through Vantage Media on March 21, 2025.

Directed by Ryan from a screenplay by John Doolan (Stays), the horror function was filmed in New York State and is a co-production between Salem Home Movies, Millman Productions, Ron Lee Productions, and Otsego Media.  Jeff Miller (The Toybox), Cuyle Carvin (Ouija Witch), and Ryan additionally contributed to the story.  Producers embrace – together with Miller, Carvin, and Ryan – Alexander Tucker, Nathan Todaro, and Alysa Blasetti.

Reads the synopsis for Popeye the Slayer Man, “A gaggle of pals sneak into an deserted spinach canning manufacturing unit to movie a documentary on the legend of ‘The Sailor Man,’ who is alleged to hang-out the manufacturing unit and native docks, solely to seek out out that the legend is all-too true.”

Popeye the Slayer Man stars Sean Michael Conway, Elena Juliano, Mabel Thomas, Marie-Louise Boisnier, Jeff Thomas, and Steven McCormack, together with “scream queens” Angela Relucio (Code Black, The Cabining) and Sarah Nicklin (The Black Mass, Backyard of Eden). 

Jason Stephens performs the title function. 

Particular make-up results are supervised by R.J. Younger with cinematography by Korey Rowe.

Stated Ryan of Popeye the Slayer Man, a movie which has been featured on Drudge Report, CBS Information and shops around the globe since its announcement in November of 2024, “We went old-school with this film, utilizing sensible results for the horror. I needed this movie to have a extra visceral really feel paying homage to the traditional horror movies of the ‘70s and ‘80s.” 

Added Miller, “We hope audiences could have as a lot enjoyable with this film as we had making it.  Seize a can of spinach, sit again, and revel in!”

Stated VMI Worldwide COO and Head of Acquisitions Jessica Russo, who negotiated the deal, “Popeye the Slayer Man’s darkish reimagining of the traditional Popeye character delivers a recent tackle a beloved icon that audiences will die for.”

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