The New Mutants Trailer Breakdown: 8 Things You Need To See

We don't need no self-control.

by Ewan Paterson
Fox

Spoopy season is upon us, and if that hadn't already been made clear by all the Halloween merch that's been littering store shelves, Fox unleashed the trailer for New Mutants last night.

While the trailer for a new X-Men spin-off might not sound particularly threatening, or even horrific, we've known for some time now that Josh Boone's X-Men spin-off would be gunning for a horror vibe. Take a look below and see for yourself.

Releasing next year, The New Mutants will follow Magik, Wolfsbane, Cannonball, Sunspot and Mirage as they come to grips with their Mutant powers as they begin to manifest. This won't be your average X-flick however, and the trailer was as cryptic as it was foreboding, planting the seeds to a mystery that's not like any we've seen in a comic book film before.

It's uncharted territory for the franchise, and while the clues at hand are few and far between, there's enough in there to piece together some of the main beats from the film, including its setting, the team involved and, in one particularly telling encounter, the main villain too.

All the ingredients are there for the New Mutants to be one of the most authentic and indeed terrifying comic book flicks yet. Here’s what we picked up from the trailer.

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WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well. In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.