Now, director Josh Boone has told IGN that he not only sees this as a horror movie (inspired by the likes of Stephen King and Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors), but the first in a New Mutants horror trilogy.
“These are all going to be horror movies, and they’re all be their own distinct kind of horror movies.
Director Josh Boone (The Fault in Our Stars) previously stated The New Mutants will be “a full-fledged horror movie set within the X-Men universe,” while Fox’s Stacey Snider has described the film as “a haunted-house movie.”
Our take was just go examine the horror genre through comic book movies and make each one its own distinct sort of horror film.