In The New Mutants, at least at first, the kids are treated like mental patients, with their doctors trying to find ways to “cure” their powers.
The New Mutants will probably draw from the “Demon Bear” storyline from the comics, which involves a giant bear creature created by mutating the parents of Mirage, who becomes haunted by the bear as it stalks her through her dreams.
Folks involved with The New Mutants have called it both a “full-fledged horror movie” and “a haunted house movie with a bunch of hormonal teenagers.”
The New Mutants promises to be a much different, much scarier kind of superhero movie, one that embraces the horrific aspects of having superpowers in a world that doesn’t understand them.