I was a hardcore New Mutants fan when I was a kid. That was the first series I really collected. I have damn near every issue of the original series before it became X-Force. That said: this is freaking brilliant. That old series was weird and creepy with all these twisted storylines. The Demon Bear Saga. That Shadow King. The Secret Wars II tie-in in which the entire team was brutally murdered. All the stuff with Illiana. Doing this film with a horror movie vibe is spot on, and this is the first X-film I’ve been really excited for in years.