Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey (2023)

Original title

Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey

Directed by

Rhys Frake-Waterfield

Genre

horror film, slasher film, horror based on children's characters

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 24m

Rated

NR

Rating

4.9 of 10 from 1,583 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Years after leaving the Hundred Acre Wood, Christopher Robin returns to find his old friends Pooh and Piglet have turned into feral killers. They hunt him and a group of young women staying nearby.

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What happens

Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey is a 2023 British independent slasher film produced, directed, written, and edited by Rhys Frake-Waterfield. The first installment of The Twisted Childhood Universe, it is a horror interpretation of A. A. Milne and E. H. Shepard's Winnie-the-Pooh books and stars Craig David Dowsett as the titular character, and Chris Cordell as Piglet, with Amber Doig-Thorne, Nikolai Leon, Maria Taylor, Natasha Rose Mills, and Danielle Ronald in supporting roles. It follows Pooh and Piglet, who have become feral murderers, as they terrorise a group of young university women and Christopher Robin when he returns to the Hundred Acre Wood five years after leaving for college. The film was first announced in May 2022, when it drew widespread attention due to its premise involving a character that was a childhood icon, and it was met with divided reactions. It was produced by Jagged Edge Productions in association with ITN Studios and went into development after the 1926 Winnie-the-Pooh book entered the public domain in the United States in January 2022. The film was shot in 10 days in the Ashdown Forest of East Sussex, England, which served as inspiration for the Hundred Acre Wood in the original books. Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey was originally set for a direct-to-video release in October 2022, but a spike in online popularity expanded it at first to an intended nationwide one-night event, before it evolved into a major worldwide theatrical release. It premiered in Mexico on 26 January 2023, and was theatrically released in the United Kingdom on 10 March. The film received overwhelmingly negative reviews from critics with many considering it one of the worst films ever made, and received five Golden Raspberry Awards, including Worst Picture. Despite this, the film was a box-office success, grossing $7.7 million worldwide on a budget of $50,000. A sequel, Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2, was released in 2024. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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