We know Winnie the Pooh as a cuddly and kind-hearted bear who wouldn’t hurt a fly. In the horror thriller “Winnie-The-Pooh: Blood And Honey”, however, things look very different…
What if the human boy Christopher Robin had turned his back on his animal friends Winnie the Pooh, Piglet and Co. and gone his own way into adulthood? The Disney adventure “Christopher Robin” already explored this question in a family-friendly way in 2018, following the tone of the famous book and cartoon originals.
In “Winnie-The-Pooh: Blood And Honey”, however, there is now a much more abysmal answer to the question. The low-budget production comes across as a genuine horror slasher in which Winnie the Pooh and Piglet return to their animalistic roots in a desperate search for food after the departure of Christopher Robin. They finally leave the once idyllic Hundred Acre Wood behind and spread fear and terror in the midst of the human world with a brutal series of murders…
Pooh and Piglet go on a bloody rampage in the trailer for WINNIE THE POOH: BLOOD AND HONEY. pic.twitter.com/QLZ8gDRb7a
– More Butter (@morebuttertv) August 31, 2022
The first trailer for ‘Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey’ has just dropped and the movie has turned the beloved character into a killer. https://t.co/P0AjhWgiqC
– 104.7 WIOT TOLEDO (@1047WIOT) August 31, 2022
DISNEY MIGHT NOT LIKE THIS
Since the first “Winnie the Pooh” films of the 1960s from Disney, the franchise has actually been inextricably linked to the mouse studio. But “Winnie-The-Pooh: Blood And Honey” was not made under Disney’s leadership, after all, they would hardly treat one of their most popular children’s heroes in this way. But how could the bloody shocker come about at all?
The magic word is public domain. The brand, which has belonged to Disney for some time now, has its origins in a series of children’s books by A.A. Milne. And in 2022, the copyrights to the very first “Winnie the Pooh” story from the 1920s expire, so that it can be used completely freely by anyone – and thus completely independently of Disney – for new stories. Filmmaker Rhys Waterfield didn’t let that pass him by and shot his “Winnie the Pooh” horror version in just two weeks.
It is certainly not too bold to assume that Disney is not necessarily happy about this, especially since the film has already received a lot of attention on the net after the revelation of the abstruse premise and the first images. But the mouse house probably can’t do much, assuming Waterfield really did stick to using only elements from the first “Winnie the Pooh” book in his film, since only these are no longer subject to copyright. Popular characters that were added later, such as Tigger, will therefore not be seen in “Blood And Honey”.
It will probably be possible to check this out before the end of the year – but it is unclear exactly when. Winnie-The-Pooh: Blood And Honey” does not yet have a concrete release date for either Germany or the USA.
