A handful of new images from the upcoming (and unexpected) slasher flick Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey reveal Christopher Robin and tease the bloodshed. The horror outing will find childhood favorites Winnie the Pooh and Piglet as you’ve never seen them before – as murderous, feral, serial killers — and is due for release in February.
Released courtesy of IGN, these new images further tease the brutal killings that Pooh and Piglet will carry out after they leave the confines of the Hundred Acre Wood and make their way into the big, wide world. Judging by the severed heads, burning cars, and generally haunting imagery, we'll wish they hadn’t.
A warped retelling of the A. A. Milne and E. H. Shepard's Winnie-the-Pooh books, Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey finds the likes of Pooh, Piglet and friends you probably hoped to never see them. As every child knows, Christopher Robin befriended Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, and their friends, playing games and also providing them with food. What we all don’t know, however, is that as he grew, these visits became more infrequent, as did the food supply, causing Pooh and the others to grow increasingly hungry and desperate.
When Christopher went off to college, his visits to the Hundred Acre Wood stopped completely, causing Pooh and Piglet to become completely feral and unhinged. Which sadly resulted in Eeyore getting killed and eaten at some point. Now, Christopher Robin has returned to the forest alongside his new wife, hoping to introduce her to his old friends. Unfortunately for them, Pooh and Piglet will not forgive that easily, with the pair going on a murderous rampage for human flesh as they antagonize a group of university girls occupying a rural cabin.
The Filmmakers Behind Blood & Honey Will Next Turn Their Attention to Peter Pan
The filmmakers behind Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey will next turn their twisted eye to another childhood classic, Peter Pan. Wonderfully titled Peter Pan: Neverland Nightmare, details are currently being kept under wraps, but the project will likely involve a terrifying version of the Pan taking children to a new horrifying Neverland.
"Essentially we've been kind of doing that for the last like, year now. Like with you know like Humpty Dumpty and things like that and there was there was other ideas we had in mind,” director Rhys Waterfield revealed regarding further projects they have in mind following Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey. “For example like Thor, the Norse God isn't the property of Marvel so we could do kind of our own interpretation of that if we wanted. It didn't have the same like ring as Winnie did so we went on Winnie and done that. We've got loads of other ones planned as well so like we're doing a Peter Pan one."
Directed and written by Rhys Frake-Waterfield, and starring Nikolai Leon as Christopher Robin alongside Amber Doig-Thorne, Maria Taylor, Danielle Ronald, Natasha Tosini, May Kelly, Paula Coiz, Natasha Rose Mills as Jess, and Craig David Dowsett and Chris Cordell as Winnie-the-Pooh and Piglet respectively, Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey will be released on February 15, 2023, for a one-night event and is coming soon to DVD and VOD worldwide.