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In the blissful infancy of YouTube back in 2006, one of the medium's earliest viral sensations was a video called "Scary Mary." YouTube creator Christopher Rule edited his own trailer for "Mary Poppins," Disney's 1964 musical classic. Instead of depicting the movie's family-friendly fantasy, though, Rule cut "Scary Mary" as a horror film. The result was surprisingly convincing, and posited an intriguing, funny, and somewhat disturbing thesis: With a change in perspective, beloved fictional characters can instantly switch from kind to creepy.

The team behind "Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey" — a real movie in the Year of Our Lord, 2023 — embraced this spirit to imagine the universally adored Pooh Bear of literature and film as a serial killer. The film's violent conclusion leaves its story open-ended, and its filmmakers are just getting started building a children's-character-turned-slasher cinematic universe straight out of a fever dream.

And thus, I find myself for the third time this...

Director Rhys Frake-Waterfield’s movie Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey was given a nine day theatrical release in the US back in February, and now it has received a digital release! Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey is available for rent or purchase on Amazon’s Prime Video at This Link.

A.A. Milne’s 1926 children’s book Winnie-the-Pooh and the characters in it lapsed into the public domain at the start of last year, and that’s how Frake-Waterfield was able to make this movie happen, no permission required. The filmmaker explained to Variety that Pooh and Piglet (go) on a rampage after being abandoned by a college-bound Christopher Robin. “Christopher Robin is pulled away from them, and he’s not [given] them food, it’s made Pooh and Piglet’s life quite difficult. Because they’ve had to fend for themselves so much, they’ve essentially become feral. So...

The upcoming movie Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey puts a horror twist on the beloved children’s character. Written and directed by Rhys Frake-Waterfield, Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey reimagines a slasher thriller starring A. A. Milne’s characters. The most popular of Milne's characters has always been the gentle Winnie the Pooh. With the original stories lapsing into the public domain, Pooh and Piglet end up going on a murderous rampage, steering away from their classic tales of charming adventures.

Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey attracted attention when stills from the film were released online. The news caused mixed reactions from the public, with some horrified at what Winnie the Pooh has been turned into and others expressing genuine interest and curiosity about the bizarre Pooh concept. In a recent interview, Frake-Waterfield shared how challenging it was to balance the elements of horror and comedy, especially...

Rhys Frake-Waterfield is plotting a horror cinematic universe based on beloved children’s story characters that are in the public domain. He was the director of the recently released Winnie-the-Pooh horror movie Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey (read our review Here), and he’s in development on movies like Bambi: The Reckoning and Peter Pan: Neverland Nightmare. Since these characters are public domain, he doesn’t have to ask anyone’s permission to put a horrific twist on their stories. But if copyright wasn’t an issue, Frake-Waterfield would also like to make horror movies featuring characters like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the Teletubbies.

Speaking with Collider, Frake-Waterfield said, “I’ve really been excited by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles lately because I think the story has a very kind of horrifying undertone anyway because it’s these half-human, half-turtles who live in the sewer who have a rat king who they follow,...

Winnie-The-Pooh: Blood and Honey transforms the beloved Pooh and Piglet into serial killers, and there are many deaths in Blood and Honey. Winnie-The-Pooh: Blood and Honey was written and directed by Rhys Frake-Waterfield in his directorial debut and was originally only meant for a one-off release, but its surprising success caused Blood and Honey to gain a wider theatrical release. Using Winnie-The-Pooh characters that have recently entered the public domain, Blood and Honey twists the beloved animals and shows them to become revengeful murderers once Christopher Robin grows up and leaves the Hundred Acre Wood.

Starring Craig David Dowsett and Chris Cordell as Pooh and Piglet, the horror/slasher Blood and Honey focuses on Christopher Robin (Nickolai Leon) returning to the Hundred Acre Wood with his fiancée Mary (Paula Coiz) to introduce her to his old friends. Blood and Honey also follows a group of college girls on a...

Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey Review — Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey (2023) Film Review, a movie written and directed by Rhys Frake-Waterfield and starring Nikolai Leon, Amber Doig-Thorne, Craig David-Dowsett, Chris Cordell, Natasha Rose Mills, Danielle Ronald, Paula Coiz, May Kelly, Danielle Scott, Natasha Tosini, Maria Taylor, Gillian Broderick, Frederick Dallaway, [...]

Continue reading: Film Review: Winnie The Pooh: Blood And Honey (2023): An Overly Violent Horror Film That Has a Few Interesting Moments...

Stars: Craig David Dowsett, Chris Cordell, Nikolai Leon, Paula Coiz, Maria Taylor, Natasha Tosini, Danielle Ronald, Natasha Rose Mills, Amber Doig-Thorne, May Kelly | Written and Directed by Rhys Frake-Waterfield

It seems like we’ve been hearing about Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey forever. And now it’s here, the latest attempt to turn childhood favourites like The Banana Splits, The Grinch, and even Heidi into blood-soaked nightmares. And with Pooh being far and away the most popular it’s also been the most hyped and anticipated, even the fact Scott Jeffrey was producing it couldn’t keep me from wanting to see it. And now it’s here and all I can say is “Oh bother!”

Writer/director Rhys Frake-Waterfield actually gets the film off to a great start with an animated segment telling us how Christopher Robin befriended the creatures of the Hundred Acre Wood only to grow up and leave for college,...

Warning: Contains Spoilers for Winnie the Pooh: Blood & HoneyPiglet’s fate in Winnie the Pooh: Blood & Honey makes Christopher Robin’s story much worse for the sequel. Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey is a slasher horror movie based on the beloved characters from the Hundred Acre Woods who have become feral and bloodthirsty after Christopher Robin abandons them. Blood and Honey stars Nickolai Leon (Christopher), Paula Coiz (Mary), Craig David Dowsett (Pooh Bear), Maria Taylor (Maria), Natasha Tosini (Lara), Natasha Rose Mills (Jess), Amber Doig-Thorne (Alice), and Danielle Ronald (Zoe), yet it is Chris Cordell's Piglet who could hold the key to a follow-up movie.

Blood and Honey shows a young Christopher playing with famous characters Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, Rabbit, and Owl but as he grows up and goes to college, Pooh and his friends are unable to look after themselves. They starve and eat Eeyore,...

This post contains spoilers for "Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey."

"Winnie-the-Pooh slasher film" is quite the eyebrow-raising elevator pitch. And yet, upon hearing that short phrase, the listener instantly knows what to expect: gore that subverts the pre-established notion of Pooh Bear as a cute, family-friendly character in a way that aims to be visceral and perhaps comedic. So goes the moviegoing experience of "Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey," a real film that actually exists.

"Blood and Honey" is extreme. It's probably not a stretch to say it's one of the most graphic, gory films you've ever seen. Think "Kill Bill" level intensity here. Interestingly, the movie doesn't always lean into its inherently humorous concept. Yes, seeing the likes of Pooh and Piglet presented as horror villains is funny, but once the initial shock wears off, the characters' acts of violence hold nothing back in terms of gruesomeness. These moments are dark...

Last year the copyright protection on British author A.A. Milne’s most famous creations ran out, releasing — or perhaps condemning — them to the public domain. The first consequence of that development is “Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey,” a rock-bottom joint that fails to meet even the most basic expectations set up by its conceptual gimmick.

Nonetheless, that gimmick, combined with some early images and clips, propelled prolific micro-budget shingle ITN Studios’ latest project to viral notoriety, resulting in its first theatrical release after a purported 700+ titles in 32 years. Fathom Events is handling U.S. distribution, with other territories concurrent or imminent (it’s already opened in Mexico), and home formats on hold until that limited run has played out. A sequel is already in the works. But while it would be nice if this film’s windfall improves the quality of its producers’ future projects, that fluke pop-culture awareness is unlikely...

Director Rhys Frake-Waterfield’s movie Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey will be getting a nine day theatrical release though Fathom Events in the US on February 15th – and not only is there already a sequel in the works, but Frake-Waterfield has also confirmed that all of the horror movies he’s making based on public domain characters from children’s stories (including Bambi: The Reckoning and Peter Pan: Neverland Nightmare) exist within the same cinematic universe, which will allow for crossovers down the line!

Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter, Frake-Waterfield said, “The idea is that we’re going to try and imagine they’re all in the same world, so we can have crossovers. People have been messaging saying they really want to see Bambi versus Pooh.“

And while Peter Pan, Bambi, and Winnie the Pooh are all characters that have also been brought to the screen by Disney,...

Director Rhys Frake-Waterfield’s movie Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey will be getting a nine day theatrical release though Fathom Events in the US on February 15th – but a couple weeks away from that date, Frake-Waterfield has revealed that he’s already working on a sequel! And while developing the follow-up, he’s drawing inspiration from last year’s indie hit Terrifier 2…

Speaking with SFX Magazine (we send our thanks out to Games Radar for spreading the word), Frake-Waterfield said that he had Halloween, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Wrong Turn on his mind while he was crafting Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey. “And as we’re going into the sequel soon, Terrifier 2 is going to be one of my key reference points. I want to make sure I go as big and epic as they went with that. I want to try and push it even more.

We’ve previously heard that director Rhys Frake-Waterfield’s movie Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey will be getting a theatrical release though Fathom Events in the US on February 15th… and now Fathom Events has announced that, due to popular demand, they will be giving Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey a nine day release in more than 1500 theatres nationwide! The film will be showing on the big screen from Wednesday, February 15th through Monday, February 23rd.

A.A. Milne’s 1926 children’s book Winnie-the-Pooh and the characters in it lapsed into the public domain at the start of this year, and that’s how Frake-Waterfield was able to make this movie happen, no permission required. The filmmaker explained to Variety that Pooh and Piglet (go) on a rampage after being abandoned by a college-bound Christopher Robin. “Christopher Robin is pulled away from them, and he’s not [given] them food,...

Screen Rant is thrilled to present an exclusive first-look image from the upcoming horror film Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, which arrives in theaters on February 15. As the title suggests, this film is a reinvention of A.A. Milne's classic tale of a furry friendship with a terrifying twist. Prolific producer Rhys Frake-Waterfield tries his hand at writing and directing with the dark fable, which still takes place in Hundred Acre Wood—albeit under very different circumstances.

Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey starts off in a familiar way, with young Christopher Robin finding a second family with his friends Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, and Eeyore. But when the boy leaves for college, his beloved animal friends were far too domesticated to survive in the wild. Instead, they turned totally feral, with Pooh and Piglet even going so far as to eat Eeyore themselves. Their sights soon set on college girls as they prey,...

Director Rhys Frake-Waterfield is gearing up to ruin childhoods when his movie Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey reaches theatres (though Fathom Events in the US) on February 15th… and with the release date less than two months away, a new poster for Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey has arrived online. With thanks to the folks at Collider, that poster can now be seen at the bottom of this article.

A.A. Milne’s 1926 children’s book Winnie-the-Pooh and the characters in it lapsed into the public domain at the start of this year, and that’s how Frake-Waterfield was able to make this movie happen, no permission required. The filmmaker explained to Variety that Pooh and Piglet (go) on a rampage after being abandoned by a college-bound Christopher Robin. “Christopher Robin is pulled away from them, and he’s not [given] them food, it’s made Pooh and Piglet’s life quite difficult.

Stars: Paula Coiz, Samantha Cull, Patricia Mañas, Danielle Scott, Chris Cordell, Kate Sandison, Bao Tieu, Samantha Cull, Meg Matthews, Zuza Tehanu | Written by Ben Daly | Directed by Louisa Warren

Seemingly filmed back-to-back with the fourth film in the series, a film that rebooted the franchise, redesigned the titular killer tooth fairy and changed all the lore we’d previously learnt, Tooth Fairy: Drill to Kill is set two years after the horrifying events of That school trip where students and teachers were brutally slain and follows Sammy, the surviving teacher, who rejoins her colleagues back at work. However, after hearing some odd noises around the classrooms Sammy feels she is being watched. It’s not until she hears the familiar knocking at the door does she realize her nightmare has not ended.

I’ll be honest, after sitting through the fourth film in the franchise, Queen of Pain, I wasn...

New Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey images reveal a young Christopher Robin in the upcoming slasher film. With Winne-the-Pooh now in the public domain, meaning that Walt Disney no longer holds exclusive rights to the characters, this allowed writer/director Rhys Frake-Waterfield to develop a demented reimagining of A. A. Milne and E. H. Shepard's Winnie-the-Pooh books. The horror film takes the two beloved childhood icons, Winnie-the-Pooh and Piglet, and turns them into sadistic serial killers. The film features a dark twist on Toy Story 3's plot as, after Christopher Robin abandons them when he goes to college, Pooh and Piglet embark on a murderous rampage throughout the Hundred Acre Wood.

Now, three months before the film releases in theaters, IGN has the first look at a young Christopher Robin in Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey. Other than Pooh and Piglet's childhood friend, the images reveal some new looks at...

Stars: Paula Coiz, Samantha Cull, Genna Loskunikov, Giedre Jackyte, Marcus Massey, Julia Quayle, Jo Barker | Written by Ben Daly | Directed by Louisa Warren

The killer tooth fairy is back! Yes after seemingly being killed three times in the previous three movies, the titular fairy-tale turned monster is back on the screen in Tooth Fairy: Queen of Pain, or Tooth Fairy 4: Reborn – to give the film its on-screen title. Quick question though… Why do I keep subjecting myself to this franchise?!

I’ll tell you why. Because, remarkably, this franchise has played out in the opposite way to most horror franchises. Whereas we typically quote the “law of diminishing returns” when it comes to horror sequels, Louisa Warren’s Tooth Fairy series is the opposite – each film has got progressively better than the last, with part three really embracing the gore and grue and delivering the best film in the franchise so far.

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Pooh and Piglet get into a bloody mess in the upcoming honey-filled indie horror flick Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey.

A nearly two-minute trailer dropped on Wednesday of director Rhys Waterfield’s unexpected and now anticipated horror retelling of A. A. Milne’s 1926 famed collection of children’s short stories.

In the first look, Christopher Robin (Nikolai Leon) has returned to the 100-acre wood to introduce his soon-to-be-wife Mary (Paula Coiz) to his anthropomorphic animal childhood friends. But the place where he once played with the likes of Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore and more, has become a dark, abandoned nightmare.

Despite Mary’s pleas for them to leave, Christopher declares, “I really need to find out what’s happened here.” What he discovers is the frightening outcome of years of abandonment. As Christopher’s visits became more infrequent, his friends grew more hungry.

A.A. Milne’s 1926 children’s book Winnie-the-Pooh and the characters in it lapsed into the public domain at the start of this year – and as soon as that happened, writer/director Rhys Frake-Waterfield was right there to take advantage of their public domain status. For his feature debut, Frake-Waterfield has dropped the iconic characters of Winnie the Pooh and Piglet into a slasher called Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey. A trailer for the film has now been released, and you can watch it in the embed above.

Frake-Waterfield explained to Variety that Pooh and Piglet

(go) on a rampage after being abandoned by a college-bound Christopher Robin. “Christopher Robin is pulled away from them, and he’s not [given] them food, it’s made Pooh and Piglet’s life quite difficult. Because they’ve had to fend for themselves so much, they’ve essentially become feral. So they’ve gone back to their animal roots.