Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey
Short description
Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey is a horror thriller about the childhood friends Pooh and Piglet, who turn feral after being abandoned by Christopher Robin when he leaves for college. Driven by hunger and a hatred for humans, the duo becomes violent and begins killing anyone who enters their woods. The conflict escalates when an adult Christopher Robin returns to the area, facing the brutal creatures he once knew.
The film was written and directed by Rhys Frake-Waterfield, who also served as a producer alongside Scott Chambers. In the director's filmography, this project follows The Area 51 Incident and precedes Firenado. The cast features Nikolai Leon as Christopher Robin, Craig David Dowsett as Pooh, and Chris Cordell as Piglet, with supporting roles played by Natasha Rose Mills, Amber Doig-Thorne, and Danielle Ronald.
Produced in the United Kingdom by Jagged Edge Productions, ITN Studios, and ITN Distribution, the movie earned 8 million USD at the worldwide box office. It received poor reception from both audiences and critics. It holds a 2.9/10 rating on IMDb from 37,000 votes and a 4.9/10 rating on TMDB from 1,616 votes. Film critics gave the movie an even lower score of 2.3/10 based on 65 reviews.
What's left behind the scenes
- At the 37th minute, Lara takes a selfie in a jacuzzi. She holds the phone vertically, but when the angle changes, it's already horizontal. Then it repeats a couple more times.
- Work on the project became possible only in 2022, when Alan Milne's novel "Winnie-the-Pooh" (1926) and all its characters, including Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, and Christopher Robin, entered the public domain in the United States. However, according to the law, the characters in the film could not resemble the characters from the Disney version, which first appeared on screen in the 1966 cartoon "Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree" and were protected by copyright.
- In Hong Kong and Macau, the film was pulled from release just two days before its scheduled premiere. Local cinema chains cited “technical reasons.” In reality, this move was explained by the fact that internet users and participants in protests in Hong Kong had used the classic image of Winnie-the-Pooh to criticize the President of the People's Republic of China, Xi Jinping.
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