Beloved childhood favorite Winnie-the-Pooh has moved away from his honey addiction and instead has a predilection for severed heads in the latest poster for the upcoming slasher outing, Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey. With Winnie-the-Pooh now in the public domain, filmmaker Rhys Frake-Waterfield and studio Jagged Edge Productions have wasted no time in transforming Pooh and Piglet into monsters. Which is something we have always wanted to see, right?

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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 as you hoped to never see them. Or perhaps you did because you’re a glutton for nightmares? 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.

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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.

Directed and written by Rhys Frake-Waterfield, Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey stars 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.

Filmmakers Behind Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey Will Next Turn Their Warped Eye to Peter Pan

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Following the release of Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey, the filmmakers will turn their twisted eye to another treasured childhood character, J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan. Details of the project were revealed recently, with the horrifying take on the boy who never grew up now receiving the title Peter Pan: Neverland Nightmare. Which should tell you all you need to know about what’s to come when The Pan takes flight. But Peter Pan is not the only character that Jagged Edge Productions have in their crosshairs…

“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,” Rhys Waterfield revealed regarding further projects. “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.”

Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey will be released on February 15, 2023, for a one-night event, and will also receive a wider cinematic release in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. For everyone else, Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey is coming soon to DVD and VOD worldwide.