Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey is a 2023 British slasher film. Based on A. A. Milne and E. H. Shephard's Winnie-the-Pooh books and is the first piece of public domain material that has been released. It was officially released on January 26th in Mexico and was released in the United Kingdom on February 15th. The film is produced by Jagged Edge Productions and distributed by ITN Studios.
It is the first movie in the "Twisted Childhood Universe", a media franchise that creates re-imaginings of children's literacy characters into slasher villains. A sequel Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 was released in 2024.
Plot[]
Many years ago, a young Christopher Robin befriended a group of anthropomorphic creatures – Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, Rabbit and Owl – in the Hundred Acre Wood. However, as he aged, Christopher entered college and left them behind. Without Christopher to feed them or give them guidance, and with the arrival of winter, Pooh, Piglet, Rabbit and Owl went into extreme starvation and killed and ate Eeyore, which traumatised the group to the point where they developed a hatred for anything human-related, as well as Christopher for abandoning them. The group made a pact to abandon their humanity and return to their feral instincts, also vowing never to speak again.
Five years later, a now-adult Christopher returns to the Hundred Acre Wood, accompanied by his fiancée, Mary, to reunite with his old friends, only to find the place in a desolate state. Despite Mary's warnings to leave, Christopher investigates further and is surprised by Piglet, who garrotes Mary to death with a chain. Horrified, Christopher tries to run, but is cornered by Pooh and Piglet, who drag him back into the woods.
Sometime later, a group of university students – Maria, Jess, Alice, Zoe and Lara – rent a cabin in the Hundred Acre Wood at the suggestion of Maria's therapist, so she can move on from a traumatic stalking experience. Tina, another of Maria's friends, gets lost on the way to the cabin and is chased by Pooh into an abandoned factory, where he grinds her with a woodchipper. Later, in Pooh's treehouse, Christopher has been held prisoner by Pooh, who brutally whips him with Eeyore's detached tail. Christopher sees Mary's corpse in the corner of the room, and Pooh showers him in Mary's blood in retaliation for leaving his former friends to fend for themselves.
As night falls, Pooh and Piglet find the cabin and kidnap Lara, who is relaxing in a hot tub. Piglet gags her while Pooh slowly drives a car into Lara's head, crushing her skull. Maria and Jess hear the commotion and find Lara's corpse, running back to the cabin to warn Alice and Zoe. The girls are attacked by Pooh and are separated. Piglet enters, knocking Alice unconscious, and kills Zoe with a sledgehammer. Maria and Jess watch as Pooh and Piglet take Alice and decide to follow them into the woods to rescue her.
In Pooh's treehouse, Maria and Jess free Alice, Christopher and another hostage named Charlene, whose husband Scott has already been murdered by Piglet. Seeking revenge, Charlene summons Piglet to kill him, but Pooh subdues her and Piglet mauls her to death. Pooh chases Maria and Jess into the woods while Alice stays behind to bludgeon an unsuspecting Piglet with his own sledgehammer. Hearing Piglet scream, Pooh runs back to the treehouse, but finds him already dead. Enraged, Pooh confronts Alice with a knife and proceeds to fatally impale her to a wall through her open mouth.
Maria and Jess run to the road, where they stop a car driven by four local men – Logan, Tucker, John and Colt – to ask for help. Despite the men's attempts to take him down, Pooh easily kills them one by one until Maria tries to run him over with the car. Pooh climbs into the car and Maria crashes into a tree, losing consciousness. When she wakes, she witnesses Pooh decapitating Jess. Pooh attempts to kill Maria until Christopher appears driving another car, crushing him between the two cars and seemingly killing Pooh.
Christopher tries to help Maria, but Pooh, having survived, catches up and grabs Maria, preparing to kill her with his knife. Christopher pleads with Pooh to spare her, and vows to spend the rest of his life in the Hundred Acre Wood with him; however, Pooh, breaking his vow of silence, tells Christopher "You left", before slashing Maria's throat. After Maria slowly bleeds to death, Christopher, realising that Pooh is beyond help, flees while Pooh repeatedly stabs the corpse
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Cast[]
- Nikolai Leon as Christopher Robin
- Frederick Dallaway as young Christopher Robin
- Craig David Dowsett as Pooh Bear
- Chris Cordell as Piglet
- Maria Taylor as Maria
- Natasha Rose Mills as Jess
- Amber Doig-Thorne as Alice
- Danielle Ronald as Zoe
- Natasha Tosini as Lara
- Paula Coiz as Mary Robin
- May Kelly as Tina
- Richard D. Myers as Logan
- Simon Ellis as Tucker
- Jase Rivers as John
- Marcus Massey as Colt
- Danielle Scott as Charlene
- Mark Haldor as Scott
- Toby Wynn-Davies as the Narrator
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Upon its announcement, the film drew widespread attention due to its concept involving a character that had garnered a reputation for being a "beloved childhood icon",[1] and was met with mixed reactions.[2]
Trivia[]
- This was the first non-Disney movie based in the Winnie the Pooh franchise since Soyuzmultfilm's Winnie-the-Pooh and a Busy Day film released in 1972.
- This was the first movie after Winnie the Pooh being in the public domain.