Stay Out Of The 100 Acre Wood! 'Winnie The Pooh: Blood And Honey' Turns The Children's Classic Into A Nightmare
The public domain can be a scary place, and now it has taken over The 100 Acre Wood.
Winnie the Pooh, the beloved children's book character created by A.A. Milne, has seen its fair share of redesigns over the years. Disney nearly managed to stake claim to the character entirely, with their popular franchise about the honey-loving bear and his menagerie of woodland friends.
However, thanks to the wonder of public domain law, as long as creatives don't use the exact iterations of these characters that disney created, the property is a literal free-for-all.
(You can read the whole story about that right here - the same thing is happening with Pinocchio right now as well.
Enter indie filmmaker Rhys Frake-Waterfield, who has been working on a live-action horror version of Pooh - titled Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey.
The production has only released still images from the freaky re-imagining, where it seems slashers wearing creepy masks of both Pooh and Piglet, (or, well, a boar mask that is credited as piglet) begin stalking unsuspecting pretty people, for some reason.
According to the IMDb page, there is no synopsis at this time.
This is the first feature for Frake-Waterfield, and the cast is relatively unknown actors.
In an interview with Variety, Frake-Waterfield did give us some of the premise: Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey will see Pooh and Piglet as "the main villains [...] going 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. They're no longer tame: they're like a vicious bear and pig who want to go around and try and find prey."
Well, okay then. I guess Toy Story 3 really could have gone worse - Lotso seems incredibly tame by comparison.
It's hard to get excited about these strange one-off projects that are going for a niche concept, which, honestly, most of the time have better trailers than the feature itself. But I guess we will have to wait and see.
