Images from the upcoming slasher thriller Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey show a young Christopher Robin. Now that A. A. Milne’s and E. H. Shepard’s Winnie-the-Pooh stories have entered the public domain. Walt Disney no longer owns the rights to the characters, and writer/director Rhys Frake-Waterfield was free to create a twisted retelling of the stories. In the scary movie, Winnie-the-Pooh and Piglet are transformed into murderous psychopaths. In this film’s dark take on the Toy Story 3 plot, Pooh and Piglet go on a killing spree throughout the Hundred Acre Wood after Christopher Robin abandons them when he goes off to college.
Now, IGN has the exclusive first look at a young Christopher Robin in the upcoming film Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey, three months before its scheduled theatrical debut. Images show more of the teddy bear throughout his killing rampage, including some photographs of Pooh silhouetted against a fire background.
The enthusiasm around the upcoming February 15 release of Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey has been sustained, in no little part, by the release of several new photographs from the film. The image of Christopher Robin provides additional context for the transformation of Pooh Bear and the other once-loved characters into murderers. The sight has been clouded, but it seems like Pooh and Piglet still have loving memories of their childhood companion.
When Pooh and Piglet are left without food after Christopher Robin leaves for college, they have a wild and unpredictable personalities. Craig David Dowsett as Winnie-the-Pooh, Chris Cordell as Piglet, and an ensemble cast including Amber Doig-Thorne, Maria Taylor, Danielle Ronald, Natasha Tosini, May Kelly, Paula Coiz, and Natasha Rose Mills star in Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey, which also features Nikolai Leon as an older Christopher Robin who later returns to the Hundred Acre Wood. Frake-Waterfield is apparently working on a sequel to Blood and Honey and a dark retelling of Peter Pan before its February release.
Even before the first trailer was released, the first photos from Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey had already made quite a stir online. Thanks to the success of the film’s viral marketing effort, Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey will be released in theatres in February 2023. Fathom Events, Altitude Thriller Distribution, Cineplex Entertainment, and Cinemex will present the horror film for a single night only in theatres.
