movie reviewIt’s been over 12 years since we last saw Winnie the Pooh on the silver screen. Anyone who is happy with his comeback deserves a warning. This Pooh bear is a lot less cuddly. He not only loves honey, but equally enjoys driving a car slowly over someone’s head.
A horror version of a beloved Disney character, is that even allowed? The fact that British director Rhys Frake-Waterfield was able to go his sadistic course has everything to do with expired copyrights. Since last year Winnie the Pooh and his friends from AA Milne’s classic book from 1926 are in the public domain. The media conglomerate still owns the copyright on the hug, but everyone can now give the story their own twist.
In Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey is not only the well-known childhood friend (he looks like an adult lumberjack in a bear mask), but also Piglet (now an aggressive boar with huge tusks) is not happy with the departure of their owner Janneman Robinson, to say the least. Starving, they hide in a forest where they harass a group of holidaying girlfriends and beat them to a mash one by one.
Childhood memories
Frake-Waterfield had a budget of only $ 100,000, but thanks to this bizarre film concept and all the media attention alone, a big profit is in the offing. He knows that himself. In interviews, the director already indicated that he wanted to bulldoze more fond childhood memories. It’s only a matter of time before we see Peter Pan wreak havoc as well.
Is the movie worth watching? The fun is soon over, even if you can enjoy a good laugh at murderous Disney characters in combination with cringe-worthy bad acting and cheap effects. And then this horror print lasts less than an hour and a half. Not only children, adults also have very little to do here.
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