If you go down to the woods today, you’re sure for a big surprise, as the trailer for the upcoming indie horror filmWinnie the Pooh: Blood and Honeyhas finally dropped. First announced in May, the news of the slasher film take on the beloved characters certainly made an impact. With the reveal of teaser posters and images showing grotesque and hulking versions of Pooh and Piglet, horror fans were intrigued.
The characters of Winnie the Pooh became public domain this year, meaning anything goes and the trailer for the newhorrorfilm certainly shows that. The first trailer forWinnie the Pooh: Blood and Honeydropped today fromJagged Edge Productionsand in it, director Rhys Frake-Waterfield gives fans a closer look at the story, characters, and gore involved in the new film.
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The trailer opens with Christopher Robin and his girlfriend/fiancée Mary in the woods with Christopher leading the way to his old childhood hideout andhis friends Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, and Eeyore. The couple stumbles across the place now trashed and complete with what looks like a grave marker for Eeyore. The on-screen text provides exposition stating, “The beloved childhood characters have been abandoned by Christopher Robin and have turned wild.”
After a brief flash of what the roly-poly bear has become, it cuts to a group of women arriving at a house for a getaway, but they are quickly set upon by Pooh and Piglet as the duo squeal, hack, and slash their way through the group. There are chase scenes, scrawled messages in blood, and a particularly brutal pool attack as Christopher Robin begs for them to stop crying, “We used to be friends!”
Back in May, director Frake-Waterfield spoke to Variety about the project and the response it has received. The plot seesPooh and Piglet go on a murderous rampageafter being abandoned by Christopher Robin when he goes to college. “Because they’ve had to fend for themselves so much, they’ve essentially become feral,” Waterfield said. “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.”
Shot in only ten days in England, the film is also written and co-produced by Waterfield for his production company Jagged Edge Productions, which he runs alongside partner Scott Jeffrey. ITN has picked up the film for distribution, but there is no release date forWinnie the Pooh: Blood and Honeyas of yet.
