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Winnie the Pooh: Blood & Honey
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Oh boy, the world of copyrights is a twisted double edged sword, and one that I have mixed ideas about. On one hand I understand that a copyright allows a creator to capitalize on their work without being undercut by people who have invested NOTHING into said product. But at the same time recognize that in our modern day system we’ve allowed things to get out of control, allowing companies with big pockets to perpetually renew a copyright on something for nearly a CENTURY, stifling anything fresh and new that a different set of creative eyes could afford. But at the same time when something enters the public domains, it’s a rare instance where someone can actually do just that. Usually films and creative characters entering the public domain are treated as something cheap to copy and dump on the market instead of of what we would HOPE would happen. But when something as iconic as Winnie the Pooh (and also recently the Steamboat Willie depiction of Mickey Mouse) enters the public domain you can be SURE that somebody somewhere is going to go fully insane and make something off the wall (or invoke rule #34 of the internet, but that’s a given), and nothing is as insane and off the wall as turning Pooh Bear and the creatures of 100 Acre Woods into serial killers.
The film opens up with a grim narration describing how Christopher Robin (Nikolai Leon) was once naively friends with a group of half beast half mutant forest creatures in the 100 Acre woods, very similar to the A.A. Milne stories we grew up on. And much like the stories endings, Christopher Robin was forced to give up his childish friends when he grew up and went to college, now Christopher is back with his wife to show her his childhood friends, but little does he know that after he left starvation drove them mad, forcing them to cannibalize Eeyore and change friendly woodland creatures into murderous monsters who hated Christopher Robin above all else.
Upon Christopher’s capture and the murder of his wife, the film segues directly into the present, with a group of young girls coming to the 100 Acre woods to engage in some R and R after Maria (Maria Taylor) had a run in with a stalker. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see where this is going, and go in that direction the movie does. Within short order the good looking women are nabbed, tortured, chopped into bits, and generally terrorized by Pooh Bear and Piglet, both of whom want nothing more than to inflict various forms of torture on their victims.
On the other hand, I almost have to give it to Frake-Waterfield. The guy made $5.2 million dollars off a $50,000 budget, and actually made it look competent in the filming department. The real drawback wasn’t just the cheap masks and the lack of anything remotely akin to proper CGI, but the HORRIBLE dialog, the abysmal direction, and the over use of cliched horror tropes without being even remotely satirical. I mean, we have buxom red heads going topless because the plot asked for it, gory deaths without any emotion behind them, and an ending that lends itself towards a possible sequel that inevitably came (released about 2 weeks ago actually, and given the fact that it made so much money off of a next to nothing budget, the sequel’s budget was amplified by a factor of 10). This is a movie that got 5 Raspberry awards, had every youtube horror fanatic loathing it, and generally felt like “why the bleep was this even MADE”? Personally, I can’t answer that question either, as I’ve been asking myself the same query.
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Not Rated by the MPAA
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Can you tell that Winnie the Pooh: Blood & Honey was not my cup of tea? On one hand I really admire the hilarity and sheer willpower it took to take a beloved IP like Winnie the Pooh and try and make a slasher film out of it, but the execution was just abysmal. I wanted to like this movie sooooooooooo bad, but the film just made it nigh impossible. That being said, Frake-Waterfield competently shot the picture as best he could and it looks like he’s made a sequel, which very well may turn my opinion around considering I’ll eat up just about anything in the horror category. But for this, this is ONLY for the hardcore fans who have to have this as a novelty. Otherwise run away in more terror than the film’s victims.
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Starring: Nikolai Leon, Maria Taylor, Natasha Rose Mills, Amber Doig Thorne
Directed by: Rhys Frake-Waterfield
Written by: Rhys Frake-Waterfield, A.A. Milne
Aspect Ratio: 2.39:1 AVC
Audio: English: DTS-HD MA 5.1, English DTS-HD MA 2.0
Subtitles: English SDH
Studio: Scream Factory
Rated: NR
Runtime: 84 minutes
Blu-Ray Release Date: April 9th, 2024
Recommendation: For the fans ONLY
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