Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey crew got death threats

Last Updated on February 8, 2023

Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey has generated a lot of chatter on the internet since it was announced last year. Following the public domain availability of the A.A. Milne characters, it was open season on what could be done with Pooh, Piglet, and company. And so, writer/director Rhys Frake-Waterfield put the characters in a horror movie–although this has disturbed some fans. Oh, bother…

“I thought it would get a bit of attention but never in the way it has. It’s been in every paper and magazine, all around the world…I thought it was a bit bonkers, I just didn’t expect anything like this at all. It is a bit mad, Winnie-the-Pooh running around killing people.” Believe it or not, no, not everybody wants to see Blood and Honey, in which Winnie and Piglet trying to slaughter Christopher Robin and his buddies after he returns to the Hundred Acre Wood. “The director and producer have had a lot of direct emails saying they should die, the worst stuff you can imagine. They say ‘It’s an abomination!’. “People have said to me ‘you’re ruining our childhood dreams’. But nobody ‘has’ to watch it.”

Ronald thanked the Blood and Honey haters, saying, “The haters have definitely made it what it is because they’re all talking about it.” Indeed, Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey has been one of the most anticipated horror movies of the year so far, even as a curiosity. Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey will be released shortly in theaters for haters and slasher fans on February 15th.

Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey came about when the copyright lapsed on January 1st, 2022, meaning anybody could then make anything out of the properties: cartoons, musicals, and, yes, even slasher movies. Turning beloved Disney animated classics (or at least the properties they’re based on) into R-rated horror may turn out to be a popular trend, as Frake-Waterfield has already announced Peter Pan: Neverland Nightmare and Bambi: The Reckoning–described as “Bambi on rabies”–on the slate.

What do you think of animated classics being turned into bloody slashers? Is there a market for it, or are the filmmakers trying too hard? Let us know below!