As we reported a couple months ago, author A.A. Milne’s 1926 children’s book Winnie-the-Pooh and the characters in it lapsed into the public domain at the start of this year. That means anyone can do anything they want with those characters, no permission required. While Disney still owns their depiction of Winnie the Pooh and his pals, others are free to make things like the upcoming film Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, which is said to be “a horror retelling of the famous legend of Winnie the Pooh.”
We had previously seen stills from Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey that showed Pooh and his friend Piglet as homicidal maniacs. Now Dread Central has unveiled a poster for the film, and you can check it out at the bottom of this article.
Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey marks the feature debut of writer/director Rhys Frake-Waterfield, who explained to Variety that Pooh and Piglet
(go) on a rampage after being abandoned by a college-bound Christopher Robin. “Christopher Robin is pulled away from them, and he’s not [given] them food, it’s made Pooh and Piglet’s life quite difficult. Because they’ve had to fend for themselves so much, they’ve essentially become feral. 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.”
The film stars Amber Doig-Thorne (Heropanti 2), Maria Taylor (Perfectly Frank), Danielle Ronald (Curse of Bloody Mary), May Kelly (Easter Killing), Natasha Tosini (The Butterfly Beat), Marcus Massey (The Gradual Approach of the Evening), Gillian Broderick (I’m Still Here), Richard Harfst (Cannibal Troll), Natasha Rose Mills (Accident Man), Paula Coiz (The Leprechaun’s Curse), Danielle Scott (Prototype), and Bao Tieu (Conjuring the Genie), with Craig David Dowsett (Alien Abduction) as Winnie and Chris Cordell (Spider in the Attic) as Piglet.
Other Jagged Edge horror productions include The Curse of Humpty Dumpty, The Legend of Jack and Jill, The Wrath of Van Helsing, Return of Krampus, and Medusa.
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