Rent Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey (2023)

So-bad-it's-good incoherent hilarious horror mash-up of now out-of-copyright Winnie the Pooh - Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey review by PV

What to say about this film? Well, it is trash. made because Winnie the Pooh came out of copyright this year (75 years after the author's death - same reason Spielberg made his War of the Worlds movie (DEATH + 75 means copyright for books ends and anyone can adapt them into movies).

The world of trashy B-movie (or D-movie or Z-movie) horror films is lucrative - straight to DVD territory is massive in the USA and makes money, hence the sheer number of awful cheap horror films, often churned out by small companies, several a year.

Never heard of the director (also writer and editor and producer etc) but found this: In 2021, Rhys Frake-Waterfield left his job at EDF Energy to create low-budget horror films & produced 36 feature films in two years. It seems Peter Pan and Bambi (also out of copyright - the stories not the Disney images) hexyt., Oh yippee doo,

The story here relies on an animated prologue explaining what has happened. So far, so B-movie. Then we get cartoon character horror and gore, which is what the target DVD horror fan audience want. Oddly, we just see Pooh and Piglet (who is more boar/pig than piglet). No Roo, and Eyeore's fate is explained in the prologue. SO only 2 masks and costumes to come off the film budget then! It's all very WRONG BTURN esp with the hick dungarees Pooh wears and the unexplained longhaired hippies and Americans who appear for no reason later on in the film.

Sadly, the story is incoherent and goes nowhere - there is a real lack of tension. It's a series of vignettes really and no doubt feminists will complain about the young-women-getting-hunted/slaughtered trope. The lack of diversity worship quotas which is refreshing. There is no feisty young woman, cleverer than all the men, as in ALL BBC/ITV drama and most modern Hollywood movies, or race/gender themes rammed down the viewers' throats in a finger-wagging preachy way. One star for that.

A good job it all takes place in a forest as the acting is so wooden it could pass for a tree. I think the director/writer/editor got an old schoolmate in to play Christopher Robin. He is so wooden he may need Ronseal, as are many of the screamy girls.

But, you know what to expect from the description and it serves that up so why complain? Roll with it. Just do not expect much. 2 stars.