The Winnie the Pooh horror movie, Blood and Honey, secures a theatrical release in February 2023 after it became a viral topic on social media.
After becoming a viral sensation, the horror movie Winnie-The-Pooh: Blood And Honey has secured a February 2023 theatrical release date. The film was first announced last May, not long after the beloved A.A. Milne Winnie the Pooh characters entered public domain. The gory take on the Hundred Acre Woods animals caused an online stir when Jagged Edge Productions released stills from the upcoming movie that showed a nightmarish Pooh and a tusked Piglet lurking over a potential victim. The August release of the first Winnie-The-Pooh: Blood and Honey trailer only added to the online hype as it showed the two beloved characters embark on their murderous rampage.
Directed by Rhys Frake-Waterfield, Blood And Honey was previously confirmed to be set years after the events of the classic stories. In Frake-Waterfield's retelling, Christopher Robin, Pooh's human companion, stopped visiting the Hundred Acre Wood as he grew up. Suffering from starvation without their friend, Pooh and Piglet are forced to return to their animalistic roots to survive, going so far as to eat Eeyore. In Winnie-The-Pooh: Blood and Honey, an adult Christopher Robin (Nikolai Leon) will return to his childhood home with his new wife, where his old friends are in the midst of a murderous rampage against nearby college girls, and will seek revenge.
It seems the online interest in this bloody Pooh adaptation has paid off for Frake-Waterfield and Jagged Edge Films. The Hollywood Reporter has brought word that Winnie-The-Pooh: Blood and Honey has secured a one-day theatrical release on February 13, 2023. Fathom Events, in charge of the movie's distribution, will host the events in U.S theaters, while Altitude, Cineplex, and Cinemex will handle the U.K, Canadian, and Mexican releases. The buzz around Winnie-The-Pooh: Blood and Honey seems to have motivated the filmmakers as well, as the report also indicates Frake-Waterfield is developing both a sequel and a twisted Peter Pan horror movie.