Twisted Peter Pan horror movie coming from Blood and Honey director

In case you missed it, earlier this year, A.A. Milne’s adorable Winnie the Pooh characters finally entered the public domain. What does this mean? Anyone wanting to put the honey-loving bear into their shows or movies can do so without any copyright infringement. And what did people decide to do with this new-found power? Put the wholesome Hundred Acre Woods gang into a horror movie, of course.

The result is as cursed as you’d imagine - the plot basically entails Pooh and Piglet going on a rampage after being left hungry and abandoned by Christopher Robin. Instead of being the polite pals we all know and love, they’ve basically become feral, and are now on the hunt for prey. I don’t think that pigs and bears normally eat humans as like, their go-to snack, but I’m not going to question the logistics of a Winnie the Pooh horror film.

Check out the trailer for Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey right here.

The Hollywood Reporter writes that the film is set to hit US cinemas on 15 February, so there’s not too long to wait for it. But just in case the one movie wasn’t enough to completely destroy your childhood, director Rhys Frake-Waterfield is already working on a sequel, as well as a Peter Pan horror adaptation called Neverland Nightmare. I dread to think what he’s going to do with those characters - we may never look at Tinkerbell in the same way again.

If you’re into horror, chances are you’ve probably encountered Terrifier 2 at some point in the last few weeks. Screenings of the slasher apparently caused some audiences to throw up and pass out, and now, the movie’s distributor has confirmed that it’s submitted the film for Oscar consideration, purely because it’d be “too hilarious of an opportunity to pass up”. It’s not actually expected that this submission will lead to anything, but it’d be pretty funny if it did.