"Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey" - a horror in which Piglet ate Eeyore
Miscellaneous / / April 03, 2023
This film is able to piss off an impressionable viewer and delight fans of trash.
Not so long ago, the exclusive rights to the adaptation of Alan Milne's fairy tale ceased to belong to The Walt Disney Company. Now Winnie the Pooh and Piglet can be used as you like. The main thing is to take their images from a fairy tale, and not from Disney cartoons.
Rhys Frake-Waterfield took advantage of the release of the heroes. He is known (or unknown, which is more fair) as a producer of cheap trash movies with titles that don't tell anyone anything: Easter Massacre 2, Crocodile's Revenge, Van Helsing's Wrath. He also directed the movie Killer Tree.
"Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey", the Russian premiere of which will take place on February 16, is a breakthrough project for the director, because they started talking about the film. And this despite the fact that it took less than $100,000 to mock children's characters.
As a child, Christopher Robin became friends with the quirky inhabitants of the forest - Winnie the Pooh, Eeyore the Donkey, Owl, Rabbit and Piglet. In difficult times, he even brought them food. When Christopher grew up, he left his friends and went to study in
college. In one of the cold winters, the forest dwellers began to die without food. To survive, they ate Eeyore. And they went crazy.Years later, Christopher decided to visit friends. At the same time, there were young girls who wanted to relax in the cottage. The wild inhabitants of the forest rejoiced at the guests. Winnie the Pooh and Piglet began to hunt for visitors to satisfy their hunger.
Strange Heroes
The writers created the most simple characters. Christopher Robin is a major who left his friends. Winnie the Pooh and Piglet are brutal killers.
The authors decided not to delve into the origin of the characters. The film will not tell whether they are animals or people. It is much easier to perceive them through the prism of classical images (with yellow or brown Winnie the Pooh) who went mad. When Christopher Robin lived with them, the heroes talked. Having gone mad, they abandoned their human properties and returned to animal instincts.
Empty and drawn out
Most of the movie was predictable from the trailer. This is a huge problem that ruins the viewing experience: in fact, almost nothing happens on the screen. The introduction of Winnie the Pooh and Piglet and a boring chase - that's all. Several times the scriptwriters attempt to add at least something to the story, but each one breaks off in mid-sentence.
For example, this was the case with erotica. Two short scenes in which actresses with classic old horror looks (that is, large breasts) are spinning in front of the screen last one minute and simply fall out of the general plot. It looks like someone remembered on the last day of filming that they need to shoot a couple of bodies for the trailer.
Some episodes look deliberately long, and at times. Preparation can last several minutes longer than a fight - and this despite the fact that the opponents simply look at each other and say something along the lines of "Well, you'll get it now."
"Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey" is 84 minutes long, which is a very long time. If you shorten the lengthy scenes, you get an hour of screen time, maybe less. Perhaps, with a larger budget, the film would have had interesting scenes that would have filled the void.
Thrash with untapped potential
"Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey" follows the tradition of trashhorror, whose characters are not distinguished by high intelligence. It is possible to thwart an escape attempt due to idiotic dialogue and discussion of trifles. You can not notice the killer, even if he came very close. Everything is possible - only adequate attempts to save oneself are prohibited.
By the middle of the film, there is a feeling that the scriptwriters have some kind of trump card in store for the finale. But all the trash shown in the first 15 minutes is the maximum that was invented.
Winnie the Pooh and Piglet are just stupid ruthless the killers, although it is obvious that they could be made more interesting. The minimum number of references to the fairy tale also looks strange - it was possible to use the original source more often.
The result is a cheap horror movie with Winnie the Pooh, which is easy to replace with a nameless maniac. And it's sad. Indeed, for a trash film, any flaw is a positive trait. The film would have been much better if its creators had more money or courage.
If the film "Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey" did not exist, then it should have been invented at least as a cruel joke. Winnie the Pooh, with tears, blood and drool running down his face, is an interesting sight. So fans of trash horror will get a little pleasure from the film, but fans of good cinema are better off passing by.
Perhaps the authors will draw the right conclusions, because they have already announced Bambi: Reckoning, Peter Pan: A Nightmare in Neverland, as well as the second part of Winnie the Pooh.
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Text worked on: author Dmitry Kamyshenko, editor Alina Mashkovtseva, proofreader Elena Gritsun