Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey is a 2023 British horror film directed by Rhys Frake-Waterfield, and the cast includes Craig David Dowsett, Chris Cordell, Amber Doig-Thorne, Nikolai Leon, Maria Taylor, Natasha Rose Mills, and Danielle Ronald.
My Thoughts On Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey
Winnie-the-Pooh : Blood and Honey is one of the many childhood characters being turned into horror movies and I know what you're thinking, don't I have anything better to watch?
Well yes, but after hearing a third one is on the way, I wanted to watch them, starting with the first one, obviously. And since they are making a whole Poohniverse series, and being a fan of bad 80's B movies, maybe I can get some fun out of them?
I went in with rock bottom expectations anyway after reading and hearing a a lot about it, but was hoping it might be a bit of fun as mentioned.
But it somehow it managed to be even worse than I imagined and is up there with The Mean One Grinch horror movie for being so bad.
It's just poorly made from start to finish, with no redeeming qualities whatsoever, and the only thing it shares with Winnie the Pooh is the name as everything else is just garbage. It's really hard to have any 'fun' with a film like this. Some films are just terrible and not fun even in an ironic way, and this is one of them..
I can see why a lot of people called this the worst horror movie of 2023. (The best was When Evil Lurks, BTW). Although I'd argue it's one of the worst of all time.
The film starts with Christopher Robin meeting the Hundred Acre Wood animals and befriending them, and despite promising eternal friendship, he leaves for college, abandoning them.
Years later, he returns with his fiancée, only to find the animals have turned hostile, craving human flesh and seeking revenge for his desertion.
If the film's premise wasn't already lacking, it added a bunch of forgettable side characters too, mostly women, with no depth.
The main character, Maria (played by Maria Taylor), has vague nightmares, and she and her friends move into a cabin in Hundred Acre Wood, unaware that Pooh and Piglet are on a killing spree, and it's just all a bit comical. (And Piglet is getting his own film too, BTW)
The killer Winnie the Pooh and Piglet designs are also embarrassingly low-budget, just two guys in cheap rubber masks, and the gore makeup is equally shoddy and the film is filled with unimaginative, poorly shot kill scenes.
Instead of a dark twist on a children's story, it feels like a backyard slasher film done ever so badly, with some incredibly bad acting, which is all painfully awkward and wooden, with many of the performances feeling forced and over-the-top, which really takes you out of it all.
It's painfully predictable too, especially once the action shifts to Hundred Acre Wood. Characters hear a noise, investigate, and then meet a poorly filmed demise in a repetitive cycle until the movie's over, and this pattern plays out over and over, with little variation or suspense, making it feel like the film is simply going through the motions.
It doesn't even fall into the so bad it's good category for me. It's just bad, very very bad, and I do wonder how anyone would find anything fun about this film, even in a bad way.
As I said, some films are just bad, that's it.
Honestly nothing else to really add. Just give this one a miss, please trust me.
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