Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey
Christopher Robin is headed off to college and he has abandoned his old friends, Pooh and Piglet, which then leads to the duo embracing their inner monsters.
- Released:
- Runtime: 120 minutes
- Genre: Horror, Thrillers
- Stars: Craig David Dowsett, Chris Cordell, Amber Doig-Thorne, Danielle Ronald, May Kelly, Danielle Scott, Bao Tieu, Marcus Massey, Gillian Broderick, Richard Harfst, Maria Taylor, Natasha Tosin, Natasha Rose Mills, Natasha Tosini, Nikolai Leon, Simon Ellis, Richard D. Myers, Jase Rivers, Paula Coiz
- Director: Rhys Frake-Waterfield
Comments
- bthardamaz - 7 June 2024
A horror movie, only missing 'iffic'.
Initially i was skeptical about this film. Yeah, more than likely this as just a bloated cash-grab on the IP that recently entered the cyberspace. It only existed for shock value off the titular characters, and did nothing with the brand. But, being a horror acolyte, i saw this film anyways.
I was exactly right.
Instead of taking the IP and bringing to some dark, twisted vision, Blood and Honey would rather dabble with old tropes and horror cliches, exploit the IP for shock attention and abandon any creative nuance that it may have had going for it. The result is a bleak, interchangeable slasher flick that doesn't try anything new or interesting despite the obvious prospects it has placed before it.
The characters are so wooden, they'd blend into the 100-Acre Wood, and only exist to be brutalized by Pooh & co, whose characters is to ensure an R-rating; your typical unstoppable horror movie villain. The tone is far too serious for this film, the lack of any authentic horror or humor hurts far worse as this film lacks any real identity among the endless ocean of slasher films, no thanks to its startling lack of creativity.
Had Blood and Honey heeded the idea of a horror comedy, this could've been something far better - if not incredible. Take a page from The Banana Splits Movie, where the comedic undertone balanced out the horrors and humor because the it didn't take itself too seriously; it was self aware, unlike this film.
This film isn't worth your time, nor is it worth anything in the horror genre. - DeeJayCritic - 5 April 2024
Fraudulent due to its blandness cliche and missed opportunities. Grade: D-
What was the point of this? It's basically boring slasher villains in overalls wearing an animal mask in a film that's a cheap, campy horror flick with cheese cliche and moments with hysterical acting that they try to pass off as "Winnie the Pooh if he was evil". You can probably use it as something as background noise, mainly because it isn't scary and it has an uninspiring story. It's just another worse-than-mediocre horror film and there was basically no logical reason from a storytelling standpoint to make it about Winnie the Pooh.
It has your go-to cliches. Opening scene with indecisive couple that go too deep into the woods until they meet their deadly fate? Check. How about an introduction to multiple immature adolescents until they're dead? Check. How about splitting up? Check. How about the car ignition not starting?? Check. How about turning anti-hero hillbillies against the slasher only to be eviscerated?? Check. How about one of the main characters trying to convince the slasher that they can still change for better? Check. That last one was gross and molded cheese but I guess the scene where "Pooh" magically grows larger and takes his retaliation hit against that hillbilly was pretty idiotic.
This movie really only gets points because of the animation in the opening. Too bad they screwed that up by a generic yet silly plot. Totally haven't seen the same plot 1 billion times before. Only difference is that, at least with some of them there were original ideas and not reimagined Disney characters. What on Earth were they thinking?
Grade: D-
