Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey

New horror film Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey reimagines the children's classic as a twisted slasher flick.

After all, it’s not every day you see Winnie the Pooh with a hammer. Winnie the Pooh is almost synonymous with Disney at this point after the studio turned A.A. Milne’s classic children’s books into a collection of movies and the recent Christopher Robin film. A new horror film, Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, reimagines the beloved children’s book character as a serial killer.

A 'feral' Pooh Bear and Piglet go on a murderous rampage in slasher film 'Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey.'

It’s also why other characters still in copyright, such as Tigger, will not appear — although there is a scene featuring Eeyore’s tombstone, the miserable donkey having been eaten by a starving Pooh and Piglet. The only worry, especially with all the new-found publicity, is whether Disney will have anything to say about “Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey.” Although Milne’s earliest stories are now out of copyright, Disney retains exclusive use of their interpretations of Pooh Bear and his friends. As an example, Waterfield explained the set-up behind the still (above) of a girl relaxing in a jacuzzi with Pooh and Piglet ominously standing nearby. “It’s scary but there’s also funny bits because there’s shots of Winnie the Pooh in a car and seeing him with his little ears behind the wheel and like slowly going over there [to kill her.]” Given the premise, the biggest challenge, Waterfield said, was balancing the line between horror and comedy. Although Waterfield declined to reveal the budget for the slasher flick, he said audiences “shouldn’t be expecting this to be a Hollywood-level production.” Jagged Edge Productions, which Waterfield runs with co-producer Scott Jeffrey, made the film, and ITN Studios have already signed on to distribute it (a release date is TBD).

A new horror film from Jagged Edge Productions reimagines Pooh and Piglet as monsters on a murderous rampage in Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey.

Horror versions of children's films are far and few between, and the only one that comes to mind is 1997's Snow White: A Tale of Terror. Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey may be ridiculous, but it also looks extremely unique, and it may be the kind of insanity that bored horror buffs are dreaming of. The images showcase Pooh and Piglet stalking a woman in a hot tub, the words "GET OUT" written with blood on the windows of a dark home, and even Pooh behind the wheel of a car. The film is called Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey and is a horror re-imagining of the classic children's story featuring everyone's favorite yellow teddy bear.

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Watch out for a trailer no doubt dropping sometime soon, and check out a couple more images from the film below. Filmed over 10 days in the UK, the film is now being finished "as fast as we can" according to Wakefield, with an official release date yet to be confirmed. It hasn't stopped the first images from the film going viral, though, making Winnie-The-Pooh: Blood And Honey the most talked-about B-movie horror of 2022 so far.

A horror movie version of Winnie the Pooh is on its way. Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey brings the bear and Piglet to new scary places.

Waterfield shares, “Because of all the press and stuff, we’re just going to start expediting the edit and getting it through post-production as fast as we can. And hope that these ladies show horror Winnie the Pooh and Piglet what’s what. But we suppose Winnie the Poo could be the horror moniker of our famous bear. We honestly still can’t tell if this movie presents us with supernaturally evil versions of Winnie and Piglet, or if we’re just seeing terrible men in masks. Seeing Winnie the Pooh starring in his own horror movie is amazing. And the next day, you’re a horror movie monster.

Jagged Edge Productions' horrific take on A.A. Milne's classic childhood tale of Pooh and piglet is upsetting.

Well before Milne's creations were brought to life by Disney; Pooh, Eeyore, Piglet, Kanga and Tigger were the stuffed companions of Milne's son, and they're currently housed in a permanent New York Public Library exhibit where they will, hopefully, be shielded from the uglier parts of life, and cinema, forever. According to Variety, "Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey" was shot over a ten day period near England's Ashdown Forest, the real-life inspiration for Milne's Hundred Acre Wood in the original classic Pooh tales. And we wanted to go between the two," Waterfield says. The look of the film, which is pure hell, is a perfect match to the premise, which revolves around Winnie the Pooh and his pal Piglet being abandoned by Christopher Robin prior to him leaving for college. "Christopher Robin is pulled away from them, and he's not [given] them food, it's made Pooh and Piglet's life quite difficult," Waterfield says of the film's plot. "Because they've had to fend for themselves so much, they've essentially become feral ... So they've gone back to their animal roots.

The first images of the upcoming horror film Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey have been released, showcasing a scary take on the childhood classics.

Originally created by author A.A. Milne and illustrator E.H. Shephard, Winnie the Pooh recently saw its copyright expire in 2021, with the rights to the characters no longer being held by Disney and entering the public domain. It’s going to be a high priority.” Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey wrapped production earlier this month, and the first look at the film shows a drastically different take from the versions of Winnie the Pooh fans are used to, with scarier versions of Pooh and Piglet stalking a group of people.

'Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey' horror movie has big shoes to fill for anyone who watched Disney Channel's 'Welcome to Pooh Corner.'

One such scene, as seen in several photos below, sees the demonic duo chloroform a bikini-clad woman, drag her body out of a hot tub and into the middle of the road, then drive a car over her head. (Seriously, just imagine sitting in a dark room and having that song come on…) The live-action Winnie the Pooh series — which featured full-bodied puppetry and filled in the whites of Pooh’s sunken eyes, for added trauma — premiered in tandem with Disney Channel’s launch, on Monday, April 18, 1983, and lasted for 120 hair-raising episodes. If you were a child of the 1980s or 1990s, you likely remember Pooh Corner — and if you don’t, you probably will once you see the main title sequence (embedded above) again.