Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey opened in more than 1500 theaters worldwide despite aiming for a small release after it went viral based on its ridiculous but daring idea. But even before its global premiere, the film received an array of terrible reviews, yet it has gone on to make almost ten times its meager budget on the opening weekend itself.
Rhys Frake-Waterfield powered through the negative outlook of the nostalgic fans of the Disney characters and made the film on a small budget of 100 grand, and now the film has managed to make $2.5 million in less than a week.
Most critics agreed the film was a grade-F film, with neither plot nor direction. But 2023 so far has been a blessing for the horror genre. Variety has even described the film as “one of the most profitable movies in the last decade in terms of budget-to–box office ratio.”
Ever since the film went viral after its first look reached social media, the fans of the cuddly Disney character have been torn on the film’s premise but have also shown an interest in watching it go down, nonetheless. It doesn’t shock me that the cannibalistic psychotic killers Winnie and Piglet somehow slayed the naysayers along with Christopher Robin’s friends.
2023 so far has proven to be a good year for horror flicks, including Blumhouse’s M3GAN and Shyamlan’s Knock at the Cabin. Why would Frake-Waterfield’s film not share the same charm despite being criticized for lacking all the checkpoints of a decent movie?
The director was definitely sure of his success though, since the film was greenlit for a sequel even before its premiere, and Waterfield has already planned other childhood-favorites-turned-deadly films featuring Bambi and Peter Pan.
The upcoming movies will make an interconnected universe of bloodthirsty characters who we’ve only known to be a source of comfort and PG-13 innocence. They’re a long way away, but 2023 has several other horrors to showcase, like Saw VI and Evil Dead Rise, so you can watch them in the meantime.
About Winnie The Pooh: Blood and Honey
Rhys Frake-Waterfield, a first-time filmmaker, wrote and directed Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey. The plot is currently unknown, but according to the IMDB description, the film will feature monstrous versions of Pooh and Piglet who are abandoned by Christopher Robin and then go on a murder rampage. Amber Doig-Thorne, Maria Taylor, and Danielle Scott feature in Winnie The Pooh: Blood and Honey.
Source: Vulture
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