Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey

"This ain't no bedtime story."

2023 1h 24m EN

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★4.9TMDB · 1,619

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Synopsis

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After Christopher Robin abandons them for college, Pooh and Piglet embark on a bloody rampage as they search for a new source of food.

“This ain't no bedtime story.”

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Cast

Nikolai Leon
Christopher Robin
Craig David Dowsett
Winnie the Pooh
Chris Cordell
Piglet / Stalker
Maria Taylor
Maria
Natasha Rose Mills
Jessica
Amber Doig-Thorne
Alice
Danielle Ronald
Zoe
Natasha Tosini
Lara

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Rhys Frake-Waterfield
Writers: Rhys Frake-Waterfield
Languages: English
Countries: United Kingdom

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RUNTIME

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84 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.

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2 / 8

MONEY

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Shot for just $0.1M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.

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MONEY

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Grossed $8M — a 77.2× return. The kind of profit studios chase for a decade.

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4 / 8

ERA

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Released 3 years ago.

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5 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Winnie-the-Pooh (Horror) Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Rhys Frake-Waterfield, shot by Vince Knight. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Andrew Scott Bell. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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8 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Rhys Frake-Waterfield shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Rhys Frake-Waterfield directs. Vince Knight behind the camera. Andrew Scott Bell scores. Rhys Frake-Waterfield cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United Kingdom. Dialogue in English.

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Things worth knowing

184 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.
2Shot for just $0.1M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.
3Grossed $8M — a 77.2× return. The kind of profit studios chase for a decade.
4Released 3 years ago.
5Part of the "Winnie-the-Pooh (Horror) Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
6Directed by Rhys Frake-Waterfield, shot by Vince Knight. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
7Original score by Andrew Scott Bell. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
8Editor Rhys Frake-Waterfield shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
9Nikolai Leon and Craig David Dowsett and Chris Cordell carry the top of the cast.
10Marketing tagline: "This ain't no bedtime story.".
11IMDB entry: tt19623240 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
12Classified under 14 themes, including "imaginary friend", "growing up", "b movie", "slasher".
13Released under 14 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Vince Knight
Original score: Andrew Scott Bell
Editing: Rhys Frake-Waterfield
Makeup / hair: Rebecca Wheeler
Sound: Nicola Itro
Runtime: 84 min · 1h 24m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $100,000
Box office: $7,717,044
Return: 7717% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): NR
IMDB: Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey (2023)

Awards

Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture

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Part of

Winnie-the-Pooh (Horror) Collection

Collection of slasher films loosely based on characters from the Winnie the Pooh media franchise originally created by A. A. Milne and E. H. Shepard. These films are intended to kick off The Twisted Childhood Universe (TCU), a British multimedia franchise and shared universe of independent slasher-horror films, each serving as a dark reimagining of various public domain children's fairy tale media characters.

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CinemaSerf2023-03-25
★ 5/10
Now don't judge. You mustn't judge. If you do this will come across as the most atrocious piece of cinema since "Mesa of Lost Women" (1953). "Christopher Robin" (Nikolai Leon) is taking his fiancee back to the wood in which he played with "Pooh", "Piglet", "Eyeore" etc. as a child. What he doesn't appreciate, though, is that in the intervening years things got tough for his erstwhile friends. They couldn't fend for themselves, and were reduced to cannibalism to survive.... Aside from altering the balance of their tiny mids, this also instilled in "Pooh" and "Piglet" a grim and determined need for vengeance. What now ensues is hilarious. What ever budget there was must have been spent on gin for the cast: the costumes and lighting are pretty dreadful and the script - well that is almost as bad as the acting. Leon is quite easy on the eye, but the sight of him being whipped to within an inch of his life with the tail of "Eyeore" by a large man in an ill-fitting yellow bear suit whose mouth was oozing honey like a drooling bairn just has to be seen. Cinema can be too earnest and worthy at times, and I think this is the perfect recalibration for that - it is certainly neither, nor is it a film you will ever (want to) remember after you've seen it. Still, the cinema was packed and there was laughter a-plenty throughout the eighty minutes or so this risible drivel lasted. It could easily be a school project - nothing here is of an higher standard, and it did make me squirm at times as the 1970s "Doctor Who" special effects department came back to life - but I didn't hate it.
rolaspam2023-04-12
Absolutely horrible
heartaem2023-05-06
★ 1/10
Rhys Frake-Waterfield... what in god's name have you done. Let me preface this with a note that I am no stranger to horror, terrible horror, and finding enjoyment in what the masses hated. I went into this knowing this was a godawful movie. I expected at least one of those "i know this b rated horror is ridiculous, terrible and pure shite, but because I know that, it will be hilarious." oh boy. and there's a sequel? roll on another godawful series i now have to complete bc thats the way my brain and ocd works. this is godawful. i mean god awful. i mean i couldnt stop yawning, i almost stopped watching entirely and dropped it, and i have promptly told everyone who was going to watch it under the same premises of "this is awful so it should be funny" to just stay cleer of it and watch any of the other 100-300 horror movies coming out this year. that being said, if this was an animated horror movie, i think this would have been perfect and done brilliantly. but this? dear lord. what a terrible start to my 2023 year watching.