‘Winnie the Pooh’ Horror Movie ‘Blood and Honey’ Explained by Director

A.A. Milne’s authentic “Winnie the Pooh” tales only lapsed into the community domain 5 months back, but the tubby tiny cubby has presently designed his foray into slasher films.

“Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey” wrapped before this month, and the initially stills displaying a demonic Pooh and Piglet about to pounce on a scantily-clad youthful female stress-free in a sizzling tub have previously established the online on fireplace.

In an interview with Selection, director Rhys Waterfield, who is in submit-creation on four other movies such as “Firenado” and “Demonic Christmas Tree,” said the response to the stills has been “absolutely insane.”

“Because of all the push and things, we’re just likely to commence expediting the edit and finding it by way of write-up generation as rapidly as we can,” said Waterfield. “But also, earning positive it is nonetheless great. It’s gonna be a substantial precedence.”

According to Waterfield, who also wrote and co-manufactured the film, “Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey” will see Pooh and Piglet as “the principal villains…going on a rampage” right after becoming abandoned by a university-bound Christopher Robin. “Christopher Robin is pulled away from them, and he’s not [given] them foods, it’s manufactured Pooh and Piglet’s existence pretty difficult.”

“Because they’ve had to fend for them selves so substantially, they’ve primarily turn into feral,” Waterfield continued. “So they’ve gone back to their animal roots. They are no for a longer period tame: they are like a vicious bear and pig who want to go close to and try out and find prey.”

The movie was shot in 10 days in England, not significantly from Ashdown Forest, the inspiration for Milne’s imaginary Hundred Acre Wooden in the “Winnie the Pooh” stories. Despite the fact that Waterfield declined to reveal the funds for the slasher flick, he said audiences “shouldn’t be expecting this to be a Hollywood-amount generation.” Jagged Edge Productions, which Waterfield runs with co-producer Scott Jeffrey, designed the film, and ITN Studios have already signed on to distribute it (a release date is TBD).

Offered the premise, the most significant obstacle, Waterfield mentioned, was balancing the line involving horror and comedy. “When you check out and do a movie like this, and it is a definitely wacky notion, it’s quite effortless to go down a route where by nothing at all is frightening and it’s just really ridiculous and definitely, like, silly. And we wished to go concerning the two.”

As an case in point, Waterfield stated the established-up powering the however (earlier mentioned) of a woman calming in a jacuzzi with Pooh and Piglet ominously standing nearby. “She’s getting a fantastic time and then Pooh and Piglet show up powering her, chloroform her, take her out of the jacuzzi and then kind of push a vehicle above her head,” Waterfield mentioned. “It’s terrifying but there’s also humorous bits simply because there’s shots of Winnie the Pooh in a motor vehicle and viewing him with his small ears powering the wheel and like bit by bit heading about there [to kill her.]”

The only get worried, primarily with all the new-found publicity, is regardless of whether Disney will have everything to say about “Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey.” Although Milne’s earliest stories are now out of copyright, Disney retains exceptional use of their interpretations of Pooh Bear and his friends. “We’ve experimented with to be really very careful,” explained Waterfield. “We realized there was this line in between that, and we understood what their copyright was and what they’ve performed. So we did as substantially as we could to make absolutely sure [the film] was only based mostly on the 1926 edition of it.”

Which is why Waterfield’s Pooh Bear has swapped the minor crimson t-shirt for a lumberjack go well with and Piglet is clad in black. It’s also why other people continue to in copyright, this kind of as Tigger, will not show up — even though there is a scene that includes Eeyore’s tombstone, the depressing donkey obtaining been eaten by a starving Pooh and Piglet.

“No 1 is likely to mistake this [for Disney],” Waterfield mentioned. “When you see the protect for this and you see the trailers and the stills and all that, there’s no way anybody is likely to feel this is a child’s edition of it.”