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‘Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey II’ Launches With 100% Fresh Rating on Rotten Tomatoes
The 100-Acre-Wood will once again be drenched in blood in Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey II, a sequel to last year’s viral hit that arrives in theaters beginning TONIGHT.
From Fathom Events, the slasher sequel will be playing in theaters nationwide on March 26, March 27 and March 28, so make sure you get out there and see it while you can.
Of course, anyone who has seen the not-so-good first movie may not be all that eager to get out and support another one of these, but the early reviews for Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey II are surprisingly strong out of the gate. Granted, only six critics have logged their reviews over on Rotten Tomatoes at this time, but the film is currently 100% Fresh!
Rotten Pooh: For the sake of comparison, last year’s Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey has a 3% score on Rotten Tomatoes with 62 reviews logged!
The reviews currently logged for Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey II come from the websites AV Club, SciFiNow, 3C Films, FILMINK, Dread Central, and The Blogging Banshee.
Dread Central’s Mary Beth McAndrews writes, “Winnie-The-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 is a vast improvement to its predecessor, campy and weird but a bit too self-serious for its own good.”
Molly Henery writes for The Blogging Banshee, “Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 is a grizzly piece of meta horror that is sure to surprise audiences.”
Writing for AV Club, Luke Y. Thompson raves: “This is cinema at its most punk rock—a raucous, unpolished, cheap, sacred-cow shredding middle finger to the mainstream with just enough raw talent inside to keep it from being dismissable.”
We can be pretty certain that the Rotten Tomatoes score for Blood and Honey II will be cut down considerably in the coming days, but right now it’s pretty wild to see the film getting such high marks from the few people who have seen it. The sequel was promised to be “bigger, better and bloodier” than the first film, and it sounds like maybe the team wasn’t lying.
Where does this franchise go from here? The team has already announced the “Poohniverse,” a series of horror films that will pave the way for an Avengers-style mashup in 2025.
Hey, you can’t blame them for exploiting these public domain icons!
The filmmakers behind Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey are expanding their public domain horror universe with a handful of upcoming “Poohniverse” movies, including Bambi: The Reckoning, Pinocchio: Unstrung, and Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare.
Variety has scored the first image from Neverland Nightmare, seen above.
The website details, “Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare follows Wendy Darling as she strikes out in an attempt to rescue her brother Michael from ‘the clutches of the evil Peter Pan.’ Along the way she meets Tinkerbell, who in this twisted version of the story will be seen taking heroine, convinced that it’s pixie dust.”
Scott Jeffrey will direct Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare, expected Halloween 2024.
Jeffrey tells us, “I am taking inspiration from French cinema while in prep for this movie. The film will be incredibly tense. I would say it’s a mesh between Switchblade Romance and The Black Phone with our own spin on it. It is a nasty, violent and incredibly dark movie.”
Megan Placito has joined the cast as Wendy Darling, Kit Green is Tinkerbell, Peter DeSouza-Feighoney (The Pope’s Exorcist) is Michael Darling and Charity Kase (RuPaul Drag Race) is James. Martin Portlock will be playing the twisted version of Peter Pan.
Created by J.M. Barrie way back in 1902, the character of Peter Pan – like Winnie the Pooh – is in the public domain, even if the iconic Disney iteration of the character is very much not.
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