The brand new trailer for Bambi: The Reckoning has arrived, giving a first look at the latest Poohniverse installment entry that puts a horror twist on a classic children’s property.

It follows “Xana (Roxanne McKee) and her son Benji (Tom Mulheron) who find themselves in a car wreck and soon hunted down by the vicious killing machine, Bambi.”

That’s right. There’s nothing sweet and doe-eyed about Bambi this time. See for yourself in the teaser trailer below.

Filming on Bambi: The Reckoning kicked off on January 6, 2024 in England with a planned Fall 2024 release.

Director Dan Allen (Unhinged) previews, “It’s gonna be terrifying. When people see a deer in the wild after this film they’re gonna run for the hills. This film is about the death of childhoods as much as it’s gonna ruin childhoods Expect bloodshed, tears and rabbits… and one mean killer deer. At last, the British countryside will finally get its Godzilla.”

From ITN Studios and Jagged Edge Productions, Bambi: The Reckoning is written by Rhys Warrington, and produced by Scott Jeffrey and Rhys Frake-Waterfield under Jagged Edge Productions (Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey) with ITN Studios handling sales.

The film is part of the growing “Twisted Childhood Universe,” dubbed the Poohniverse, which will also feature previously announced stand-alone films Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare and Pinocchio Unstrung and introduce new characters such as Sleeping Beauty, The Mad Hatter, and Rabbit from Winnie-The-Pooh: Blood and Honey.

All of these characters will come together in Poohniverse: Monsters Assemble in 2025 when the monsters join forces to take down the world.

It’s Felix Salten’s original novel Bambi, a Life in the Woods from 1923 that’s in the public domain here in 2023, which explains how the team is able to turn it into a horror movie.

Stay tuned for more on all this madness as we learn it.