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Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey (2023)

 


Now that the 100-acre woods is in the public domain we get a horror version of it titled: Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey.

Going into a film with this sort of premise you don't expect greatness. It's cheesy, female-focused, and over the top with its kills. There's very little terror or horror in this gore-fest. The director doesn't shy away from showing you the gruesome parts either. Rhys Frake-Waterfield isn't really known for directing as a producer he's made a bunch of B-horror movies. I'm sure each of those has gratuitous scenes.

The film stars a bunch of B-movie ladies with none of them having a major film on their record. Who knows? After this perhaps one of them might land a role. If I had to place bets it would be Natasha Tosini.

In terms of horror, the film suffers from a lack of terror. We just watch kill after kill and none of which really scare you. It's like watching Friday the 13th but only the kills. The dialogue is like every other movie in this genre. "I'm scared." "Don't worry, we'll get through this," and so on and so forth. 

Chat GPT could have written a better script, but I remind you: You don't watch this movie for quality. If you can turn your brain off it's watchable. Result: D+



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