The creators of the Winnie the Pooh horror movie want to twist the image of another innocent classic Disney character

Despite quickly becoming one of the worst movies of recent times according to viewer ratings on platforms like Rotten Tomatoes, the low-budget horror film starring Winnie The Pooh was a viral phenomenon which opened in 1,500 theaters in the US and has grossed more than 6 million at the worldwide box office. It has even been announced that It will arrive in Spanish cinemas in 2023 from the hand of Vértice 360.

The director and screenwriter Rhys Frake-Waterfield transformed the bear popularized by Disney animated films into a serial killertaking advantage of the fact that the rights to Winnie The Pooh and Piglet, the children’s characters created by the writer AA Milne and the illustrator EH Shepard in 1926, were released.

But, once the success of the proposal has been seen, the ban is opened to repeat it with other characters from the world of stories that are free of rights. And for this reason, Frake-Waterfield and his team are already thinking of expanding their universe of terrifying children’s classics with new versions of ‘Bambi’ and ‘Peter Pan’.

Last year it was revealed that he was developing ‘Peter Pan’s Nightmare in Neverland’ (‘Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare’), based on the book by JM Barries, but this time with a “very obese” Tink who is “recovering from drugs”. But the next movie from the creative team will be ‘Bambi: Revenge’ (‘Bambi: The Reckoning’)of which they have affirmed that the fawn will be a “ruthless mutant killing machine” in a slasher that will drink from Stephen King’s ‘Cujo’.

“The idea is that we are going to try to imagine that they are all in the same universe, so that we can cross them in the future.“, says. “People have been sending messages saying that they really want to see Bambi vs. Pooh,” said Rhys Frake-Waterfield, who already sees himself as Kevin Feige in Marvel or James Gunn in DC.

Although all the characters in this terrifying and disturbing universe are, so far, identified as Disney characters, Frake-Waterfield assures that it is not something intentional. “There are many, many, many other ideas that aren’t tied to Disney, lots of old fairy tales and urban legends, concepts that are synonymous with your childhood, and they’re the ones I want to build into this twisted alternate reality.”

According to the official synopsis of ‘Winnie The Pooh: Blood and honey’ (‘Blood and honey’), Christopher Robin abandoned Winnie and Piglet to go to university, after making his life hell. Now Pooh and Piglet have gone wild, and they have to fend for themselves and find their prey.