A universe of horror movies is underway with Winnie The Pooh, Bambi and Peter Pan

It all started almost as a joke. The news of a B (rather Z) horror movie starring winnie the pooh caught the attention of the American genre media in the US, and the news spread around the world turning the modest film into a global phenomenon that It will be released in 1,500 theaters in the North American country and will even reach Spanish cinemas in 2023 thanks to Vértice 360.

The director and screenwriter Rhys Frake-Waterfield he could not imagine his luck in taking advantage of 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, they were free. Frake-Waterfield transformed the bear popularized by Disney into a serial killer. 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.

But, once seen the success of the proposal, the ban is opened to repeat it with other characters free of rights. And for this reason, those responsible for films worthy of CutreCon such as ‘Dinosaur Hotel’ or ‘The Easter Bunny Massacre’, and the director Rhys Frake-Waterfield, a first-timer in these arts (although he already has 4 other films in post-production such as ‘ Fuenado’ or ‘The devilish Christmas tree’) already are 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”. A little later we learned that the next film by the creative team will be ‘Bambi: Revenge’ (‘Bambi: The Reckoning’)of which they have affirmed that the fawn will be a “ruthless killing machine”.

“The idea is that let’s 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 in his head looks like Kevin Feige presenting Marvel’s MCU release schedule.

Although all the characters in this terrifying and disturbing universe are, so far, linked to Disney, 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 are the ones I want to build on this twisted alternate reality”.