March 18, 2024 (London)
March 26, 2024 (United States and United Kingdom)
Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 (stylised as Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey II) is a 2024 British independent slasher film directed by Rhys Frake-Waterfield and written by Matt Leslie. It is the second installment of The Twisted Childhood Universe (TCU) and a sequel to Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey, which serves as a horror reimagining of A. A. Milne and E. H. Shepard's Winnie-the-Pooh books. The film stars Scott Chambers as Christopher Robin, and Ryan Oliva as the titular character, with Tallulah Evans, Teresa Banham, Peter DeSouza-Feighoney, Alec Newman, and Simon Callow in supporting roles. It follows Pooh as he embarks on a murderous rampage through Christopher Robin's childhood town to seek revenge on him for revealing his existence to the world.
Following the success of Blood and Honey, director Frake-Waterfield expressed interest in a sequel that, eventually, was greenlit in November 2022. The film utilizes metafictional and film within a film elements as Chambers, Oliva, and Eddy McKenzie replace original cast members Nikolai Leon, Craig David Dowsett, and Chris Cordell in the roles of Christopher Robin, Winnie-the-Pooh, and Piglet, respectively.
Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 premiered in London on 18 March 2024. It was theatrically released in the United States and the United Kingdom on 26 March 2024. A sequel is in development.
Storyline
Christopher Robin flees from the Hundred Acre Wood after surviving Winnie-the-Pooh's and Piglet's killing spree. He returns to his childhood town of Ashdown to seek for help; the corpses of Maria and her friends are recovered from the woods, but Christopher is believed to be responsible.
The incident is dubbed as the "Hundred Acre Massacre", with a film adaptation based on the murders being released, which damages Christopher's reputation in Ashdown. Now an outcast of the town, Christopher has nightmares about Pooh and goes to his hypnotherapist Samantha to deal with a childhood trauma when his twin brother Billy was kidnapped and never seen again.
Meanwhile, in the Hundred Acre Wood, Pooh, Piglet, and fellow creatures Tigger and Owl, are forced to hide due to a few people who actually believe in Christopher's story. After they slaughter three university students in a recreational vehicle, Owl convinces Pooh to attack Ashdown instead of simply waiting for more people to come to the woods. When some hunters ambush the creatures and fatally shot Piglet, Pooh kills them in retaliation and reconsiders Owl's proposal.
Christopher loses his job as a doctor and returns to undergo further hypnotherapy with Samantha. He learns that only a hunter survived and was hospitalized. Christopher also meets Cavendish, the hospital's janitor, and confronts him about the creatures. Cavendish reveals that he worked for Dr. Arthur Gallup, a scientist who forced him to kidnap kids around Ashdown for experiments with animal genes. The kids did not survive and were buried in the Hundred Acre Wood, where they ended up coming back as half-animal, half-human hybrids with an enhanced healing factor.
When Cavendish also reveals that Billy was among the victims and was resurrected as Pooh, he commits suicide out of guilt. Christopher decides to warn the town about the creatures' imminent attack, but faces ridicule and skepticism. Pooh, Tigger, and Owl embark on a murderous rampage through Ashdown and kill several residents on the way, including Christopher's best friend Finn.
Pooh kills Christopher's parents Alan and Daphne and kidnaps his younger sister Helen, nicknamed Bunny. Christopher's girlfriend Lexy is also attacked but survives, while the creatures arrive to a rave party at a warehouse and slaughter all the partygoers. Christopher and Lexy manage to kill Tigger and learn that Bunny was kidnapped. They return to the Hundred Acre Wood and fight Pooh, who easily subdues them both. When Christopher calls Pooh by his real name, Billy, he tries to remember his childhood but Pooh accuses him for abandoning the creatures, leading to Eeyore being cannibalized in the past.
Christopher is forced to kill Pooh with an axe before he reunites with Lexy and Bunny. Footage from the creatures' killing spree on Ashdown is passed to the police, and Christopher is cleared of all wrongdoing. Owl, having survived, recovers the bodies of Pooh, Tigger, and Piglet, and promises to find a way to revive them with the help of some old friends. Drawings from Bambi, Peter Pan, and Pinocchio are seen in the film's end credits.
Also See
- Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 (2024) (Trailers)
- Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey (2023)