Winnie the Pooh stars in an R-rated slasher movie
By JAKE COYLE
AP Film Writer
NEW YORK (AP) – The Hundred Acre Wood has seen some pretty unsettling things over the years. A honey jar shortage. Rather blustery days. The omnipresent threat of a Heffalump.
But in “Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey,” a new microbudget R-rated horror film, Pooh wades into far darker territory than even Eeyore could have ever imagined.
After 95 years of saying things like “A hug is always the right size,” Pooh is now violently terrorizing a remote house of young women.
Countless beloved characters have passed into public domain before, but perhaps never one so abruptly and so savagely as Pooh.
It’s a harbinger of what’s to come. In the next 10 years, Mickey Mouse and Batman will enter public domain.
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2/14/2023 5:02:43 PM (GMT -5:00)
