'This is mental': 'Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey’ director Rhys Frake-Waterfield receives death threats for evil portrayal of beloved teddy
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Our childhood favorite 'Winnie the Pooh' has been created into a blood-thirsty monster. The wonderful tales of Pooh by AA Milne, which inspired films like, 'Christopher Robin', have now been adopted by Jagged Edge Productions and have been given a horror twist to it. 'Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey' tells a tale of Winnie and Piglet being abandoned by Christopher Robin, who sets off to college, after which Winnie and Piglet become wild and goes on a killing rampage.
The dark twist to your loveable characters Winnie and Piglet didn't sit well with the fans, which led them to send death threats to the director, Rhys Frake-Waterfield. The project has seen a massive backlash and has created quite a buzz around it. Many fans also started petitions to discontinue the project.
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'I've had death threats'
The adorable characters that turn killers, terrorize a group of university students and an adult Christopher Robin when he returns to their favorite spot in the woods five years after leaving for college. Fans are furious about their childhood dying with the new 'Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey' gore horror. "Look, this is mental, I've had petitions to stop it. I've had death threats. I've had people saying they called the police," director Rhys Frake-Waterfield stated in an interview with AFP (via DailyMail)
The movie is available in select theaters prior to its release on Wednesday, February 15, 2023. Originally, the movie was supposed to have a nationwide one-night event, but due to the demand by fans, it has been released in select theatres. That's good news for the movie’s earnings, which was made on a budget of less than $100,000.
Winnie-the-Pooh in public domain
The movie was possible because the right to Winnie the Pooh has entered the public domain last year in January 2022. That means everyone's favorite teddy bear can be used as a concept or an idea without having to ask for permission or pay copyright fees. After the death of Milne also known as Alan Alexander Milne in 1956, an English writer best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh, as well as for children's poetry, his widow sold the rights to Winnie the Pooh to Stephen Slesinger, who then sold them to the Walt Disney Company.
The rights had been divided between Milne’s widow and three other organizations, who sold their rights to Disney in 2001. The film cast includes Craig David Dowsett as the honey-loving bear and Chris Cordell as Piglet in the lead. Other characters in the books, such as Tigger, will not appear in 'Blood and Honey' because their copyrights have not yet expired.
