The trailer for the Winnie-the-Pooh horror movie needs to be seen to be believed

Stephen Porzio

This certainly ain’t your daddy’s Winnie-the-Pooh.

The first trailer has hit the web for the Winnie-the-Pooh horror movie and boy, is it wild.

Titled Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey, the film is said to follow a feral Pooh and Piglet as they go on a rampage after Christopher Robin abandons them to go to college.

It also appears from the trailer that a group of young women on holiday in the countryside wind up on the receiving end of Pooh and Piglet’s violent spree.

For those wondering how this movie can be, its existence has been made possible thanks to A.A. Milne’s 1926 children’s book Winnie-the-Pooh entering into the public domain in the United States at the start of this year.

That said, Blood and Honey’s versions of Pooh and Piglet are not able to resemble Disney’s interpretation of the characters which are still protected under copyright, hence why the pair look so different in the teaser below.

Asked about this in an interview with Variety, the movie’s writer-director Rhys Waterfield said: “No one is going to mistake this [for Disney].”

Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey does not have an official release date but is said to be “coming soon” to DVD and video on demand.

You can check out its trailer below.

Clip via Jagged Edge Productions

Meanwhile, here are some of the other big teasers that were released in the past seven days in the world of film and TV.

Dead for a Dollar

Clip via Quiver Distribution

Starting with movies, legendary director Walter Hill (48 Hours, The Warriors) directs this Western starring Christoph Waltz and Willem Dafoe which has not got an Irish release date yet but is out in the US on 30 September.

Nanny

Clip via Prime Video

This horror about an immigrant nanny (Anna Diop) living in New York whose American dream is threatened by a “violent presence” invading her dreams and reality lands on Amazon Prime Video on 16 December.

The Son

Clip via Sony Pictures Classic

Anthony Hopkins, Hugh Jackman, Laura Dern and Vanessa Kirby star in his familial drama from director Florian Zeller (The Father) which will arrive in cinemas in Ireland sometime after its US release on 11 November.

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story

Clip via The Roku Channel

Daniel Radcliffe is Weird Al Yankovic in this satirical musical biopic which does not have an Irish release date but is out in the States on 4 November.