There’s a new Winnie the Pooh movie coming out this weekend, and it hasn’t gone down well with A.A. Milne’s family, but you can see it for yourself at a theatre near you. The movie, which makes use of the fact that some elements of the Pooh-verse are now in the public domain, recasts the cuddly honey-loving kid-lit classic as a ferocious monster.
(It’s not that far-fetched; he was a freaking bear, after all.) Yet, Pooh isn’t the only beloved children’s character to be turned into a terrifying movie villain. This is a list of 12 bad movies that aim squarely for the sweet spot between children’s bedtime stories and nightmares.
Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey
Christopher Robin tells his pantless bear companion Pooh at the end of The House on Pooh Corner that he has to go to school and isn’t likely to spend much time in the Hundred Acre Woods anymore. The aftermath is grimly imagined in Blood and Honey.
Left to fend for themselves, Pooh and Piglet turn savage and develop a desire for blood. Murders of young ladies in bikinis have recently taken on a peculiar flavor. There is an abundance of yelling. You don’t even want to know what they did to Eeyore.
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