Coming into the general public area can result in some unusual, childhood-corrupting stuff.
On 1 January 2022, A.A. Milne’s unique Winnie The Pooh tales entered the general public area. The lapsed copyright implies that whereas Disney do retain the rights to the ursin’s red-shirted look, the Home of Mouse now not enjoys an unique proper to Milne’s work.
Now, any enterprising soul can cook dinner up all method of shenanigans and remodel a timeless story of childhood innocence into no matter their darkish coronary heart needs.
However nothing might have ready anybody for the brand new iteration of everybody’s favorite honey-loving bear. Certainly, the now 95-year-old character Winnie the Pooh and his trusty sidekick Piglet are going feral within the upcoming horror movie, Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey.
Give a medal to whoever dreamt up that title.
The trailer simply dropped and exhibits the inhabitants of the Hundred Acre Wooden giving Michael Myers and Jason Vorhees a run for his or her cash.
We study that Pooh and Piglet have turned “wild” after Christopher Robin deserted them years earlier. When Robin returns all grown up, he discovers that his two childhood mates needed to fend for themselves within the wild and have matured into hulking brokers of chaos with a penchant for homicide.
And because the promotional materials kindly informs us, “This ain’t no bedtime story.”
Take a look at the trailer beneath:
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Embracing the darkness
Horror repurposing of beloved youngsters’s tales is way from a brand new phenomenon, so nobody might be fully stunned.
Fairytales have at all times featured disturbing content material – the unique Brothers Grimm tackle Cinderella featured amputations with the 2 step-sisters severing components of their toes as a way to match into the slipper (a deception that ended with their eyes pecked out by doves); Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid noticed the central character selecting to turn into sea foam when she doesn’t achieve the prince’s love; Charles Perrault’s Sleeping Magnificence noticed the prince assaulting the princess whereas she sleeps and scarpering as quickly as he impregnated her with twins.
That's to say that horror and fairytales have at all times been good bedfellows, and filmmakers know this all too properly.
Solely in the previous few years, we bought the unbelievable Polish reimagining of The Little Mermaid with The Lure (2015), the Suspiria remake from Luca Guadagnino (2018), which might be stated to be a witchy tackle Snow White, the disturbing Hansel and Gretel (2020), and The Curse of Humpty Dumpty (2021), that includes a girl recognized with dementia returning to her childhood house solely to find that her egg-shaped doll loves him a massacre.
As for this 12 months, we’ve already bought two Pinocchio movies popping out in September and December, with considered one of them promising a darker tackle the picket puppet who wished to be an actual boy. Guillermo Del Toro’s stop-motion Pinocchio, which premieres on Netflix in December, might be set in Thirties Fascist Italy and can see Pinocchio recruited into the navy as a result of the fascists see the unkillable marionette as the right soldier.
Past the gimmick
Again to Winnie and his bloodied hammer...
Past the gimmick of setting Pooh and Piglet on a journey to quench their bloodlust, Rhys Frake-Wterfield’s slasher tackle a childhood traditional might yield some surprises.
The unique tales had been a heartwarming reminder you could cling onto components of childhood so as to not lose your sense of surprise. Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey appears to discover the flipside of that coin, and will have a Toy Story-shaped theme exploring the turmoil of rising up and leaving infantile issues behind. It might additionally delve into the pitfalls of nostalgia and the way probably harmful it's to forcibly ossify the issues we beloved us youngsters with out accepting that the passing of time adjustments everybody and never simply us.
Or this could possibly be wishful pondering and all it’s going to be is a brain-scrapingly daft B-movie that gives some semi-decent kills that includes the age-old stalking-bikini-clad-teens trope, and hopefully the road “Oh trouble” making an appearence sooner or later.
So, maladroit try at scary the ire of Milne purists who will complain that Piglet is canonically shy and that the writer could be spinning in his grave like a rotisserie hen, or slasher stroke of genius?
We’ll have to attend to search out out, because the movie doesn't but have a launch date. It may well’t come quickly sufficient although. And what’s sure is that any darkish reimaginings of beloved IPs are way more fascinating than Disney’s tiresome and deeply cynical tactic of live-action remaking all of its again catalogue classics.
All we are able to do now's begin praying to the cinematic gods that a horror spin-off starring an existentially-rattled Eeyore debating on whether or not to take extra naps or crew up with a coked-up Tigger cranking up a chainsaw is already within the works.
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