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Warning! This article contains Spoilers for Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood & Honey!The 2023 horror movie Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey brings to life the beloved characters of the classic children’s book, but in a live-action slasher setting that sees a cast of young actors terrorized upon by the feral Pooh and Piglet. Upon Winnie-the-Pooh’s original book entering the public domain, director Rhys Frake-Waterfield elected to adapt the story into a terrifying slasher film. With a micro-budget of fewer than 100,000, the horrifying film has already gone on to earn over 1 million at the box office, meaning audiences can expect even more horror movies based on beloved children’s stories.

A few familiar characters from the Hundred Acre Woods return briefly in Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey’s horror twist, but only Pooh Bear, Piglet, and Christopher Robin appear as main figures. Having vowed to never speak again after being forced to abandon their...

Two years ago, director Rhys Frake-Waterfield was producing micro-budget horror movies such as “Dinosaur Hotel” and “Firenado” in between working for a British electricity supplier. Now, he is poised to become the helmer behind what may soon be one of the most profitable movies in the last decade in terms of budget-to-box office ratio.

Next week, “Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey,” his directorial debut, will open across 1,500 screens in the U.S., followed by 1,300 in Latin America, 100 in Canada and countless more in the U.K., Japan, Australia and Benelux. (Premiere Entertainment is handling international sales.) In Mexico, where the film was released on Jan. 29, “Pooh” hit number 4 at the box office in its first week, nestled between “M3GAN” and “Avatar 2,” taking in over 700,000.

Sure, those other films had already been out for some time, but “Pooh” was made for less than a hundredth of “M3GAN’s” 12 million budget.