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This movie is not a finished product, not even close. This needed AT LEAST a month or two longer in the editing room because it is a mess! I'm not even talking about the terrible story or acting because I knew I was getting that regardless, which is no problem for me as long as there's some carnage. I'm talking about the atrocious sound mixing/editing, the abrupt cuts and transitions, and nauseating camera work. The basics of filmmaking! Whenever someone is getting murdered, you can't even tell what is going on because the camera work is so amateurish and shoddy. It's almost like the camera operator was having a seizure whenever they were supposed to film a kill.

This movie had a $100,000 budget, yet they showed almost no gore/make-up FX when someone would die. If you're filming a low-budget B horror movie, people are going for the kills and not much else, therefore you better be pumping 80% of your budget into the "horror" aspect of the movie and show some people getting slaughtered.

Terrifier 1 had a $25,000 (a fraction of Blood and Honey's budget), yet showed every kill in grisly detail and people LOVED it! Then they made a sequel for $250,000 and made 13 million off it. I'm not sure where the $100,000 budget of this movie went, but it was most definitely not the kills, editing or acting. Maybe Pooh and Piglet's costumes were each $50,000 a piece, and if so the costume designer definitely pocketed that money.

The only reason I'm not giving this a 1 is because I like the concept of taking a fictional character from the public domain and putting a B horror twist on it. Though a good concept, the execution could not have been much worse. This should not have left editing room let alone released IN THEATERS! The distribution company should be held accountable. It's like video game developers releasing unfinished games. Trash.

2/10.

Some horror films are so bad that they're good. This one is just bad.

Nothing is good. The acting, the writing, the plot, the complete and utter lack of even so much as an ATTEMPT at character development, was a complete mess. It's not one of those horrors that are "so bad it's good", it's just painful to sit through from beginning to end. Full of plot holes, completely lacking a protagonist, full of characters who are uninteresting and un-likeable, I can't imagine how anybody could enjoy this movie.

Everyone involved should just quit the movie industry. Their lack of talent, judgement or consideration for their audience shows no compassion or remorse.

I was originally going to watch this in theaters as I do with most theatrically released horror flicks. Then I saw the bad reviews and decided not to watch it. Then I saw the extent of the bad reviews and the amount of coverage it was getting and I decided to watch it as a joke.

I can't say it made me laugh enough to make it so bad it's good. But I was in completely awe for much of the movie. My jaw dropped on numerous occasions at how bad everything is. It's completely incompetent on every level. Every filmmaking aspect is poor. There really isn't much to say.

I'll give one example of the incompetence. It's a scene from very early and is not a spoiler. The women find a gas station in the forest. It looks like it's been abandoned for decades. Broken down cars, overgrown plants, and a completely trashed inside with no electricity. The character walks in looking for a worker so they can fill up gas. I don't understand how stupid a character can be. What possible indication do you have that this is a functioning gas station?

Then to my surprise, she does find someone inside. I figure maybe he's just some homeless guy or a creep. But I guess not because two more customers walk in. I... don't... understand...

The entire movie is filled with this type of nonsense. (1 viewing, 4/23/2023)

Let me start by saying that I went into this expecting it to be very, very bad, but sometimes that makes for a fun watch so I was open-minded. Literally the ONLY decent thing about this movie is the score; everything else, the acting, the writing, the plot, the complete and utter lack of even so much as an ATTEMPT at character development, was a complete mess. It's not one of those horrors that are "so bad it's good", it's just painful to sit through from beginning to end. Full of plot holes, completely lacking a protagonist, full of characters who are uninteresting and un-likeable, I can't imagine how anybody could enjoy this movie.

If there are any "real" directors reading this; there is clearly an interest in a Winnie the Pooh horror. This isn't it.

I don't even know where to start in expressing the sheer disappointment of this "film". What's worse, it doesn't appear to be an issue about the low budget - more the direction. We have all seen recently what can actually be achieved with a small budget. It would appear this "director' got very lucky with an interesting idea, but has no idea how to actually make a film.

Our cinema was about half full, but after 45 minutes I would guess half of those had left. Not because it was scary or gory or too intense - but, my guess, and along with us, bored out their minds. By about an hour in the rest of the audience had broken into conversation. We left with about 15 minutes left as just couldn't take another second.

On the way out I asked for a refund (never done that before lol). The guy behind the counter laughed and said a couple others had said the same thing.

So what's wrong with it? Well, first and foremost its not scary. It's also not funny or clever or interesting or well shot. It drags on and on with super bad acting, awful music, bad editing, bad camera work, dreadful lighting, terrible dialogue, super cheap looking costumes.... and I could probably go on.

Sometimes bad films can be a cheesy, campy good time but the absolute killer here is - it's boring.

The world of horror has some absolutely fantastic up and coming directors and its a shame someone with some talent didn't have this idea and execute it properly. But as Winnie is now public domain, maybe someone will.

And, somebody needs to ban these people from ever making another film. And, I want my money back.

As I was writing this review I came across a review in the Daily Beast by Nick Schager (full credit to him for the below and the full article can be found online/socials) that puts it so much more eloquently than I have been trying to:

"Frake-Waterfield exhibits minimal skill at framing a unique or unnerving shot, effectively transitioning between scenes, or eliciting jolts though canny cuts or audio cues. He's not helped by Vince Knight's muddy, shaky cinematography and Andrew Scott Bell's comatose score, which loses steam at precisely the moments that is should be punctuating the action.

Its difficult to fault the musicians for their lethargy, however, in light of the omnipresent amateurishness on display, almost none of which can be blamed on production constraints; though its clear that Winnie the Pooh Blood and Honey was made on a shoestring budget, its failings have to do with a simple lack of talent both in front of and behind the camera.

In the weeks leading up to Winnie the Pooh Blood and Honey's premiere, the writer/director has expounded on his plans to film a series of additional children's lit horror shows, with Bambi and Peter Pan next in line for the grim dark treatment. On the basis of this fiasco, however, that feels like so much wishful thinking. For all of Pooh's kills, the greatest casualty of his rampage may just be Frake-Waterfield's career prospects".

Blood and Honey is not a good movie. It's poorly written, there are some directorial shots that would never make a movie made by a studio, and there is some pretty cringe acting as well. The characters are paper-thin to the point I can't remember any names. The pacing is a bit off and the effects at times were notably bad.

But what did you expect on a budget under $100,000 made by amateurs? I don't feel like my time was wasted by people who used an IP as a lazy money grab. I thought the team tried and did what they could within their means.

There were a handful of cool directorial shots, a few fun kills, and some bad in an entertaining way scenes that made this at least watchable. It's a really short film that isn't an absolute chore to get through. This isn't even the worst horror film I've seen this year.

If the next time around there is a bigger budget, better writing/editing, and better casting it could be fine. A lot of their issues seemed to be budget or inexperience related as opposed to offensively bad or incompetent.

Say, for a $100K production budget, Rhys Frake-Waterfield made a B-movie and as a result for the recent demand in independent slasher films caused by Terrifier 2 + it's a horror retelling of iconic characters, it becomes box office success. But nonetheless with no one's surprise it's absolute garbage. In my opinion with that kind of budget it's not an easy task to make a film with a decent quality. I'm impressed by the animated sequence they created for this movie and it was kinda cool. But even the decent production quality, somewhat good cinematography, visual tone, set pieces and locations overshadowed by it's very poorly written and atrocious screenplay with a bad ending, slow and tiring pacing, weak performances, lazy direction and an amateur cast with subpar acting abilities.

For a predominantly female cast, I could tell the writer was a male before I even double checked. He must thing all women are complete idiots. Not a single one ever had a plan, all they did was give half-hearted screams and run very, very badly. Of course in his defense, Christopher Robin wasn't much better. It was a snooze fest.

I'd had relatively decent hopes for this. The premise was original and the opening animation was lovely. Another reviewer said if they'd made a short from there, it would've been amazing and I agree. But they fleshed out no plot, spent zero on the costuming of the iconic leads (I'm serious, hitting up a Dollar Tree would've been more affective) and left everything with no resolution at the end, presumably to make room for a sequel.

So, I gave it three stars for the start and for encouraging others to use their talents on works now in the public domain. Hopefully something more interesting and exciting will come from it.

If you're going into this movie expecting a multimillion dollar budget movie with an Oscar nominated script, your going to be disappointed. This has been described to me as "a perfect experience for fans of B movie slashers" and that's exactly what I got. I'm glad I saw the movie in theaters (Mexico City) because I had a complete blast.

I think they pulled this off by being in on the joke. It almost plays as a satire of the slasher craze from the 80's. They knew they were making a Winnie the Pooh slasher and they leaned hard into the premise. I laughed, I was shocked (the deaths are all super fun and creative), and I was impressed by the cinematography and music (especially for this budget which I think is probably less than $100k). In short, it's just a good time if you know what you're signing up for.

Similar to Terrifier 2, this is a super low budget horror movie getting a huge amount of attention and press and that's so exciting to me as a lifelong horror fan. I personally want to live in a world where that happens more often. So yeah I gave it two extra stars for that reason alone. They pulled off the impossible.

Go see it in theaters and support true indie horror films.

I really liked this movie. It's obvious that this shouldn't be taken as a serious horror film. Most of the 1-star reviews are people trying so hard to be movie critics.

This movie is fun, stupid, cringe, and funny. The whole thing feels like a dream, from the cliche/mediocre acting to the ridiculousness of the story. "Winnie the Pooh going on a killing spree because Christopher Robin left him". Listen to that, the vibe of the movie even feels satirical. I love how they use the exact same kills from the Halloween movies (head stomp kill, pinned to wall by knife kill, etc.). They even did the neighborhood vs. Michael scene from the end of Halloween Kills. I find that hilarious because they are doubling down on copying parts of those bad movies, further proving the fact that this movie is satire.

Some of the kills were actually good, the shots as well. There are retarded moments in the film too, but that doesn't matter because it feels purposeful + it ends up making the film funnier.

Not exactly a "so bad it's good" movie, but similar. Overall this film is a fun, fever dream that doesn't try to be good.

I am not sure what I have watched. Seriously, I'm in schock lol... I am a big fan of slashers so that's why I've watched almost all the great and the surreal ones too. This movie is on the top list of the worst. But, let me tell you something, if you want to watch a slasher starring Winne the Poh you can't expect an Oscar winning here. But I think it could have been far better with a more serious script and actors.

First, the movie is maximum a Z one. It is bad, really bad in all aspects. Even the gore looked pretty cheap.

Second, the music is terrible. As bad as you can expect in a Z++++ movie.

Last but not least, the best are the girls ready to dissapear. Didn't feel anything for any of them. Good job Winnie and friends.

So, overall if you want to waste some time watching a terrible slasher, do it. Even you can find somehow entertaining if you're in the mood.

The only good part about this movie was the beginning where they explained how they went feral

No Rabbit, No Tigger, or Roo...honestly, I was hoping for something that would've been a gritty telling of what happens after Christopher Robin had to leave

What we GOT was a forgettable slasher that didn't even care for logic, characters that are worse than the movie tropes and I didn't care for any of them at all. They were just...bland and I didn't care about them when they died

The film is dark as in it's barely visible. Some films did it better but this one is so dark I can't see what's happening half the time. The kills are...meh, I just feel like these are human versions of turkeys with no survival instinct

Whoever decided this was a good idea needs to be fired.

I'm not going to talk about the terrible acting, and the bad editing and the lazy boring plot, because there's already been many reviews discussing these shortcomings.

What offends me that most about this movie, and Rhys Frake-Waterfield's other unknown movies " Peter pan's neverland nightmare" and something called " The area 51 incident", is the fact thast waterfield trys to coast on already established franchese, or things that already beloved in pop culture, i dont find it offensive that he turns these on their heels, i find it offensive that he does it so damn BADLY. That it just becomes an insult to the source material. Thus man should stop making movies if his cheap attempt to gain hype is to take something that people already know and try to use that to sell your crap film.

Rhys Frake-Waterfield is a great example of a bad film maker. Who's movies aren't even so bad that they become good again, theres no redeeming quality to his work. He should try something else.

Hard to find anything good about this film. Even the original disney version was scarier. Felt like some school project and the actors where from same school. It would hav been possible to make great film from this story but this was just awful. Only some of the bloody effects where made good. Just read that they gonna make number two and hard to understand why that would be beneficial. Even if i could see this film for free it still would feel like waste of my time.

If you like this film there's something very wrong in you. Pulling nails is more entertaining. Stay away from this piece of phoo.

It is not a movie, i dont understand why to even put it in this category. It's some kid with his handy cam and with face masks stolen or taken from some recent Halloween party.

I must say the narration in the start was good, i was all buckle up for it, but the first few minutes, the zero level acting by the first two, i was like wait a minute, this is not a movie.

And then when creatures appeared wearing masks, concluded, it is not a movie, some kids playing around and making something totally stupid.

Not even worth to be on data base or any review.

Delete this one, ignore it and move on. Garbage.

I thought this movie would be a so bad it's kinda good horror movie but this movie is awful and genuinely one of the worst pieces of cinema I've ever seen as it's so terrible. The acting is beyond awful and some of the worst I may have ever seen as it's truly terrible as I hate every damn character in this movie. This actually might be the worst movie I've ever seen. It's so terrible and not even remotely scary at all and the plot is truly terrible. Everything about this movie sucks and I wish it was never made due to how terrible and an abomination this movie is to all of cinema. Overall this is one of the worst movies I've ever seen.

Winnie the Pooh was already relatable as is. Fat, slow, craving food, depressed and only wearing a shirt is basically my autobiography. However this absolute cinematic experience may very well be the most relatable piece of content ever produced. Now that I'm approaching my 50's I feel lost in life. After my 77th rewatch of The Mighty Ducks (1992) this feeling has only grown exponentially more. When I arrived to my cinema last night I felt ready to take myself to Belize. But after viewing the film, my life has turned around. Now I'm inspired, to continue the legacy of Pooh, for he is the one who'll save us all. Pooh is love. Pooh is life.

There are some cases of movies in which just by seeing the poster you have a good glimpse of what you are going to watch. There's no point in me doing a synopsis, because if for some sick reason you've ever dreamed of a movie where Winnie the Pooh (yes, the bear from your childhood) goes psychotic and on a killing spree, that's just what you're going to get in this movie.

I want to clarify something, being objective this is not a good movie even remotely. As far as slashers are concerned, it is quite mediocre, although it has some brutal deaths at the end, it is overshadowed by films such as Terrifier.

So why do I give it a 7? Because the plot, although it is quite stupid, is very funny at the same time, seeing the fat bear torture and kill its victims. It's something worth seeing, even if it's just out of curiosity. The funniest thing is that the movie itself is not a comedy, it might seem like it takes itself seriously and that makes it all the more fun. Also, I must say that Piglet's squeals give the film a plus.

In short, the best way to watch this movie is to understand that it's one of those so bad it's good movies, and not take it seriously at all. If you don't find the idea of Winnie the Pooh killing people at least a bit fun, you should do well by skipping this one.

I already saw that the movie had sadly enough scored quite low on IMDB before going to the movie myself, but man was it worse than I had thought.

The script was terrible, full of cliches and so predictable. The only thing it surprised me with was with how many/few people survived. The acting was sub-par.

There is a backstory with the main character about stalking, but so much attention was paid to this that it insinuated it had something to do with Winnie and Piglet, when it did not. So why was it there? It felt like an empty add to the plot. There is also a story line added of a troubled relationship between two girls, but that too feels like a feeble attempt at adding some backstory to the characters.

Next is the totally unneccessary amount of nudity and sexualization of some of the characters. In one of the scenes Winnie rips off the shirt of a girl (so her upper body is fully exposed) before killing her, literally for what reason? It doesn't appear that Winnie or the others are sexually driven so it is just a boring attempt to make the movie "interesting" for the (male) viewer. Also the scene of another girl in a bikini feeling herself in her room and in the hottub have zero purpose in the movie. It's redundant and does the movie no credit.

As others have also pointed out, the masks on the animals were quite poorly done and made it look cheap, maybe CGI would've been the better choice here.

Finally there is the complete unbelievability of how long people stay alive in some of their conditions. You're telling me a girl can still scream while half of her brain is already crushed? Highly doubt it....

It seems like they ended the movie so that there could be a sequel, but honestly it would need a lot of improvement on all its fronts for it to be good.