Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey II
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"I WILL MAKE YOU CUM HONEY"
— KillJoyJake on Letterboxd
Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey II is a 2024 British independent slasher film directed by Rhys Frake-Waterfield and written by Matt Leslie. It is the second installment of the Winnie-the-Pooh horror movie series and a sequel to Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey (2023), which serves as a horror reimagining of A. A. Milne and E. H. Shepard's Winnie-the-Pooh books.
Plot
Pooh and Piglet, joined by their friends Owl and Tigger, unleash terror upon Christopher Robin's hometown.
Bloody Awful Qualities
- Despite the movie being a sequel to the previous film, it does not continue said movie in any feasible way. It feels like a completely different movie as the previous film is now retconned as a film within a film.
- In fact, the film retcons everything the previous film set up, making this film a completely different take on a horror film on Winnie-the-Pooh than the original.
- The special effects, while better than the previous film, are still cheap.
- Pooh and Piglet still don't look like a bear or pig respectively and look more like men wearing Pooh and Piglet masks. At least Pooh has fur now and Piglet no longer looks like a warthog.
- With the inclusion of Owl and Tigger, Owl looks more like a bad cosplay of Vulture from Spider-Man and Tigger looks exactly like Pooh but with a tail to signify him being a tiger.
- The horror still relies on jump scares, which can be telegraphed. At least there are some genuinely scary moments.
- While the plot is better than the previous film, it feels too similar to the Five Nights at Freddy's film at times.
- Children are being kidnapped and murdered with their souls being in anthropomorphic murdering beasts is sort of like the animatronics in FNaF.
- The main overarching villain is not Pooh and his friends, but rather an evil scientist who mirrors William Afton (the bad guy from FNaF).
- Pooh being Christopher's brother Billy also somewhat copies the twist where Garret's soul, Mike's brother in FNaF, is possibly in the body of Freddy Fazbear.
- While the characters are better than the previous film, they are still wasted.
- The Hunter who survived the first attack Pooh has done could be useful for a much later role, but after giving Christopher information telling him he was right, he is never seen again afterward.
- Christopher's girlfriend Lexy could be interesting, but she's also forgettable.
- Cavendish, who worked for the evil scientist who kidnapped Billy and turned him into Pooh, could also help Christopher in taking his brother down, but he ends up committing suicide.
- Misleading title: Pooh isn't the main villain as the film makes him out to be because despite him getting the most screen time out of everyone from the Hundred Acre Wood creatures turned into beasts, Owl is this film's main antagonist.
- Missed opportunity: Despite Pooh wielding a flaming chainsaw (yes, that happens in the movie), he doesn't kill anyone with it, which ruins the audiences' dreams of what a flaming chainsaw kill would look like in a Winnie-the-Pooh horror movie.
- The ending is just sequel bait as Pooh and Piglet are simply revived by Owl. And yes, given the greenlight of a cinematic universe of horror variants of beloved childhood icons, we are getting a third movie and an Avengers-style film with every childhood icon turned slasher villain killing everyone who just survived their previous attacks.
Bloody Great Qualities
- Despite the movie's problems, viewers still consider it an improvement over the previous film.
- The characters are more likable and memorable than the previous film, such as Christopher Robin himself, his parents, and his sister Bunny.
- Despite him being wasted, The Hunter who survives Pooh's attack is also likable.
- The acting is an improvement over the previous film. Scott Chambers is a much better choice than Nikolai Leon as Christopher Robin.
- The special effects, while still cheap, are way better than the previous film. It helps that the producers hired designers from Game of Thrones and the Harry Potter movies for this film's practical effects.
- The kills are better and more creative than the last film, with the most memorable being the Hundred Acre Woods characters killing everyone at a party, complete with a beheading of a partygoer with a bear trap, stabbing another partygoer in her bare feet with Tigger's claws before stabbing them through the stairs, and burning another partygoer alive through a furnace. Talk about brutal.
- As stated before, Pooh does wield a flaming chainsaw. You can't get any more over the top with that.
- The posters are awesome and scary looking to look at and see.
Reception
Compared to Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey, Blood and Honey II is seen by critics and audiences as an improvement over the first. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 53% of 32 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 4.9/10. The website's consensus reads: "Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 represents an improvement over the original in most respects, although the Poohniverse remains a place made for hardcore slasher fans."
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