Winnie The Pooh: Blood And Honey Review – Not A Very Foolish Previous Bear – Gaming Reviews

The excellent news about Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey is that when you have fond recollections of Winnie the Pooh from childhood, this film most likely will not break these recollections for you, as there’s not a lot on this film that ties it into Winnie the Pooh, aside from the names. Sadly, Blood and Honey wanted extra than simply names to carry all of it collectively, as a result of all it’s is a subpar slasher movie with a killer in a Winnie the Pooh masks.

The movie opens with an animated prologue, explaining that Christopher Robin befriended Owl, Piglet, Eeyore, and naturally, Winnie the Pooh, in 100 Acre Wooden. He was the animals’ greatest pal, and he offered for them… till he went away to varsity to turn out to be a physician. In that point, meals grew to become scarce and Pooh and Piglet resorted to consuming Eeyore to outlive. (Owl isn’t talked about once more, nor are any of the opposite creatures.) This apparently brought about Pooh and Piglet to turn out to be feral, savage, and psychopathic.

When Christopher Robin returns 5 years later to introduce his new spouse, Mary, to his animal mates, they’re in for a impolite shock: Mary is killed nearly instantly, and Christopher Robin is kidnapped and tortured. This all occurs earlier than the title sequence. The majority of the film is a conventional slasher movie: A bunch of twentysomething ladies head out for a weekend at a cabin adjoining to 100 Acre Wooden. Pooh and Piglet hear the ladies, and the killing begins.

Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey is a simple slasher movie, and never a very good one. The ladies are totally forgettable and are unidentifiable outdoors their tropes. There’s the “chief,” Maria (Maria Taylor), who determined the weekend was essential to recuperate after a terrifying expertise with a stalker. The buddies who come along with her are usually not a lot identifiable by identify as by kind. There’s the woman who will get misplaced on the best way to the cabin (she is clearly the primary to be killed); the horny social media woman; the bookish woman (the glasses are a useless giveaway); and the 2 lesbians. There’s nothing about these ladies that signifies they’re tied in to Winnie the Pooh in any method. They might be chased by Jason Voorhees or Artwork the Clown; it does not matter. There’s nothing about these characters that make them vital to Pooh’s story.

There’s a lack of readability as to Pooh and Piglet’s reasoning behind their homicide spree. Initially, in accordance with the animation, they killed as a result of they’d no different meals. However a number of occasions in the course of the film, Pooh is seen consuming honey (grotesquely, I would add), so sooner or later he discovered some meals. Did killing Eeyore give them a bloodlust that they could not quench? At no level do you see them consuming any of their victims; the murders are violent, performative, and infrequently staged. They often even take victims again to 100 Acre Wooden to torture.

The thought of Pooh and Piglet being people in masks didn’t actually hassle me, as a result of I might settle for that they mutated throughout Christopher Robin’s absence. However there was nothing about them as killers that made them really feel like something aside from males in masks. Piglet did have a grotesque, hog-like grunt, however aside from that, he didn’t have another pig-like qualities. Pooh didn’t have any bear qualities, both, besides possibly consuming honey. Pooh was massive, gradual, and nearly utterly with out language. Piglet was nearly as massive, nearly as gradual, and nearly as silent. There was nothing to distinguish the 2 killers moreover Piglet’s tusks. They may have at the least made Piglet considerably smaller than Pooh.

This film lacks a humorousness that I anticipated a satire of a youngsters’s property to have. The Imply One, the slasher model of The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, wasn’t a very good film, but it surely understood the project: It had enjoyable, and made a whole lot of tongue-in-cheek references to the unique. You do not get that with Blood and Honey. It is nearly like director Rhys Frake-Waterfield was attempting too arduous to make a critical slasher movie.

To that finish, I’ll say that Frake-Waterfield succeeds as a director. The pictures had been well-composed, and he did not throw in any low-cost jump-scares; relatively, there are a whole lot of “creeping slowly within the shadows” scenes that really feel extra significant than a typical slice-n-dice. The appearing was fine–nothing to get enthusiastic about, however nobody was cringe-worthy. Frake-Waterfield has a protracted checklist of manufacturing credit, so it’s no shock that the whole lot on a technical degree was tight. There have been some poor edits (maybe made to maintain the movie at a good 80 minutes), however I believed he did a fantastic job behind the digital camera.

I do know the fascination with Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey has been excessive because the movie was introduced. Sadly, the Winnie the Pooh connection could be very slim. The killers might be anybody in a masks and it wouldn’t matter to the story in any respect. It actually appears like a wasted alternative.