'Blood And Honey' Director Set To Make Two More Films Based Off Of Children's Stories
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The upcoming film Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey has been a viral fascination ever since the first trailer dropped. Since the character became public domain earlier this year, director Rhys Frake-Waterfield took the opportunity to make the silly ol’ bear and his friend Piglet into feral slashers in a movie that will no doubt focus on the gore and little else. The shock of Pooh hacking people up with an axe took the internet by storm, and its interest has led to a sequel being announced, as well as a theatrical release. We’ll see if the buzz continues until its premiere on February 15th, or it may not make its budget back.
On top of Blood and Honey, Frake-Waterfield has announced plans for two more upcoming films based on beloved childhood icons: Bambi: The Reckoning, and Peter Pan: Neverland Nightmare. It makes a certain amount of sense. Films like this are extremely cheap to make, and all the talk and discussion about them should help the films recoup their budgets. Not a lot of thought and planning is required beyond “how bloody can we make this kill?” Of course, this is nothing new. Santa Claus, Pinocchio, the Easter Bunny, Rumpelstiltskin, and the Tooth Fairy, to name a few, have all gotten the slasher film treatment, so Bambi getting his own film is not in itself shocking.
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For Bambi, Frake-Waterfield will be teaming up with director Scott Jeffery, who also has a habit of making cheap slashers based on child’s characters, such as The Curse of Humpty Dumpty. According to Scott: “The film will be an incredibly dark retelling of the 1928 story we all know and love. Bambi will be a vicious killing machine that lurks in the wilderness. Prepare for Bambi on rabies!” It’s sure to be ridiculous. “Oh no, look, Bambi just bit some blonde co-ed and now she’s bleeding all over the place and now we need to fight him. It should be as good as Blood and Honey.
Now, the interesting one here is Neverland Nightmare. If done right, there could actually be some potential. Unlike Pooh, the elements of the original Peter Pan story are already a little darker than usual child’s fare. In fact, there is a popular fan theory that whenever a Lost Boy gets too old, Peter Pan kills them so that they “never grow up.” Several Lost Boys avoided that fate and became the Neverland pirates.
Just a fan theory.
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However, that could actually be a halfway decent film, or at least a decent idea to tap into. Frake-Waterfield could follow a Lost Boy as he gets too old and has to escape his former friend before finding refuge among the pirates he’s spent his life avoiding. It would at least be an interesting horror film, if not a good one. Better than rabid Bambi, at least.
Still, we have to wonder what is next after those two films and the Blood and Honey sequel. Cinderella has had enough of her abusive step-family so she goes on a rampage in Cinderella: Royal Ball Bloodbath? Rabid Dumbo starts committing aerial attacks to slaughter the circus in Dumbo: Big Top Massacre? Robin Hood starts taking more drastic measures to steal from the rich in Robin Hood: Sherwood Slaughter? Old Yeller breaks free and goes Cujo on the town in Old Yeller: Whoops, You Missed?
In any case, What Frake-Waterfield is doing is nothing new. His four upcoming films are just another part of a genre that will continue long after the evil Bambi film.
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