In Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, A. A. Milne’s Pooh and Piglet get a horror makeover. Gone are the beloved cuddly teddy bear and tiny soft-spoken pig. In this film, they’re ruthless killers.
When Pooh, Piglet, and the other Hundred Acre Wood residents are abandoned by Christopher Robin (Nikolai Leon), they struggle to fend for themselves. While suffering extreme starvation, Pooh makes the decision to kill and eat Eeyore. Ever since, Pooh and Piglet operate as feral, bloodthirsty creatures who hate human beings.
Those right there are the broad strokes for Blood and Honey’s rendition of the characters, but there are still a number of unanswered questions pertaining to what exactly these creatures are and how they operate. During a recent interview, Blood and Honey director Rhys Frake-Waterfield took some time to answer those burning questions and to tease how he hopes to expand the characters and their mythology in the sequel.
In Blood and Honey, Pooh and Piglet are more human-like than the versions of the characters presented in the source material (and the untouchable extension of that source material still protected by copyright law). But, they’re not human beings wearing bear and pig masks, right? “Yeah, that’s right.” Frake-Waterfield added, “This is actually Winnie the Pooh and Piglet going around killing people.”
He went on to explain why it was important to make his versions of Pooh and Piglet more humanoid than bear and pig-like:
In addition to being a mix of human and bear, Frake-Waterfield’s Pooh also has a touch of stuffed animal to him, too. He explained:
While Pooh can be stopped momentarily, given what he goes through in the film, it seems as those he’s unkillable. Is that the case? Is Frake-Waterfield’s Pooh immortal? Here’s what he said:
At one point in the film, Alice (Amber Doig-Thorne) is able to capture Piglet and proceeds to beat him with his sledgehammer. Unfortunately, Alice’s victory is short-lived because Pooh arrives on the scene and makes her his next victim. But what becomes of Piglet? We never see him again in the film, so did Alice really kill him? Here’s what Frake-Waterfield had to say about that:
In addition to killing victims with brute force, Pooh and Piglet also have certain weapons and powers at their disposal. For example, Frake-Waterfield’s Winnie the Pooh can control bees.
