Winnie The Pooh is the cuddly character we all loved as kids - so now it's time to completely ruin your childhood. The adorable bear is now the villain in a new horror movie called 'Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey' - and a terrifying first trailer has just been released.
The 100 Acre Wood was a place we all dreamt of visiting, but now it's turned into a nightmarish hell that cannot be escaped. The slasher film seems Pooh and Piglet go on a murderous rampage after being abandoned by Christopher Robin when he goes off to college.
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After Christopher left, the cute bear and pig ran out of food and turned feral - even killing their good friend Eeyore the donkey.
"The beloved childhood characters have been abandoned by Christopher Robin and have turned wild," the trailer ominously wanrs.
In chilling scenes from the trailer, Christopher takes his wife-to-be Mary to the 100 Acre Wood to meet his old friends, but quickly realises something is very wrong.
They are left deeply disturbed by the sight of a skull and a make shift gravestone with the words 'Eeyore RIP' written on it.
Mary begs Christopher to leave the dark woods, but he is determined to find his old pals and discover what has happened.
Then all hell breaks loose as we witness Piglet murder someone - and everything we know about the classic tale is turned on its head.
As well as targetting Christopher and his fiancee, Pooh and Piglet also turn their murderous rage on a group of girls who are staing in a remote house in the woods for the weekend.
They quickly realise they are not welcome as someone has written 'Get Out' in blood on the windows.
One of the girls decides to relax in the jacuzzi in her bikini, but it proves to be an awful decision as the critters creep up on her from behind.
Another lady falls in a swimming pool and gets whacked in the head by evil Piglet with a massive mallet.
We then Christopher beg: "We used to be friends. Why are you doing this, please? I would have never left, I swear."
The reason this new horror movie is able to exist is that filmmakers are now legally free to use the works of author A.A. Milne for inspiration after the original copyright for the famous children's character ended.
Thankfully, not all the characters could be used so we won't be seeing a killer Tigger just yet.
Rhys Waterfield, who wrote, directed and co-produced the film, told Variety Magazine why the beloved characters had turned into killers.
He said: "Because they’ve had to fend for themselves so much, they’ve essentially become feral.
"So they’ve gone back to their animal roots. They’re no longer tame: they’re like a vicious bear and pig who want to go around and try and find prey."
The director admitted it was a challenge balancing the line between horror and comedy because of the premise..
"When you try and do a film like this, and it’s a really wacky concept, it’s very easy to go down a route where nothing is scary and it’s just really ridiculous and really, like, stupid. And we wanted to go between the two," he said.
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