People Are Stunned By The New Winnie The Pooh Horror Flick

In perhaps the strangest thing to come out of an entry to the public domain, Winnie the Pooh is now going to star in his own horror movie.

A slasher movie about the teddy bear is currently in the works and social media quickly leaped to tell the story that Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey a) exists and b) is in post-production. Stills from the film have gone viral and the internet is very divided over the idea.

Disney still owns the rights and likeness to their personal version of the Winnie the Pooh characters, but the original stories and pictures entered the public domain earlier this year.

"Due to differing copyright laws around the world, there is no one single public domain – and here we focus on three of the most prominent," wrote the Public Domain Review. "Newly entering the public domain in 2022 will be: works by people who died in 1951, for countries with a copyright term of "life plus 70 years" (e.g. UK, Russia, most of EU and South America); works by people who died in 1971, for countries with a term of "life plus 50 years" (e.g. Canada, New Zealand, and most of Africa and Asia); and works published in 1926 (and all pre-1923 sound recordings), for the United States."

The movie comes from director Rhys Frake-Waterfield and the cast includes Craig David-Dowsett as Winnie, with Chris Cordell as Piglet. Other character names are cited as "Caged Man" and "Mauled Woman".

Waterfield explained the film to Variety:

Pooh and Piglet are “the main villains…going on a rampage” after they were left by Christopher Robin. “Christopher Robin is pulled away from them, and he’s not [given] them food, it’s made Pooh and Piglet’s life quite difficult.”

“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 film is being produced by Jagged Edge Productions, which is the same production house that brought the world The Curse of Humpty Dumpty and The Legend of Jack and Jill.

Plot details are unknown at this point and the IMDB page says that the movie is "a horror retelling of the famous legend of Winnie the Poo.”