Summary
- “Pinocchio: Unstrung” is the latest horror remake of a beloved childhood favorite, following the success of “Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey.”
- The first look at “Pinocchio: Unstrung” features a terrifying version of the puppet, with wide-eyed and sharp-nosed characteristics.
- The expansion of this horror universe will include sketch drawings of other beloved characters, revealed during the credits of “Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey 2.”
The filmmakers behind last year’s brutal and bloody version of Winnie the Pooh, Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey: Blood and Honey, are now concocting a terrifying tale based on the Disney classic, Pinocchio. Titled Pinocchio: Unstrung, the project is the latest in the line-up of horror remakes of beloved childhood favorites that utilize the properties entering the public domain. Such projects so far include Bambi: The Reckoning, Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare, the various Steamboat Willie versions, and the upcoming Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2.
BloodyDisgusting has revealed our first look at Pinocchio: Unstrung, with a spooky image depicting a terrifyingly wide-eyed, ominously sharp-nosed version of the puppet who longs to be a real boy. Was Guillermo del Toro’s adaptation not already haunting enough? The image will reportedly feature during the credits of Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey 2, with the filmmakers and Jagged Edge Productions “teasing out the expansion of this universe.”
The producers also teased further images of horrifying takes on other beloved characters alongside Pinocchio, telling BloodyDisgusting…
“Unannounced characters from the universe will be revealed in sketch drawings in the closing credits of Pooh 2 so keep an eye out!”
The director and cast behind Pinocchio: Unstrung has yet to be announced, but the project is due to go into production this summer, with Jagged Edge Productions planning a theatrical release later this year. Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey’s Rhys Frake-Waterfield and Scott Jeffrey will produce.
Winnie-The-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 Is Due to Land in February
Released last year, the first Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey is an independent horror movie written, directed and co-produced by Rhys Frake-Waterfield in his directorial debut. The slasher outing takes advantage of the A. A. Milne and E. H. Shepard’s Winnie-the-Pooh books now being in the public domain, twisting and contorting the tale of the Hundred Acre Wood into something deeply sinister.
The horror outing finds the likes of Pooh and Piglet on a murderous rampage after being abandoned by Christopher Robin many years before. Thanks to online furor, Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey received a major worldwide theatrical release, grossing $5.2 million worldwide…though it was mauled by critics and now sits at just 3% on the review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes.
The sequel, Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2, will see beloved character Tigger added to the fray due to the character entering the public domain as of this month. Producer Scott Jeffrey has teased the depravity of this take on “T-I-double-Guh-Er” saying, “Tigger is incredibly violent. He loves to torture his victims before killing them.”
Co-written and directed by Rhys Frake-Waterfield, Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 stars Scott Chambers as Christopher Robin, Ryan Oliva as Winnie-the-Pooh, Eddy MacKenzie as Piglet, Lewis Santer as Tigger, Marcus Massey as Owl, and Four Weddings and a Funeral star Simon Callow as Cavendish, “a pivotal character with a dark past somehow tied to Christopher Robin.”
Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 is scheduled to be theatrically released on 14 February 2024.
