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Movie ID: 808
RT slug: winnie_the_pooh_blood_and_honey
RT URL: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/winnie_the_pooh_blood_and_honey
Release year: 2023
Runtime: 100 mins
Wide release date: —
Limited release date: 2023-02-15
Festival premiere date: —
Streaming release date: —
Tomatometer final: 3%
Audience score final: —
Genres: Horror
Directors: Rhys Frake-Waterfield
Writers: Rhys Frake-Waterfield
Producers: Rhys Frake-Waterfield, Scott Jeffrey
MPAA rating: —
Executive Producers: —
Created: 2026-06-17 18:59:52
Updated: 2026-06-17 18:59:52
The days of adventures and merriment have come to an end, as Christopher Robin, now a young man, has left Winnie-The-Pooh and Piglet to fend for themselves. As time passes, feeling angry and abandoned, the two become feral. After getting a taste for blood, Winnie-The-Pooh and Piglet set off to find a new source of food. It's not long before their bloody rampage begins.
Oh, bother.
Canonical reviews: 64
Canonical fresh: 2
Canonical rotten: 62
Canonical calculated Tomatometer: 3%
Latest snapshot UTC: 2026-06-17 15:24:54
Snapshot Tomatometer: 3%
Snapshot review count: 64
Snapshot fresh count: 2
Snapshot rotten count: 62
Source note: Imported from manual review paste batch #1437 (full_snapshot)
| Company | Role |
|---|---|
| Fathom Events | distributor |
| ITN Distribution | production |
| Jagged Edge Productions | production |
| Billing | Name | Character |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Craig David Dowsett | Pooh Bear |
| 2 | Chris Cordell | Piglet |
| 3 | Amber Doig-Thorne | Alice |
| 4 | Natasha Tosini | Lara |
| 5 | Richard D Myers | Logan |
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| ID | Critic | Outlet | Fresh? | Score | RT Time Raw | Approx Published UTC | Quote |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 179257 | Sean Fallon | Film Inquiry | Rotten | — | 2026-01-14T21:17:26Z | 2026-01-14 21:17:26 | Perhaps in their haste to be the first ones out with a Winnie-the-Pooh movie, the filmmakers unfortunately skimped on the writing for the non-Pooh characters, leaving them lifeless and feeling fake. |
| 179258 | Francesca Steele | iNews.co.uk | Rotten | 1/5 | 2024-12-11T01:10:09Z | 2024-12-11 01:10:09 | No one exactly expects nuance from a slasher, but this film is criminally lazy and misogynistic… worst of all: Tigger erasure. |
| 179259 | Alyse Wax | GameSpot | Rotten | — | 2024-11-27T07:35:58Z | 2024-11-27 07:35:58 | Unfortunately, Blood and Honey needed more than just names to hold it all together, because all it is is a subpar slasher film with a killer in a Winnie the Pooh mask. |
| 179260 | Joseph Tomastik | Loud and Clear Reviews | Rotten | 2.5/5 | 2024-11-20T22:41:29Z | 2024-11-20 22:41:29 | It’s unfair and uninspiring to say what can and can’t be done with a certain IP ... With that said, Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey is unfortunately not good. |
| 179261 | Justin Brown | Medium Popcorn | Rotten | 1/5 | 2024-10-23T20:30:41Z | 2024-10-23 20:30:41 | This was a hard watch. They didn't even use the intellectual property in a fun way. |
| 179262 | Brandon Collins | Medium Popcorn | Rotten | 1/5 | 2024-10-23T20:28:48Z | 2024-10-23 20:28:48 | This was painfully dull, cruel, and unnecessary. I haven't been this miserable watching a horror film in a long time. |
| 179263 | Josh Goller | Spectrum Culture | Rotten | — | 2024-02-22T06:41:29Z | 2024-02-22 06:41:29 | This cheap, inartful British exploitation flick offers no subversive take on A.A. Milne’s classic characters and gives no new angles on threadbare horror tropes. Instead, we get a cookie-cutter slasher flick and two corny, unstoppable killing machines |
| 179264 | Kevin Carr | Fat Guys at the Movies | Rotten | 1.5/4 | 2023-11-03T23:10:22Z | 2023-11-03 23:10:22 | This slasher has the blood and gore, but it lacks the most rudimentary character basics and passable mask work to rise above its notorious premise. |
| 179265 | John Serba | Decider | Rotten | — | 2023-10-06T23:29:41Z | 2023-10-06 23:29:41 | Makes you wish the Supreme Court would repeal its public domain copyright laws. |
| 179266 | James Croot | The Post NZ | Rotten | 0.5/5 | 2023-04-19T22:02:10Z | 2023-04-19 22:02:10 | Sure the idea of the inhabitants of the Hundred Acre Wood going rogue might have sounded kinda fun, but this ghoulish, witless, ill-conceived and terribly executed effort is truly a nightmarish watch. |
| 179267 | Morris Yang | In Review Online | Rotten | — | 2023-04-03T14:34:22Z | 2023-04-03 14:34:22 | All of this makes up the film’s paltry opening minutes, rendered in somewhat decent animation. Had [the film] kept that tone and quality up throughout the rest of its runtime, the result would have at least been bearable, even if a little lackadaisical. |
| 179268 | Pablo O. Scholz | Clarín | Rotten | 1/4 | 2023-03-24T20:28:52Z | 2023-03-24 20:28:52 | There aren't any copyright issues with the material but [Rhys Frake-Waterfield] has no right to do what he did with it. [Full review in Spanish] |
| 179269 | Paula Vázquez Prieto | La Nación (Argentina) | Rotten | 1/5 | 2023-03-23T18:35:08Z | 2023-03-23 18:35:08 | The horror only rises out of grotesque deaths as if they were slasher museum pieces rather than the construction of a disturbing atmosphere that reveals the sanguine reverse of a childhood experience. [Full review in Spanish] |
| 179270 | Terry Staunton | Radio Times | Rotten | 1/5 | 2023-03-16T20:52:14Z | 2023-03-16 20:52:14 | Dreadful script and appalling performances. |
| 179271 | Rich Cline | Shadows on the Wall | Rotten | 1.5/5 | 2023-03-15T18:51:01Z | 2023-03-15 18:51:01 | et up as a years-later sequel, there's potential in a story about how these lovable creatures have gone feral, but there isn't one scene in this sadistic, misogynistic movie that makes sense even within this warped premise. |
| 179272 | Edward Porter | Sunday Times (UK) | Rotten | 1/5 | 2023-03-13T22:52:25Z | 2023-03-13 22:52:25 | No one would expect intellectual depth from a horror movie spoofing Winnie-the-Pooh, but this really is a film of very little brain. |
| 179273 | Joel Harley | Starburst | Rotten | 2/5 | 2023-03-13T22:11:20Z | 2023-03-13 22:11:20 | This pooh stinks, sure, but it’s not without its charm, finding frustrating moments of wit and levity amidst the punishing cynicism. |
| 179274 | Larushka Ivan-Zadeh | Metro Newspaper (UK) | Rotten | 1/5 | 2023-03-10T22:18:07Z | 2023-03-10 22:18:07 | Made on a shoestring budget...and it shoes. |
| 179275 | Ryan Gilbey | New Statesman | Rotten | — | 2023-03-10T21:29:22Z | 2023-03-10 21:29:22 | Rather than being informed by a passion for the original characters, or the desire to tap into their unexplored subtext, it coasts opportunistically on the novelty value of placing them in a gruesome context. |
| 179276 | Ziba Adel | The Times (UK) | Rotten | 1/5 | 2023-03-10T19:59:52Z | 2023-03-10 19:59:52 | Rhys Frake-Waterfield cloddishly desecrates your childhood, and AA Milne’s beloved classic, with a dimly written, shoddily realised, sub-standard slasher whose artistic aspirations never reach beyond making a fast buck. |
| 179277 | Patrick Sproull | Little White Lies | Rotten | 1/5 | 2023-03-10T19:20:36Z | 2023-03-10 19:20:36 | If you go down to the woods today you’d better be blind drunk. |
| 179278 | Kim Newman | Empire Magazine | Rotten | 1/5 | 2023-03-09T21:50:59Z | 2023-03-09 21:50:59 | As a subversive take on Milne, it’s achingly banal. As a rural horror film, it’s more inept than the most wretched Wrong Turn sequel. As a would-be cult classic, it commits the ultimate sin of being no fun at all. |
| 179279 | Robbie Collin | Daily Telegraph (UK) | Rotten | 1/5 | 2023-03-09T17:39:26Z | 2023-03-09 17:39:26 | The film is so amateurishly made that it is often hard to see and hear what’s going on – not a complaint per se – and doesn’t even have much of a plot... |
| 179280 | Peter Bradshaw | Guardian | Rotten | 1/5 | 2023-03-09T15:22:25Z | 2023-03-09 15:22:25 | Spoon some arsenic in that honey and start eating. |
| 179281 | Maria Lattila | WhyNow (UK) | Rotten | 1/5 | 2023-03-07T15:26:53Z | 2023-03-07 15:26:53 | If Blood and Honey had a little bit more humour to it, and meant it, it would be miles better. Despite the silly premise, Frake-Waterfield seems to treat his film as the next big thing in the canon of great slashers. |
| 179282 | Noah Berlatsky | Chicago Reader | Rotten | — | 2023-03-02T23:18:32Z | 2023-03-02 23:18:32 | We got a weirdly anonymous ursine rather than the best bloody bear in the world. |
| 179283 | Carla Hay | Culture Mix | Rotten | — | 2023-02-26T23:59:03Z | 2023-02-26 23:59:03 | Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey is the very definition of bottom-of-the-barrel horror trash. It's not scary, funny, or interesting in any way. It's just a bloodbath slasher flick that is deeply misogynistic. |
| 179284 | Sarah Ward | Concrete Playground | Rotten | — | 2023-02-24T23:20:24Z | 2023-02-24 23:20:24 | Slathers on well-executed gore, but isn't anything approaching good or so-bad-it's-good. |
| 179285 | Austin Burke | Austin Burke/Flick Fan Nation | Rotten | 1/10 | 2023-02-24T19:36:54Z | 2023-02-24 19:36:54 | Blood and Honey features a poorly written script, unlikable characters, and two fairy tale creatures who get little to do beyond what we expect to happen. The practical effects are solid, but the final result is a massive misfire. |
| 179286 | Alci Rengifo | Entertainment Voice | Rotten | — | 2023-02-21T23:05:54Z | 2023-02-21 23:05:54 | By the third act Blood and Honey starts losing any gas it had left with the endless stream of killings, never pausing to truly play around with the surreal heart of what Frake-Waterfield is attempting. |
| 179287 | Mary Beth McAndrews | Dread Central | Rotten | 2.5/5 | 2023-02-21T16:27:43Z | 2023-02-21 16:27:43 | Despite technical issues and an uneven script, ‘Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey’ is a surprisingly fun and violent romp through 100 Acre Wood. |
| 179288 | Murjani Rawls | Draftkings Nation | Rotten | — | 2023-02-21T02:05:22Z | 2023-02-21 02:05:22 | For an hour and twenty minutes, you’ll realize that your childhood is, in fact, safe and sound. There will be no looking for Winnie the Pooh under your bed or in your closet. Oh, bother. |
| 179289 | Felix Vasquez Jr. | Cinema Crazed | Rotten | — | 2023-02-20T11:53:06Z | 2023-02-20 11:53:06 | How do you have a chance like this and blow it on such a dull run of the mill slasher flick? |
| 179290 | Adam Olinger | Adam Does Movies (YouTube) | Rotten | — | 2023-02-19T01:03:09Z | 2023-02-19 01:03:09 | It would appear that all the good ideas began and ended with the title. Christopher Robin deserved better. |
| 179291 | Avi Offer | NYC Movie Guru | Rotten | — | 2023-02-18T04:43:39Z | 2023-02-18 04:43:39 | A repetitive, lazy and lethargic bore that quickly runs out of steam. a disappointing, squandered opportunity to turn a beloved children's classic into a bonkers, wildly entertaining cult classic for adults. |
| 179292 | Matt Donato | IGN Movies | Rotten | 4/10 | 2023-02-18T01:20:21Z | 2023-02-18 01:20:21 | Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey is noteworthy only for its name, as it turns out that blending slasher blood with Pooh’s honey together is like oil and water: it just doesn’t mix. |
| 179293 | Miles Klee | Rolling Stone | Rotten | — | 2023-02-17T20:56:07Z | 2023-02-17 20:56:07 | Blood and Honey is a hundred-acre wasteland, a witless gory bore, and in the end, you’re just depressed that anyone spent time working on it. |
| 179294 | Chris Joyce | Movies and Munchies (YouTube) | Rotten | — | 2023-02-17T19:48:47Z | 2023-02-17 19:48:47 | .5/5 If you’re looking for substance, a good plot, decent acting, memorable characters… or heck, even an ending… don’t. Destroy all expectations you have for this and then watch for the hilarious trainwreck it is. |
| 179295 | Keith Garlington | Keith & the Movies | Rotten | 1.5/5 | 2023-02-17T19:36:58Z | 2023-02-17 19:36:58 | It’s one thing to spoof dumb and chintzy slasher movies. It’s another thing to become one. And it’s one thing to revisit your one big gag. It’s another thing to milk it dry before your movie is half over. |
| 179296 | Nate Adams | The Only Critic | Rotten | D- | 2023-02-17T19:30:15Z | 2023-02-17 19:30:15 | No amount of booze or drugs could make “Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey” enjoyable. |
| 179297 | Jason Adams | Mashable | Rotten | — | 2023-02-17T19:29:44Z | 2023-02-17 19:29:44 | Disney's cartoon drawings had more character in one swoop of pencil line than any of these women are given before they start getting their faces mashed into wood chippers and their tops torn off. |
| 179298 | Kyle Turner | New York Times | Rotten | — | 2023-02-17T19:19:07Z | 2023-02-17 19:19:07 | It’s not funny enough to have anything clever to say about its gag, and it’s not exciting enough to be a competent horror movie. |
| 179299 | Jeffrey M. Anderson | Common Sense Media | Rotten | 2/5 | 2023-02-17T19:04:45Z | 2023-02-17 19:04:45 | After the subversive idea of turning beloved children's book characters into brutal killers wears off, all that's left in this low-budget horror movie are boring cliches and frustrating characters. |
| 179300 | Jeff Ewing | Inverse | Rotten | — | 2023-02-17T16:14:12Z | 2023-02-17 16:14:12 | It’s a real disappointment that, bad or not, the film is so close to delivering memorable monsters but still lazily refuses to commit to the attempt. |
| 179301 | Russ Simmons | KKFI-FM (Kansas City) | Rotten | 0/5 | 2023-02-17T05:21:24Z | 2023-02-17 05:21:24 | This micro-budget slasher movie is a witless “Halloween” rip-off with Pooh and Piglet responsible for the bloody mayhem instead of Michael Meyers. Pooh indeed. |
| 179302 | Tasha Robinson | Polygon | Rotten | — | 2023-02-17T00:29:49Z | 2023-02-17 00:29:49 | A movie that never gives its killers any reason to exist, or its audience any reason to root for the victims. |
| 179303 | Josh Bell | Crooked Marquee | Rotten | D+ | 2023-02-16T23:07:18Z | 2023-02-16 23:07:18 | Despite some reshoots that followed the viral success of the movie's trailer, Blood and Honey is still just a low-budget horror quickie, virtually indistinguishable from any of the 80-plus other movies that producer Scott Jeffrey has worked on since 2016. |
| 179304 | Luke Y. Thompson | AV Club | Fresh | — | 2023-02-16T22:57:39Z | 2023-02-16 22:57:39 | Marketing alone would have guaranteed this movie a certain percentage of curious eyeballs, but Frake-Waterfield made sure that what genre fans see is everything they expected. |
| 179305 | William Bibbiani | TheWrap | Rotten | — | 2023-02-16T22:05:39Z | 2023-02-16 22:05:39 | The film feels half-written, and the half we got wasn’t the good half. Characters and storylines pop up out of nowhere, disappear into the ether, and almost all of them turn out to be pointless. |
| 179306 | Julian Roman | MovieWeb | Rotten | 0.5/5 | 2023-02-16T21:13:42Z | 2023-02-16 21:13:42 | Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey takes every nonsensical horror trope to the base level. The cheese factor is high. The filmmakers put zero vision and creativity in a grotesque interpretation of childhood favorites. |
| 179307 | Bill Goodykoontz | Arizona Republic | Rotten | 1/5 | 2023-02-16T20:01:16Z | 2023-02-16 20:01:16 | It’s all just monotonous splatter. It’s as if Frake-Waterfield expended all his good ideas on the concept, hoping that would be enough. |
| 179308 | Matt Conway | Battle Royale With Cheese | Rotten | — | 2023-02-16T19:54:06Z | 2023-02-16 19:54:06 | For all the attention Blood and Honey is garnering, the film itself is an aggressively beige midnight movie experience. |
| 179309 | Cody Leach | Cody Leach (YouTube) | Rotten | 0.5/5 | 2023-02-16T19:20:02Z | 2023-02-16 19:20:02 | Blood & Honey is an effortless and soulless cash grab that bastardizes a beloved children's property for a cheap (and easily profitable) gimmick. There's not even a creatively campy usage of the IP it is milking for shock value. |
| 179310 | Witney Seibold | Slashfilm | Rotten | 1/10 | 2023-02-16T18:42:31Z | 2023-02-16 18:42:31 | Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey is a humourless bloodbath that does nothing interesting with its premise. |
| 179311 | Nick Allen | RogerEbert.com | Rotten | 1.5/4 | 2023-02-16T17:15:13Z | 2023-02-16 17:15:13 | As a horror and a comedy, Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey has no rhythm with either, and it's too dim to be worthy of a curious look. |
| 179312 | Mark Dujsik | Mark Reviews Movies | Rotten | 0.5/4 | 2023-02-16T15:36:49Z | 2023-02-16 15:36:49 | [O]ne gets the sense that this movie was made by people who realized they probably had much better things to do than to care about making this movie. |
| 179313 | Christian Zilko | IndieWire | Rotten | C+ | 2023-02-16T15:35:50Z | 2023-02-16 15:35:50 | The script makes an enormous amount of what can charitably be described as “narrative compromises” to make all of the violence fit into a world that feels remotely coherent. |
| 179314 | Ross Bonaime | Collider | Rotten | F | 2023-02-16T15:26:20Z | 2023-02-16 15:26:20 | With a film that will surely go down as one of the worst films of 2023, Frake-Waterfield proves that just because a property is up for grabs doesn't mean just anyone should make a film about it. |
| 179315 | Michael Gingold | Rue Morgue Magazine | Rotten | — | 2023-02-16T15:21:50Z | 2023-02-16 15:21:50 | A prime example of a clickbait-friendly project realized without a shred of wit or imagination. |
| 179316 | Dennis Harvey | Variety | Rotten | — | 2023-02-16T12:39:59Z | 2023-02-16 12:39:59 | A rock-bottom joint that fails to meet even the most basic expectations set up by its conceptual gimmick. |
| 179317 | Nick Schager | The Daily Beast | Rotten | — | 2023-02-16T04:35:12Z | 2023-02-16 04:35:12 | Some of the chintziest and most uninspired exploitation cinema this side of "Sharknado." |
| 179318 | EJ Moreno | EJ Moreno | Rotten | — | 2023-02-15T15:50:41Z | 2023-02-15 15:50:41 | Twisting an iconic childhood icon into a horror film should be fun, but why does this feel so cruel? There’s something off here with this low-budget indie horror. |
| 179319 | Luke Buckmaster | Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) | Fresh | — | 2023-02-14T22:28:37Z | 2023-02-14 22:28:37 | Pooh’s new role as a monstrous killer is a beautiful thing, reminding us that pop culture’s infinite cycle is—and must be—more powerful than any single capitalistic endeavour. |
| 179320 | Brian Orndorf | Blu-ray.com | Rotten | D- | 2023-02-14T18:05:01Z | 2023-02-14 18:05:01 | It certainly wouldn’t kill Frake-Waterfield to put some genuine effort into his features, giving the curious something more to enjoy than simplistic exploitation sold with a lunch money budget. |
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