An animation explanation of what occurred in the 100 Acre Wood opens Blood and Honey. In a manner similar to the children's tale, a young Christopher Robin encountered several creatures and made friends with them. However, once Christopher left for college, things started to get gloomy. The animals were unsure of how to survive without their human partner.

See Also: Guardians of the Galaxy 3 — Movie Review

The animals decide to kill and devour Eeyore due to hunger. They leave his tomb with a tail nailed to it. The animals' minds were in ruins by this experience, and they developed a hatred for all people—especially Christopher. They made the decision to abandon their humanity and return to their animalistic ways.

The interesting parts of Frake-Waterfield's story finish there, despite the fact that this sounds like the setting for a really entertaining, campy horror movie featuring adorable animal animals. Following the introduction, Mary (Paula Coiz), the wife of Christopher Robin (Nikolai Leon), goes to the 100 Acre Wood. Pooh Bear (Craig David Dowsett) attacks the two and Piglet (Chris Cordell) suffocates Mary. She then begins to accept Christopher's stories from his youth. Pooh and Piglet focus their attention on Maria (Maria Taylor) and her friends. They are renting a cottage in the woods to help Maria recover from a recent stalker episode. Meanwhile, Christopher is kidnapped and held hostage.

There isn't much in Blood and Honey that would qualify as a "Winnie-the-Pooh" tale, other than the animated introduction. The movie never makes it obvious why the hell Pooh and Piglet are wearing horrible masks. They just appear to be two big men. Were they actually actual animal beings? Or was young Christopher Robin just hanging out in the woods with some guys wearing tacky Spirit Halloween costumes? At the very least, it would have allowed for some humorous visuals if Blood and Honey had converted these two characters into tiny plush animals who terrorize anybody they came into contact with. However, not many set this apart from a slasher with two dudes wearing arbitrary masks.

Frake-Waterfield only minimally transforms this concept into a nightmare scenario. There isn't any attempt to incorporate any other elements of Milne's story into these events, except for the occasional appearance of Pooh with his beloved honey and his constant drooling (unfortunately, the honey and drool are indistinguishable from each other and both just look like lube), and for some reason, Pooh can now control bees. Stranger even, after the introduction, there is no more mention of the other characters, such as Rabbit and Owl, who are in the opener and are allegedly still alive. Unsurprisingly, Frake-Waterfield doesn't put much effort into this plot because she knows that calling it Winnie-the-Pooh will be enough to fill theaters without any more effort.

And if it weren't bad enough, this is a poor production from top to bottom. The subsequent performances are all terrible, and none of the characters leave any kind of an impression. Maria and her friends appear to have been cast to give middle school kids something to ogle when they watch this for laughs, despite Frake-Waterfield's screenplay's attempts to give us one-note explanations of who these characters are (Maria was stalked, another friend loves her phone, two other friends are in new relationships, one dies before she even gets there, and the other friend...has glasses?).

Winnie the Pooh Blood and Honey is in theatres now.