Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey
Fathom Events | Release Date: February 16, 2023 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
16
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Overwhelming dislike based on 19 Critic Reviews
Positive:
0
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3
Negative:
16
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IndieWireChristian ZilkoFeb 16, 2023
“Blood and Honey” feels like a throwback to a simpler era of filmmaking. Not an era where movies were better — because it’s not particularly good — but a time when a film could be produced, marketed, and turn a profit just by promising audiences an image they hadn’t seen before. Read full review
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The A.V. ClubLuke Y. ThompsonFeb 16, 2023
To say that Winnie-The-Pooh: Blood And Honey delivers everything a slasher movie should is higher praise than it used to be. 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. Read full review
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IGNMatt DonatoFeb 17, 2023
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. Read full review
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RogerEbert.comNick AllenFeb 16, 2023
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. Read full review
30
Little White LiesPatrick SproullMar 10, 2023
Blood and Honey is not a good film but it is the type of film where scenes specified to take place at 3am are filmed in obvious daylight. Read full review
30
TheWrapWilliam BibbianiFeb 16, 2023
Setting aside the half-baked characters and a plot so raw it’s probably got salmonella, Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey is staggeringly inept in surprisingly obvious ways. Read full review
25
New York PostJohnny OleksinskiFeb 16, 2023
There are some surprisingly attractive shots in director Rhys Frake-Waterfield’s low-budget film — honey drips from Winnie’s mouth in a sadistic “Silence of the Lambs” way — and the acting is committed rather than arch (even if the dialogue is lousy-to-inaudible). Yet it is impossible to recommend to the average horror fan in search of a good movie. Read full review
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The TelegraphRobbie CollinMar 10, 2023
The whole thing is stupefyingly unfunny and un-tense, and doesn’t end so much as just give up and grind to a halt. Read full review
20
NMEJames MottramMar 10, 2023
True, it’s a clever loophole the director has exploited, but that’s as far as it goes. Blood And Honey is a sticky mess of a movie. Read full review
20
EmpireKim NewmanMar 9, 2023
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. This bear is sh*t in the woods. Read full review
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The GuardianPeter BradshawMar 9, 2023
The awful truth is that this is a generic derivative horror script. Read full review
20
Time OutHelen O'HaraMar 8, 2023
Unfortunately, writer-director Rhys Frake-Waterfield’s has made just another sadistic slasher movie, notably only for its inexpressive animal masks. Read full review
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The New York TimesKyle TurnerFeb 22, 2023
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. Read full review
20
The Daily BeastNick SchagerFeb 16, 2023
Some of the chintziest and most uninspired exploitation cinema this side of Sharknado. Read full review
12
PolygonTasha RobinsonFeb 16, 2023
The pacing is leaden, the visuals are murky, and there’s pretty much no reason to care about anyone on the screen, except to idly wonder how they’re going to die, and what their innards will look like when they do. Read full review
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Rolling StoneMiles KleeFeb 17, 2023
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. Read full review
10
SlashfilmWitney SeiboldFeb 16, 2023
"Blood and Honey" will disappoint fans of Pooh, fans of irony, and fans of horror. Don't bother. Read full review
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VarietyDennis HarveyFeb 16, 2023
It’s bad enough that the film doesn’t have the smarts to actually satirize its inspirational source. But bizarrely, it doesn’t really send up slasher tropes, either, while lacking the skillset to take play them seriously. Read full review
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ColliderRoss BonaimeFeb 16, 2023
What could've been a halfway decent dumb idea becomes a full-on nightmare of bad choices and terrible filmmaking. Read full review
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