The WINNIE THE POOH Horror Film is an Abomination 

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Wait.. why are the the entities in the premise starving after Christopher stops feeding them? HOW did they eat before then? WTF.

I kinda wish this horror movie took into consideration the absolute *loathing* the real life Christopher Robin had for his father and the legacy he had no choice in being a part of. That would've made for an actually interesting premise imo: how a character grows up with constant reminders of his past perpetuated by other people and being seemingly unable to escape from them. But no, we get generic silent serial killer with a bear mask on.

My biggest issue with Blood and Honey is that it really doesn't do enough with a genuinely cool concept and in particular I feel what cements this is comparing it to another trendy, kind of meme film which is The Mean One, the slasher about the Grinch that had Art the Clown playing the dude. The Mean One LIVES for its stupidity. It fully understands that it's a cheap one-note joke but goddamn, it will make sure it gets all the use out of that joke from actually clever references to Seuss's work to the Grinch being as animated as the Jim Carrey version to just the fun crazy kills we get, it's a movie that has fun with itself. If you watch it and know not to take it seriously? You'll have a blast. Blood and Honey is literally just the most paint-by-numbers slasher but the killers bought a special Winnie the Pooh DLC pack hence the costumes and the thing is it didn't have to be. The kill with the bees? Genuinely cool and it could've benefit the film if they used it more like maybe if the bees buzzing was used as like Pooh's take on Jason's "Ki ki ki ma ma ma". If they talked? We could've heard some neat twisted variations on classic Pooh lines. Kills could've been macabre twists on events from Pooh media but they instead opted for something so basic and as a result? I don't see any passion or love, I just see as James A. Janisse once said, clickbait horror.

Steamboat Willie is about to get the same treatment. It's every 12 year old on the internet being like: *"WHAT IF CHILDHOOD CARTOON EVIL? WITH HYPER-REALISTIC BLOOD? "*

They seriously gave Winnie a mask and called it a day. The Vessi ad looks better produced than the movie

2:42 ‘Christ, does anyone remember Shrek is Love?!’ You think we choose to remember, that shit’ll never leave how memories

Yes. And no, the low budget is no excuse for bad filmmaking. You see for example the Spanish horror film REC was made cheap for 2007 standards and even OG Evil Dead adjusted for inflation is still less than what this abomination costs. The director of this lacks one important thing: talent

Jim Cummings, the current voice actor for Disney's version of Winnie the Pooh (as well as Tigger) HATES this movie with a passion. He even threatened to sue the makers of this movie if they were to try to imitate his voice in it.

Only a matter of time before we get that RYAN HOLLINGER: BLOOD AND HOYEVER movie.

I think I lowkey hate this movie. I tried to watch it and just stopped somewhere in the middle. It's cheaply made in all the worst ways so it shows and the acting is okay at best. But what is probably the worst part is that it doesn't really do anything new or interesting with it's sourcematerial. Not really. The whole basic of the movie is "hey look at this cute childrens cartoon character do brutal things". That consept is nowhere new since internets fanfic and -art forums started. The key for it to work well is in how you bring a new dark point of view to whatever you're adapting. And this has nothing to do with Winnie the Pooh. The characters and setpieces are there, but change those and what's left? Absolutely nothing what's not already in other billion slasher movies out there. I'm also dissapointed that this movie made enough money on meme-status alone to give these idiots a chance to keep doing more. I'm not coming back for Peter Pan or Bambi or whatever they'll adapt next to make a basically the same shitty movie. Also sidenote, I think this might be the most misogynistic horror-movie I've seen in resent memory. All the victims are women and the only male-character of importance gets away in the end. Even the 80's and 90's slasher-franchises attempted for more ballanced bodycounts. But in this the gruesomness of some of the deaths of these girls feels like it's telling of something deeper.

Some kid is going to see this way too young and consider it a horror masterpiece. That's their target demographic.

Waterfield talking about how much integrity he has compared to the other hacks like him reminds me of Matthew Santoro and his integrity as a creator; the guy makes countdown videos. Waterfield is a hack who thinks he's making something profound. And the fact that this hack went on a months long rant against reviewers like Cody Leech really tells you a lot about the guy.

First "hoyevver" drops at 0:10.... and there's a PUPPY!!

The way you explain the movie sounds like its a 15 short film, with an extra hour slapped on at the end.

Putting the puppy in the sponsored segment was a genius move I sat through the whole thing without skipping and didn't even realise lmao

The whole “Winnie the Pooh: but Evil” was already done on a radio show. “Pooh goes ape shlt”. Pooh takes drugs from the “spaced out rabbit” and uses a hatchet and buries “that annoying twat” before sewing Kanga’s pouch shut with Roo inside. Pooh takes some more and dies of an overdose, dreaming of the time he proved that he was the only bear with a willy in the Hundred Acres Woods.

Okay, very American interpretation, but this film reminds me of "don't feed the bears" PSAs. You're not supposed to feed wild animals because then they can lose the ability to feed themselves. They'll keep going to humans to provide them food, usually by digging through trash. Being in close proximity to each is usually bad for both humans and wild animals. Presumably the creatures survived somehow before Christopher Robin came around, but they couldn't anymore after he took care of them. And then they resorted to eating people.

I miss 18 minutes ago when I didn’t know this movie existed

The most entertaining bad movies to watch are the ones that are directed and edited in a way where it's taking itself so goddamned seriously

I get why the filmmakers wanted to make this as quickly as possible, but if they had actually taken the time to write a serious and heartfelt psychological drama/thriller, it could have been great.

What do you you mean 'noone talks of going to college' in the UK? In Scotland certainly we do (and we have several in my city), it's just that college is college and uni is uni. You'd get weird looks in Glasgow if you went to Clyde College and called it the "tech".

Congrats on the new house and pupper! Cheers to another Monday banger

The description of the dark, cartoony opening ironically reminded me of last year's "Unicorn Wars." Seemingly cute, sweet fantasy animals twisted by their own pain and hubris - *that's* a film worth watching, if you haven't! Doubly so for the team's previous work, "Birdboy: The Forgotten Children."

8:53 And a serious subplot about stalking is out of place in a film where Pooh and Piglet kill people.

What’s crazy is this is how I found out about the sequel.

I don't mind twisted versions of innocent stuff. I just want it to be good. What's next? "actually it was all a coma dream"?

I worked at one of the theaters which had it Barely anyone came and the few that did hated it

The worse crime this movie has committed is wasting the title "Blood and Honey" that is a good title

It’s interesting you call College’s “techs”. I’m Scottish, and here we call Universities “Universities” and colleges “colleges”.

I think the rant on setting a story in the UK but then consistently using American terminology is a valid complaint to have. It's just poor writing. If your creating a story that' set in another country than your own, you HAVE to commit to that. You have to do the research. You can't write it like they're the same place. If you don't want to be bothered, then make it take place in your own country.

If you want something that actually does this concept justice, read Winterset Hollow. It's The Most Dangerous Game with the animals of The Wind in the Willows.

Should we could call this genre “Domainsploitation”?

I worked with the director of The Banana Splits Movie on a TV Show recently. I had (pretty mindless) fun with the movie though and she’s super cool! Also pretty wild filmography subject-wise

It took me ages to get around to watching the rest of your Five Nights At Winnie's upload because THE FIRST MINUTE WITH THE PUPPY REPLAYED AGAIN AND AGAIN AAAGGHHHH SO CUTE

Winnie: "Hello, Ryan. Could I have a small smackle of....? Ryan: "HOYEVER." Winnie: "Oh bother."

I feel like inverting this story - have Christopher Robin break bad and the toys attempt to reason and ultimately do battle with him might be a better way to spin this if you're really committed to making a Pooh horror film. Granted, that's probably a scenario that requires at least part way convincing animated toys, whether puppets or CG, or just folks in costumes scaled down with effects. Probably outside the budget of something like this without a great deal of creativity.

It would’ve done more as a cartoon rather than a live action film. I saw this movie at a Walmart and I was like wtf

We have plenty of Subarus in the United States. 632,086 were sold here last year.

CONGRATS on the house and especially the puppy, Cheddar is such a good name for that little scamp, they're adorable!

I wish they had more creative killers than rubber mask wearing, generic slashers. Would have been cool to see them as toys that become monsters the more Christopher Robin fears them. Play into them being brought to life by his imagination, anything but slap a mask on say they're pissed off and call it a day

The scene with the men attacking Winnie was *so* poorly shot. Community stageplay-worthy level of impact to the blows.

The newspaper articles were my moment, too. The guy owning the house isn't like "Oh, hey ladies, the gender most likely to be homicide victims, you might want to be careful being here in the sudden murder and disappearance capital of the UK!"

Delightfully devilish of you to put your new puppy on screen so we have to watch the sponsor segment

If someone tries to make a Popeye slasher film once he becomes part of the public domain I swear that any public domain horror film won't have any grounds for professional judgement.

I still say the right way to do a dark Winnie the Pooh story would be about a bear cub becoming friends with a stray pig and then going on a quest for revenge against humanity when they recapture and eat him.

Want a movie that will actually scare you with a murderous bear? Watch The Edge. Written my David Mamet. Music by Jerry Goldsmith. Stars Hopkins, Alec Baldwin, Harold Perinue.

15:41 Waterfield's lying there since he paints the film as dead serious when it isn't.

I listened to one of the Fangoria podcasts interviewing the director back before this movie came out. I was deeply embarrassed for the host because the dude was clearly a cynical, opportunist hack.

I know I'm going to get flack for this, but I actually had fun with this film. Yes, it's got more flaws than can be counted, and yes, it's terrible and does nothing new in the slasher genre beyond make Winnie the Pooh a mad killer. However, I had a laugh watching it and am looking forward to seeing the sequel later this year. Congrats on the home and the puppy, Ryan (fellow homeowner under 35 here). I hope you have many happy experiences with both. Also, please consider covering Prince of Darkness one of these days.

As eye-rolling as these horror films made to capitalize on an IP becoming public domain has been, the comcept of a Pooh horror story isn't that bad of a concept. Especially if you play with either psychological angle with Christopher Robin's wild imagination taking the better of him in a dark turn or a more supernatural, animalistic side, where the talking animals begin to revert back into primal creatures driven by bloodlust.

Cheddar is wonderful, and I hope they stick around for a loooonnnngg time ❤

I was initially entertained by the opening sequence, that had something going for it. Then we just got 2 generic slasher villains and lame kills; a hammer, chains and a knife? Should have brought them back to their most wild and feral form, it's a bear and a wild boar! They've got all the tools growing from their bodies.

My husband wasn't impressed bc I chose this as our date night movie 😅 we were laughing more than anything. Especially when the girl with the glasses askes if Pooh was Zoe... howling, just howling.

Congrats on the house and puppy! I thought the animation in the beginning was really creepy but the rest of the movie was well...

That puppy is adorable! What's his name? Is he housebroken yet?

*Reads title* "No, it's WORSE" *Plays video*

I think I'm just really over how "creepy pasta x IP" this was. A good, dark retelling can make you appreciate both the new and old story. When it's just mean and or just gorn....there is so much other entertainment to enjoy.

They spent so much time thinking about if they could that they didn't consider whether or not they should.

This movie had so many missed opportunities I didn't have high hopes but I thought it would be at least fun or a good gore fest, for a guy who wanted this to be up there with Terrifier he sure pulled his punches. The Winnie the Pooh mask is so dang cool! The fact that this movie was called blood and honey and did not have a scene where there was a dead body in a jar of honey just makes me mourn the possibilities of how fun it could have been.

The characters had a *gun* and still got killed. In short, yes

Congrats on the house and good luck with the puppy, Ryan!

This movie gives off Evil Dead reboot movie vibes especially in the beginning.

8:06 Kudos to whoever made that "Bear Man Pig Sighted" newspaper lol

And a month later, they trailer/posters for a sequel "Winnie the pooh - Blood and Honey 2"

I'm tempted to write out my drinking rules for every Ryan video. Long time fan! Thanks for covering such a wide range of films!

The one outside of the station is a Mitsubishi Lancer Evo (probably a 4 or a 5) round foglights on the front lower bumper and hood vents

My favorite character was the lady who was like "come on piglet and had the one on one around the fire place

The word college is used in the UK.

Props for working “mise-en-scene” into this, film student classic

First of all: congratulations on your new home and new puppy, Ryan! Second of all: thank you for doing this movie. I never wanted to touch the damn thing so you've saved me a lot of time spent cringing and wincing

In America college has become all pervasive because at least the way most American universities are set up it's that a university is made up of several colleges. There are smaller colleges that are just basically a singular or small orbit of related subjects but we've typically started calling those community colleges. Still the reason we say going to colleges is that Americans going to secondary education are generally told focus on their major more than the whole university and then it just became generic over time. University is the institution college is the major. Like I went to a university and I would call it a university when talking about it, but I technically completed the college of literary arts.

Aww your puppy is so cute!!!

Please do Dogtooth!!

I feel like a truly great winnie the pooh horror movie would either be something more on the nose like Chucky or perhaps embrace the cheap looking masks by making it a weird winnie the pooh version of Clockwork orange.

I don't know if it's fair to characterise the director as being on the grift. My understanding is that he was making these ultra low budget films because he liked old slasher stuff and wanted to films featuring practical effects, with the intention for it to be displayed at minor film festivals for other enthusiasts and maybe go direct to video/streaming afterwards. In that scenario, the Winnie the Pooh film is probably going to be a nice change of pace from your typical gore flick. I'm pretty sure that the only reason that this film was made was because he saw that it was going to enter public domain and he felt like it would be funny to make a parody with the characters, only for it to go viral after the film had been made and ultimately getting mainstream distribution. This film was not intended as a theatrical release and the budget it had was dramatically lower than anything else that would have been shown concurrently. I'd be interested to see if the sequel is better, because it would have the benefit of being made with the intent of being watched by more than a small room full of people who really like old school practical effects and aren't really expecting to have a particularly compelling story beyond that.

No It was even worse

My thought on the fact this movie exists and it's getting a sequel: "Oh bother..."

Its a Mitsubishi Lancer and they're hardly definitively UK. We a lot of them here in Canada and they're fairly popular.

I'll be honest, Waterfield saying he believes his work has longevity, I completely forgot they made this shlock. He really does lack any self awareness.

Cheers to you for making it through the whole thing. I couldn’t finish it. It was boring, logically lacking, and did I mention boring?

My idea for a dark and subversive Winnie the Pooh would be a kind of alternate history take where Christopher Milne's difficulty in school and subsequent military service were significantly worse. It would start out with him as child and (because magic, or whatever) his father's books managed to bring the characters to life and they try to be his friend and help him with his bullying but he just resents them. Then when he comes back from war, he discovers that in his absence, his father's books magically manifested Christopher Robin from the books into reality. So while he was out fighting, a perfect and immortal version of himself got to have fun lighthearted adventures with what was supposed to be Milne's best friends. The movie would end with Milne going all Rambo and capturing Christopher Robin, Pooh, and the others and selling them to an evil corporation to be immortal entertainments who'll never age, don't need to be paid, and don't have any real rights of their own. It's a grim ending, until you catch on to the fact that the existence of the film, in a meta sense, implies that the manifested characters obtained some sort of freedom.

2:20 y'all, bear with him - Ryan, are you being held hostage? Blink twice if Winnie is with you now!

Have you done a video on Slither? My apologies if I missed it.

Steamboat Willie Horror movie…isn’t that essentially just Itchy and Scratchy?

I don’t consider to Blood and Honey to be a good movie, but it is an interesting movie, and that’s really what matters.

One of the only movies i ever gave 0.5 stars on Letterboxd 👏

i have nothing to add because you pretty much hit the nail on the head. like this movie could've been *fun* if it didn't take itself so seriously

Congrats on the house and puppy!! 🎉

What's so British about Subaru? There are loads of them in the US, too.

"Bear with me on this one"...

I don't think Subarus are more unique to the UK than the US as where I live it seems like every fifth car is a Subaru, and I myself even owned one for a while without even planning to do so.

Ryan have you ever watched the toolbox murders? It came out the same year as Halloween but is never talked about. It's not a masterpiece but mannnn it has some 70s charmmm

Ryan, I've been subcribed to you for years for my psychological horror fix. Know all of your efforts have been lost to Cheddar, they are my new main inspiration and love. Sorry Ryan.

PUPPY!!!! every sponsor should have a puppy video attached

House AND as puppy. Living the dream my friend.

We do say college in the UK. I've never heard anyone say "tech"

Let's remember that terrible horror spin offs for existing properties have existed for years, see creepy pasta, it's just they can legally be paid for them now.

Honestly I couldn't even really enjoy this as a bad movie with friends. we were all so bored that we were practically falling asleep.

With all of his sponser love he gives I honestly wouldn't be surprised if he named his new puppy Vessi.