Blood And Honey Director Has More Movies Planned To Ruin Your Childhood

Back in November of 2022, long before the actual release of his “Blood and Honey,” Frake-Waterfield had already announced plans to adapt J.M. Barrie’s “Peter and Wendy” into a bleak horror movie called “Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare.” He recently expanded on that idea, saying that his version of the fairy Tinkerbell would be an obese drug addict. More recently, the director also announced a plan for “Bambi: The Reckoning,” based on Felix Salten’s 1923 novel “Bambi, a Life in the Woods,” which would transform a gentle fawn into an unstoppable killing machine. Naturally, when ambitions are running high, crossovers enter the conversation, and Frake-Waterfield mentioned that he may also already be considering a mash-up, saying:

“The idea is that we’re going to try and imagine they’re all in the same world, so we can have crossovers. […] People have been messaging saying they really want to see Bambi versus Pooh.”

While “Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey” is not a good movie, Frake-Waterfield seems to have made it as part of a larger, more metatextual media criticism project. Milne’s “Winnie-the-Pooh” only entered into the public domain in January of 2022, after spending decades in the hands of the Disney corporation. Disney also made a celebrated version of “Peter Pan” in 1953, and of “Bambi” in 1942. Disney, through decades of insidious marketing, have unofficially branded multiple public domain fairy tales as “theirs.” Cinderella may belong to the people, but Disney’s 1950 version is what audiences might first picture. 

Frake-Waterfield wants to point out that any version of these stories is possible, including the sickest, dumbest slashers you could imagine. “Blood and Honey” is just as valid in a media landscape as Disney’s 1977 film “The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.”