Again in November of 2022, lengthy earlier than the precise launch of his “Blood and Honey,” Frake-Waterfield had already introduced plans to adapt J.M. Barrie’s “Peter and Wendy” right into a bleak horror film known as “Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare.” He just lately expanded on that concept, saying that his model of the fairy Tinkerbell can be an overweight drug addict. Extra just lately, the director additionally introduced a plan for “Bambi: The Reckoning,” primarily based on Felix Salten’s 1923 novel “Bambi, a Life within the Woods,” which might remodel a delicate fawn into an unstoppable killing machine. Naturally, when ambitions are operating excessive, crossovers enter the dialog, and Frake-Waterfield talked about that he may already be contemplating a mash-up, saying:

“The thought is that we’ll try to think about they’re all in the identical world, so we will have crossovers. […] Individuals have been messaging saying they actually need to see Bambi versus Pooh.”

Whereas “Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey” is just not an excellent film, Frake-Waterfield appears to have made it as half of a bigger, extra metatextual media criticism undertaking. Milne’s “Winnie-the-Pooh” solely entered into the general public area in January of 2022, after spending many years within the fingers of the Disney company. Disney additionally made a celebrated model of “Peter Pan” in 1953, and of “Bambi” in 1942. Disney, via many years of insidious advertising, have unofficially branded a number of public area fairy tales as “theirs.” Cinderella could belong to the folks, however Disney’s 1950 model is what audiences may first image. 

Frake-Waterfield needs to level out that any model of those tales is feasible, together with the sickest, dumbest slashers you might think about. “Blood and Honey” is simply as legitimate in a media panorama as Disney’s 1977 movie “The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.”