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Published August 31, 2022

Updated 1:57PM

Watch: 'Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey' official trailer

The new "Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey" trailer is out, and warning -- it's graphic. (Credit: Jagged Edge Productions and ITN Studios)

LOS ANGELES - This is certainly not a bedtime story. 

The first trailer for "Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey," a horrifying twist on the childhood classic, has officially dropped — and it’s filled with blood and gore as Pooh and Piglet go on a murderous rampage. 

The independent slasher film still follows the classic characters Pooh and Piglet through the Hundred Acre Wood. But food has become scarce after the friends were abandoned by Christopher Robin, who went to college, and things have gone seriously wrong. 

Rhys Frake-Waterfield, writer, producer, and director of the film, previously told FOX Television Stations that once Christopher returns, he finds his friends have become feral and unhinged.

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A grown-up Christopher returns to the forest, causing them to revert to their animal instincts and essentially become bloodthirsty murderers, attacking hikers and campers nearby their den of horrors.

In the new trailer, a group of five women on a cabin trip cross paths with the sadistic duo, and all hell breaks loose.

A freeze frame from “WINNIE THE POOH: BLOOD AND HONEY” featuring Pooh and Piglet and an unsuspecting victim. (Jagged Edge Productions and ITN Studios) (Jagged Edge Productions and ITN Studios)

"One girl is kidnapped to be harvested later on in their den, which has expanded significantly from the tree-house in the original," Frake-Waterfield told FOX Television Stations in May. 

The nearly two-minute video ends with the two creatures seemingly pouring two liquids — likely blood and honey — into a tank. 

"They enjoy making other people suffer and, if hungry, they eat them," Frake-Waterfield said. 

Freeze frame from "Blood and Honey" featuring Pooh. (Jagged Edge Productions and ITN Studios )

Disney still owns the rights to the cartoon versions of "Winnie the Pooh," but the original A.A. Milne books entered the public domain at the beginning of this year. Once a work enters the public domain it can legally be shared, performed, reused, repurposed, or sampled without permission or cost.

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This means the filmmakers of the new horror movie can include elements from the original books, leaving out any new elements from Disney. Frake-Waterfield said the team hopes the film will give audiences a re-imagined and proper scare that is nowhere along the lines of the generic werewolf, zombie, or ghost flick storyline.

"I went with Winnie because it’s so bizarre and has so much potential to be creative and include some fun horror moments," Frake-Waterfield added. 

This story was reported from Cincinnati. Catherine Stoddard and the Associated Press contributed.

Oh, bother.

Just when you thought 2022 couldn't get weirder, the slasher movie "Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey" dropped its first blood-filled trailer in August. Drop the mic, or the bloody sledgehammer.

The horror film features a deranged version of the honey- and hug-loving Pooh Bear, along with best friend Piglet, the very-much-alive stuffed animals depicted in author A.A. Milne's beloved children's books.

Only in "Blood and Honey,"  Pooh is silent, wielding knives and chloroform, while angrily seeking revenge against his onetime human BFF (best friend forever) Christopher Robin (and some random woman in a hot tub, this being a cheesy slasher film, after all).

How is it even possible that this is happening to the silly old bear who famously said "A hug is always the right size"? And will Disney, which acquired the rights to the Pooh characters back in 1961, be out for blood?

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What is 'Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey' based on?

The movie is (very) loosely based on Milne's famous characters.

Director Rhys Waterfield, who also wrote and co-produced the film, told Variety in May that “Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey” is a horror film starring Pooh and Piglet as "the main villains going on a rampage" after being abandoned by a college-bound Christopher Robin. While Robin was away at school, the two once-lovable pals turned "feral" in their quest for food and survival. "It’s made Pooh and Piglet’s life quite difficult," Waterfield said.

The film was shot in 10 days in England, not far from Ashdown Forest, the inspiration for Milne’s imaginary Hundred Acre Wood in the "Winnie the Pooh" stories. 

A "Blood and Honey" poster issued last month carried the warning, "This ain't no bedtime story."

A release date for the film hasn't been announced.

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Is 'Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey' from Disney? 

Disney isn't involved; Jagged Edge Productions made the film and ITN Studios will distribute it.

So how, in the name of sweet honey, is this possible? Because Pooh and Piglet, introduced in the 1926 book "Winnie-the-Pooh," entered the public domain in 2022.

U.S. copyright law is usually limited to the life of the author, plus 70 years. The Copyright Term Extension Act, implemented in 1998, protects corporate authorship rights for 95 years from the first publication or 120 years after its creation, whichever ends sooner. 

Is Disney losing Winnie the Pooh?

No. Disney’s Pooh is still protected, but the company no longer has an exclusive right to Milne’s work. 

The "Blood and Honey" producers had to be careful to not step too close to Disney's version. While the movie character's mask is clearly Disney Pooh, the bear has swapped his famed red shirt for a lumberjack shirt and Piglet dons all black.

How does Walt Disney feel about this?

The House of the Mouse has not commented on the film and bloody outcry.

But Winnie the Pooh is among the most valuable media franchises in the world, accumulating more than $80 billion through the years, putting it on par with Mickey Mouse, according to The Motley Fool. The investing advice company estimates that Pooh and friends generate $3 billion to $6 billion annually for Disney. 

"Disney is going to lose millions and a valuable copyright that it’s been able to leverage on all sorts of merchandise. But it’s had protection for years and has been granted term extensions," Donald P. Harris, associate dean for academic affairs at Temple University's Beasley School of Law, told the university's website.

Is Tigger spared in this bloodbath?

Tigger, the rambunctious tiger who first appeared in Milne's works in 1928, is still protected by copyright. So he won't appear in "Blood and Honey." But brace yourself: The trailer also features a crude, bloody grave for poor old Eeyore, a victim of this upside-down world.

Will the righteous outcry stop the release of 'Blood and Honey'?

Not a chance. The film's producers are reaping the benefits of a massive publicity windfall.

Waterfield told Variety that the filmmakers are rushing to cash in while the attention is there.

"Because of all the press and stuff, we’re just going to start expediting the edit and getting it through post-production as fast as we can," he said, vowing to make "sure it’s still good. It’s gonna be a high priority."

Christmas slasher 'The Mean One' takes page from 'Blood and Honey'

Winnie the Pooh isn't the only beloved childhood icon getting the horror film treatment.

"The Mean One" serves a macabre parody of the Dr. Seuss character Grinch, the green-haired beast and holiday curmudgeon popularized in the 1957 children's book, and later 1966 TV film, "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!"

Directed by Steven LaMorte, "The Mean One" keeps the signature grouchiness of the Grinch, with the "green-skinned grump...living on a mountain high above the festive small town of Newville, despising the holiday season," according to a press release on LaMorte's website.

The sinister twist is that The Mean One "butchered" the parents of Cindy You-Know-Who, a play on "Grinch" protagonist Cindy Lou Who, two decades ago. Cindy returns to "seek closure" for her parents' death, only to find The Mean One hasn't lost his murderous thirst, or urge "to carve the roast beast."

The film, set for a Dec. 15 release, stars "Terrifier 2" star David Howard Thornton as The Mean One and "The Sandra West Diaries" actress Krystle Martin as Cindy You-Know-Who.

Contributing: Wyatte Grantham-Philips, Edward Segarra

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