Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 - The scoop and digest

Rhys Frake-Waterfield returns to helm the second instalment of The Twisted Childhood Universe.

Before we go any further, original is watched on TV and presented as an adaptation of the 100 Acre Massacre, so sequel is a film within a film.

This explains character redesigns and recasting Christopher, Pooh and Piglet.

Scott Chambers - Christopher Robin

Tallulah Evans - Lexy

Ryan Oliva - Pooh

Teresa Banham - Samantha

Alec Newman - Alan Robin

Simon Callow - Cavendish

Eddy MacKenzie - Piglet

Lewis Santer - Tigger

Marcus Massey - Owl

Toby Wynn-Davies - Dr. Arthur Gallup

Summary

You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

～Winnie-the-Pooh～

Following the murders of the so-called 100 Acre Massacre, Christopher has become a social outcast.

Meanwhile, Pooh and co have been forced into hiding and Piglet is 'killed' when hunters ambush them.

Owl convinces Pooh to leave the woods and take the fight to Ashdown.

Mid-credits

Having recovered the corpses of Pooh, Tigger and Piglet, Owl vows to bring them back.

End-credits

Heffalump, Rabbit, Pinocchio, Peter Pan and Bambi appear as drawings.

Eeny, meeny, miny, moe

Disjointed and pretty boring, but a marked improvement over previous abomination.

Here's how monsters came to be:

Before committing suicide out of guilt, hospital janitor Cavendish tells Christopher that he was hired by twisted scientist Dr. Gallup to kidnap children so he could experiment on them with animal genes.  The kids didn't survive and were buried in the woods, but came back to life as half-human, half-animal hybrids, possessing enhanced regenerative abilities.

Twist is nothing special, but better than expected.

Also, Pooh was Christopher's missing twin brother Billy.

The less said about acting and script the better, but body count is impressive.

Victims are impaled, decapitated, stabbed and dismembered.

Pretty standard stuff, but Pooh and Tigger gatecrashing a rave party is a bloody good time.

From voice to mannerisms, Tigger is basically Freddy Krueger.  Shit kinda works, but CG tail looks so fake, as does Owl occasionally taking flight.

Number 3 has entered development, but up next is Bambi: The Reckoning.

Err, bring it on.