Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey director responds to that 3% Rotten Tomatoes score, and teases Disney horror universe
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When asked how he coped with the negative backlash, the director replied, “It’s a really strange one for me.” Frake-Waterfield tellsSFX magazinein the new issue, which featuresDune 2on the cover: “To be honest, you’ve got to have a really, really thick skin to be a filmmaker because you get heavily, heavily criticized regardless of the means and the resources you have.”
The first bloodthirsty flick saw our once treasured Pooh Bear and Piglet transform into feral killers and terrorize Christopher Robin and his friends at a remote cabin. The film shocked audiences, landing a less-than-impressive 3% fresh rating onRotten Tomatoes. However, the reasoning behind this low score may be down to the fact the film had a $100,000 budget and was shot in just 10 days.
Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 has just hit theaters, and follows Pooh, Piglet, Owl, and Tigger as they go on a murderous rampage through a quiet town. Frake-Waterfield reckons he won’t stop there, either, as more classicDisneycharacters head into the public domain, such as Mickey Mouse, Bambi, and Pinocchio.
“We need to see what the appetite is, but we could do some absolutely crazy stuff, like a crossover between Bambi and Winnie the Pooh,” Frake-Waterfield teases. “That could go incredibly mad. I need to sit down and think how mad we want to go with it! We could have Winnie riding Bambi!” Now, that would be a sight to behold.
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Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 is out now in select theatres. The above is just a snippet of our interview, available inthe latest issue of SFX magazine, which features Dune: Part Two on the cover and is available on newsstands from Wednesday, February 21. For even more from SFX, sign up to ournewsletter, which delivers all the latest exclusives straight to your inbox.
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