Winnie the Pooh slasher flick mysteriously cancelled in Hong Kong A slasher flick featuring Winnie the Pooh and other characters from A.A. Milne's beloved stories has mysteriously had its Hong Kong debut cancelled. Probably forever. The flick in question is named Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey. The film’s IMDB page offers the following summary of its plot: After Christopher Robin …
He looks a bit like him and in China the Chinese people realised on their social media apps, referencing Xi by name was a bad idea. So everyone started to reference him as Winnie the Pooh as he looks a bit like him at times.
That's when the Winnie the Pooh ban hammer came in and has stuck ever since.
And the amazing and free CCP have now made it illegal to mention that you're poor.
“ He looks a bit like him and in China the Chinese people realised on their social media apps, referencing Xi by name was a bad idea. So everyone started to reference him as Winnie the Pooh as he looks a bit like him at times.”
Anywhere there might be a microphone (that is everywhere public , in a city like Shanghai), we referred to him as Tigger’s Bestie.
What kind of a person wants to make a Winnie the Pooh horror film? It sounds like a drunken joke made in a bar that someone thought was actually a serious suggestion.... The other possibility is that they deliberately made the movie in the hope that negative publicity (from Disney, parents of young children and /or China) would drive ticket sales....
There's also the child abandonment element that states if you abandon children, they and their friends will develop a taste for blood and make blood jelly.
The movie isn't good, I don't see cult status with this as-is. That said, since Pooh has an indestructible constitution and also apparently has telepathic control over flying creatures, a sequel exploring more of Pooh's abilities may be decent.
A A Milne wrote the Pooh stories for his son, Christopher Robin, and as an antidote to the horrors of the First World War. They were supposed to be comforting adventures for children, although without boring adults. (Eeyore complaining that 'It's cold at three O'Clock in the morning' is probably something every parent can sympathise with.). Alan Bennett read them beautifully (for the BBC, I think). I'm a fan, and probably will be avoiding the '... Blood and Honey' instalment, if at all possible.
> What kind of a person wants to make a Winnie the Pooh horror film?
Catkin already noted the commercial motivation, but what strikes me is it looks like they've done so in the blandest, least imaginative manner possible- i.e. shoving the characters into an otherwise completely generic-looking "modern" (i.e. post-2000) slasher film.
Even when first I heard the concept it came across as a wannabe-edgy but lazy cliche that anyone not still in their teens will have seen done to death by now, i.e. thinking that "subverting" innocent childhood characters into doing sexual and/or violent "grown up" things is interesting in itself.
Now THIS is the way that a PLA sock puppet should operate. They more ham-handed stuff gets laughed off too easily.
Okay--you "ask", I'll answer: To increase Xi ridicule. I honestly had no idea why someone would make a Pooh slasher flick until I saw that it was banned in China. Of course.
And if they pull in a few million for doing so? So much the better.
Hollywood's bleeding the bank dry films are hollow compared to these relative upstarts spending £20K and getting huge amounts of press coverage! I for one, look forward to seeing it!
BTW> if you've never seen Cockneys vs. Zombies you absolutely must!
rounds up some citizens in labor camps and conducts mass sterilization campaigns of the Uyghur people – is presumably not keen to be associated with an anthropomorphic bear and pig that go on a homicidal rampage.
I dunno , It shows "I'm a nice benevolent leader , but also dont cross me"
I bet Putin would like it.
I think the film makers got Vlad the inhaler already https://twitter.com/puffzaddi/status/517983062169489408
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