Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey

A childhood favourite gets a grisly makeover in this amateurish horror that ticks very few fright boxes. A grown-up Christopher Robin (Nikolai Leon) returns to the Hundred Acre Wood to discover that his old pal Pooh and sundry friends have become bloodthirsty homicidal maniacs. Angry at what he perceives as abandonment by his erstwhile human buddy, the bear of very little brain has revenge on his mind and weaponry in his paw. In the hands of sharper parodists the premise possibly has the legs for two or three short sketches in a TV comedy, but when stretched out to feature length, and bereft of humorous intent, it's just a nasty, pointless exercise in gore. Given the plot's supposed starting point of animosity of bear towards boy, there's little logic to the majority of Pooh's victims being women, a state of affairs even more troubling than the shoddy camerawork, dreadful script and appalling performances.