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Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey
2023 · Film · 84 min
Directed by Rhys Frake-Waterfield
After Christopher Robin abandons them for college, Pooh and Piglet embark on a bloody rampage as they search for a new source of food.
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Like was saw with Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19623240/), there's now also a slightly higher budget movie taking advantage of Popeye entering the public domain: Popeye the Slayer Man (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt30956852/). Great line from the trailer: "You know why the factory closed down 20 years ago? There was a spinach contamination."
Not be confused with Pops the Slayer Man (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt33362807/), also coming out next year.
I agree! They could be making movies like Winnie the Pooh, Blood and Honey or maybe the Saw movies. Lots of creativity there and no law against it. Probably wouldn't have been fired. But people-a husband and wife pleasuring each other? Intolerable! And while we are at it, you know that statue of David? Put some pants on it!
Actually, Disney is incredibly aggressive legally when it comes to other people trying to use Germanic fairy tales in their own works, even if it's completely independent from Disney and there's no risk of confusion.
Citation needed.
In the past decade there have been more than a dozen movies based on the same Germanic fairy tales that Disney has exploited. Disney didn't sue over any of them.
Disney didn't even sue over Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, and that is based on the version of Winnie the Pooh that they actually own. (The original stories and characters are now in the public domain though.)
I don't know if this would work. Right now, Winnie the Pooh has gone public domain, and if you've seen the reaction to "Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey" or a new video game called "Winnie's Hole"... most people really, really do not like that Winnie the Pooh is being expanded in the horror direction. Some are even calling for copyright to be eternal because the public is showing that it cannot handle public domain responsibly. There's even a growing argument that copyright actually prevents unoriginal ripoffs and shock content more than it stifles creativity.
Emotionally, I do understand the sentiment. Especially when more content like Mickey Mouse or The Hobbit (in Canada, just the books, next year) go public domain - I wouldn't be shocked if we get calls to just abandon the concept of public domain from how companies are using it.
Let me be clear: I still support Public Domain. I also think people who make slasher films using childhood characters are the most perfect method you could devise, if you were a corporation, to make people mad at Public Domain's existence. If I were Disney and somehow capable of sending money anonymously, I'd pay for the creation of as much awful Winnie the Pooh content as possible; then send a letter to a local senator.
There was a Winnie the Pooh horror film recently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnie-the-Pooh:_Blood_and_Honey