Winnie, are you on a killing spree again? Silly old bear!

Winnie the Pooh, the lovable, pantsless bear beloved by children of all ages for close to a century, isn’t what he used to be. Hey, after Covid, who is? Winnie’s transformation from a kind-hearted, honey-loving bear to a cold-blooded slasher is a bit more dramatic though. (In news that won’t surprise you, the rights to the IP entered the public domain at the start of this year so don’t bother calling Disney.)

In the trailer for the upcoming indie film Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, pushed out on an unsuspecting public on Wednesday, we see a whole new side of not only Pooh, but of Piglet as well. The trailer shows Christopher journeying back to the Hundred Acre Wood to find that his childhood friends have turned feral, terrorizing a group of college kids on holiday.

They violently kidnap a bikini-clad young woman from the jacuzzi (Winnie and Piglet have apparently been upgrading the place), and paint “GET OUT” across the windows in blood. They gouge out eyes, decapitate someone, and then ritualistically gorge themselves on honey. A.A. Milne would certainly agree that in this story, there must be honey, one imagines.

The film stars Amber Doig-Thorne, Maria Taylor and Chris Cordell as Piglet. Rhys Frake-Waterfield wrote and directed for UK-based Jagged Edge Productions. The movie was shot in England.

The movie is apparently being rushed through posts-production, although no release date has been announced yet, but it is expected later this year.