Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey II ★★½

A YEAR ago I gave English slasher film Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey a one-and-a-half star review and labelled it one of the worst films of 2023.

For two reasons that film made money  – it cost little too make and had a novelty value.

Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey II is again directed by Rhys Frake-Waterfield and written by Matt Leslie, but is a better product overall.

You can clearly see there was more money to spend on sets, locations and script work although, once again, some sequences are purposely lit and edited to mask the quality of special-effects.

The make-up is slightly better and a nightclub massacre sequence is particularly good.

This time there is also a little less reliance on purely jump scares.

Best of all, the sequel makes a decent stab at creating a new backstory to palpate over the huge crack in the first film’s storyline i.e. the make-up for Pooh and Piglet.

Our two murderous friends are joined this time by Owl and Tigger for this second instalment of a so-called Twisted Childhood Universe that intends to farm other children’s’ classics that have come out of copyright protection.

Watched at the cinema.