Business is above morality: the scandalous horror with Winnie the Pooh comes to the screens

It is much more difficult now to return the good name of Winnie the Pooh – a scandalous horror movie featuring the famous bear and his friend Piglet is on the screens. Its creators made children’s heroes maniacs, offended by all of humanity.

At the same time, no one is afraid of courts – a year ago, the copyright for Alan Milne’s story ended, and now everyone can use the images in any way they like.

It would seem that the plot of a typical horror movie: a company of beautiful girls comes to nature to relax – and then they are attacked by maniacs.

Only one thing distinguishes this film from other representatives of the genre: they attacked the girls Winnie the Pooh and Piglet, who went wild in the forest because they were abandoned to the mercy of fate by Christopher Robin.

A film called “Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey” was shot by Briton Rhys Frake-Waterfield in 10 days, taking advantage of the fact that the copyright on the story “Winnie the Pooh” by Alan Milne had expired. However, let’s face it: he went quite far from the original idea of ​​the book.

“The film was made more like a horror film. And if it is proved, as an option, that in this case the use of characters really distorted the author’s intention, then the heirs, or those persons who protect the author’s rights, can make claims to the director. But specifically ask for permission not necessary when the work is in the public domain”– said Elena Grin, copyright lawyer.

However, possible legal disputes never stopped filmmakers. So, for example, in the 12th year, the film “Aladdin and the Deadly Lamp” was released, in which the plot of the fairy tale was diluted with elements of horror. From “Snow White” they also made a terrible fairy tale in 1997: Sigourney Weaver played the evil queen, and the seven dwarfs were replaced by robbers.

In the ’11 film from Twilight creator Catherine Hardwicke, Little Red Riding Hood meets not just a wolf, but a werewolf. By the way, Russian director Alexander Barshak shot a film in a similar fantasy style, and also about Little Red Riding Hood.

“Our story has nothing to do with the classic plot, as you can say now, from the word” completely “. We tried to somehow connect the fate of a teenager in a collision with something incomprehensible, dark. So to speak, a metaphor for a forest full of dangers in our reality has grown into a world of wolves, an incomprehensible dark future”– director Barshak clarified.

“There is a feeling that the creators, unencumbered by fantasy, simply take a classic story and add storylines and characters that seemed to be randomly taken out of some kind of hat: vampires, werewolves, zombies. This is how the plot of the new film is born”– said film critic Nikolai Nikulin.

For example, the writer Seth Graham-Smith, the author of the book Pride, Prejudice and Zombies, which was based on the trash action movie of the same name, did not change a single line of the classic Jane Austen novel and only added descriptions of battles with the living dead.

Director Svyatoslav Podgaevsky, who specializes in horror films, has made many films based on Slavic fairy tales. For example, “Yaga. Nightmare of the Dark Forest” is a horror film set in our days, in which the terrible Baba Yaga is a witch and pretended to be a nanny.

Of course, from a business point of view, this is the easiest way to get attention for your film. The horror film “Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey” began to be talked about long before the premiere, but this is not a Hollywood movie at all, a low-budget one. But it will definitely pay off – business is above morality.