Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 (2024) on Netflix
Five months after the killings in the Hundred Acre Wood, Christopher Robin returns to his hometown, where most residents blame him for the deaths. Meanwhile, Pooh's home is burned down.
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- IMDb4.6/1013,762 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes48%
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Plot summary
Months after the killings in the Hundred Acre Wood, Christopher Robin is back in Ashdown, the town where he grew up, where the deaths are known as the Hundred Acre Massacre and a film about them has turned most of the town against him. His parents Alan and Daphne, his sister Bunny and his friends Lexy, Finn and Aaron still believe his account. Nightmares about Pooh bring him to the hypnotherapist Mary Darling, who treats an older trauma: his twin brother Billy, taken from their birthday party years ago and never seen again. Deep in the woods, Pooh and Piglet take shelter with Tigger and Owl once their home burns down, and Owl presses Pooh to strike Ashdown rather than wait for more visitors.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 (2024)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- In the sequel, Winnie-the-Pooh's prosthetics cost over $20,000, while the first film's costume cost $770. Lewis Santer said the makeup took up to two hours each day to apply.
- Three days before principal photography began, the costume designer and production designer left the project, forcing producer Scott Chambers to order the raver costumes online; the stress made him ill throughout filming and director Rhys Frake-Waterfield threw up on set during the rave party scene.
- For Christopher Robin's house scenes, director Rhys Frake-Waterfield wanted to film at A. A. Milne's household as a homage, but talks failed. A World War II bunker stood in for the abandoned warehouse.
- Composer Andrew Scott Bell built a "Tigger Tube" from a flexible plumbing tube fitted with part of a trombone for Tigger's scenes, and also used a violin crafted from parts of a cello, a cigar box guitar, and the skull and teeth of a coyote.
- Scott Chambers was hesitant to take over the role of Christopher Robin from Nikolai Leon because he was producing the film and because of the huge negative backlash from the first film, most of it aimed at director Rhys Frake-Waterfield, but accepted the request.
- Lewis Santer prepared to play Tigger by watching two to three horror films a night for a month before filming, studying Freddy Krueger, Pennywise and Art the Clown, and practicing crawling on his arms and legs in his kitchen early in the morning.
- Director Rhys Frake-Waterfield gathered fan feedback through Instagram polls, and the audience's requests led him to include the game Poohsticks, add Tigger, and mix the Hundred Acre Wood and small-town settings.
- The decision was made to retcon the first film into a film within a film, so that its events happened in-universe but the sequel is an adaptation of them, allowing the creatures' designs to change, characters to be recast, and the story to be rewritten.
