The following contains spoilers for Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2, now playing in theaters
Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 is a cartoonishly brutal horror film, with this horrific take on Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends from the 100 Acre Woods racking up over two dozen kills by the end of the film. Director Rhys Frake-Waterfield hasn’t been shy about teasing this fact, with promotional interviews given ahead of the film’s release promising over thirty kills would happen in the film. Although some of them occur off-screen, Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2‘s story is more than happy to show off plenty of deaths on-screen.
Notably, Winnie-the-Pooh and Piglet aren’t alone this time around. Accompanied by vicious takes on Owl and Tigger, Pooh leaves the woods in the new horror film and brings the violence directly to the people of Ashton. Even when the humans seem to get the better of the monsters, their efforts are rendered moot by revelations in the ending of Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2. Here are the biggest deaths (and most important fake-outs) from Pooh’s latest slaughter.
Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 sees the titular take on the silly old bear kill dozens of people, including during a particularly brutal sequence towards the end of the film where he attacks a rave. While Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 features plenty of surprising lore drops about the origins of this take on the Winnie-the-Pooh franchise, much of the movie is still dedicated to gore and bloodshed. This is true from the film’s early moments, where Pooh and Owl slaughter three women trying to connect with the spirits of those slain in the previous 100 Acre Massacre.
Throughout the movie, Pooh kills numerous people, ranging from teenagers to police officers. His rampage in a rave sees Pooh slaughter dozens of people, many of which happen off-screen. This sequence features many of the film’s most brutal deaths, such as sawing a woman’s head in half or throwing someone into a furnace to burn alive. The most tragic fatalities though are Chris’ parents. Given revelations that Pooh is actually a mutated version of their long-lost son Billy, their deaths carry an additional tragic edge.
The twisted version of Tigger in Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 is a brutal character as well, with a more verbose attitude and sadistic approach to killing. Tigger isn’t fully revealed until the third act of the film, although he does seem to kill some police officers off-screen who make the mistake of walking into their lair. Tigger eventually takes part in the slaughter at the rave, killing several people with his claws.
Although his murders are less brutally creative than Pooh, his methods are far more sadistic and surprising. Tigger openly taunts the ravers he follows and hacks to pieces. Thanks to his agility, Tigger is able to suddenly jump in front of a target before using his claws to stab them to death. Tigger takes direct cues from slasher villains like Freddy Krueger, with his claws operating in a similar fashion to Freddy’s knife-tipped gloves. Although Tigger doesn’t kill as many people as Pooh, his kills are still fairly vicious.
Owl is quickly established as the leader of the twisted take on the Winnie-the-Pooh cast. Capable of speech and forward planning in a way that the more blunt Pooh isn’t, Owl is the one who argues in favor of slaughtering people throughout the film, and earns some kills himself. Owl is present during the first kills of the film, and delivers the killing blow to one of the three women in the opening scene. He later picks off a birdwatcher by surprise, dragging him into the air and eventually ripping him to pieces.
Owl’s most horrifying kill is Finn, who Owl successfully sneaks up on. After spitting an acidic liquid all over Finn’s face, Owl finishes him off by driving his talons through the man’s eyes. While Owl may only be personally responsible for a few kills in the film, his drive to take the fight out of the woods and to humanity makes him the architect of all the chaos that plays out in the film. This gives him a share of the responsibility for the film’s ensuing bloodbath, even if he isn’t the one dispensing with many of the kills.
For all of the deaths perpetrated by Pooh and his friends, there are a few deaths in Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 that are due to human error. While searching for Pooh and the other hybrids in the woods, a hunter ends up getting shot by his compatriots. Cavendish, who had been hired by Dr. Gallup years before the film to kidnap children to be used as his test subjects, ends up turning a gun on himself out of guilt over his prior acts.
Notably, one of the film’s most important human deaths happened long before the events of the film. Dr. Gallup is revealed to be behind the experimentation that created Pooh and his friends. According to Cavendish, he eventually couldn’t stand the horrors he’d taken part in and claims to have shot Gallup directly in the head, right between the eyes. For most people, that would be the end. However, Gallup’s experiments gained an impressive healing factor. If Gallup were able to replicate that attribute for himself, it’s possible that the character could survive his injuries and return.
While Pooh and his allies spend much of Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 slaughtering their way through the town of Ashton, one of their own is actually among the film’s first apparent fatalities. While stalking a trio of hunters in the 100 Acre Woods, Piglet is caught by surprise when the hunters get the drop on him. One of the hunters uses a shotgun to shoot his head off, seemingly slaying the mutated pig/man hybrid.
Owl brings Piglet’s body back to their hideout, and uses his apparent demise as proof that humans will keep attacking them — convincing Pooh to lash out. However, Piglet’s death isn’t what it seems. Similar to the other creations of Dr. Gallup, it turns out Piglet has a form of healing factor that allows him to recover from even the most fatal of wounds. While Piglet spends most of the film removed from the action as a result of losing his head, the final moments of Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 reveal that he’s already starting to regenerate from the injury.
Winnie-the-Pooh gets a lot of blood on his paws by the end of Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2, and even ends up killing his parents before they can find out the truth of his identity as their long-lost son Billy. However, by the end of the film, Chris can seemingly put the creature to rest by hitting him in the head with an ax. It’s a brutal way to end the film, with Chris’ seemingly ending the threat of Pooh once and for all.
However, a scene that plays after the initial credits reveals that Owl recovered Pooh’s body and brought it back to their hideout. Similar to Piglet, the film ends with Pooh steadily recovering from the injury. This sets up Pooh’s return in future stories set in the Twisted Childhood universe. Considering the announcements that Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 will receive a direct sequel as well as play into a larger Twisted Childhood horror crossover, it’s clear that despite Christopher Robin’s best efforts, the story of this horrific version of Winnie-the-Pooh is far from done.