An ultra-low-budget movie in which Winnie the Pooh and Piglet go on a brutal killing spree has swept the board at the Razzie Awards, winning five of the 10 categories.
"Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey" won worst picture, worst screenplay, worst director and worst rip-off. Pooh and Piglet, depicted in the film as blood-thirsty killers, also won worst on-screen couple.
The slasher film took advantage of the copyright for AA Milne's classic tale expiring, and reimagined the characters of the Hundred Acre Wood as vicious serial killers.
When it was released last year, the Pooh film received a string of downright awful reviews.
The Guardian called it a "a terrifying combination of not-scary and not-funny" awarding it one star, while Empire said it was "the poorest writing and acting seen in a theatrically-released horror film in living memory".
Still, the live-action flick made for less than $250,000, garnered global headlines and had even provoked death threats from enraged fans in February 2023.
Though it may have been labelled an embarrassment, the Razzie Awards are unlikely to bother director Rhys Frake-Waterfield. His movie grossed nearly $5 million after being given a global theatrical release, thanks to the controversy it generated. A sequel is already scheduled for release later this month.
The 44th Golden Raspberry Awards (aka the Razzies) which honor the worst the film industry had to offer in 2023 are announced the day before the Oscars, (i.e. March 09) serving to mock the following night’s self-congratulatory Tinseltown back-slapping.
FYI, the Razzies were first awarded in 1981 in a Los Angeles living room, the brainchild of UCLA film graduates and industry veterans, who chose the raspberry as a symbol of derision.
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