Warning: Spoilers below for Winnie the Pooh: Blood and HoneyWinnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey re-imagines Pooh into a killer with similar durability as Michael Myers. Winnie the Pooh has been an iconic character for decades, forming a close friendship with Christopher Robin and joining the collection of Disney characters adored by children around the world. None of Pooh's tenderness and warmth are to be found in Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, with Pooh (Craig David Dowsett) and Piglet (Chris Cordell) becoming slasher movie villains with a grudge against Christopher Robin (Nikolai Leon) after he grows up and leaves them in the Hundred Acre Woods.
Much of Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey's cast of characters (including Eeyore) die horrific deaths, while Pooh and Piglet also take plenty of abuse themselves. One scene in particular sees Pooh arise from what should be a very clear death. In doing so, Blood and Honey takes its slasher movie makeover of Winnie the Pooh a step further by giving him the same level of invincibility as horror movie icons like Michael Myers of the Halloween franchise.
Pooh's Invincibility Is A Major Nod To Slasher Villain Michael Myers
During Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey's final chase in the Hundred Acre Woods, Pooh is about to kill Maria (Maria Taylor), only for Christopher Robin to crush Pooh between his car and another, seemingly killing him. However, Pooh emerges with little to no evident injury and brutally kills Maria. While the Blood and Honey ending is the first time Pooh has returned from an apparent death, Michael Myers does so in practically every Halloween movie, with figures like this setting a precedent for horror movie villains.
Throughout the Halloween franchise, Michael Myers has survived severe beatings, being set on fire, electrocution, being decapitated, and hundreds of gunshot wounds. Halloween Ends goes out of its way to try to kill Michael Myers for good with Laurie Strode (Jaime Lee Curtis) putting him through an industrial shredder, which would be certainly be hard to come back from even for him. In any case, Winnie the Pooh shrugging off being sandwiched between two cars is not only a slasher villain feat worthy of Michael Myers, but also raises questions about Pooh's partner in crime.
Pooh's Survival Hints Piglet May Not Actually Be Dead
Piglet appears to meet a brutal end when Alice (Amber Doig-Thorne) ties him up and repeatedly beats him over the head with a sledgehammer, with Alice herself then being killed by Pooh. While Piglet's fate in Blood and Honey is not clear, the fact that Pooh survived his own apparent demise could be seen to hint to Piglet's own survival. Indeed, while a sledgehammer to the head would surely be fatal for the average person, it would also do far less overall bodily damage than being crushed between two cars.
As anthropomorphic animals, characters like Winnie the Pooh and Piglet are inherently fantastical. Even still, Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey makes them as vaguely supernatural and immortal as Michael Myers. Because of their apparent commonality with Michael Myers, Pooh and Piglet can also easily return for another slasher rampage in Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey 2.