Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey ending or cliffhanger explained

Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey ended with numerous bloody deaths and Christopher Robin cliffhangers, making for an even more brutal sequel.

WARNING! This article contains major SPOILERS for Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey!

The 2023 horror film "Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey" sees Pooh and Piglet slaughter unsuspecting humans and ends with Christopher Robin on a brutal cliffhanger. After A.A. Milne's original Winnie the Pooh book entered the public domain, filmmaker Rhys Frake-Waterfield decided to adapt the beloved children's character into a disturbing Feral serial killer. In "Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey," Winnie the Pooh and Piglet turn murderous after being abandoned by Christopher Robin, waging a deadly vengeance on any human being who enters the Hundred Acre Wood. When Christopher Robin returned to the area years later, it had disastrous consequences for himself and a group of nearby college students.

After killing most of the characters in Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey trying to escape from the Hundred Acre Wood, Pooh and Piglet track down all survivors while continuing to target Christopher Robin. Alice, a college student, chained the pig and smashed his head with a sledgehammer. Pooh soon came and brutally stabbed her with a knife. Shortly after, Pooh shoots down a group of four local men who arrive in a car, beheads Jesse, and kills Maria after Christopher begs Pooh to let her go. Being Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey ended up with a traumatized Christopher Robin running away, while Pooh stabbed Maria repeatedly, showing that his reign of terror was far from over.

How Did Pooh Survive THAT?! Is He Invincible?

Christopher Robin and Maria can almost kill Pooh before the Blood and Honey credits roll, but the half-bear half-human somehow survives. Christopher pinned Pooh between the two cars, which also caused the area to be engulfed in flames. While this development seemed to put an end to the killer bear terror, Pooh miraculously broke free from the car and began attacking Maria and Christopher again. Pooh's survival in "Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey" is shocking, considering that Piggy appears to have died from being hit in the head with a sledgehammer.

Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey shows that non-Disney Winnie the Pooh is somewhat supernatural, with inhuman strength and invulnerability, reflecting the nature of classic indestructible horror villains such as Michael Myers and Jason Voorhis. Pooh even holds a crowbar to his face and shakes it off like it's barely been touched, meaning he'll likely only be brought down by someone as powerful and supernatural as he is. Consider Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey director Rhys Frake-Waterfield intends With horror adaptations of children's stories forming a cinematic universe, it's also unlikely that Winnie the Pooh will die in the upcoming sequel.

Did Christopher Robin Survive Blood & Honey’s Ending?

Christopher Robin's fate is ambiguous due to the ambiguous ending of Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey. After Pooh stabbed Maria to death, Christopher Robin ran away without Pooh chasing him. Christopher likely escaped the Hundred Acre Wood by finding a nearby garage or possibly calling in locals to help him escape the area. Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey ending suggests Christopher Robin may have survived his first reunion with Pooh and Piglets, but the animals will continue to exact revenge on him for his abandonment until the finale Deadly confrontation. Therefore, Christopher Robin is expected to return in the story of Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey 2.

Is Piglet Really Dead? What His Fate Means For Pooh

Although Winnie the Pooh exhibits supernatural invincibility qualities, Piglet does not appear to have the same inhuman strength. After Piggy killed Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey character Zoe with his sledgehammer, Alice took revenge on him with a weapon of her own. The piglet has been hit in the face with a sledgehammer several times, and the half-human, half-pig hybrid seems to have let out the last few cries of pain about to die. Considering that Pooh arrives to find Piggy motionless and unresponsive, the 2023 horror movie suggests that Pooh's accomplice is dead, which is why his brutality becomes all the more horrific in the film's final moments.

Piglet's death would have a huge impact on Pooh's brutality in "Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey 2". While it was Alice who killed the grisly children's book character, Pooh inevitably blamed Christopher Robin for Piglet's death, his main source of rage. This will make Pooh's murderous intentions towards Christopher Robin even more serious in the sequel, as he is now seeking to avenge Piggy's death. However, since the full extent of Pooh's supernatural abilities is unknown, it's possible he'll find a way to bring Piggy back to life in the sequel, leading Christopher Robin to face the supernatural undead.

Why Pooh Finally Speaks In Blood & Honey’s Ending (& What It Means)

After Christopher Robin abandons Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, Owl, Rabbit, and Eeyore, the animals of the forest are forced to fend for themselves and nearly starve to death. Winnie the Pooh decided to have the animals eat Eeyore, a despicable act that caused the original public domain Pooh characters to completely abandon their humanity, resort to a wild animal state, and swear never to speak again. For the vast majority of "Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey," Pooh speaks only in murmurs and animal noises, eventually uttering a word in the film's final scene.

When Christopher Robin begged Pooh to let Maria go and take him, Pooh rejected his offer and simply said "you left". Pooh kills Maria after the shocking words, meaning Christopher Robin can't stop the killing chaos, nor make up for his abandonment - the damage has already been done. Pooh just swore to never speak again after Christopher Robin left the character, so he made an exception to finally use his voice again to explain to Christopher that he was the cause of these tragedies. So a line from Pooh in the dark film Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey is very haunting and menacing, as Christopher Robin can never escape the bear's vengeance when he goes astray.

How Winnie-The-Pooh: Blood & Honey’s Ending Sets Up The Sequel

The survival of Christopher Robin and Winnie the Pooh sparks another confrontation in the upcoming sequel, Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey 2. The movie has a much bigger budget as it's aiming for a February 2024 release (via Variety) so the absurdly violent and gory nature of it The plot of the horror film will be enhanced in the sequel. While waiting for Christopher Robin to return or finding a new group of unsuspecting humans to terrorize, Pooh will likely remain the sole survivor of the Hundred Acre Forest. The honey-eating character may also reunite with Owl and Rabbit in the sequel to the box-office hit "Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey," as their fates are yet to be determined before the movie wraps up in 2023.