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Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey (2023)

★ 5.0 · 1,555 ratings on TMDB

This ain't no bedtime story.

Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey poster★ 5.0

After Christopher Robin abandons them for college, Pooh and Piglet embark on a bloody rampage as they search for a new source of food.

DirectorRhys Frake-Waterfield
CastAmber Doig-Thorne, Chris Cordell, Craig David Dowsett, Danielle Ronald, Danielle Scott, Maria Taylor
GenresHorror
The emergence reading

In Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, consciousness is carried by animals — a plane of “carnivorous cartoon forest”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing prejudice, revenge, horror, survival, violence.

↷ animalsGBprejudicerevengehorrorsurvivalviolence
Also inFilms about survivalConsciousness hiding in animalsFilms about prejudiceFilms that move consciousness off the human
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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

The Forever Purge (2021)E8/E9 · prejudice, survivalBrimstone (2016)E8/E9 · prejudice, revengeEwoks: The Battle for Endor (1985)E8/E9 · prejudice, survivalThe Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists (1996)E8/E9 · prejudice, survivalThe Final (2010)E8/E9 · horror, revengeHomeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco (1996)E8/E9 · prejudice, survival

Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

Species III (2005)E6/E10 · rare rung · prejudice, survivalBattle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)E11/E13 · rare rung · prejudice, survival

Also hides consciousness here

Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)consciousness in animals · ape civilization post‑human collapseIce Age (2002)consciousness in animals · mammoth migrationFerdinand (2017)consciousness in animals · bullfighting arenaFlushed Away (2006)consciousness in animals · sewer metropolisBabe: Pig in the City (1998)consciousness in animals · animal metropolisOpen Season (2006)consciousness in animals · forest society

Same subject, different mask

The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.

Goblin Slayer: Goblin's Crown (2020)consciousness in monsters · prejudice, survivalWilly's Wonderland (2021)consciousness in machines · horror, survivalI Am Number Four (2011)consciousness in aliens · prejudice, survivalCowboys & Aliens (2011)consciousness in aliens · prejudice, survivalCandyman (1992)consciousness in the dead · horror, prejudiceShadow in the Cloud (2021)consciousness in monsters · prejudice, survival

Same people

Shared director or cast.

Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 (2024)dir. Rhys Frake-WaterfieldGraphic Desires (2023)May Kelly