Bambi: The Reckoning

Jagged Edge Productions, headed by director Rhys Frake-Waterfield, celebrated Winnie the Pooh entering the public domain a couple of years ago by making a slasher film titled Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey, in which the beloved bear was a slasher killer. Now another character is in the public domain, and we get Bambi: The Reckoning. Here, Bambi is a killer, obviously traumatized by the death of his mother at the hands of a hunter, and out for revenge. We can tell by the teaser trailer who that hunter was.

Why did they make this film? Despite being an awful movie, Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey made back ten times the money spent on its production. That set up Jagged Edge Productions to make a series of similar bloody horror films based on beloved characters that are up for grabs in the public domain. The internet was calling the planned series the Poohniverse, but the studio doesn't like that and insists we call it the Twisted Childhood Universe. Future films in the series include horror films featuring Peter Pan, Pinocchio, Sleeping Beauty, and sequels featuring Winnie-the-Pooh. (via Geeks Are Sexy)