Fourth Graders ‘Distraught’ After Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey Somehow Gets Shown in Classroom

There’s horror, and then there’s trauma—and that’s what a gaggle of fourth graders not too long ago bought themselves into with the 2023 slasher movie Winnie The Pooh: Blood And Honey.

Based on a mother or father who spoke with CBS Miami, their little one and classmates had been “uncovered” to roughly a half hour of the Winnie The Pooh semi-parody horror movie that dropped this yr that reimagines the beloved kids’s character as a serial killer who dons a Pooh masks whereas stalking his prey.

The movie already has a sequel in the works so regardless of its silliness, it was considerably of successful in the horror sphere — however, naturally, not with a classroom of fourth graders. Based on the mother or father’s account, the kids chosen the movie, however they appeared to remorse the choice as the movie performed out.

“[The teacher] did not cease the film, regardless that there have been children saying, ‘Hey, cease the film, we do not wish to watch this’,” the mother or father defined. “It isn’t for them to resolve what they wish to [watch]. It is as much as the professor to have a look at the content material.”

The college issued a press release following the incident:

The Academy for Revolutionary Training has grow to be conscious {that a} phase of a horror film was proven to fourth graders, Monday, October 2, 2023, that was not appropriate for the age group,” the assertion stated. “Our administration promptly addressed this challenge instantly with the instructor and has taken applicable motion to make sure the security and well-being of scholars. We’re actively monitoring the college students and our psychological well being counselor and principal have already met with these college students who’ve expressed considerations.

In the meantime, the staff behind Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey are engaged on a sequel that includes Tigger, and there are a number of different nightmare variations of basic children properties in the works elsewhere. Lecturers will in all probability wish to pre-screen something with “blood” in the title. Simply saying.

Lex Briscuso is a movie and tv critic and a contract leisure author for IGN. You may comply with her on Twitter at @nikonamerica.