The Poohniverse is expanding. The first teaser trailer for Bambi: The Reckoning, the third movie in the Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey universe, has arrived, and the titular deer is all out for revenge.
The teaser opens with two hunters in the woods practicing their shots on a dead bird tied to a tree. "You ever shot a deer?" one asks the other. "No. Have you?" his buddy asks. "Yeah, once," says the first, followed by a dramatic stare into the horizon. It's safe to assume, then, that this is the guy responsible for killing Bambi's mother. We then cut to a stag coming face-to-face with a car on a dark road, before he flips the vehicle over.
Per the official synopsis, "We follow Xana (Roxanne McKee) and her son Benji (Tom Mulheron) who find themselves in a car wreck and soon hunted down by the vicious killing machine, Bambi."
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Best known as the cuddly animated deer from the 1942 Disney movie, the character of Bambi actually originated in an Austrian novel, Bambi, A Life in the Woods, first published in 1923. And now he's about to get a little more blood-soaked.
The latest movie from Jagged Edge Productions follows Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, which was released last year and a sequel (with a surprisingly high Rotten Tomatoes score) that arrived last month – and a third movie is on the way. If that wasn't enough, Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare, and Pinocchio: Unstrung are also in the works, along with a truly unhinged Poohniverse: Monsters Assemble movie, which is exactly what it sounds like…
Bambi: The Reckoning is releasing sometime in 2024. While we wait, check out our guide to the best upcoming horror movies on the way this year and beyond.
