In the wake of two Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey films and Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare, the “Poohniverse” will expand this year with Bambi: The Reckoning.
The official trailer for Bambi: The Reckoning has been unleashed by Variety this morning, and you can check it out below. According to the outlet, it’s releasing in Summer 2025.
Bambi: The Reckoning is described as “Cujo meets Jurassic Park,” and it looks to bring something different to the trend of public domain horror movies. While they’ve largely been masked slashers up to this point, we’re getting a full-on creature feature from this one, which feels more akin to something you would’ve gotten from Syfy back in the Sharktopus days.
In the film, “After a mother and son get in a car wreck, they soon become hunted by Bambi, a mutated grief-stricken deer on a deadly rampage seeking revenge for the death of his mother.”
Director Dan Allen (Unhinged) previews, “It’s gonna be terrifying. When people see a deer in the wild after this film they’re gonna run for the hills. This film is about the death of 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥hoods as much as it’s gonna ruin 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥hoods Expect bloodshed, tears and rabbits… and one mean 𝓀𝒾𝓁𝓁er deer. At last, the British countryside will finally get its Godzilla.”
Roxanne Mckee (Wrong Turn 5, Game of Thrones) stars in the lead role as Xana alongside Tom Mulheron as her son. Nicola Wright (Sexy Beast), Samira Mighty (Beauty and the Beast), Alex Cooke (Blood Vessel), and Russell Geoffrey Banks (Ghost House) also star.
From ITN Studios and Jagged Edge Productions, Bambi: The Reckoning is written by Rhys Warrington. The film is part of the growing “Twisted Childhood Universe,” dubbed the Poohniverse, which will also feature the upcoming Pinocchio Unstrung. All of these characters will come together in Poohniverse: Monsters Assemble sometime later this year.
