Bambi: The Reckoning, the newest entry within the Poohniverse horror film sequence, has acquired its first trailer, and also you’ll by no means consider the youngsters’s story the identical method once more. Watch the clip under forward of the movie’s launch in theaters this summer season.
As seen within the trailer, a grief-stricken Bambi — who has mutated to have a mouth filled with sharp tooth — goes on the prowl after the dying of his mom. Whereas on the hunt, the deer goes after some unfortunate people within the woods and vacationing countryside. Utilizing his antlers, Bambi decapitates his prey earlier than tearing into their flesh.
“After a mom and son get in a automobile wreck, they quickly change into hunted by Bambi, a mutated grief-stricken deer on a lethal rampage in search of revenge for the dying of his mom,” reads the official logline.
A twisted tackle Felix Salten’s 1923 story Bambi, a Life within the Woods, the horror movie was directed by Dan Allen and stars Roxanne McKee, Tom Mulheron, Nicola Wright, Samira Mighty, and Alex Cooke.
Bambi: The Reckoning comes from producers Scott Chambers and Rhys-Frake Waterfield of Jagged Edge Productions, which has change into recognized for his or her horror reinterpretations of beloved youngsters’s characters who’ve entered public area.
Starting with Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey and its 2024 sequel, the Poohniverse (aka The Twisted Childhood Universe) has expanded with this 12 months’s Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare.
After the releases of Bambi and Pinocchio: Unstrung, the entire characters will unite for the crossover movie Poohniverse: Monsters Assemble, scheduled to enter manufacturing this summer season.
