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Article by Sean Wilkinson, Trying to think Happy Thoughts.... I can't fly, Ticketholders, especially not for today's in-flight fustercluck of an entry in the Twisted Childhood Universe . At least it's better than the first Blood & Honey ...but that's a low bar that doesn't require magic or stellar navigation to clear. Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare  is one of those movies that, you can tell from some of the posters, needs all the deceptive marketing it can get: a title hastily designed and assembled in a Photoshop knockoff (I can say that because I used one to make my banner for this review, and aside from not being able to capture the distortion or shape of the fonts used, I did it fairly quickly), padding the poster with multiple versions of the same characters to make the cast look bigger, a sinister-looking villain with a cheap but creepy mask to invite speculation and curiosity,.... It screams " Full Moon meets The Asylum , but British," an...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster. Just the Ticket   takes things from the jungle to the forest this week as I dip my toes back into  Rhys Frake-Waterfield 's budding public domain horror franchise, the  Twisted Childhood Universe , for a look at Bambi: The Reckoning . For quick access to this and other reviews in the franchise as they're published, you can click my TCU tag , or the following links to read my thoughts on the two Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood & Honey films. Just the Ticket #124: Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood & Honey Just the Ticket #188: Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood & Honey II Directed by Dan Allen (the 2017 Unhinged remake , several short horror films, and a handful of other "four friends go to a place and/or do a thing and get killed" movies), Bambi: The Reckoning  is a fairly basic "family gathering in a house in the woods" movie, but with the presence/killer/monster being a 'roided-out, zombified, Toxic Avenger version of...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster. So, I guess it's really happening, Ticketholders! The Twisted Childhood Universe is officially named and officially happening. Too bad the marketing for it was...too bad. I had to find out about the Blood & Honey sequel (which I'm reviewing today) from an obscure genre news site via Google that was reporting on the upcoming release of Bambi: The Reckoning (again, damned if I would have known about it otherwise), which led me to Blood & Honey II and the Wikipedia page for the TCU/Poohniverse (not to be confused with Texas Christian University , and proving definitively that director/producer/Cinematic Universe overseer Rhys Frake-Waterfield is willing and able to be both dead-serious and piss-takingly tongue-in-cheek about this endeavor in equal measure), through which I learned that Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare also already exists and was released after Blood & Honey II (where in the prolapsing ass...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, Stuffed with fluff. Enough time has passed since the Winnie-the-Pooh  animated series and the original books by A.A. Milne that Disney 's license has lapsed and the source material has entered the public domain (which, along with the last time I had a gaming console, the downfall of physical media outlets, and the deaths of several pillars of my childhood, is one more reminder that I am old and the world sucks). So naturally, someone (namely, writer, director, and producer Rhys Frake-Waterfield ) decided that the best way to honor the honey-holic stuffie and his group of mentally and emotionally unstable friends is to turn them into homicidal manimal hybrids. Which sounds like a cool idea. On paper. Enter Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood & Honey , a film of the cinematic and toilet-buildup variety, wherein the opening narration gives us some decently concocted lore setup: Christopher Robin was a real boy who befriended and cared for a group of human-animal h...