The primary full-length trailer for indie horror film Bambi: The Reckoning has arrived, giving followers an in depth have a look at the mutated, rampaging deer. You possibly can watch it above.
The twisted new tackle Felix Salten’s 1923 novel Bambi, a Life within the Woods – which was famously tailored within the Disney traditional Bambi – comes from Jagged Edge Productions.
The corporate, which has been capitalising on the expired IP of traditional kids’s tales, was additionally answerable for the 2023 slasher Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, its 2024 sequel, Blood and Honey 2, and this 12 months’s Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare.
The official synopsis for Bambi: The Reckoning reads: “After a mom and son get in a automobile wreck, they quickly turn into hunted by Bambi, a mutated grief-stricken deer on a lethal rampage searching for revenge for the dying of his mom.”
Within the two-minute trailer, we see Bambi in full rampage mode as he flips vehicles and violently kills numerous characters. The clip has been met with a blended response on social media, with some horror followers revelling on the thought of a killer Bambi.
Fuck yea! Can’t wait! My spouse and I really like these! We personal each of the Winnie the Pooh ones and Mousetrap! The Twisted Childhood Universe is like getting true variations of all of the Grimm brothers stuff earlier than Disney sanitized and romanticized all of them. Simply ready for the Peter Pan…
— Martles Films, Critiques & Satire (@Martles3) March 5, 2025
Lmao let’s gooooo
— MIKE LOWERY (@slim_charles00) March 5, 2025
“I can’t wait,” commented one particular person. “After seeing how totally different Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare was from Blood and Honey, I’m actually excited to see the course Bambi goes in. Completely hooked on these motion pictures.”
One other wrote: “Arm the animals in opposition to the hunters! YES!”
Others, in the meantime, are much less enthusiastic concerning the continued horrification of expired IP, with one particular person writing: “The obsession with taking beloved characters into horror motion pictures is a bit of annoying, tbh. Simply make a good horror film with out the gimmick.”
“Does anybody really like these motion pictures?” added one other.
we actually dwelling within the timeline the place bambi is horror now. what’s subsequent, cinderella slasher?
— Capt. Luffy (@CaptLuffy__) March 5, 2025
Does anybody really like these motion pictures?
— Neal☆Fairly Boy☆Thomas (@TheRKPodcast) March 5, 2025
This twisted model of Bambi is the newest addition to the Poohniverse movie franchise, which can see the deer group up with Winnie the Pooh, Tinker Bell, Pinocchio and extra for an “Avengers-style” horror film, titled Poohniverse: Monsters Assemble.
Different characters anticipated to hitch the franchise embody Sleeping Magnificence, The Mad Hatter, and extra figures from Winnie the Pooh.