As promised, the team behind the Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey films continues to expand their “Poohniverse” with Bambi: The Reckoning. A corruptive horror twist on the classic children’s character, Bambi goes the way of Pooh to become a vicious killing machine.

Bambi: The Reckoning is promisingly being described as “Cujo meets Jurassic Park”. In it, “after a mother and son get in a car wreck, they soon become hunted by Bambi, a mutated and grief-stricken deer on a deadly rampage seeking revenge for the death of his mother” The film is aiming for an early 2025 release by ITN Studios and Premiere Entertainment.

Not mincing words, director Dan Allen (who previously helmed 2017’s 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.” Rhys Warrington wrote the script.

The “Twisted Childhood Universe,” dubbed the Poohniverse, will also feature previously announced films Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare and Pinocchio Unstrung, and introduce new characters such as Sleeping Beauty, The Mad Hatter, and Rabbit from Winnie-The-Pooh: Blood and Honey. All of these characters will come together in Poohniverse: Monsters Assemble in 2025 when the childhood heroes-turned-villains join forces to take down the world.

Bloody Disgusting broke the news, and exclusively unveiled the poster for Bambi: The Reckoning.