The Reckoning will flip beloved deer right into a vicious killing machine

Rhys Frake-Waterfield is on a streak of taking public area kids’s ebook characters which have beforehand been given the Disney therapy and turning them into one thing terrifying. His film Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey is ready to obtain a U.S. theatrical launch via Fathom Occasions on February fifteenth, he’s growing a horror twist on Peter Pan that shall be known as Peter Pan: Neverland Nightmare, there’s an opportunity of a Blood and Honey sequel, and now the oldsters at Dread Central have damaged the information that Frake-Waterfield can even be producing a horror film impressed by Felix Salten’s 1923 novel Bambi, a Life within the Woods. The horror tackle Bambi is known as Bambi: The Reckoning.

Coming to us from ITN Studios and Jagged Edge Productions, Bambi: The Reckoning is ready to start filming in January with Scott Jeffrey (The Curse of Humpty Dumpty) on the helm.

Jeffrey informed Dread Central, “The movie shall be an extremely darkish retelling of the story everyone knows and love. Discovering inspiration from the design utilized in Netflix’s The Ritual, Bambi shall be a vicious killing machine that lurks within the wilderness. Put together for Bambi on rabies!“

Plot particulars are being saved beneath wraps. Given the title, it’s in all probability protected to imagine that Bambi: The Reckoning shall be a revenge story about Bambi looking for to avenge the looking homicide of his mom.

What do you consider this development of beloved kids’s ebook and cartoon characters getting changed into horror film characters? Are you trying ahead to studying extra about Bambi: The Reckoning? Share your ideas on this one by leaving a remark under.

Scott Jeffrey’s directing credit additionally embrace The Unhealthy Nun, The Closing Scream, ClownDoll, Conjuring the Genie, Dragon Fury, Hatched, Spider within the Attic, The Gardener, Exorcist Vengeance, and Kingdom of the Dinosaurs.