The official trailer has arrived forPeter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare. The movie is the third installment in the Twisted Childhood Universe afterWinnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honeyand its sequel. TheupcomingPeter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare, based on the iconic work by J. M. Barrie, is the first new installment in the franchise to feature a non-A.A. Milne public domain children’s character, though the franchise is already set to expand with the upcoming titlesBambi: The ReckoningandPinocchio: Unstrung, leading into the 2025 crossoverPoohniverse: Monsters Assemble.
Bloody Disgusting Horrorhas unveiledthe official trailer forPeter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare. Check it out below:
The trailer opens on a creepy scene of Peter kidnapping a child that is reminiscent of the opening scene of 2017’sIt. The video then introduces the main premise of the movie, which follows an adult Peter with a scarred face operating as a mask-wearing killer who abducts children and believes he can “send them to Neverland,” where they never have to grow up.
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Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honeyand its sequelalready set the stage for a no-holds-barred approach for the Twisted Childhood Universe. The moviesfollow the iconic characters from the Hundred Acre Wood having turned feral and bloodthirstyafter being abandoned by their childhood friend Christopher Robin, who is now a grown adult. Their bloody rampage through the English countryside results in a high body count and a variety of gruesome sequences that offer a significantly darker twist on the material than the usual adaptations of A. A. Milne’s work.
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The vicious version of Winnie the Pooh and his friends from Blood and Honey 2 rack up a wild number of kills by the end of the Twisted Childhood film.
However, thePeter Pantrailer reveals that theupcoming Twisted Childhood Universe movieseems to be upping the ante considerably. While theBlood and Honeymovies simply transformed the childhood characters into killers, the new installment offers a much more nightmarish take on the material. It is unclear if Neverland ever existed in the first place or if it is simply a figment of the killer’s imagination as he stalks his young victims. If it is indeed fictitious,stripping the magic away from J. M. Barrie’s work feels almost as much like an act of desecrationas making the character a murderer.
It [is] an even more nihilistic take on the material…
The inherent maturity of thePeter Pan’s Neverland Nightmarepremise, which feels similar to the recent 2021 horror hitThe Black Phone, already strips away the childhood joy at the center of the original story. However, if the central location is a mere fantasy from a killer’s mind instead of an actual location, there will be a void at the center of the story, making it an even more nihilistic take on the material than it would have been if Peter Pan was a character who emerged from Neverland to claim the lives of victims.
Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare
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Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare is a fantasy-horror film from the team at Jagged Edge Productions, the same group behind other horror parody films such as Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey. The film is a terrifying retelling of the original tale penned by J.M. Barrie in 1911.
