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The Newest Chapter in the Winnie-the-Pooh Horror Universe Hits Theaters Today!

The movie features an evil Peter Pan, and it's only in theaters for three days!

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Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare is in theaters now thanks to Iconic Events.

If you rolled your eyes when you first heard about Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey in 2023, that’s understandable. That movie is an obvious cash-in on the newly-public-domained Pooh Bear. But you know what? The series got better.

Granted, “better” is a relative term, and it doesn’t necessarily mean “good.” However, Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 is good fun for horror fans who have the right expectations. Plus, by the time of the sequel’s release, it was already clear that the mad geniuses at Jagged Edge Productions were establishing an entire shared universe of Twisted storybook characters. With the release of Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare on January 13th, 2025, the Twisted Childhood Universe unleashes its most vile villain.

Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare is the third movie in the shared universe which is more succinctly (and more adorably) known as the Poohniverse. It is a standalone film in that you don’t need to have seen the Winnie-the-Pooh movies that came before it, but it is connected to the larger universe. Basically, it’s like a solo-hero Phase One MCU movie leading up to The Avengers.

Peter Pan boards a bus in Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare.
Peter Pan is played by Martin Portlock.

The story in Neverland Nightmare focuses on Wendy as she searches for her brother Michael who was abducted by Peter Pan. Expect lots of violence, and expect to see Peter as you’ve never imagined.

Speaking to ComicBook, director Scott Cambers (aka Scott Jeffrey, aka Christopher Robin in Blood and Honey 2) said that this movie is much darker than the Blood and Honey movies. He says that audiences need to be totally appalled by Peter Pan, because viewers need to be totally against him when the characters all come together in the culmination of the Poohniverse. Could Peter be the Thanos of the Twisted Childhood Universe?

Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare is in theaters for three days only, from January 13th to the 15th. Screenings are extremely limited, but you can check Iconic Events to see if it’s playing in your area.

Also be on the lookout for more from the Poohniverse later this year. Bambi: The Reckoning, Pinocchio: Unstrung, and Poohniverse: Monsters Assemble are all potentially coming out in 2025!