Pinocchio Unstrung Trailer: Wooden Doll Turns Homicidal

As everybody is aware of, Pinocchio just desires to be a real boy.

In the trailer for “Pinocchio Unstrung,” the next blood-splattered battering of beloved kids’s IP by the creators of 2024’s micro-budget smash hit “Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey,” he desires to be a real boy so dangerous he’ll go on a gory murderous rampage to get there.

Arguably the most twisted tackle the much-adapted traditional story sees Geppetto’s (Richard Brake) famed creation, having found that the distinction between wood dolls and boys is “organs and stuff,” look to accumulate the vital physique components in the most slasher-friendly manner possible.

We see him use his razor sharp wood nostril to impale a woman’s foot as she comes out of the bathe, rip the skin from the face of a screaming man and seem to gather a load of intestines from another casualty. All the while, Pinocchio is goaded on by most likely cinema’s most evil Jimmy Cricket (voiced by Robert Englund, best identified for playing Freddie Krueger).”Piece by piece, we’ll take all the things it’s essential to be real,” he tells him.

If anybody thought Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio was just a little on the darkish facet and maybe not one thing for his or her kids, that movie was mainly Disney in comparison with this.

“Pinocchio: Unstrung” is directed by Rhys Frake-Waterfield and produced by Scott Jeffrey, the duo behind “Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey” and their prolific horror banner Jagged Edge Productions.

Alongside Brake and Englund, the solid also consists of Cameron Bell, Jessica Balmer, Jack Art Gray and Peter De Souza-Feighoney, while Emmy winner Todd Masters oversees the the sensible animatronics. ITN Distribution is overseeing the release, with theatrical date at the moment being scheduled worldwide. Premiere Entertainment Group is repping sales.

“We built Pinocchio as a fully practical animatronic because I wanted him to feel real,” said Frake-Waterfield. “This is a twisted coming-of-age story told from the puppet’s perspective: a creation struggling for autonomy while being manipulated by the sinister forces around him, from Robert Englund’s sinister ‘Jiminy Cricket’ to Richard Brake’s obsessive Geppetto.”

“Pinocchio Unstrung” is the latest standalone addition to Jagged Edge’s rising low-budget Twisted Childhood Universe, which at the moment consists of “Blood and Honey” and its sequel, “Bambi: The Reckoning” and “Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare.” A 3rd “Blood and Honey” is ready to shoot soon, while “Poohniverse Monsters Assemble,” the Avengers-esque crossover movie bringing all the characters together for an IP massacre is in development.

Added Frake-Waterfield: “Our Twisted Childhood Universe continues to grow in darker and more ambitious ways as we’re gearing up for Poohniverse Monsters Assemble!”

See the “Pinocchio Unstrung” trailer below: