What happens when classic characters enter the public domain? Well, horror filmmakers run wild, obviously. These are not the characters from your childhood – these are something else.

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Alice in Terrorland
Released: 2023
Director: Richard John Taylor
Synopsis: After losing her parents, Alice (Lizzy Willis) moves in with her grandmother in the family mansion named ‘Wonderland’, unaware of the horrors that lurk within.
Verdict: You’ll not find much physical horror here, rather psychological terror, in that Alice’s mind is messed with by her grandmother. It is certainly dark, and if it had more to the story and ran longer than 1hr 16, perhaps audiences would have more to appraise than the surface-level creeps the film provides. 2.5/5
Read the Tiny Tapes Alice in Terrorland review.

Alice and the Mad Hatter*
Released: TBC
Director: TBC
Synopsis: Alice works for an escort service called White Rabbit and the Mad Hatter becomes obsessed with her.
Verdict: Coming soon

Awakening Sleeping Beauty*
Release: TBC
Director: TBC
Synopsis: Coming soon
Verdict: Coming soon

B

Bambi: The Reckoning*
Released: 2025
Director: Dan Allen
Synopsis: A mutated version of the eponymous deer seeks revenge after his mate is killed and his fawn goes missing.
Verdict: It’s not the worst premise for a horror film based on a well-known children’s character, and it’s not badly made either. The performances are also pretty average, but there’s too much going on in an attempt to add some unecessary depth to the characters. 2.5/5
Read the Tiny Tapes Bambi: The Reckoning review.

C

Cinderella’s Curse
Released: 2024
Director: Louisa Warren
Synopsis: When Cinderella (Kelly Rian Sanson) is humiliated one too many times by her abusive stepmother and stepsisters, her corpse-like fairy godmother grants her wish for revenge.
Verdict: It’s a fine idea to warp the classic fairy tale and it does try hard to do something different, but it ultimately becomes cliche and isn’t helped at all by weak performances and flat characters. Comes across more like a gory Christmas panto or television soap rather than a purposefully dramatic horror film. 2/5
Read the Tiny Tapes Cinderella’s Curse review.

Cinderella’s Revenge
Released: 2024
Director: Andy Edwards
Synopsis: Cinderella (Lauren Staerck) chooses revenge upon her stepmother and stepsisters over her happily ever after.
Verdict: This one is actually has some decently humorous moments, and the performances are fine and the characters aren’t bad, but the story is quite flat, as is the horror aspect, but you get what you’re given when it’s a low budget horror like this. 2.5/5
Read the Tiny Tapes Cinderella’s Revenge review.

F

Fairest of Them All
Released: 2025
Director: Kunahan Thampi
Synopsis: The Mad Hatter (Lewis Santer) forces multiple fairy tale girls to fight to the death to see which one is truly the fairest of them all.
Verdict: Coming soon

G

Goldilocks and the Three Bears: Death & Porridge
Released: 2024
Director: Craig Rees
Synopsis: A group of friends stumble upon an abandoned house only to find it is far from abandoned.
Verdict: Terrible acting, rubbish premise, dubbing that is worse than an Italian giallo, annoying characters, and boring AF on the whole. 1/5

Gretel & Hansel
Released: 2020
Director: Osgood Perkins
Synopsis: Two young siblings are cast out by their mother and left to fend for themselves in the woods when they take refuge in the house of a strange old woman.
Verdict: It’s certainly a fresh take on the tale, adding in more fantastical elements to turn into a darker fairy tale than it already was, however the mix of accents is a little jarring, and the pacing slows too often for it to remain consistently interesting. 3/5
Read the Tiny Tapes Gretel & Hansel review.

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Hansel & Gretel
Released: 2013
Director: Anthony C. Ferrante
Synopsis: Two teenage siblings are captured by a recluse and taken to her house where nothing but misery and horror awaits them.
Verdict: This is a more interesting and fun modern interpretation of the Grimm fairytale, and even features Dee Wallace (Elliot’s mum in E.T.) as the antagonist. The performances aren’t too bad, though it’s another one of those horrors that has actors who clearly aren’t teenagers playing ten years younger than they are, so you’ll have to work double time on suspending your disbelief. 3/5
Read the Tiny Tapes Hansel & Gretel review.

Hook
Released: 2025
Director: Andrea M. Catinella
Synopsis: James Hook (Stephen Staley) seeks revenge on Peter (Keith Eyles) and Wendy (Charlotte Jackson Coleman) via their daughter Lily (Kelly Rian Sanson).
Verdict: Another interpretation of Peter Pan with Peter and Wendy all grown up, with a teenage daughter who is so very clearly far from being a teenager. With flat performances, crummy dialogue and a completely unscary Hook, this is not one you’ll be sad to miss. 1.5/5

Humpty Dumpty trilogy
Released: 2021-2023
Synopsis: A cursed Humpty Dumpty doll brings nothing but blood and terror to multiple people.
Verdict: The plot of The Curse of Humpty Dumpty is alright but not well executed and is quite monotonous until the last act (2.5/5), everything about The Cult of Humpty Dumpty is just bad, including Humpty Dumpty himself hardly worthy of being a titular character (1/5), and to round out the trilogy, we have more poor performances, a weak story and barely any need for Humpty Dumpty in The Madness of Humpty Dumpty (1.5/5)
Read the Tiny Tapes Humpty Dumpty trilogy review.

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I Heart Willie
Released: 2024
Director: Alejandro G. Alegre
Synopsis: A story that warps the origin of Mickey Mouse that is less rainbows and butterflies and more blood and gore.
Verdict: This is one film that seems to have an interesting premise on paper but is not executed well. The characters are mostly very annoying, the plot very monotonous and the visual effects very poorly done. At least the performances weren’t the worse to be seen in a movie of this type. 2/5

J

Jack and Jill trilogy
Released: 2021 – 2023
Synopsis: Jack and his sister Jill hunt and slaughter people in this retelling of the children’s nursery rhyme and its subsequent stories.
Verdict: If the first film in this series is anything to go by, this trilogy will not be worth your time. With awful performances from most of the actors, far too much dialogue and pointless drama rendering it boring and an utter snoozefest, and nary a Jack nor Jill to be seen, it’s a bizarre adaptation of a children’s rhyme. If you go ahead and watch the rest of the trilogy, good luck to you, we will not be doing so. 1.5/5

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Mary Had a Little Lamb
Released: 2023
Director: Jason Arber
Synopsis: Mary (Christine Ann Nyland) is up to more sinister things with her ‘lamb’ than the children’s rhyme would suggest.
Verdict: With a mix of characters and dodgy accents making it difficult to place the setting, this film comes across as confusing and incoherent. However the performances aren’t too bad, and there’s a genuinely horrendous and sad story from the antagonists side. 2.5/5

The Mean One
Released: 2022
Director: Steven LaMorte
Synopsis: Cindy (Krystle Martin) returns to the site of her childhood trauma and is stalked by a serial killer known as The Mean One (David Howard Thornton).
Verdict: This twist on Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas is, frankly, terrible. There’s nothing much redeemable about it, but if you enjoy these low-budget twists, you might get some enjoyment out of it. It gets an extra .5 on the score due to the commitment of the cast to their questionable roles. 1.5/5

Mouse of Horrors
Released: 2025
Director: Brendan Petrizzo
Synopsis: A mutant mouse collects body parts to create something horrific.
Verdict:One thing this film does right is not pretending to be something more than it is, which is just a braindead slasher. There’s kind of an interesting MO behind the killings, more interesting than the main characters at least, though the terrible CGI is quite off putting at times. You can also expect to see another familiar Disney face in this one. 2.5/5

The Mouse Trap
Released: 2024
Director: Jamie Bailey
Synopsis: A killer dressed as Mickey Mouse threatens a young woman and her friends at an amusement arcade.
Verdict: In yet another Mickey-themed slasher, we have too much dialogue and silliness between the characters to be able to take anything remotely seriously, and not nearly enough murder and danger. Also features a very cringe intro. 2/5

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Peter Pan Goes to Hell
Released: TBC
Director: Phil Claydon
Synopsis: Coming soon
Verdict: Coming soon

Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare*
Released: 2025
Director: Scott Chambers
Synopsis: Wendy (Megan Placito) has to rescue her brother Michael (Peter DeSouza-Feighoney) from an evil and deranged Peter Pan (Martin Portlock).
Verdict: With well-known characters being twisted beyond recognition, it has supernatural elements that likely arise from Peter having a mental illness, and Wendy becomes the heroine of the piece as a regular young woman. The horror is fairly shocking, the psychological aspects are intriguing, and the performances are quite immersive. 3.5/5
Read the Tiny Tapes Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare review.

Piglet
Released: 2025
Director: Andrea M. Catinella
Synopsis: On a camping trip with her friends for her birthday, a young woman fights off a man in a pig mask.
Verdict: Some semi-good gore and gruesome effects, but let down by more awful CGI and terrible sound mixing (even the poor sod who had to do the subtitles for this film couldn’t catch every word). Also features some sexploitation, with gratuitous sex scenes, nudity and threats of rape. Unecessary. 1.5/5

Pinocchio: Unstrung*
Release: 2026
Director: Rhys Frake-Waterfield
Synopsis: James (Cameron Bell) is given a magical doll by his grandpa Geppetto (Richard Brake), but the doll is not happy with the way of the world.
Verdict: Coming soon

Poohniverse: Monsters Assemble*
Release: 2026
Director: Rhys Frake-Waterfield
Synopsis: The Poohniverse’s main antagonists will come together in this murderous crossover, including Winnie-the-Pooh, Tigger, Piglet, Owl, Bambi, Peter Pan, Tinker Bell, Hook, Pinocchio and the Cricket, and adding new characters Rabbit, Sleeping Beauty, the Mad Hatter, Cheshire Cat and Mary Poppins.
Verdict: Coming soon

Popeye’s Revenge
Released: 2025
Director: William Stead
Synopsis: Popeye (Steven Joseph Murphy) seeks to kill when a group of friends want to turn his house into an attraction.
Verdict: Coming soon

Popeye the Slayer Man
Released: 2025
Director: Robert Michael Ryan
Synopsis: A group of friends decide to explore an old spinach cannery after hearing the legend of the ‘Sailor Man’.
Verdict: The use of Popeye as the antagonist is just a gimmick to get people to watch – otherwise, it’s just another below-average slasher with stereotypical characters and a predictable plot. 2/5
Read the Tiny Tapes Popeye the Slayer Man review.

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Screamboat
Released: 2025
Director: Steven LaMorte
Synopsis: The passengers and crew of a Staten Island ferry are hunted by a mutant rodent.
Verdict: This production doesn’t take itself too seriously at all, and it’s actually quite funny while being simultaneously gory and shocking, so there’s good entertainment to derive from it so long as you don’t take it too seriously either. 3/5
Read the Tiny Tapes Screamboat review.

Shiver Me Timbers
Released: 2025
Director: Paul Stephen Mann
Synopsis: Olive Oyl (Amy Mackie), her brother and her friends go on a camping trip, where a meteor turns Popeye (Tony Greer/David Hallows) into a killer.
Verdict: Coming soon

Snow White Returns*
Released: TBC
Director: TBC
Synopsis: Coming soon
Verdict: Coming soon

T

Three Blind Mice
Released: 2023
Director: Pierre B
Synopsis: A family head to a cabin in the woods where they are set upon by the Three Blind Mice.
Verdict: Like many of these warped childhood films, there is a weird mix of accents that makes the setting and relationsips between the characters rather confusing. The story tries and fails to give the characters ‘depth’ by adding issues such as addiction, but it doesn’t really work. There is some fun to be had with the gruesome gore and grostesque creatures, but that’s about all it has going for it. 1.5/5

Tigger’s Return*
Released: TBC
Director: TBC
Synopsis: Tigger’s own spin-off of Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey.
Verdict: Coming soon

W

Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey trilogy*
Released: 2023-2026
Director: Rhys Frake-Waterfield
Synopsis: In part one, after Christopher Robin (Nikolai Leon) leaves for college, Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, Owl and Rabbit feel abandoned and are ultimately left to fend for themselves, resulting in them committing some heinous acts. In the second installment, Pooh goes on a revenge rampage through Christopher’s town.
Verdict: The first film hits all the right markers of a standard horror movie, but ultimately it just isn’t a good movie. At no point can it be taken seriously. (2/5). The second installment is significantly better, with a stronger plot, stronger performances and a tighter horror overall. (3/5) A third film is due in 2026.
Read the Tiny Tapes Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey and Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 reviews.

*These films are a part of the Twisted Childhood Universe, or the Poohniverse.