10 Movies Made For Terrible Reasons

10. Winnie The Pooh Entered The Public Domain - Winnie The Pooh: Blood & Honey

The recently released Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey - a low-budget slasher film featuring Winnie the Pooh and Piglet as feral serial killers - exists for one reason and one reason only: the source material entered the public domain.

On January 1st of last year, the intellectual rights to A.A. Milne's original Winnie the Pooh stories expired, theoretically allowing anyone to create their own derivative project.

And so, enterprising filmmaker Rhys Frake-Waterfield got to work quickly developing his own Pooh-centric horror flick to the tune of just $100,000.

However, Frake-Waterfield had to be careful not to incorporate any elements of the character which had been created by Disney, as these were still held under copyright by The Walt Disney Company and would open the film up to litigation.

It's certainly one hell of a cynical way to get a movie made, yet despite predictably scathing reviews, Blood and Honey managed to gross over $4 million on limited theatrical release, ensuring it turned a hefty profit.

As a result, Frake-Waterfield is already hard at work on not only a Pooh sequel, but two additional films in a planned cinematic universe: Bambi: The Reckoning and Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare.