20 Upcoming Horror Movies NOBODY Asked For
19. Pinocchio: Unstrung
Pinocchio: Unstrung is the latest entry in The Twisted Childhood Universe - a head-scratching franchise that adapts popular childhood stories into slasher movies once they've entered the public domain.
To date, the series has wrought upon us two Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey movies, Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare, and Bambi: The Reckoning, with Pinocchio: Unstrung simply the next in a seemingly never-ending conveyor-belt of schlock-happy slasher knock-offs.
While it's absolutely fair to say that some of the films in the Twisted Childhood Universe have proven more creative and artistically inclined than one might expect, it's also a reasonable declaration that this mildly amusing joke is fast running out of steam.
To its credit, Pinocchio: Unstrung does look relatively well-made for its price point, but there are also precious few out there desperate for this film to exist, especially with Matteo Garrone and Guillermo del Toro's previous Pinocchio films already lurching into quasi-horror territory.