‘Pinocchio Unstrung’ Sees Wooden Doll Covered in Flesh and Blood as Director Rhys Frake-Waterfield Teases ‘Kooky, Crazy and Fun’ ‘Avengers’-Style ‘Poohniverse: Monsters Assemble’

"Pinocchio Unstrung" brings Carlo Collodi's puppet into director Rhys Frake-Waterfield's horror-comedy universe. This version reimagines the wooden doll with flesh and blood, joining "Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey," Bambi, and Peter Pan in what Frake-Waterfield describes as a kooky, crazy, and fun, Avengers-style monster universe. According to Variety, this latest addition continues the Poohniverse's trend of giving childhood icons a decidedly dark, horror-tinged transformation.

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