‘Pinocchio Unstrung’ Gets Bloody in New Must-See Images
From ITN, the company behind 2024’s micro-budget smash hit Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey, comes the ultra-gory Pinocchio Unstrung, in which Pinocchio wants to be a real boy so badly he’ll go on a gory, murderous rampage to get there.
It stars Richard Brake (31, The Strangers) as Geppetto, Robert Englund (A Nightmare on Elm Street) as a terrifying Cricket, and Cameron Bell as James.
The dark coming-of-age reimagining of Pinocchio follows the iconic puppet’s disturbing journey toward becoming real, and we have a ton of new images that show just how bloody and violent Pinocchio and Cricket are in this splatter-filled twisted take on the children’s classic story.
The official description reads, “A chilling reimagining of the familiar fable, ‘Pinocchio Unstrung’ unfolds inside an elite London prep school. Influenced by a sinister Cricket (Robert Englund) and created by Geppetto (Richard Brake), Pinocchio launches a violent crusade to carve himself into a real boy like his brother James, one piece at a time.”
Emmy winner Todd Masters oversees the practical animatronics, which look phenomenal. Jagged Edge Productions is behind the production.
Directed by Rhys Frake-Waterfield, Pinocchio Unstrung will open in theaters on July 24, via Viva Pictures.
It is the latest standalone addition to Jagged Edge’s growing low-budget Twisted Childhood Universe, which currently includes Blood and Honey and its sequel, Bambi: The Reckoning and Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare. A third Blood and Honey is set to shoot soon, while Poohniverse Monsters Assemble, the Avengers-esque crossover film bringing all the characters together for an IP bloodbath, is in development.
