‘Winnie The Pooh: Blood and Honey’ Composer Creates Bee-Filled Violin For the Score [Exclusive Video]
Mary Beth McAndrews
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Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey has taken the internet by storm. Ever since Dread Central first reported on the story earlier this year, the hype train immediately left the station. While stills and a new poster are circulating Twitter, there’s another aspect of the film that deserves the spotlight: the score by known horror composer Andrew Scott Bell. And for the film, Bell decided to do something a little out of the ordinary: use a violin-turned-bee-hive as part of his score.
Bell explained how he got involved with Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, which was born out of a simple Instagram DM. He told Dread Central:
Back in late May a day or so before the film went massively viral, I started seeing some online chatter about a Winnie the Pooh horror movie. I remember looking it up on IMDb and finding the director Rhys Frake-Waterfield on Instagram where his story had a screenshot of a person’s comment saying something to the effect of “your movie is ruining our childhoods”. His reaction was, “that’s what I’m trying to do, ruin everyone’s childhood”
Bell reached out to Frake-Waterfield and eventually scored (pun intended) the gig. As he got started, he discovered the work of Tyler Thackray, a luthier, or person who makes stringed instruments. Thackray is known for deconstructing these classical instruments and creating something new and innovative; he’s working to break the traditional ideas around music. Bell said of Thackray:
I was fascinated by this person and the way he thinks about music. Specifically, he and I share a passion for destroying long-standing musical traditions and rebuilding wild and fun creations from the rubble. I have this idea about music theory specifically that we should learn the rules so we can break them with intention. What I saw in Tyler was someone who’s breaking things with intention. I loved it.
Bell then saw Thackray had been working on the bee-filled violin project for over a year. Again, Bell reached out via Instagram to see if he could use the instrument and help remove it from the hive. Obviously, Thackray said yes, and the rest is history (or at least it will be after Winnie The Pooh: Blood and Honey is released).
There were so many questions about the functionality of the violin. How will the sound change? Is it even remotely playable? How would the ability to play the violin affect the typical ways you use a bow? Bell documented that journey in an exclusive video for Dread Central.
So is the violin playable? You’ll have to watch and find out:
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