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Bambi: The Reckoning, the fourth installment in the Twisted Childhood Universe, made its streaming debut on Peacock on March 27th. The movie is a horror reimagining of the 1923 novel Bambi, a Life in the Woods, which was made into the Disney classic in 1942. It reframes the iconic, traumatic loss of Bambi’s mother as a vengeful, grief-driven horror story about a mutated, vengeful deer who, following his mother’s death, goes on a murderous rampage, hunting a mother and son who become stranded in the woods after a car crash.
Bambi: The Reckoning Is the Best Entry in the Twisted Childhood Universe Yet
The Twisted Childhood Universe’s efforts to revamp Disney classics as nightmare-inducing horror tales has led to a pretty negative reputation. The movies have largely been viewed as lazy cash grab efforts that rely too heavily on slasher cliches without bringing anything new to the table. Bambi: The Reckoning broke the mold to deliver the first fresh critic score in the franchise so far, the movie holding a 63% Tomatomater rating on Rotten Tomatoes, which is almost 20 points higher than the next best, Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey II, at 47%.
