Real Boys Don’t Leave Witnesses: ‘Pinocchio: Unstrung’ Making Its Festival Debut – HorrorFuel.com

If you thought Disney’s version of a wooden puppet getting catfished by a fox was traumatic, hold onto your childhood memories. Altitude has officially announced that Pinocchio : Unstrung will be unleashed in UK cinemas this July, proving once and for all that some strings are better left attached. Before it completely dismantles your local multiplex, the film will celebrate its UK Premiere at the Raindance Film Festival in June. It’s already generating massive buzz, bagging four major nominations including Best UK Feature and Best Performance for horror MVP Richard Brake. A Very Sinister Wooden Boy The film serves as the latest, blood-splattered chapter in the Twisted Childhood Universe. This cinematic mastermind group previously gave us Winnie-the-Pooh : Blood and Honey , Bambi: The Reckoning , and Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare . This time around, we follow Geppetto, played by the endlessly unsettling Richard Brake (Barbarian). Hoping to be a good grandfather, Geppetto introduces his grandson, James, to a seemingly magical wooden doll named Pinocchio. James, completely oblivious to the basic rules of horror movies, introduces his new wooden buddy to the real world. Naturally, things immediately go off the rails. Pinocchio takes his “be a good boy” programming a little too
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