East Sussex boy's starring role in horror movie Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey

Frederick Dallaway, aged 10, features in the film Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey, an independent slasher movie.

The schoolboy was only nine when he was asked to play a part in the film.

The movie, written, directed and produced by Rhys Frake-Waterfield, is a horror retelling of A. A. Milne and E. H. Shepard's Winnie-the-Pooh books.

It depicts the young Christopher Robin, played by Frederick, befriending Winnie the Pooh and the other characters from A. A. Milne’s books in the Hundred Acre Wood.

When Christopher is older and enters college, he stops visiting the animals in the wood, who then develop a hatred for anything human-related, return to their feral instincts and go on the rampage.

Frederick’s mum, Natasha, from Northiam, said: “Frederick was only nine when he was asked to play a part in the movie Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey and he jumped at the chance. Although at the time we had no idea just how big the movie would become, we only knew it was a small low budget horror slasher film but thought it would be a great experience for Freddie.“He plays ‘young’ Christopher Robin, the younger version of the lead character played by Nikolai Leon, which is in the form of a flashback that Pooh has during a particularly gruesome scene, to when things were all nice before Christopher abandoned the animals to go to college.“Frederick has always really enjoyed acting and has lessons with Mad Fish stage school but this is his first part in a film. He absolutely loved every moment of filming, being on a set and can’t wait to do more.“He was of course sheltered and protected from all the horror stuff, his scene was shot in Wildling Wood and he was kept well away from all the blood and gore, which was going on at a different site just down the road. The whole cast and crew were lovely, they all looked after him and made him feel part of the ‘Winnie’ family.“Freddie has watched clips of his scenes in the movie and got to attend the European Premiere in Amsterdam last month, which was amazing.”