Crew
Director – Andrea M. Catinella, Screenplay – Harry Boxley, Producer – Rene August, Photography – Vince Knight, Music – James Allen Roberson, Visual Effects Supervisor – Neil Chapelhow, Visual Effects – Lumapix Creative Studios LLP, Special Effects Designer – Tequila Carter. Production Company – August Bound Productions/Wilding Wood Film Studios.
Cast
Alina Desmond (Kate), Alexander Butler (Piglet), Lauren Staerck (Alex), Shayli Reagen (Susie), Jeremy Vinogradov (Mr Hogarth), Valery Danko (Judith), Alina Varakuta (Dianne), Tyler Winchcombe (Officer Burke), Eva Ray (Riley), Jack Monohan (Bruce), Tais Sholvie (Courtney)
Plot
Five girlfriends get away for the weekend to remote Camp Festoon. They are given dire warnings by a local but dismiss these. As they settle in, the girls are stalked and killed by Piglet, a monstrous hulking figure who was the recipient of a series of growth hormone experiments.
Piglet comes from ITN Distribution who were also behind Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood & Honey (2023). ITN have taken their lead from that film and have produced and/or distributed a bunch of other, principally British-shot films, that savagely deconstruct childhood favourites with the likes of Mary Had a Little Lamb (2023), Three Blind Mice (2023), Cinderella’s Curse (2024), Bambi the Reckoning (2025), Hook (2025), Mouse of Horrors (2025), Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare (2025), Popeye’s Revenge (2025) and Pinocchio: Unstrung (2026). Most of these have been written by Harry Boxley.
You are not sure if ITN are trying to create some kind of stealth shared universe among their characters. Piglet is a character in the Winnie-the-Pooh stories and this could conceivably be a spinoff of the Winnie-the-Pooh films, although there is no indication it is. Similarly, Mouse of Horrors had an appearance from a lookalike from Winnie-the-Pooh. ITN have promised at some point to bring these characters together in the announced Poohniverse: Monsters Assemble.
Like quite a number of these childhood favourite horror films – the Winnie-the-Pooh films, Mary Had a Little Lamb, several of the Popeye films – Piglet reaches no further than The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) for inspiration. Piglet may be growth-hormone enhanced but is no more than another hulking Leatherface figure with his face hidden behind a mask. There’s the father of the family and even a law enforcement official who is part of it too as in the Texas Chainsaw films. The scene where Alina Desmond is made a prisoner at a table and taunted is particularly reminiscent of Carolyn Burns’ imprisonment in the original Texas Chain Saw.
Piglet is a poorly made film on all levels. The acting is not very good at all. In fact, all the film has going for it is a mild name-recognition factor title, a few scenes of toplessness and quite a few more of Torture Porn levels of gore. None of it is delivered with anything beyond rudimentary technical skill.
I also had a major issue with Piglet because the dialogue recording and editing is so poor. The dialogue is often so low that it is not possible to hear what is being said or it becomes inaudible. In other sequences – the opening scenes being notable – the music is turned up so loud and played over the top such that it drowns out the dialogue.
Director Andrea M. Catinella first appeared with Island of the Dolls 2 (2024) for ITN, followed by Mouseboat Massacre (2025) and Hook (2025) for them. He has also made the horror film Bait (2025), as well as several Christmas films for Scott Chambers.
Trailer here