Film

Bambi: The Reckoning

Name: Bambi: The Reckoning
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Released: 2025
Cast: Roxanne McKee, Tom Mulheron, Adrian Relph, Nicola Wright, Alex Cooke

Bambi: The Reckoning is a creature-feature horror film that reimagines Disney's gentle icon as a grief-fueled predator. It's an 80-minute revenge thriller that leans into absurdist body-horror and darkly comedic violence. For fans of elevated B-movie trash and anyone curious whether a vengeful mutant deer can sustain genuine tension.

TMDb rating

2.9

Should you watch it?

Watch it if you enjoy lean, gleefully nasty creature features that treat a cheap premise with straight-faced commitment and don't mind being silly about it.

Skip it if you want subtle scares or slow-burn dread, since this leans on gore, sudden shocks and a tone that often tips into the absurd.

What it asks of you: At around eighty minutes it moves quickly from crash to chase, so it wants a willing suspension of disbelief rather than your patience.

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