Bambi: The Reckoning 2025
Bambi: The Reckoning is a 2025 British independent horror film directed by Dan Allen, from a screenplay by Rhys Warrington. It is the fourth installment in The Twisted Childhood Universe (TCU) and serves as a horror retelling of Felix Salten’s Bambi, a Life in the Woods. The film stars Roxanne McKee, Tom Mulheron, Nicola Wright, Samira Mighty, Alex Cooke, Russell Geoffrey Banks, and Joseph Greenwood. It follows a mother and her son who become hunted by Bambi after his own mother’s death. First announced in November 2022 as a Bambi-based horror film, the film was subsequently revealed to be set in the TCU shared continuity. It started production in London on 6 January 2024 and wrapped twenty days later. Bambi: The Reckoning was theatrically released on 25 July 2025 in the United States. A month later, it would be released on video-on-demand (VOD) home release. The film received mixed reviews from critics. Bambi: The Reckoning grossed $172,187 in the United States, and $41,213 in various international territories, for a worldwide total of $213,400. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 63% of 16 critics’ reviews are positive.