Pinocchio: Unstrung review – public domain slasher turns beloved puppet into sick serial killer

Like the grisly Winnie-the-Pooh films, the latest in the Twisted Childhood Universe franchise offers feeble satire and shock-free ‘horror’ The so-called Twisted Childhood Universe, a bad-taste British slasher franchise, continues to get mileage out of turning beloved kids’ characters into sicko serial killers. After a pair of satanic Winnie the Pooh movies, we now get a cash-in of Pinocchio, directed again by Rhys Frake-Waterfield, and like the Pooh duo, it’s a nasty piece of work. Cheerfully...

By Cath Clarke