You’re going to get better.
Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli—the filmmaking duo behind, ‘Violation‘, are back with ‘Honey Bunch‘, a no-oats, genre-bending relationship thriller that swaps straightforward terror for something more psychologically unsettling.
Diana (Grace Glowicki, ‘Booger‘, ‘Strawberry Mansion’) wakes from a coma with fragmented memories. Desperate to piece things back together, she and her husband (Ben Petrie) check into a remote facility offering experimental treatments. But as the procedures intensify, Diana starts questioning whether her husband’s motives are as pure as he claims. Kind of a horror twist on ‘While You Were Sleep’, from a different perspective. Which…now that I think of it, was kind of a horror movie. Same with, ’50 First Dates’.
Either way, Jason Isaacs (The Patriot) rounds out the cast.
Early takes out of TIFF suggest Sims-Fewer and Mancinelli have crafted something special, that borrows from ’70s Gothic horror while maintaining a darkly comedic edge. Roger Ebert’s Brian Tallerico called it “wonderfully strange,” while Indiewire’s Jake Cole noted it’s one of the few recent body horror films “to recognize the genre’s capacity for tragedy over allegorical statement and shock value.”
If you’re feein’ psychological slow-burns this looks like it’s worth your time.
Streaming on Shudder February 13th.
