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Honeydew Review: A Captivatingly Strange Eerie Stranded in the Sticks Flick
Honeydew Review: A Captivatingly Strange Eerie Stranded in the Sticks Flick
A surreal ride into backwoods eeriness, Honeydew has a heavy emphasis on mood that it veers into tedious territory.
Terror in the woods horror is almost always a safe bet, at least for those of us horror heads who appreciate the great outdoors. One might say the old tropes that come with backwoods horror flicks have worn thin, but some of us never tire of seeing city slickers out of their element, met with a maniac assailant, vengeful forest, or violent crew of inbreds. Sometimes formulaic is fine. Within a subgenre littered with movies that hardly stray from the norm, though, a unique chiller that introduces new techniques and original points of terror is of course appreciated. Writer/director Devereux Milburn sets out to create just that with his directorial debut
HONEYDEW Review – A Few Great Moments with Slow Pacing In Between
Read Pat King s review of Devereux Milburn s gruesome backwoods nightmare HONEYDEW with Sawyer Spielberg and Malin Barr By Pat King
Written by Dan Kennedy, Devereux Milburn
Directed by Devereux Milburn
Honeydew is, sadly, one of those films where nearly everything that’s interesting is in the trailer. It’s a shame, really, because the movie features some genuinely tense moments and some beautifully-rendered cinematography. If they could have tightened this thing up in the editing room, it might have worked. But the truth is that it’s eye-glazingly dull for most of its runtime.