This listless genre exercise mostly plays like a film-school-spun tribute to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre with some Hansel and Gretel clumsily mixed in.
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
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