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Honey Bunch



IMDb Info

Release Year: 2025
Runtime: 1h 53m
Country: Canada, Finland
Language: English, French
Genre Tags: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Plot Summary: When Diana wakes from a coma with memory loss, she and her husband seek experimental treatments at a remote facility. As the procedures intensify, their marriage is put to the test and Diana begins to question her husband's true motives.

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phancy.com rating:

phancy.com notes: IMdB lists a ton of genre tags for this, and for good reason: It's not really a horror movie, but does have nightmarish scenes and scenarios. It's not really a sci-fi movie, but does feature some related plot points. It's not a comedy, though it can be very funny. It's mostly the study of a relationship, and the difference between love and commitment, or if there even is a difference... all wrapped up in the trappings of a darkly funny horror fantasy. It will keep you on your toes the entire time, pretend to fake you out with a twist you'll probably see coming, and then pull the rug out again at the very end. Relationships, amiright? Recommended as an indie gem that a larger studio would never make.


Outside Reviews:

Sheila O'Malley
3 out of 4 stars - rogerebert.com

"Honey Bunch"'s tone is one of ambivalence and confusion, uncertainty and dissociation. The film is often very unnerving. When the answer is finally revealed, when Diana discovers what has been going on, something important is sacrificed with her newfound clarity. The answer to the mystery somehow dissipates its impact. On the flip side, the reveal is not a satisfying explanation. It just creates more questions. This is true through the film's extraordinary final moment, where confusion re-entrenches itself. A lesser film would have presented the past in a golden glow of nostalgia, the "before" of Diana and Homer's relationship in contrast with the grim "after." Here, there is no dividing line. The "before" is just as thorny and strange as the "after." All is not well in "Honey Bunch," and all was never well.


Jim Vorel
7.1 out of 10 - Nasty, Bizarre and Dripping with Style, Honey Bunch Is an Inscrutable Fever Dream

Some films have tones that are unintentionally difficult to parse. Others, like Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli's opaque ‘70s throwback mystery thriller Honey Bunch, essentially weaponize the fact that the audience doesn't know quite how to approach them as a tool to keep those viewers out of balance for almost the entire runtime. Here, the sophomore filmmaking duo (after 2020's unsettling Violation) has presented us with a truly odd curio: thrilling but ponderous, darkly comedic but genuinely disturbing, thoughtful but deeply silly, and 100% weird at all times. It doesn't all work, and can even become grating in its initial refusal to let us in on what kind of game it's actually playing, but by the time it ends, Honey Bunch earns both a grudging respect and admiration for its candor and chutzpah.`