Honeymoon is a horror movie directed by Leigh Janiak and starring Rose Leslie and Harry Treadaway as newlyweds Paul and Bea. The film is Janiak's first as a director. and was partly inspired by trips she took to Canada as a girl.
Paul and Bea are adorable newlyweds who go to Bea's family cabin for their honeymoon. Theirs is a beautiful love story, and they are obviously deeply in love with one another as well as best friends. They are portrayed as a near perfect couple, which makes the changes that come into their relationship all the harder for the audience to handle.
After an encounter with one of Bea's old friends, Will, played by Ben Huber, Paul awakens to find that Bea is not in bed with him. He finds her wandering in the woods. From ;that point on, Bea begins to exhibit strange behaivor. She forgets how to make French toast, for instance, and finds excuses not to have sex with Paul. Paul suspects that she has had a fling with Will in the woods, but the truth, as it always is in horror movies, is much stranger.
Rose Leslie, whom you may be familiar with as Ygritte from Game of Thrones does an excellent job as the young bride. She portrays Bea as fun and adventurous, whose affection toward Paul is believable and realistic. Harry Treadway does an equally good job as Paul, a young man who is deeply in love with his wife. The lead actors are better known in their native UK than in the US, Leslie is from Scotland while Treadaway is from England. They do fine jobs as Americans, with near perfect accents. Leslie and Treadaway are required to carry most of the film themselves. Ben Huber and Hannah Brown are important to the plot, but their appearances are brief. Still, both manage to do believable characters.
Honeymoon is a good film from a first time film maker. Like all horror movies, this one requires a willing suspension of disbelief, but if you can manage that, it's a good film.
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