Mike McCahill 

Honeymoon review – gross-out horror flick with drama-class tics

Two insufferable newlyweds take us on a 90-minute honeymoon from hell, writes Mike McCahill
  
  

Honeymoon film by Leigh Janiak
Honeymoon: a horror film that manages only vague unease Photograph: /PR

Or: Antichrist: The Afterschool Version.An insufferable pair of newlyweds, played with jarring American accents by Brits Rose Leslie and Harry Treadaway, repair to an isolated cabin in the Canadian woods, where cracks appear in their lovey-dovey facade: his relentless horniness is one thing, her tendency to wander off at night is cause for even greater concern. Co-writer/director Leigh Janiak aims for Lars von Trier’s sustained dread, but manages only vague unease. Locking us up with the leads and their drama-class tics proves more stifling than claustrophobic, while your major take-away from the final act’s various excretions and abortions is that, ugh, women are gross.

 

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