15. Honeymoon

This film went into limited (allegedly it was wide but good luck finding it at the cineplex) release on September 12th. Written and directed Leigh Janiak (making his directorial debut), the film follows good looking, young newlyweds Bea (Rose Leslie) and Paul (Harry Treadway) on their honeymoon (hence the name of the film). Instead of going to Hawaii or some tropical locale, they decide to go to Bea's family's lake side house (they call it a cottage but it's a house) in the Canadian woods. A secluded lake house (in the offseason mind you) in the woods. Let that sink in. So you know nothing good is going to happen.

Things start as you'd expect, they're very happy and and they do lake stuff like go boating and fishing. One day they decide to go to a restaurant and they run into Bea's old childhood pal Will (Ben Huber), who's clearly not having a good day and initially asks Paul and Bea to leave in a fit of anger. When he calms down and recognizes Bea, he gets a little more hospitable. Then his weird wife Annie (Hannah Brown) enters and tells Paul and Bea that they should "leave." That incident right there should've been a hint for them to trek back to Brooklyn but like they shake it off as them being Canadian and go back home. That's when things take a turn for the deeply weird. After some strange lights come through the house, Paul finds Bea naked in the woods. She pulls a sleep walking excuse but Paul's a bit skeptical especially when Bea messes up breakfast and starts using strange phrases.. The next day on the boat while getting frisky, Paul notices profuse bleeding from Bea's vaginal area. Now he's worried as things are not adding up.

I don't want to give it all away but let's just say both Paul and Bea start their descent into madness for different reasons and it ends badly. This was a really good film. It shows that a scary film doesn't need a lot of effect to be scary. We watched this On Demand and it was worth it. The ending is very good and the moments leading up to it are very intense. Solid acting and direction. Not the scariest of films but for me, there was one scene that really creeped me out. This film is worth watching in any format. Find it. Watch it.