It seems that every month, Rotten Tomatoes over-rates several movies for ... reasons I can not exactly understand. Their latest decoy is Honey Bunch, a movie (with a whopping 94%!) that wants to be horror and surreal and funny and ... who the fuck knows what else. The result? A poor man's Kafka-esque 'nightmare' vision of a couple who venture to a mental health facility after the wife (Grace Glowicki) experiences a head injury. Once there, she experiences flashes of memories (real or otherwise) of strange, unexplainable things.
Directors Madeline Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli are all over the cinematic map. Their characters, their plot, the staging - but especially the screenplay, in addition to the poor casting choices - are unimaginably amateurish. The movie feels like an over-long student film. Judged as a feature, it's - at least - thirty minutes too long. At. LEAST.
Honey Bunch is an oxymoron, in a way; an independently financed film by Shutter (lately, they've produced more garbage than quality) that is just as bad - if not more so - than an expensive Hollywood 'blockbuster' that fails on every level - most of all the human one. Therefore, be warned: just because I wasted (nearly) two hours on this trash doesn't mean that you should.
1/2 ☆
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