Quartile rating: 6/10 · 1 rating
On her honeymoon, a young bride sleepwalks into the woods surrounding a secluded cabin. When she returns, she looks the same—but something about her is terrifyingly different.
Honeymoon is a slow-burn body-horror/sci-fi hybrid that works on atmosphere and intimate dread rather than spectacle. The two leads (Rose Leslie and Harry Treadaway) carry the film convincingly, grounding an increasingly strange premise in believable relationship dynamics. The cinematography is competent but unremarkable — standard cabin-in-woods isolation visuals. The premise of alien/parasitic possession filtered through a honeymoon intimacy story gives it a modest distinctiveness, though it treads familiar body-horror territory. Where the film stumbles most is its ending, which leans into vague cosmic horror without fully paying off the slow build, leaving audiences with more ambiguity than earned resolution. A solid mid-tier horror effort slightly hampered by an unsatisfying finale.