Honeymoon is a suspense eerie thriller from female director Leigh Janiak that has elements of body horror which might remind you of the ultra low budget films of David Cronenberg of the 1970s.

This low budget film only has four actors and focuses on the two leads played by British actors Rose Leslie (Bea) and Harry Treadaway (Paul.) They play the lovey-dovey newlyweds on their honeymoon in a cabin by the woods in Canada.

One night Bea ends up sleepwalking in the forest and is found confused and disoriented. Paul suspects subtle changes in Bea's personality and reckons something is wrong even thinking she might not be the same person. What happened in the woods that night?

There are hints of the Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978 remake) in the latter part of the film especially as Paul examines her womanhood.

The film is low key and slow. When you see the couple early on all loved up, you feel that this might be a slasher in the woods film but you get wrong footed. Its a psychological, edgy film as two people become increasingly paranoid over increasingly bizarre behaviour with shades of alien abduction. It did not fly with me, the film was light on its generic story, dull and lackluster.

HONEYMOON is a dreadful low budget US horror film about marital strife which becomes pronounced when the wife undergoes a mysterious transformation after encountering something in the woods. Although both characters are supposed to be American, they're played by British actors in the form of Harry Treadaway and Rose Leslie.

This is the film's main fault. Treadaway and Leslie in particular really struggle with their American accents which sounded false to this British viewer. I couldn't believe them for a second, and the lack of believability thus makes this a real chore to sit through. It doesn't help that the film is full of lovey dovey stuff for the first half and then characters screaming at each other for the second. So vomit inducing followed by headache inducing, then.

The film is padded out with endless conversations and sex scenes which add nothing to the plot. When the horror arises, it's very predictable, so the film-makers concentrate on the gross-out rather than genuinely horrific. Some scenes in this came close to making me feel queasy, and the end result is ultimately depressing. Add that the characters are truly obnoxious (Leslie is extremely uncomfortable and a long way from filling her role like she did in GAME OF THRONES while Treadaway has a truly obnoxious character) and you have a film that is, in a word, dreadful.

Bea (Rose Leslie) and Paul (Harry Treadaway) are newlyweds from NY. She takes him to her family's remote Canadian lake house for their honeymoon. It's the off season and they expect to be alone. They encounter her old friend Will and his wife Annie who owns the local store. There is something disturbing and Bea starts to change. She's sleepwalking all of a sudden and acting differently.

This starts off too slowly. It's unusual for a modern movie to have nothing going on that long. It does have a nice build and Rose Leslie is pretty good. There is some body horror and one really good scene. I would give this a good rating but I'm still not sure what the ending is about. It feels unfinished. It would be great if the first half is quickened and the ending gets extended.