Official synopsis
When Diana wakes from a coma with fragmented memories, she and her husband seek experimental treatments at a remote facility. As the procedures intensify, their marriage is put to the test and Diana begins to question her husband’s true motives.
Review
The cowriting/codirecting team of Dusty Mancinelli and Madeline Sims-Fewer deliver a whopper of a mystery/horror hybrid reminiscent of 1970s British horror with Honey Bunch (U.K./Canada/Finland, 2025) It’s a psychological shocker with science fiction elements that addresses the eternal genre-film question of how far someone will go for a loved one.
Real-life married couple Ben Petrie and Grace Glowicki star as Homer and Diana, respectively, who were involved in a car accident that left Diana with brain damage including memory loss. The couple are at an experimental facility that specializes in helping people recover physically and mentally from the trauma they have suffered.
This being a horror film, naturally there’s more to the facility than meets the eye. Mancinelli and Sims-Fewer do a super job of blending the eerie with the enigmatic as they build suspense about what’s going on and then come across with a wild third act that also tugs at the heartstrings. Director of Photography and Editor Lev Lewis do fine work helping to make the directors’ aesthetic vision come to fruition.
Glowicki and Petrie are excellent as Diana and Homer, a married couple whose relationship before the accident, shown in a unique flashback style, was not without its issues, and as Diana uncovers puzzling, disturbing details, it is becoming even more unsettling. The two stars head up a strong cast, including supporting players Jason Isaacs as Joseph, the father of a teen undergoing treatment at the facility named Josephina, played by India Brown, and Julian Richlings and Kate Dickie as a patient at the facility and his wife, who is employed there.
Aficionados of classic seventies Eurohorror and devotees of solid psychological chillers should put Honey Bunch on their must-see lists.
Honey Bunch streams on Shudder from February 13, 2026.
