"Honeydew" is a nasty little movie that starts as an unnerving throwback to foundational horror filmmaking but ends up devolving into a bleak pile of nothing.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jul 11, 2022

Though the film offers intriguing questions and a plot setup, it fails in its execution with a bloated runtime and disappointed vagueness that makes the film a mess.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 22, 2022

Honeydew is the latest effort to angle toward the elevated horror label without providing much substance to this framework.

| Jun 6, 2021

Beneath all the pizzazz the movie is nothing more than another retelling of the chestnut about the hapless travelers who fall into the clutches of a family of backwoods oddballs with malevolent purposes in mind.

| Original Score: C | May 10, 2021

I found it predictable, laborious and ultimately empty.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 5, 2021

While casual horror viewers will most likely find it to be a hard watch, gorehounds or horror fanatics should like it but may not be fully satisfied by the time the credits roll.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 1, 2021

After an hour of a worthy build-up, the director seems intent to let us dangle from his calling card rather than following through with a climax worth our effort.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 21, 2021

A familiar set-up, but there's still something undeniably effective about its creepiest moments.

| Apr 19, 2021

Kingsley and real-life husband Stephen D'Ambrose as Eulis steal the show, however, and Honeydew is their carousel.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 19, 2021

This dull-witted, tedious film isn't "deep"-only self-conscious enough to appear that way to the gullible.

| Apr 15, 2021

Honeydew digs into serious subject matter like the horrifying effects of religious patriarchy, as well as the existential and bodily terror of heteronormativity.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 15, 2021

I can't wait to see what Dan Kelly and Devereux Milburn do next, whether it's together or separately.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Apr 14, 2021

Shot in Massachusetts yet lacking any signifiers beyond "rural area that should make city folks afraid," it's a movie that imagines horror fans have never seen a movie like this.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 14, 2021

Has an appetite for the grisly, not to mention a thing or two to say about venturing into the middle of nowhere-and taking a bite out of morsels that come from unknown origins.

| Apr 13, 2021

This listless genre exercise mostly plays like a film-school-spun tribute to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre with some Hansel and Gretel clumsily mixed in, but without a political or philosophical foundation to stand on.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 13, 2021

While the focus on Honeydew's visuals and heavy atmosphere can overpower its narrative, Milburn's distinct vision and keen knowledge of horror tropes lead to quick deconstructions that make us confront our expectations of genre films.

| Original Score: 7.5/10 | Apr 13, 2021

There is such specific, strange, and disturbing imagery here. It is so haunting. You will laugh just to relieve the tension.

| Apr 13, 2021

Running a sluggish 107-minutes, Millburn's editing doesn't maintain a sense of awareness and occasionally fails to sustain itself, but there's enough unsettling madness lurking in the corridors to create a slick, uneasy, viewing experience.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 12, 2021

A welcome entry into the American rural horror canon.

| Apr 12, 2021

Milburn writes so much foreplay that the script's eventual release is but a whimper.

| Original Score: C- | Apr 12, 2021