#23 - HoneyBee (2016)
(dir. Nicki Harris)
A new family - a woman with five sons who make all the girls swoon - moves into the house across the street from 16-year-old Hillary. She falls for one of the boys, but when her father goes missing she begins to suspect that something strange is going on in that house... I'd expand on that summary, except I had no idea what the fuck this movie was supposed to be about.
This is a pretty low-budget indie film, and it shows. The story makes very little sense - it tries to play coy and leave things up to the viewer's imagination, but it takes that too far and never explains or even hints at what the hell is going on, so stuff just kind of happens and it feels like the director was making things up as she went. I'm not really going to pick apart the poor cinematography or terrible sound design or the bare ugly sets because it feels like making fun of the kids from the special ed class. The only nice thing I can say is that the two leads were pretty decent actors - especially compared to everyone else in the film.
So... not good. We only watched it because Julie went to high school with the director, and I would not recommend it to anyone else.
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