Honeymoon (2014)

dir Leigh Janiak cast Rose Leslie, Harry Treadway, Ben Huber

Bea and Paul are newlyweds, who, we are led to understand, have both been extremely unlucky in love and are super-excited to have found each other. They're headed to her family's cabin in a Canadian forest to spend their honeymoon. Things are going great until one night when Bea simply disappears from their bed. After a frantic search, Paul finds her standing naked in the pitch-black woods. She dismisses it as a simple case of sleepwalking (which she's never been subject to before), but seems to act strangely afterward as if she's not quite herself. She also has mysterious wounds on her thighs, which she explains as mosquito bites, but which look much more serious. Unfortunately, Paul's feeling that there's something not right here is only too accurate.

The move is well-acted and fine in the technical aspects. I was grateful that it wasn't yet another "found footage" narrative, and the strange events are (kinda, sorta) explained at the end. I appreciated the mystery format and the buildup of suspense without graphic violence (though things get plenty gross by the end), but at the end, it seemed pretty trivial. It was an acceptable time-killer, but didn't really grab me.

Leslie played Ygritte ("You know nothing, Jon Snow!") on Game of Thrones; so it was interesting seeing her in another role. She was quite convincing playing an American.