Honey Bunch – Review

After some eerie opening credit sounds, a man, Homer (Petrie), carries a wheelchair ridden woman out the ocean. He tells her he loves her. A quick cut to a car ride features this same man Homer, and his wife Diana (Glowicki) driving through a forested road. She wakes from her sleep, and is a bit confused about where she is heading.

They are headed to a trauma facility which was recommended by Diana’s doctor, after an accident has left her with memory issues. This dreamlike facility helps brain injury patients explore past events and rehabilitate memories utilizing Dr. Tréphine’s (Tulasne) groundbreaking techniques. If you believe in the program, you’ll get better.

As Diana is supported by her loving beau Homer, she at least has a strong support with him and the facility’s caretakers. Sensory stimulation therapy utilized here has been developed for over a decade, and typically feature remarkable results, despite any odd techniques. They are to help get people to remember the day of their trauma, and start rebuilding from there. It may take time, but there is a lot of hope.

However… Diana finds herself intertwined in all sorts of memories, and oddball visuals. Are these hallucinations, memories, or something else? As reality starts to fade and Diana goes a bit off the rails, what kind of sinister happenings will she find? Or… is this all part of the program?! Incoming creep and confusion sets the stage for the story to tell its tale.

Honey Bunch is well shot and well presented with a fairly bonkers script overall. My main issue was its pacing, as the film is too slow to unfold, but what it contains is quality all around. The acting is quite good also, which was needed for the plot to hit properly. It features all sorts of thematic beats, including some strong notions of romance somehow, while mixing in its crazy story. How far would you go for someone you love? Where is the line to draw?

"When you’ve seen every version of someone, and keep coming back, that’s romance baby!"