Plot
A newlywed couple finds their lake-country honeymoon descend into chaos after Paul finds Bea wandering and disoriented in the middle of their first night.
Release Year: 2014
Rating: 7.3/10 (331 voted)
Critic's Score: /100
Director: Leigh Janiak
Stars: Rose Leslie, Harry Treadaway, Ben Huber
Storyline
Young newlyweds Paul and Bea travel to remote lake country for their honeymoon. Shortly after arriving, Paul finds Bea wandering and disoriented in the middle of the night. As she becomes more distant and her behavior increasingly peculiar, Paul begins to suspect something more sinister than sleepwalking took place in the woods.
Writers: Phil Graziadei, Leigh Janiak
Cast: Rose Leslie -
Bea
Harry Treadaway -
Paul
Ben Huber -
Will
Hanna Brown -
Annie
For their honeymoon, a newly-wed couple Paul and Bea travel to the
bride's former home, a rural, sparsely populated community in Canada. A
strange encounter with an old acquaintance follows a sleepwalking
incident involving Bea and from hereon in it becomes clear that
something is terribly wrong.
This indie flick has a very small cast that relies largely on the
acting of its two central characters, a couple of Brits called Rose
Leslie and Harry Treadway whose American accents are pretty flawless it
has to be said. Both put in very strong performances in roles that
require a fair bit of range. The characters evolve from
so-happy-we'll-make-you-sick just married, through to relationship
distrust and eventually onto outright psychological horror. The actors
are good enough to convince in all these very differing levels of
emotion. Because the story has so few characters, such a remote setting
and such intense emotions, it's a film that is somewhat claustrophobic
in its effect. It underplays the horror side of things and slowly
builds thing up layer by layer. But we are never in any doubt that
there is something very strange going on and there are small unusual
clues punctuated along the way, such as strange sexual-looking marks on
Bea's body, a recurring gooey substance found alongside her discarded
night-dress and her strange distant behaviour. To reveal any more would
be unfair, so I will leave it at that but suffice to say that this is a
very good, mysterious genre piece well directed by Leigh Janiak.
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