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These new movies offer scares from around the world, including an Indonesian witch and an Irish vampire.
Adhisty Zara in “The Queen of Black Magic.”Credit...Rapi Films/Shudder
April 30, 2021
These new horror movies offer scares from a global perspective, including an Indonesian witch, an Irish vampire, Canadian home invaders and an American family nightmare.
‘Honeydew’
Rent or buy it on Amazon Prime, Google Play, Vudu.
No movie has divided horror fans in 2021 quite like this audacious fairy tale written and directed by Devereux Milburn.
After a young couple (Sawyer Spielberg and Malin Barr) get kicked off the property where they planned to camp one night, they trek through the woods and come across a house, where a kind but eccentric woman (Barbara Kingsley) invites them to spend the night in her basement. It turns out to be a very bad decision — there would be no horror movies without bad decisions, would there? — that leads to bizarre twists involving the woman’s bandaged-up son, cannibalistic rituals and surreal nightmares starring Popeye.
Detractors are right that there’s a lot familiar in “Honeydew,” from the Hansel and Gretel vibes to the grotesque family dynamics (and meals) that made “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” so bone-chilling. But Milburn puts an original spin on the familiar beats of the backwoods shock genre thanks to his hallucinatory storytelling, John Mehrmann’s unnerving score and Spielberg’s fervid performance. There’s also a wowza celebrity cameo that’ll make you do a double take.
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