On Friday nights, Indieview after dark honors the fringe cinema in the current age with Midnight movies from at any time in film history.
First BAIT: A strange genre and why we explore its specific niche right now. Then, BITE: A spoiler -filled answer to the absolutely important question, “Is this old cult film actually worth recommending now?”
BAG: Even Canadians were children once
We are in the muggy mid -summer, but after the darkness comes to you from the big white north. I have been to Montreal since Tuesday, and while my reporting on international issues is generally quite limited, I am glad to confirm that things are really better in Canada. As I get off the aircraft and step on the asphalt, my restored human rights here as a G-power, and after an excellent breakfast this morning, I am convinced that New York would lose for Quebec in a battle at the bags.
Judging the Cheval Noir competition (and catching some extra titles in my category) at Fantasia Fest, I have seen many amazing new movies this week-and even made time to double for tonight’s choice, “Honeycomb. “Shoestring the horror movie had its world premiere at Slamdance and played here in 2022.
Avalon Fast is known in the Canadian genrion scene, but I only learned about her watching “Snake’s skin.” The 22-year-old talent plays a dreamy lesbian love interest opposite Alexandra Mcvicker in Alice Maio Mackay’s fresh demon romance. Magnetism that made her performance work in it seems to be pulsing under the condition for her former feature debut as director. When a group of girls decides to abandon their lives for the forest in British Columbia, they establish a strange society with violent rituals.
“I wouldn’t bring something I wasn’t ready to share … or get blood on,” says one of the teens during an early scene that suggests that no one would pack.
The girls do not know how much they have lost it until the outside world will call, and the boys they like from school visit the bizarre home. Sure, it sounds a bit like “Lord of the Fluies” but why make the comparison when “Yellowjackets” is Right the? Complete with bees shot the cannibalism drama from Showtime in Canada at about the same time as “Honey cake.” Although the script wrote with Emmett Roiko and became a movie movie in just 19. (It’s worth noting that Maio Mackay from “The Serpent’s Skin” is only 20 now, but who counts?)
When he leaves letters to his families and flows through feverish pictures, the girls leave their average existence to build a hive that feels more like bones of “The Virgin Suicides.” At least, that’s what others say to me. Looking at just the first five minutes of “Honeycomb”, the amateur cast and the chunky script is unlikely to induce delirium. But turning off the lights and watching for another five minutes, I could already feel quickly into the frame and make exciting choice unusual for any director.
Before Trump 2.0 started picking up fights with our neighbors, the United States almost always treated Canada like the good guys. Now we mainly restructure our own Byzantine government and I fear to leave Montreal. Maybe “Honeycomb” will scare me away. I mean, there is Something upsetting about that-something that feels like this shaky 71-minute experiment (with clay?) Is not for people at all.
“Honeycomb” is available to buy only on Gumroad
Bit: Screw the yellow jackets! Let’s talk “Parent Trap”
Come back in a feature length! Are you looking at “Honeycomb”?
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