‘Honey Bunch’ interview about the Gory Horror movie with romance

The romance of Indie filmmakers Dusty Mancinelli and Madeleine Sims-Fewer has flourished in the most uninamined places-they made their debut player in 2020. Breach, The tirelessly violent and terrible drama revenge set in the Canadian cottage.

“After we made our first movie, which really dealt with trauma and was very dark, very painful to create and really dive into the dark recesses of our mind, we wanted to do something about love,” says Sims-Fewer Hollywood reporter front Honey crowd, Their second feature, had its world premiere in Berlin on February 18th.

In his first feature, who worshiped the Toronto Film Festival, Sims-Fewer played a young woman in an unhappy marriage who remains with his sister and their husbands in a secluded cottage, which gradually reveal unspoken traumas and disturbing sexual violence.

But on Honey crowdCanadian filmmakers deliberately toned the dark, bloody material of their first feature. “We actually became a couple while making it (Breach). So what really inspired Honey crowd I wanted to do something about the couple and wanted to do something about what it means to devote to someone wholeheartedly, and the kind of fear and excitement that everyone socializes together when you commit it, “explains Sims-Fewer.

What does not mean that Honey crowd is rom com. The film contains Grace Glowicki who plays Diana, a young woman who wakes up from a coma with fragmented memories. She and her husband Homer, played by Ben Petrie, are looking for experimental treatments at a remote medical clinic. But while questioning procedures are trying to renew her memory, Diana reveals that he has been caused by his marriage as he begins to question Homer’s real intentions to take her to the facility.

Couples of celebrities who fall in love with movie sets are certainly not new in Hollywood, and romance for Canadian filmmakers have followed a number of short films they have made together since 2015. “I think we were both pretty scared. We already made a bunch of short films together and we both feared. I know I was afraid,” admits Sims-Fewer.

For Mancinelli, Honey crowd He talks about what follows for two people falling for each other. “Love is unpredictable, and part of what we explore in this movie is how we can deconstruct the usual ideas of love, this idea of ​​a related related or true for you,” he claims.

Both Glowiicki and Petrie were ideal as Honey crowd leads how they are married in a movie and in real life. “We were really attracted to this idea of ​​a real married couple who really understands what it means to be in the long -term committed relationship,” adds Mancinelli.

Filmmakers play with the expectations of the audience about the main Honey crowd Characters such as Diana’s failed memory slowly returns to questionable medical experiments, and the impressions of her marriage come to focus.

“At the very beginning, you may see one thing, and maybe later, it really forces you to see maybe a different perspective, the other side of the situation. The challenge is the way you somehow evaluate these characters and the story itself,” explains Mancinelli.

Sims-Fewer adds that Honey crowd is designed to reveal a new look for Breach directors. “While we showed a very special side of ourselves (with Breach), people saw this one thing: trauma filmmakers. And we wanted to explore a part of ourselves that was different but no less powerful, “she explains.

Honey crowd Also the stars Jason Isaacs, Kate Dickie and Julian Richings, Veterans Horor genre. The Canadian Indie, set in the 1970s, pays tribute to top horror films of the time, including Nicolas Roeg Don’t watch now and Bodily rocket invasionSci-Fi Horror Classic directed by Philip Kaufman.

To get that retro look, directors used the vintage lens camera for a slightly dizzying look that helped to convey Diana and her vague memories as she remembers her marriage. “It’s something that may be a bit unexpected and maybe it’s a little strange aesthetics to get used to the thriller audience. But that’s something we considered very exciting,” Sims-Fewer says.

In front of the world premiere Honey crowd In Berlin, filmmakers want their latest film to encourage talks with the festival audience, on the eve of a commercial edition.

“As filmmakers, all we can hope for is that the movie sees many people and it is interesting enough that people want to talk about it,” says Mancinelli. “I always hope people see something in it because we put something in it,” adds Sims-Fewer