7.0
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Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Honey Bunch (2026)
Honey Bunch (2026)
Overview
Honey Bunch is a horror-thriller co-directed by Dusty Mancinelli and Madeleine Sims-Fewer. Grace Glowicki stars as Diana, a woman who awakens from a coma with fragmented memories and is taken by her husband Homer (Ben Petrie) to an experimental trauma center in the remote wilderness. Jason Isaacs co-stars as Joseph. The film premiered at the 2025 Berlin International Film Festival and was released on Shudder.
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Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Political: Center
Diversity: Moderate
LGBTQ: Negative
Family Values: Leans Progressive
Viewer Rating
7.0
Overview
Honey Bunch is a horror-thriller co-directed by Dusty Mancinelli and Madeleine Sims-Fewer. Grace Glowicki stars as Diana, a woman who awakens from a coma with fragmented memories and is taken by her husband Homer (Ben Petrie) to an experimental trauma center in the remote wilderness. Jason Isaacs co-stars as Joseph. The film premiered at the 2025 Berlin International Film Festival and was released on Shudder.
Starring Cast
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Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Primary
The central conflict of trauma-induced memory loss and its impact on a marriage lacks inherent political valence, anchoring the narrative in personal psychological tension rather than ideological critique. Experimental solutions emphasize relational ethics over systemic or societal agendas.
The film employs a predominantly white cast without race or gender swaps in traditional roles. It explicitly critiques male dominance in marriage through depictions of gaslighting and control, centering gender equity concerns in its psychological thriller framework.
Secondary
Honey Bunch includes a single queer couple whose relationship emerges as the most toxic in the narrative, presented without counterbalance or critique, potentially perpetuating harmful tropes amid the film's focus on marital strain.
The film portrays the central marriage as a strained, sadomasochistic dynamic fraught with passive-aggressive control and questioned motives in devotion, critiquing traditional gender roles within the partnership. This subversion of conventional marital harmony, centered on the couple's obsessive caretaking, drives a progressive leaning in its depiction of family life.
The film contains no transgender characters or themes. The central narrative revolves around a cisgender heterosexual couple navigating amnesia and recovery in a rehabilitation center, with no exploration of transsexual identity or related motifs.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Honey Bunch is an original horror-thriller with newly created characters, including Diana portrayed by a female actor and Homer by a male actor, showing no instances of gender swaps from canonical sources.
Honey Bunch is an original horror-thriller with newly created characters lacking prior canonical or historical racial depictions, so no race swaps occur.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
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5.8
6.0
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9.3
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