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It's Halloween, and everyone's going all crazy - everyone but Jackie
(Mariah Brown) that is, because she has to study. It's also her 21st
birthday that day, but alas, if she doesn't sprint through college in
minimum required time, her dad cuts her support. Of course, you can't
escape Halloween just because you want to, it's everywhere - be it trick
or treaters roaming the streets at all times of the day and night, your
friends playing pranks on you, or a midnight showing of a corny slasher
packed with guys and girls in horror costumes at the cinema you work at. But
this year has also its downside, for some reason, Jackie has all these
visions of spiders, which she's terribly afraid of ... oh, and there's
someone killing those close to Jackie, and it's her own creepy professor
(Frank J. Aard) in a silly Halloween costume - but if you think he's just
a simpleton slasher who merely marks the occasion, think again ... Honeyspider
is a movie that does amazingly well with building up audience expectations
- only to then shatter them in the third act ... and it really works for
the movie. Now it's not that the film is really formulaic in the first two
acts, as it does take much care in establishing its main character and her
enviroment (not a forte of the genre, mind you), but everything, including
the wonderfully bland film-within-the-film called "Sleepover
Slaughterhouse III" points to a slasher finale ... and then the film
gets weird - in a wholly enjoyable way. And add to this rather original
way of storytelling a solid cast and subtle directorial effort, and you
have, despite epxectations shattered, cool genre entertainment
nevertheless.
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