A major work by Missa X, "Honeymoon" plays like a real movie, benefiting immensely by on-location setting and photography (similar to "The Seychelles" shot several months later). It's a refreshing variation from the usual "sex on a couch" or "sex on a bed" porn format.
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This triangle drama has many, many elements, giving the characters depth way beyond their sexuality and including solid twists that make it work as a thriller. And I was pleased at motifs, kept under control and not overwhelming the movie, that range from that classic film noir in color "Leave Her to Heaven" to a different take on "Fatal Attraction".
Story revolves around Bridgette B, amazingly enticing and sinister in the homewrecker role. She's rented a house on a tropical island to Tyler Nixon for his honeymoon, where we see teen Ivy Wolfe giving up her virginity, only to be seduced by schemer BB (who calls herself "Bee" in the cleverly written script, setting up the dialogue to Ivy: "Careful, a bee can sting").
She's keeping the couple under surveillance, with CCTV cameras in the rental home, and manipulating both of them in a revenge scheme. A decade earlier she was married to Tyler and they made money scamming people. Key plot elements have her befriending young Ivy who doesn't know who she really is, while also seducing Tyler for sex with an ex.
Missa uses intriguing flash forwards as well as tricky editing to avoid showing the explicit violence of the story, while still delivering an unusual version of the Hitchcockian body-removal scene following murder. Though obviously overshadowed by BB, her co-stars also deliver authentic performances.
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