A Spielberg makes his screen debut in the trailer for indie horror breakout Honeydew
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Honeydew’s been buzzing in the horror community since last year, when writer and director Devereux Milburn’s feature shocked audiences at the Nightstream virtual film festival. A “modern-day Hansel and Gretel narrative,” per Milburn, the movie’s release was delayed until this spring. Now, it hits theaters on March 12 and VOD on April 13 courtesy of Dark Star Pictures and Bloody Disgusting.
Our own Katie Rife recommended the “very odd film” during its festival run, saying that “Milburn throws everything from the Brothers Grimm to Quentin Tarantino into his cauldron of stylized frights, culminating in perhaps the strangest celebrity cameo in recent memory.” No, we won’t spoil that cameo, but we will note that the film “introduces” Sawyer Spielberg, the son of famed director Steven Spielberg. While this isn’t technically Sawyer’s screen debut—he played a “plaza protestor” in his dad’s The Post—we’re just going to go ahead and label it as such. We don’t think he’ll mind.
Check out the trailer and luxuriate in its Texas Chainsaw vibes, below:
Yeah, somebody’s getting eaten in this thing.
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Damn I thought the boys were finally getting their big break
I’d love to hear Beaker and Hamburglar do Love Letters. Or anything, really.
The boys? Are those lab coats because I can absolutely imagine one of them shoving an explosive up Translucent’s butt.
I love Steven Spielberg’s little cameo as the sandwich-eating county clerk who takes the tax payment from Jake and Elwood at the end of “The Blues Brothers.” John Landis seems to enjoy recruiting his director friends for cameos; Frank Oz, of course, is the prison guard who returns Belushi’s belongings to him at the beginning of the movie. I think he had several director cameos in “Spies Like Us,” too.
You mean John Landis, The Ultimate Helicopter Parent?
Yea, Sam Raimi, Joel Coen and Martin Brest show up as security guards for the drive-in theater at the beginning of Spies Like Us.George Lucas also popped up Landis’ Beverly Hills Cop 3. And they both had Ray Harryhausen in cameos.
I always go Back to The Blues Brothers because I see something new every time. I did not know that was SS, lol. Best comedy ever made.
No love for the films of Señor Spielbergo? Is it that he’s non-union? Or Mexican?
I found Oz Perkins recent take on Hansel & Gretel to be disappointing, if nice-looking. It wasn’t as bad as “I am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House”, but I’d rank it below “The Blackcoat’s Daughter”.
I probably won’t watch cause I can’t handle horror. But it looks like a respectable effort.