Halloween is almost upon us and it is pretty much the perfect time to release a horror and in particular a Halloween themed movie.

 

Honeyspider is one such film as it is set on Halloween in 1989. It is college student Jackie Blue’s (Mariah Brown) birthday and she wants a quiet one, but her friend Amber (Samantha Mills) has other ideas. Amber has convinced Jackie to finish her shift at the cinema and then go on campus to the Annual Monster Mash party. She falls under a strange spell and people start to get picked off one by one.

 

Honeyspider is an independent film that has been spawned from the imagination of writer/producer Kenny Caperton and director/producer Josh Hasty. It aims to be a cinematic throw back to the 1980’s slasher horror films and influences can be felt by the use of long tracking shots, superfluous nudity from young college girls and Goblinesque repetitive electronic beats.

 

The faults,  and there were a few, would be that the acting was particularly atrocious. It was all below par and I seriously struggled having to watch Mariah Brown execute her lines. She delivered them with no depth of emotion and she walked around like one giant question mark - all hunched over with a constant gormless expression. There were also some excessive shots that included Jackie talking a stroll about town. She just kept on walking and walking and would not stop. The Monster Mash tune was played far too many times. The composers of the original score should have been utilised a whole lot more as it embodied that retro feel.

 

For a slasher film it is by no means gory or indeed terrifying. There was nothing that would give the BBFC any cause for concern. The overall quality and finish of the film was not good.

 

The Honeyspider concept is one that would give any retro/slasher fan wet dreams, but unfortunately for me, I remained perfectly flaccid throughout and not even a little blue pill would have helped me raise a smile.