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Release year: 2014

Storyline

A newlywed couple finds their lake-country honeymoon descend into chaos after Paul finds Bea wandering and disoriented in the middle of the night.

Top credits

Directors

Leigh Janiak

Writers

Cast

Rose Leslie — Bea
Harry Treadaway — Paul
Ben Huber — Will
Hanna Brown — Annie

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Did you know

• After several years of penning unsold scripts, writer/director Leigh Janiak and co-writer Phil Graziadei finally hit on the idea for Honeymoon after being inspired by the micro-budget horror movie Monsters (2010). They started writing in mid-2011. Found the person who became their producer end of 2011. Took 2012 to get financing and shot it early 2013. Janiak said it was pretty quick in the grand scheme of things once the actual script started. But the process of getting there was long.

• Leigh Janiak chose Rose Leslie to perform as Bea after viewing her performance in Downton Abbey (2010) and Game of Thrones (2011). Janiak said, "I wanted someone that felt different, someone that you wouldn't expect to see in a genre movie. And, you know, not a certain look. That was really important to me. And she was so different in each of those roles. I just thought she was really good and her charisma was amazing."

• In a 2014 interview, Leigh Janiak talked about where the idea for the movie came from. "I think we thought about the big science fiction and horror movies that we liked and we knew that we wanted to make a smaller intimate movie. Because again, we were going to try to make it no matter what. So Invasion of the Body Snatchers made sense and I liked the idea that this is a story that we kind of re-tell generation after generation with different kinds of sociopolitical things in mind. And so to make a movie about body snatching but that's on a very intimate level dealing with identity, made sense for us. That was kind of the jumping off point."