The Retreat
Why this pick
A remote lakeside trip becomes a tightly contained relationship horror, echoing Honeymoon’s use of wilderness isolation and the terror of realizing your partner may no longer be knowable.
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Why this pick
A remote lakeside trip becomes a tightly contained relationship horror, echoing Honeymoon’s use of wilderness isolation and the terror of realizing your partner may no longer be knowable.
Why this pick
This similarly restrained supernatural horror builds fear through grief, a strained marriage, and the unsettling possibility that someone close has returned changed.
Why this pick
A deteriorating marriage becomes the emotional fault line of an eerie, ambiguous haunting, matching Honeymoon’s gradual movement from suspicion to intimate psychological terror.
Why this pick
Though set at a dinner party rather than a cabin, it shares Honeymoon’s patient escalation, social unease, and terrifying focus on a loved one behaving subtly wrong.
Why this pick
A new relationship is tested when one woman’s behavior becomes frighteningly unfamiliar; its romantic closeness and uncanny transformation closely echo Honeymoon’s core dread.
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01 / THE STORY
Bea (Rose Leslie) and Paul (Harry Treadaway) are newly married and off to have a romantic honeymoon in a rustic cabin set in a secluded forest. During their stay there, they go to a small restaurant where Will, the owner, initially acts hostile and asks them to leave, but later calms down, realizing he was Bea's childhood friend. Will's wife then comes in, acting strangely and saying they need to get away. Afterwards, everything goes normally until their wedded bliss is cut short when Bea goes missing. Paul finds her naked and disoriented in the woods with no evidence as to how she got there or why she was there in the first place. He takes her back to the cabin, where she claims she was sleepwalking due to stress, and tells him to make nothing of it.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

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