Grace Glowicki and Ben Petrie Descend Into Shudder’s Ethereally Antiseptic ‘Honey Bunch’ — Watch Trailer

Shudder is fueling its post–10-year-anniversary momentum with an instantly unnerving trailer debut — exclusive to IndieWire.

Recalling the antiseptic dread of Gore Verbinski’s “A Cure for Wellness,” but steeped in the lush, suffocating inferno of the deep-green Ontario woods, “Honey Bunch” comes from Canadian filmmakers Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli. The nightmare begins as a discordantly ethereal marriage thriller, set at a strange treatment facility. It twists into something even more like a dark fairytale and reaffirms Shudder as a key tastemaker for international horror in 2026.

Streaming on February 13 and in Canadian theaters on January 23, “Honey Bunch” is critically acclaimed, having debuted to positive reception at the 2025 Berlin Film Festival. The promo plays like a noxious breath of fresh air, starring Grace Glowicki and Ben Petrie — the electric duo behind 2025’s “Dead Lover” (out of Sundance) — as a husband and wife who don’t know each other as well as they think.

The couple appears opposite Jason Isaacs and Kate Dickie for a chilly descent into the instability of intimacy, making a buzzy, fierce first impression on the film festival circuit last year. It also screened at TIFF, Fantastic Fest, and more, making an impressive run that speaks to the film’s possible global appeal (this certainly feels like an “Oddity”-type hit) as much as the script’s eerie specificity.

When Diana (Glowicki) awakens from a coma with severe memory loss, she and her husband (Petrie) turn to an isolated medical center for experimental trauma treatments. As the procedures grow more invasive, the patient’s marriage begins to fracture, and Diana questions not just the nature of the therapy, but the intentions of the man who claims to love her most. In a review for IndieWire, critic Jake Cole called the result a “slow-burn madhouse thriller” that becomes one of the few recent “body horror pictures to recognize the genre’s capacity for tragedy over allegorical statement and shock value.”

Sims-Fewer and Mancinelli have emerged as two of the most exciting figures in Canadian horror, and they’re part of a broader wave redefining the country’s genre output through extraordinary commitment to craft, artistic vulnerability, and emotional extremity. “Honey Bunch” continues that trajectory, and promises to nail the sharp execution and conceptual hook you need for a Shudder sensation. This is what curated cinema should look like — personal, perverse, and unafraid to ask how far love is willing to go.

Watch the IndieWire-exclusive trailer for “Honey Bunch” below.