On
Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a rating of 76% based on 58 reviews, with an average rating of 5.80/10. The site's consensus reads, "Smart, stylish, and nail-bitingly tense,
Honeymoon packs more slow-building horror than many bigger-budget productions." On
Metacritic, the film has an aggregated score of 65 out of 100 based on 10 critic reviews, indicating "generally favorable" reviews. Ryan Turek of
Shock Till You Drop gave
Honeymoon a positive review, stating "Janiak demonstrates some wonderfully confident direction for a first-timer, utilizing space, sound design and two very good lead actors as her tools to slowly amplify the tension and mess with your head." Ryland Aldrich of
Twitch Film also praised the film and called it "a good story, excellently told, and very, very scary."
Mark Kermode of
The Observer gave it 3/5 stars, writing, "Wisely withholding its scrungy cross-generic revelations until the final act, co-writer Janiak's directorial debut makes confident use of limited resources to conjure creepy thrills, peering through the cracks in the couple's imploding relationship, spying shadowy monsters lurking in the darkness." Andy Greene of
Pop Insomniacs gave it a mixed review, saying that the film "isn't going to blow your mind, or scare the crap out of you", but added that director Leigh Janiak "is clever enough to bank on these young stars and their explosive chemistry instead." Mike McCahill of
The Guardian gave the film a score of 2 stars out of 5, writing: "Co-writer/director Leigh Janiak aims for
Lars von Trier's sustained dread, but manages only vague unease." ==References==