Sinnu brings his new wife to his home in the country - where she gets
creeped out almost immediately, and doesn't even know why. Sure, his dog
hates her and his housekeeper probably won't become her best friend ever
either, but a) that's not too unusual, and b) there's something else,
something she can't quite figure out but something (or rather someone) that brings dead, bleeding rabbits to her room and the like.
After much to and fro, and Shirin actually suspecting Sinnu of terrorizing
her, it becomes apparent the actual baddie of the piece is the
housekeeper's crazy son, who's for some reason obsessed with Shirin, and
after a bit more to and fro, he has both Shirin and Sinnu at gunpoint,
preparing to kill them - when his own mother intervenes and shoots him
dead ... What
starts out as a moderately interesting and slightly promising
psychothriller somewhere along the lines of Rebecca (though showing
none of Alfred Hitchcock's ingenuity) soon becomes a bland
by-the-numbers-shocker with an ending so clichéed it seems to come right
out of Hollywood. And while Poisonous Honey might not be the worst
film you have ever seen, it also has little to recommend it and proves to
be a waste of time even if you're curious about Iranian cinema.
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