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The body-snatching subgenre of horror and science fiction is a particularly pliable one that can serve any number of purposes. This is the genre in which some kind of invading force, usually from beyond the stars, comes to Earth and starts taking over human hosts. It's a profoundly chilling thought: coworkers, loved ones, the friendly postal service person you tip every Christmas, are not who they once were. In some ways it's worse than turning into a vampire or a werewolf or a shambling undead zombie, because those all feature some level of physiological transformation. With the body snatcher subgenre, it's your unique you-ness that undergoes the mutation. With "Honeymoon," the subgenre, previously utilized to lampoon cultural movements and political parties, is placed into the intimate setting of a two-person relationship drama. It's a stroke of, if not genius, then at least insane cleverness.

"Honeymoon" starts with a found footage-y montage of a couple, Paul and Bea (played by Harry Treadaway and Rose Leslie from "Game of Thrones"), talking to the camera on their wedding day. They each tell stories and cram a Cinnabon in each other's mouths (that's what they got instead of wedding cake). They appear to be a fairly typical young professional Brooklyn hipster couple, and a few weeks after the wedding, they embark on their honeymoon to Bea's family's dusty cabin in upstate New York. (Seriously people, if there's a creaky cabin in the woods, stay the fuck away. Especially if you can't get cell service and the wifi is spotty.) Once there, they start to do honeymoon-y type stuff like go for playfully adorable canoe rides in the lake and have lots of just-married sex.

One night the couple walks into the barely-there town, where Bea runs into an old flame named Will (played by Ben Huber) and his wife Annie (Hanna Brown). The wife looks peaky, ashen and discombobulated, and Will grabs her arm forcefully, leaving Paul to wonder what, exactly, is going on. One night after their encounter, Paul wakes up to an empty bed, unable to find Bea anywhere in the house. He wanders outside and finds her naked, freezing cold and covered in mud. After he brings her back to the house, he notices some odd marks on her inner thigh. And things keep getting weirder from there.

Past examples of the body snatcher subgenre, from each iteration of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" to last year's "The World's End," usually have something larger on their mind. With the original "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," it was the Cold War and the hunt for supposed Russian spies, with the '70s remake it was suitably tailored to the conspiratorial tone of the post-Watergate era, and even the '80s "Body Snatchers" dealt with uncomfortable issues about the military industrial complex. (The underrated "Puppet Masters" dabbled in similar themes.) With "The World's End," it was all about the "Starbucking" of the world, the swapping of old mom-and-pop operations with streamlined franchises (a metaphor that can be used on a number of things).