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Honey Don't (2025)
Feb. 24th, 2026 05:48 am"Honey Don't" restored my faith in cinema. Who would make a lesbian film noir, needlessly tawdry, overdosing on absurdism? This film.
I love me some good bad cinema. Chef's kiss. 10/10 on the bonkers scale. This is one of those films that you can describe, yet utterly fail to express.
The whole thing takes place in Bakersfield, CA, in the San Fernando valley. Given the state of the town, this film argues for getting the Urban Hellscape label.
Our detective does lots of detecting, but somebody always winds up dead before the end of the case. The body count is up there, with everyone dying gruesomely. Otherwise, her lesbian radar is super-keen, and she's onto the next girl. Otherwise, she's highly stylized, giving retro-masculine vibes of previous eras.
The whole thing is set amid Bakersfield culture, presumably giving us all sorts of local cultural memes. As far as I can tell, much of it's filmed on location. The protagonist's sister keeps having kids, her kids are out of control, nobody wants to ride the bus, and everything is run down. You can feel the underlying poverty, that sense of going nowhere fast. There's nothing in Bakersfield except for the people who are living there.
This film isn't for everyone, and I think that it's downright divisive, on purpose. They accept that some people will get offended, or put off, or repulsed. This film is who it's for, and it's not for anyone else. Fair enough.
I love me some good bad cinema. Chef's kiss. 10/10 on the bonkers scale. This is one of those films that you can describe, yet utterly fail to express.
The whole thing takes place in Bakersfield, CA, in the San Fernando valley. Given the state of the town, this film argues for getting the Urban Hellscape label.
Our detective does lots of detecting, but somebody always winds up dead before the end of the case. The body count is up there, with everyone dying gruesomely. Otherwise, her lesbian radar is super-keen, and she's onto the next girl. Otherwise, she's highly stylized, giving retro-masculine vibes of previous eras.
The whole thing is set amid Bakersfield culture, presumably giving us all sorts of local cultural memes. As far as I can tell, much of it's filmed on location. The protagonist's sister keeps having kids, her kids are out of control, nobody wants to ride the bus, and everything is run down. You can feel the underlying poverty, that sense of going nowhere fast. There's nothing in Bakersfield except for the people who are living there.
This film isn't for everyone, and I think that it's downright divisive, on purpose. They accept that some people will get offended, or put off, or repulsed. This film is who it's for, and it's not for anyone else. Fair enough.
