Devereaux Milburn makes his feature-length directorial debut with “Honeydew,” and boy howdy, he’s eager to show his stuff with the movie. Blending the backwoods horror and appetites of “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” with modern trends in mannered terror, Milburn offers a familiar tale of a lost couple looking for shelter where they shouldn’t, working to generate a fright experience that’s primarily sold through specific cinematography and excessive editing. “Honeydew” is as self-conscious a filmmaking introduction as they come, offering viewers a tedious examination of style and stillness, while the writing asks the audience to spend time with two main characters who, even by genre standards, have no working brains, happily marching into obvious danger because Milburn needs them to. The helmer’s trying to throw a ghoulish party with this endeavor, but the showiness of it all is wearying. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com