Zombie Honeymoon

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Zombie Honeymoon
Poster
Directed byDavid Gebroe
Written byDavid Gebroe
Produced byDavid Gebroe,
Christina Reilly
StarringTracy Coogan
Graham Sibley
Tonya Cornelisse
David M. Wallace
CinematographyKen Seng
Edited byGordon Grinberg
Music byMichael Tremante
Distributed byHooligan Pictures (US)
Release date
  • October 23, 2004 (2004-10-23) (Hamptons International Film Festival)
Running time
83 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Zombie Honeymoon is a 2004 independent horror film directed by David Gebroe and starring Tracy Coogan, Graham Sibley, Tonya Cornelisse, and David M. Wallace. It was produced by Hooligan Pictures.[1] The New York Times described it as, "Not quite the campfest, it's absurd but the undeniably catchy title suggests, Zombie Honeymoon is actually an emotionally driven blend of romance, comedy and horror."[2] The film won a Chainsaw award in 2006 for best low-budget film.[3]

Zombie Honeymoon centers around the doomed love story of Denise (Tracy Coogan) and Danny (Graham Sibley) Zanders, whose honeymoon is disrupted by an attack that turns Danny into a zombie. Denise is torn between her desire to protect her husband and her revulsion at what he is becoming.

Plot

American newlyweds Denise and Danny have just begun their month-long honeymoon by the ocean in

vegetarian Danny is craving meat. When Denise finds that her husband is struggling with compulsive cannibalism, she is horrified, but compelled by love and pity to clean up after him and protect him. Her efforts to help him overcome his urges prove futile. Danny's body count mounts while his willpower deteriorates as quickly as his decomposing flesh. Though Denise has not been able to bring herself to flee her husband, even as he kills their closest friends, the remaining bonds of love that have held Danny back from killing his bride seem to have dissolved. He attacks her and forces her down, beginning to produce the viscous fluid that had transformed him. Just before infecting Denise, he turns his head, sparing her his fate. He apologizes to her as he finally dies. Denise, after tenderly disposing of his body, goes back to the beach, where she remembers better times between them and looks to the tickets that the pair had purchased to start their dream life in Portugal
.

Production

Writer/director David Gebroe has discussed the genesis of the film in several interviews and in a "Behind the Scenes" feature on the 2006

Andy Warhol's Frankenstein
.

Notes

The video clerk was wearing a shirt with the zombie from Lucio Fulci's cult classic, Zombi, and the video tape rejected was the previous movie of the director of The Homeboy.

Critical reception

The film has had mixed critical reception, but the writing and acting have been widely singled out for praise. Variety, which described it as a "strong, well-thesped pic", indicated that it "scores simultaneously as romantic, tragic, grotesque and screamingly funny."[7] Salon.com, which characterized it as "a highly disturbing combination of gruesome gore and earnest, tragic romance not encountered since David Cronenberg's "The Fly," if ever, singled out for praise the acting and the script, summarizing that "the film's strange blend of tragedy and surreal gore, à la Dario Argento and Lucio Fulci, is surprisingly effective."[8] The New York Times notes that the film betrays its low budget, but though finding it "never truly engaging or frightening" suggests the movie is partially salvaged by "solid performances (especially Ms. Coogan's) and capable direction by Dave Gebroe, whose script is infused with some wickedly funny lines."[2] The Village Voice found the story derivative, if sometimes funny, but also singled out Coogan, stating that "if this silly retread works at all, it's because of Coogan, who comes at the creaky premise with almost Streepian commitment and who is destined, it would seem, for better things."[9]

See also

References

  1. IMDb Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^
    New York Times
    . Retrieved 2008-09-16.
  3. ^ Layne, Staci (2006-10-18). "Chainsaw Awards 2006 - Winners Announced". horror.com. Retrieved 2008-09-16.
  4. ^ Gebroe, David. Zombie Honeymoon DVD "Behind The Scenes", Showtime Entertainment, February 14, 2006, ASIN: B000CPH9UM
  5. ^ a b "About the movie, synopsis". Zombiehoneymoon.com. Retrieved 2009-03-03.
  6. ^ Biodrowski, Steve (2005-07-11). "Zombie Honeymoon - Preview". Retrieved 2009-03-03.
  7. ^ Scheib, Ronnie (2004-11-10). "Zombie Honeymoon". Variety. Retrieved 2009-03-02.
  8. ^ O'Hehir, Andrew (2005-10-06). "Beyond the Multiplex". Salon.com. Archived from the original on August 23, 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-02.
  9. Village Voice
    . Retrieved 2009-03-02.

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