Zombie Honeymoon (2004)
Director: David Gebroe
Writer: Daviv Gebroe
Synopsis: Zombie Honeymoon is a romantic horror film about a young married couple, madly in love, on their honeymoon. One day on the beach, the groom Danny is attacked and killed by a man who rises up out of the water with no explanation, leaps on top of him, and vomits blood into his mouth. Danny is resuscitated ten minutes later, and seems to look and act totally normal. However, his wife Denise finds out that that's not the case at all. It turns out that Danny has become a zombie. However, instead of becoming a "Night Of The Living Dead"-style creature right off the bat, he disintegrates gradually, in a manner akin to cancer or AIDS. He and his wife Denise do their best to cope with his slipping away, not to mention the fact that he can't stop killing and eating people. As their best friends arrive for a weekend visit, she makes him promise her that they're off-limits. He agrees...
A zombie movie for the Lifetime channel!
1) ACTING: The acting was very good. Normally, in a low budget indie, we get all types of quality regarding acting; poor, okay, pretty good, great or excellent. The acting here had to be of good caliber, as this is not your typical zombie flick, where everyone is running around screaming and being killed off left and right. The high levels of emotion in this movie required individuals that could actually act. The actors here CAN act, and it shows. The acting was a big part of this movie, and had there been actors who could not have pulled this off, the movie would have failed.
2) PRODUCTION: For a low budget indie with no studio backing, this one was done right! The soundtrack, lighting, make up, film quality, it's all way above par with what the viewer is used to getting from indie flicks. As I mentioned above, due to the level of acting that was needed in this movie, the same level of production values was necessary as well. The movie would not have been as good as it was if the viewer was forced to make due with sub-standard effects and production values. There was an issue of continuity that was pointed out to me (Thanks HDS!) where Danny is in the ER of the hospital and dies and the heart rate machine goes off with a flatline, but Danny isn't hooked up to the machine. Oops!
3) THE ZOMBIES: Well, yes, it is plural, as there are two. The zombie that infects the husband, and eventually, the husband. Zombie lore is changed here a bit. When the husband is attacked by the zombie, the zombie vomits a black, tar-like bile into the husband's mouth and then dies. Subsequently, the husband is now "infected with zombie." The husband dies, returns to "life," and begins his descent into zombie-dom. He acts and thinks like a normal human, just with zombie tendencies growing stronger every day. A bite from this type of zombie does not create another zombie, those individuals just die and get eaten. Passing the black tar-like substance to other people is the only way to become a zombie. It is not established if a zombie who does this, can do it repeatedly, creating many more zombies, or if it's just a one-to-one transfer.
4) THE CAUSE: The cause is never mentioned, but as mentioned before, the black substance that is transferred between zombie and victim, is how the next person turns.
5) NUDITY: Minimal boobage in a very cold room.
FINAL: This was not your typical everyday zombie movie. I wonder if that is the reason for some of the negative reviews. People who went to see this may have been expecting Dawn of the Dead goes to the beach, and found out differently. This is a quality movie with many emotions that the viewer is forced to go through. Life, death, life after death. This would best be described as a "chick flick with zombies."
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