wes-connors Church bells ring morbidly, but New Jersey newlyweds Tracy Coogan and Graham Sibley (as Denise and Danny Zanders) are very happily married. Bounding out of the church, they take off in their "Just Married" car with Mr. Sibley at the wheel and Ms. Coogan bobbing her head in his lap. The honeymoon goes well, although one kiss does seem like a foreshadowing bite. With a little "Endless Summer" (1966) music, Sibley goes surfing. While the couple relaxes on the beach, an ugly zombie emerges from the ocean. He falls full front on Sibley and spews dark vomit down his throat. It appears like Sibley may die from the encounter. Coogan is happy when her husband miraculously recovers, but the couple faces a zombie challenge...Neatly written and directed by David Gebroe, "Zombie Honeymoon" is essentially a love story. The horror and gore are present, but Mr. Gebroe does not focus on fright. This sort of monster drama recalls the supernatural characters explored by Dan Curtis on TV in "Dark Shadows" and Anne Rice in her "Vampire Lestat" novels. Explicitly, Mr. Gebroe's script identifies being a zombie as "an affliction." The couple must deal with the potentially monstrous condition and make it work in their marriage, or not...Coogan and Sibley perform well and we understand their plight. Still, there is very an audience can invest in their characters. He likes to surf, she likes oral sex and they got married. They like Portugal, too. That's all great, for them. Generally, we are spectators and do not participate in their interests and activities. A couple of exceptions are among Mr. Gebroe's highlights. He intimately opens a scene by panning Coogan's legs as she dozes in her underwear, then discovers her groom sick in the bathroom. In this sequence, we are brought seductively and effectively into the drama. Lastly, near the end of the film, Coogan has a brief, dreamy vision of Sibley which shows a romanticism that should have been part of the story's opening.***** Zombie Honeymoon (10/23/2004) David Gebroe ~ Tracy Coogan, Graham Sibley, Tonya Cornelisse, David M. Wallace

kneiss1 The whole idea of this movie didn't appeal to me. I have been watching the movie without any interest. I kept distracting myself with all sort of stuff. This rarely happens to me. Party it's the theme of the movie that simply doesn't bother me. Out of all fantasy-, and horror-creatures, zombies are the most ugly, and most boring ones. I don't understand why so many movies are choosing this theme.So yea, I am a zombie movie hater. But, if a zombie movie is actually good, I will still like it. I really loved watching the evil dead movies and some of Romero's old movies. Zombie Honeymoon is too trashy for me. There are even worse movies out there, and I guess if you are interested in the zombie theme, this movie might be to your liking. For me, there are very few movies I cared less about.

EVOL666 I'm not a huge zombie-film fan anymore. I dug 'em as a kid, but there's been so many hundreds of them made - most of them boring rehashes of each other, that I don't really care for the genre all that much lately. ZOMBIE HONEYMOON honestly surprised me.Danny and Denise are head-over-heels-in-love newly-weds spending their honeymoon at a relative's vacant house. Danny is infected by a zombie while out surfing, and his hunger for flesh begins impairing his relationship with his new wife...Honestly, I don't wanna say much more about ZOMBIE HONEYMOON than what I've revealed above. The film itself is a sometimes funny, sometimes gory, sometimes "emotional" tale of lovers trying to stand by each other against the most unusual odds. I really liked pretty much everything about the film. The acting was solid by most everyone involved (especially the lead couple), the storyline was original, there were a few decent gore scenes, and the direction was pretty solid for a low-budget venture. Not a "perfect" film, but definitely notable to zombie film-fans that are looking for something a bit different. 8/10

Greg "Do you take this man? In sickness and in health? 'Till death do you part? For as long as you both shall live?" Truer questions have not been asked and realized for young couple Danny (Graham Sibley) and Denise (Tracy Coogan) Zanders. Recently married and just hours into their honeymoon, things, it would seem, are about to change for the worse. While laying on the beach enjoying the warmth of a summer day, a mysterious decaying man walks out of the ocean and before you can say "I do", he is spewing black goo into the open gasping mouth of young Danny.Rushed to the hospital, Danny flatlines and it would seem that the honeymoon is over. Or is it? Miraculously, ten minutes after death, Danny regains consciousness feeling no worse than my regular Saturday morning hangover.Danny returns back to their retreat and everything appears to be back to normal. That is, until Denise stumbles across Danny in the bathtub feasting on the flesh of an innocent jogger.Torn between her unbridled love for her husband and the haunting realization that his appetite for flesh is on an uncontrollable escalation, Denise walks the thin line of standing by her man – even if her man has a fancy for human skin.To make matters even worse, Danny's flesh begins to turn blue and rot away. Not exactly the skin tone you would be looking for when putting together the honeymoon picture scrapbook. And the only thing bluer than his skin tone is the uniform of a prying police officer that seems unassuming, but might be more analytical of the situation than we are lead to believe.I must admit that it was the title that first drew me to Zombie Honeymoon. I hadn't heard of writer/director David Gebroe and even as I scan his biography, there is not a recognizable name or association that might set off a small bell in my noggin. But there was something about the title that had the promise of being fun and a little grotesque all at the same time. I took the chance and purchased the DVD thinking that I might eventually get around to a Saturday afternoon sequester and by the time I got around to viewing, I was sorry I wasted previous week-ends with much inferior pieces of supposed horror.Zombie Honeymoon is one of those few zombie films that really works thanks to a smart script and acting by the two leads that is about as good as anything I have seen in small budget films of the genre. Graham Sibley and Tracy Coogan do such a believable job with a difficult topic that you actually feel for these two characters and you root for their cause of trying to find a happy medium between dead and undead (It reminded me of what Fido (2006) wanted to conjour).For those of you that prefer gore to story, there are enough scenes of flesh munching to keep you interested, but let's face the fact that this is small budget and we have seen zombie's eating people for years without really seeing anything 'new' with the culture.I can't say that I will follow David Gebroe's odyssey going further, but if this film is just a stepping stone, he could be one of those rare talents that puts together scares, spooks, horror and humor with smart dialogue spoken by believable characters. Kudos to that.www.robertsreviews.com www.killerreviews.com