Denise and Danny are on their honeymoon when the latter is killed on the beach by a strange individual out of the sea. Danny later resurrects apparently healthy in the hospital. His wife will remain by his side trying to live with the terrible situation....
Dave Gebroe (director and screenwriter) presents us with a wonderful film with surreal overtones, somewhere between horror and black comedy, which has many fans and has been called "The first romantic zombie film." In fact, the film turns out to be a perfect intersection of strong emotions in which love and death blend perfectly almost to the point of presenting some similarities with Jorg Buttgereit's macabre Nekromantik.
The zombie's slow and relentless physical decay is reminiscent of that of the journalist in "I, Zombie" (Andrew Parkinson) and that of Private Andy in "Death Behind the Door" (Bob Clark).
Bob Clark had also placed the zombie figure in the family context by focusing on a mother's love for her dead child; but Gebroe instead places it within married life, in an even more intimate context, painting a sick love story between a rotten being with an increasingly uncontrollable appetite for flesh and a young girl who will not stop loving her husband. An impossible story that leans toward drama.
Zombie Honeymoon is therefore a successful film thanks in part to the originality of the plot and the skill of the lead actors Tracy Coogan and Graham Sibley, who play their roles impeccably. Good special effects and really relevant splatter scenes.
The video store sequence features a self-quotation (a man hands over a videotape of "Homeboy," Gebroe's earlier work) and a strong reference to Fulcian cinema (the video store boy wears a T-shirt depicting the poster for Zombi 2).
