Sometimes "I'm sorry" just doesn't cut it; for example: "I'm sorry I cheated on you," "I'm sorry I didn't tell you about all the years I spent in prison" and, of course, "I'm sorry I ate your best friend." If you want to read something meaningful into the plot of Zombie Honeymoon (treating it as an allegory of someone having to deal with a spouse's deadly drug addiction or something), go right ahead -- as for me, I saw little here beyond a gory cheesefest. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but I would argue that Zombie Honeymoon eventually turns into a tedious, long drawn-out affair well before the end credits finally roll. The romance angle just doesn't work when one of the two lovebirds is spurting blood like a geyser and eating friends as well as strangers.

If I'm not mistaken, though, this is the only film featuring a zombie criticizing someone for smoking.

Danny (Graham Sibley) and Denise (Tracy Coogan) are newlyweds beginning a month-long honeymoon somewhere on the Jersey shore. They're having a grand old time until some wretched-looking stranger crawls up out of the ocean and pukes a bucketful of blood and guts all over Danny's face. Denise's worst nightmare comes true when Danny dies from the attack. Ten minutes later, though, her greatest wish comes true when Danny suddenly wakes up and says he's fine. They do the thing that newlyweds do, and they even make spontaneously momentous plans for the future, so everything must be fine and dandy, right? That's what Denise thinks until she comes home from shopping the next day to find her husband covered in the blood of the man he is eating.

For pretty much every person on Earth, this would pretty much be the end of the marriage -- but we're talking about a woman who wore a gaudy red wedding dress. The irony of Denise's total commitment to her wedding vows is the fact that her husband is technically dead, thus rendering those vows null and void. As you might expect, it soon becomes more and more difficult for Denise to stand by her man as his uncontrollable hunger for human flesh increases and he begins to take on the appearance of the living dead.

Zombie Honeymoon tries to straddle a line of its own creation, strung between horror, comedy and romance. Frankly, I don't think it succeeds all that well, as I felt no real sympathy for either Danny or Denise. (Reportedly, the story was actually inspired by the unfortunate death of director David Gebroe's young brother-in-law soon after his marriage.) Still, it certainly makes for a new and interesting take on the often-boring zombie theme, and I can't say this is a film without merit. I don't think it will have much appeal to non-horror fans, though, simply because it's pretty bloody and probably a little bit disgusting to those who don't appreciate the sight of copious amounts of fake blood. You never actually see Danny ripping out someone's internal organs, but he is a really messy eater (and, for some reason, he has a hard time keeping his meals down, if you know what I mean). Zombie fans should definitely check this one out, though.