Graham Sibley and Tracy Coogan do a good job of portraying the newly weds Danny and Denise. They have a believable chemistry together and that only adds to the movie. When Denise is faced with the possibility of losing her husband, her grief feels real. The way she deals with her zombie husband is also real, in that her actions are understandable when we consider that she loves her husband and doesn’t want to lose him.

The couple has a dream of moving to Portugal. An entire scene is spent on them talking about following their dreams and not falling into the ruts that most married people do. They even go as far as to quit their jobs and make plans to move to Portugal. However, Danny’s zombification puts a damper on their efforts, which makes me wonder if Danny becoming a zombie isn’t some sort of metaphor for how we live life. A lot of people do just fall into a rut after “settling down.” Both Danny and Denise fight to try and make their dream of moving to Portugal come true, but in the end they fail. Is this the film maker’s way of telling the viewer that we’re all doomed to eventually fall into these ruts and to abandon our dreams? Equally as interesting to consider, should we following the example of Danny and Denise and fight the inevitable, or should we just accept it? I get the feeling that there’s a lot more going on in this movie that just some zombie hijinx.

A question we never have answered during the movie is where the zombie that infected Danny came from. It just shows up on the beach, vomits all over Danny and then dies. A little background on where the zombie infection came from would have been nice.

Another downside is in how the infection is spread through vomit. In other words, this means that everyone Danny bites doesn’t become a zombie. So for the entire movie we only ever see two zombies, Danny and the zombie that infected him. Some viewers might feel that this lack of zombies is a let down, and I think the movie would have only benefited from having some more zombies in it.

As much as I liked the characters of Danny and Denise, I found that most of the supporting characters were lacking. Danny’s friend Buddy is easily forgettable and I think is only in this movie to be eaten. Denise’s friend Nikki seems like she may have been interesting, but isn’t given enough screen time for us to really care when she dies. Officer Carp comes off as just goofy, especially in the scene where he’s talking about grapefruit juice with Denise. He also proofs to be the world’s worse cop when he and two other police officers take Nikki back into the house with them when they plan on arresting Danny. Would cops really take a civilian into a hostile environment like that on purpose? I almost liked Officer Carp’s character, but in the end he turned out to be just a zombie victim with a lot of lines.

The gore in this movie is adequate. There was nothing that wowed me, but at the same time I wasn’t disappointed. The references to the classic horror movie, Zombie, are a nice touch, but being reminded of that movie just made me think of gore that did and still does wow me.

Now I said above that I had to give credit to the filmmakers for producing a serious zombie movie. However, there are times that Zombie Honeymoon feels too serious. Some humor would have gone a long way in what is essentially a really depressing movie if you think about. Denise loses her husband, friends, and is probably going to be fugitive once the movie is over. That’s no where near a happy ending and almost leaves the viewer with the impression that Denise would have been better off dead at the end of the movie.