Haunted Honeymoon

I’m not sure what others were expecting. KINO is not a bootleg company. They’ve released some very underground titles with great results. What I received was in HD and well surpasses how I remembered it from the 80s. If you don’t like the movie then that’s one thing, but I’m thinking everyone’s a Siskel & Ebert and should just review the film itself on IMDB.This is an official release.It’s in HD. Not 4k but HD.I knew what I was buying and am very happy to add this release to my collection.

Funniest couple ever!!!

Good movie.

One of my favorite movies in the 80’s

As a Blue-ray this movie is what I expected.If you are unfamiliar with the movie, you need to watch it. It is a silly, but well written, family friendly, Halloween type movie. It's about a couple of 30s-40s era Radio voice actors who are getting married over the weekend and the woman (Gilda Radner) learns that her intended (Gene Wilder) may be a werewolf. It's a truly clever movie. Dom DeLuise is brilliant.

While this movie didn’t do so great at the box office back in it’s day, it’s still a childhood favorite of mine and to this day makes me laugh. I love Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner in this film and if I’m being honest Dom DeLuise steals the show. It’s a comedic whodunnit and is an ode to movies of yesteryear.

Good

Great comedy

Dislike unavailable on Blu-ray region UK as soon as this movie is available in HD for the UK I'm purchasing this again. Dvd picture quality is ok as good as it can be for standard definition and the audio is stereo CD quality. A great film which gets a lot of slack and hatred from film critics who wouldn't know a good escapism movie anyway. This is a nice light-hearted film with great actors who at times trying to keep a straight face during some silly lines. There is no swearing, blood and gore and nudity actually a comedy horror you can watch as a family. Great way to get the next generation into this sort of genres and spark interest in to looking at the classic era.

What do you get when you compile some of the best known names of film & TV and near enough give them just an outline of a plot for a film? A: One of the most hilarious films you are likely to see. Taking it's cue from the (mainly American) Radio shows of the 1940's&50's, this film almost single handedly deals with almost every cliche the horror industry ever threw at audiences. Well known Celebrity larry Price Gene (wilder) is Due to inherit a fortune from his elderly Aunt Kate (Dom Delousie), except that there are a few "Shady Characters" who reckon it should be otherwise, and set about trying to prove larry as an unworthy beneficiary due to the fact he's nuts, (A fact they intend to prove by literally driving him made Courtesy of some very clever tricks). including a flying Bride (Wilder's real life wife the late Gilda Radner),Everything that ever happened in the old horro Movies, happens here mysterious murders, where the dead body conveniently disappears Thunder storms, which later turn out to be nothing of the kind , and every corny situation that you used to watch and enjoy all those years are lined up for parody. This also gives the cast some great opportunities to deliver some real deapan lines "Electricity is the work of the Devil, this is god's way of telling me I should never have had it installed" wails Aunt Kate during a powercut, as well as some Earth Shattering Revelations over dinner ("One of you is a werewolf, I know because I've seen you in the garde, whoever you are, may god strike you dead, you're playing on the fears of an old lady". Comedy doesn't come much better than this, and with an all star cast (Gene Wilder, Gilda Radner, Dom Delouise, Bryan PringleAnna Way, Peter Vaughan, Paul L Smith, Eve Farrar Ana Way & Jonathan Pryce, you reallt can't go wrong. Don't just take my word for it either, no less a luminary than BBC Film Critic Barry Norman rated this among his top films, so just what more exuce do you need?

Pleased to find a used Region 1 Blu-ray in the Amazon UK Warehouse. I first saw this film years ago and really enjoyed it. The critics hated it, but people are entitled to their own opinion.

Gene Wilder’s final film as a director and one of his last as an actor, 1986’s loving homage to 40s old dark house comedies, Haunted Honeymoon, is one of those films that gets a lot right – it recreates the look and old-school practical effects of the old Bob Hope-Paulette Goddard comedies and has a more than decent supporting cast (Peter Vaughn, Jonathan Pryce, Bryan Pringle in what was obviously meant to be a Marty Feldman role), many of whom look like they’d have fit right in that era (Jim Carter looks strikingly like Lugosi in a few shots) – but is much less successful at actually providing the laughs. Despite the terrible reviews and box-office failure it’s not awful, just very flat. Part of the problem is that, nostalgia aside, many of the films it’s pastiching weren’t that funny to begin with, but a bigger one is that Wilder doesn’t manage to bring a new spin to the old tropes the film ticks off, making it at times feel like a Monogram script that was given an MGM budget. (Larry Blamire’s low budget Dark and Stormy Night [DVD] managed to get a lot more comic mileage out of similar material with a fraction of the budget in 2009.)At times it feels like some of the situations are too well-worn to find much to do with that’s new or still works: the opening golden age of radio performance is more a recreation than a send up despite the potential for straight-faced absurdity that Woody Allen tapped into with Radio Days the following year. Wilder doesn’t give in to his worst excesses as an actor, but he’s outshone by a tremendously appealing Gilda Radner, who’s terrific here despite not really being given anything to work with (neither is Dom DeLuise, dragging it up as Wilder’s aunt): you’d never guess for a moment that she was ill throughout the shoot. A couple of scenes sort of work a little, but the best you can really say about it is that it’s harmless and well-intentioned and that co-writer Terence Marsh’s production design is excellent.No extras on Sony's DVD release, though the Region A-locked US Bluray from Kino Lorber includesa trailer.

This movie is region 1 only. A friend bought this as a gift to me originally. When it arived it didn’t work so I bought another one from Amazon only to find that didn’t play in region 2 (Uk , Ireland and Europe)!!either. The region isn’t mentioned in the sales details so I would suggest Amazon have a region button so you can select your region or multi region if you have a multi region player.