Haunted Honeymoon DVD

• Haunted Honeymoon
• Haunted Honeymoon

Amazon.co.uk Review Gene Wilder's Haunted Honeymoon attempts to re-create the charm of those horror spoofs from the 1940s like Hope and Crosby's My Favourite Brunette. Larry (Wilder) and Vickie (wife Gilda Radner) play radio stars who decide to spend their honeymoon in the spooky old manse where Larry grew up with his Aunt Kate (Dom DeLuise in drag). The setup is a good one and the mostly British supporting cast, including Brazil's Jonathan Pryce, are certainly game. Unfortunately, Wilder elicits more chills--and groans--than chuckles (the dialogue is particularly ghastly). In the end, the results come closer to the George Lucas-penned dud Radioland Murders than to Mel Brooks's brilliant Young Frankenstein (featuring Wilder as the good doctor himself). If the Wizard of Oz-type ending doesn't completely redeem it, Haunted Honeymoon is still entertaining enough and seems positively sophisticated compared to the spoofs of more recent vintage (now that's a scary thought!). --Kathleen C. Fennessy Product Description Comedy starring Gene Wilder as Larry Abbot, a man undergoing a psychological procedure at his Great Aunt Kate's mansion, designed to rid him of his irrational phobias - by frightening them right out of him. But the jolts and frights may turn out to be the least of his problems when his Great Aunt Kate names him her sole heir. Suddenly, the entire family seems a little too vigorous in participating with his 'scare-apy', leading Larry to believe that one of his jealous kin may be murderous, and that another may be werewolverous.