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Can anyone tell me the end to this movie? Does she kill him or he kills her? I know it has to be one of the two!

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I believe the zombie disease he was infected with killed him in the end. He was originally infected when a dying zombie puked his last bile into his face on the beach, then collapsed. When Danny had Denise pinned down, his love for her caused him to turn his head so that he spewed his dying slime away from her, sparing her his fate, and then he collapsed, truly dead at last. She lovingly washed him up, then sank him in the pool and went for a thoughtful walk on the beach.
At least, that was my take on it.

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Yes - that is the ending. Remember, all the way through the film he was asking her not to leave him alone. At the end of the movie she cannot cope any more and tells him she has to go. He isn't attacking her per se. However as the viewer you are meant to be questioning all the time whether or not he is going to attack her When he is sitting on top of her he doesn't lunge to bite, but you see there is definite conflict and pain in his choice to not infect her. Perhaps a symptom of the final pangs of the virus is a need for the infected to spread it to others.

She doesn't get infected. The final scene shows her contemplating her own suicide. You think she is trying to kill herself, then you realise this isn't in the present but rather a memory of her past. She is remembering how they met. He saved her life. Remember her sketch at the beginning? We thought it was a premonition of things to come. A prophetic look at the future, after all, her best friend is a psychic (which we discover later on). But no. It was her memory of the attempted suicide and the cloud of death standing over her. It was a hint of the ending clue to why she did what she did. The reason why she loved him so much to stick with him even though he was committing horrific acts of brutality. Even when he killed their friends. And they were HIS friends initially, not hers. Remember his friend in the restaurant reminds him of the girl he dated for two years? Uhuh, that is the reason why she still wanted to help him.

This wasn't my first take on the ending, I was buying into the idea that she had committed suicide and that he was there waiting for her in heaven. But then the camera flicks back to reality and our heroine clutching the bloody receipt for her eventual escape to Portugal.

I liked this film. I think it is a nice clever script that has no holes. The acting is bad. It is very good. I just think that we are seeing what a low budget can do to a movie... If you film a scene and it isn't right, you can't keep going back and doing it like the big players do. It is a balance of cost. I think the only mistake in the movie was at the very very beginning where they ran from the church. It seemed very amateurish at first, handheld camera and badly scripted chatter. The car blowjob scene was horrific. For example, there was no time for her to unzip him etc etc... and it didn't flow. I actually sighed when I saw that scene and I was expecting the whole film to play like that. Luckily, that is the only bad scene in the movie. I expect the director filmed in sequence so the first scene was filmed first and the tempo of the movie was not yet defined.

I liked the naivity of the film. It was very refreshing and alternative to current movies. With a bigger budget and more time to review and reshoot I expect the actors would have appeared very polished and professional. I think the movie would have had a better tempo too. I am annoyed at the non evidenced comments on IMDB about this movie being bad, perhaps those who didn't like the movie could actually specify what they considered bad about it? If they considered the acting second rate then can they actually indicate an example? I can only see this is in the first scene which looks like more of a stage audition than a film scene. The rest of the acting is very good - and would have appeared that way with some reshooting and better editing (again budget budget budget).

Huzzah for zombie honeymoon.

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Why is it expensive to reshoot a scen on a DV-camera? Since it practiaclly a "dogma-manifest"-production with in-house lighting and sound the only cost would be tape (cheap and re-usable) and actor fee's, wich can not be that high on this level.

- You kill anybody?
- A few cops.
- No real people?
- Just cops.

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Because you have to worry about set, wardrobe, food, actors, sound, boom, PAs.... you have to have a full set again for another day. Including special effects and make up. In-House lighting? You mean the director of photography back again for a day as well. By that rationale independent films could shoot a good 30-45 days like larger scale movies. No. Indies like this often get 2 weeks, sometimes less. You only have a certain amount of time. You have to balance reshooting with shooting new stuff just to get the whole film in the can. Just because its DV doesn't mean its nothing to put together. Often times in indie films you shoot everything in each location for the precise reason that you may not be able to get back in. Most places, even for short films, will be more than happy that the hellish experience of a film crew invasion is over with - so on indie films, often times costs aren't the the only obstacle - logistics of getting back into a location can completely negate any chance of reshoots. You get what you can while you can and after that its over with.

Its not just a tape and an actor. You can't even run a successful audition session with that little assistance.

Hop on a set sometimes and you'll see a lot more goes into the simplest shot than you'd think.

Oh, and a reshoot would have to match continuity with previously shot sequences or its unusable - yet another hurdle.

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Thank you for giving me a lecture in film-costs...

However,
in my erlier comment I suggested that the movie looked like a dogma-manifest-movie.In case youre unnaware of the term I'll explain it:

The dogma manifest was written by, among others, Lars von Trier (Danish movie-god) and consist of several rules for how to make movies as cheap as possible (for several reasons, most of them are artistic).

In the manifest some of the rules are:

* No sets, only location-shooting
* Only free locations
* No added light to the location (that is what I meant by in-house, but I should have used another term for it)
* No warddrobe, actors use home-owned clothing

I'll give you the remark on the time issue though...

I don't know if Zombie Honeymoon was a dogma-manifest production or not. I only suggested it. I based my suggestion on my opinion of the awful lighting in the movie, the dodgy matched clothing, the boring locations, the crude red thread and the poor acting, etc.

Furthermore, I did not appriciate your patronising tone ("hop on a set..."). Please act more polite.



- You kill anybody?
- A few cops.
- No real people?
- Just cops.

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When he spewed his dying slime away from her... I said out loud "Now that's love!" :P Aww. Her walk on the beach annoyed me a little... you know when she was swaying about... while the song played... yeah I dunno. But oh well. I thought it was a good 83 minutes spent.

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"When he spewed his dying slime away from her... I said out loud 'Now that's love!'"

I said "GOOD BOY!" and then my husband said, "Calm down!"

"we are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams..."

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Remember also her friend said they would have one child, and she was clutching/feeling her belly at the end - I think she knew she was pregnant, and would go on to Portugal with a bit of him inside her...

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I agree with you lycanthrope, I think she was going to have a baby. her friend said that they would have 1 child, even though her friend was kooky, in the end she seemed to be right on with her "ablities" and yeah I think she was remembering in the end all the good things, the reason why she stayed with him and tried to help him. let go of the bad, remember the good, and you can move on easier, and thats what she had to do, for her life, and possibly anothers.

I loved this movie. The acting ws great, I really liked these people, and would hate to be in their shoes. I liked the sound effect, hearing sounds, but not actually seing what was happening, messing with the sences. I like the use of light, and the scenes looked natural. Like I said, I loved this movie!

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I think, she snatched the receipt out of instinct & then went to the beach with the intent to kill herself (hence the day dream) to "be with him again". She knows however, that is an option she doesn't have as she would be killing her baby (rubbing her tummy).

Can you imagine the chaos the police would come across @ the crime scene? It wouldn't take long for them to realise that she's gone to Portuagal though.

everybody's working for the weekend

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This thread helped answer a question on mine. Catch the last part of the movie the other night and at the end I assumed she was pregnant when she looks down lovingly at her belly. But didn't know if she actually knew she was pregnant or if she just had a feeling. Is there any more to this (that happened in the early part of the movie) that I need to know concerning this? Thanks!

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