Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
positive
1(10%)
mixed
3(30%)
negative
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Haunted Honeymoon is an amusing, bouncy horror comedy that has fun with not only the old-dark-house genre but also those corny but beloved scare shows of the Golden Age of Radio.
60
Not to raise anyone’s hopes too high, but Gene Wilder has finally made a film you can watch without wanting to exit before it’s over.
40
Humor and horror make an uneasy combination.
40
Pic provokes a few chuckles along the way, but no guffaws.
25
The truth is that, for all his comic ability, Wilder has not turned out to be a very adept filmmaker. [28 Jul 1986, p.5C]
25
An innocuous comedy chiller, HAUNTED HONEYMOON isn't very chilling and, worse yet, isn't very funny.
25
For years now Wilder has been trying to imitate the success of his mentor, director Mel Brooks. But he has repeatedly failed. That's why the biggest mystery in "Haunted Honeymoon" is why anyone would still give Wilder money to make a picture.
20
Safe when it's ripping genre jokes word for word, this pallid pastiche never goes for the jugular, the heart, or any other part of the audience, for that matter. It breezes by like the tamest of ghosts, almost unnoticeable.
20
It's flat, unfunny, and full of slavish borrowings.
0
When the film isn't borrowing, it's collapsing of its own weight, slight though it may be. [28 Jul 1996, p.B4]
