HONEYMOON
French horror = bad horror


A Frenchwoman in danger of being deported enters into a marriage of convenience to a stranger in order to become an American citizen. (wow, Immigration didn't come down nearly as hard on these two as they did on Andie MacDowell and Gerard Depardieu) Unfortunately for her, the guy the agency set her up with (who she, apparently, wasn't even supposed to ever meet) turns out to be taking this marriage thing a little too seriously. 

John Shea, Lex Luthor from that Superman TV series a few years back, plays the husband here. He was good as Luthor. Here, he's as bad as his hair, and that's saying a lot. The Nathalie Baye doesn't fare much better as our heroine, and she's impossible to root for when she's so, so dumb. It doesn't start out all that great, but things really sink into lameness when this chick starts falling for him anyway. 

Actually predates the "...from Hell" subgenre that was spearheaded by Joseph Ruben and his
The Stepfather (the stepfather from Hell), Sleeping With The Enemy (the ex-husband from Hell) and The Good Son (the kid from Hell).

  This is not a good movie - not an awful one either, but long and boring and poorly-done enough to strongly suggest avoidance. A French/French Canadian/American production, which is entirely too much French for most horror movies to survive.

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