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1986 film by Gene Wilder
the 1986 Gene Wilder comedy film

Haunted Honeymoon is a 1986 American comedy horror film starring Gene Wilder, Gilda Radner, Dom DeLuise and Jonathan Pryce. Wilder also served as writer and director. The title Haunted Honeymoon was previously used for the 1940 U. S. release of Busman's Honeymoon based on the stage play by Dorothy L. Sayers. Honeymoon was distributed by Orion Pictures through a deal with HBO. The film flopped by grossing just short of its $9 million budget, whilst it was panned by the critics. The film earned DeLuise the Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actress. The film represents the last feature film appearance for Radner (prior to her diagnosis and death from ovarian cancer) and the last directorial role for Wilder.

Larry Abbot and Vickie Pearle are performers on radio's "Manhattan Mystery Theater" who decide to get married. Larry has been plagued with on air panic attacks and speech impediments since proposing marriage. Vickie thinks it is just pre wedding jitters, but his affliction could get them both fired. Larry's uncle, Dr. Paul Abbot, decides that Larry needs to be cured. Paul decides to treat him with a form of shock therapy to "scare him to death" in much the same way someone might try to startle someone out of hiccups. Larry chooses a castle like mansion in which he grew up as the site for their wedding. Vickie gets to meet Larry's eccentric family: great aunt Kate, who plans to leave all her money to Larry; his uncle, Francis; and Larry's cousins, Charles, Nora, Susan, and the cross dressing Francis Jr. Also present are the butler Pfister and wife Rachel, the maid; Larry's old girlfriend Sylvia, who is now dating Charles; and Susan's magician husband, Montego the Magnificent. Paul begins his "treatment" of Larry and lets others in on the plan. Unfortunately for all, something more sinister and unexpected is lurking at the Abbot Estates mansion. The pre wedding party becomes a real life version of Larry and Vickie's radio murder mysteries, werewolves and all.

Wilder wrote the opening scene while filming Silver Streak in 1976. He wanted to make a "comedy chiller" inspired by such films as The Cat and the Canary (1939), The Old Dark House (1932) and The Black Cat (1941), and radio shows like The Inner Sanctum. "Since I was six years old I have been scared of horror movies", said Wilder "And the movies that I liked the best – even though I was scared by them – were what was called then 'comedy chillers.' They were horror movies yet they had comedy, or they were comedies and yet they had horror. They were not comedy mysteries, they were not comedy thrillers, they were comedy chillers." Wilder says when he started writing the film "I knew I wanted it to be a comedy chiller", but he struggled and the film wound up as an "autobiographical psycho/sexual comedy with music." "I couldn't imagine him singing it with any other girl", said Radner. "So, I just had a tantrum and said I had to be the fiancée – not a big tantrum, just a tiny tantrum." The movie was one of 14 films financed by Orion Pictures through a deal with HBO.

The film was shot in London at Elstree Studios in 1985 over 11 weeks. "Gene calls it a 'comedy chiller'", said Gilda Radner. "For me, this is a part very similar to my own life. I wear a wedding gown in 95% of the movie. Since I didn't wear a gown when Gene and I got married, I asked the 'Haunted Honeymoon' photographer to make me a wedding album!" Radner said. Wilder says his aim was to "make a 1930s movie for 1986." Wilder says he told DeLuise to play his role straight, telling him, "I want you to be my aunt. We'll get the laughs later. But first don't go for 'I'm really a guy, I'm really a guy, and I'm doing this little joke.'" On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 18%, based on eleven reviews, and an average rating of 3.6/10. Dom DeLuise won the Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actress for his performance in drag. Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade "C−" on an A+ to F scale. The film received a 29 rating on Metacritic. Alex Stewart reviewed Haunted Honeymoon for White Dwarf #83, and stated that "Amid Wilder's overindulgence in timid, repetitive gags, it's hard to sort out who's plotting with whom to bump off who else, and harder still to care. Only an admirably unpredictable performance from Dom DeLuise as wacky old Aunt Kate puts any kind of edge on the silliness at all."

The movie was a financial flop, grossing only $8,000,000 in America, entering the box office at number 8, then slipping to 14 the following week. The movie represents the last feature film appearance for Radner (prior to her diagnosis and death from Ovarian cancer) and the last directorial role for Wilder. While Radner was struggling with cancer, she wrote the following about the film:
On July 26 [1986], Haunted Honeymoon opened nationwide. It was a bomb. One month of publicity and the movie was only in the theaters for a week – a box office disaster. Another source said the film earned $3.2 million in the US.