FORMAT: BLU-RAY
Frank (Doug Leith) and Marion (Dwan Marlow) are a recently married couple who go to Vegas on their honeymoon. Marion wants to do something special for the occasion, so they go out and find a deserted island in the middle of a lake for a little solitude. Of course, Frank forgets some supplies and has to go back into town, leaving Marion all alone to do some skinny-dipping. It doesn’t take long before she is menaced by a crazed lumberjack rapist (Anton von Stralen).
Even though Ecstasy on Lover’s Island (which is what the print calls it, even though it’s referred to as Honeymoon of Terror everywhere else on the Blu-Ray) is only an hour long, it’s still padded with long scenes of the couple boating, having flashbacks to crap that happened ten minutes ago, and taking in the sights of the Vegas Strip. While it’s nice to see shots of old Vegas, it’s obvious the couple aren’t anywhere near the town limits as they have been awkwardly edited into snippets of travelogue shots of the town, footage of nightclub acts, and scenes of other people gambling. It also stinks that the couple turn the lights out when they finally consummate the marriage.
The scenes of Marion on her own and enjoying nature (there’s some fleeting glimpses of nudity) are kind of fun. Her inner monologues are funny too. (She says, “God really knew what he was doing when he made the sun!” while sunbathing.) The cat and mouse chase between her and the “loco” lumberjack takes up much of the second half. These sequences were pretty much the entire reason the film was bankrolled. I’ll admit they aren’t exactly suspenseful, but this portion of the picture is at least mildly entertaining, even if it threatens to get repetitive before the finale.
AKA: Honeymoon of Terror. AKA: Wild Lust.
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