The latest in
romantic zombie comedies is making a real marketing push, and here are 5 new posters.
It's incredible to think that in the short 10 years since the release of «Shaun of the Dead,» the zombie comedy has practically become its own subgenre, even spawning several «rom - zom - coms» (
romantic zombie comedies, a term coined during the marketing for that film) in the process.
It's a happy ending for Teresa Palmer, the star of
the romantic zombie comedy Warm Bodies.
This award - winning film features the voice talents of Sarah Silverman, Dermot Mulroney, David Carradine, Martha Plimpton, and Justin Long in an outrageous
romantic zombie comedy that tells the story of a teenage couple murdered on prom night, who return for revenge.
The greatest «rom zom com» (
romantic zombie comedy) to date, this film balances undead gore with belly laughs.
Darkly funny, surprisingly touching, and gory enough to satisfy even the most discerning reader, Breathers is
a romantic zombie comedy (rom - zom - com, for short) that will leave you laughing, squirming, and clamoring for more.
Not exact matches
Billed as «a
romantic comedy with
zombies,» the film is exactly that.
The
zombie romantic comedy, which stars Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant, follows Sheila, a realtor married to Joel, who lives a vaguely discontented life in the titular LA suburb.
Part
zombie horror film and part
romantic comedy, «Shaun of the Dead» stars Simon Pegg as the 29 - year - old slacker Shaun.
Lumbering, sullen and anything but horrific, Maggie's bizarre use of
zombies as the centerpiece of a family drama is akin to having The Terminator anchor a
romantic comedy.
Warm Bodies (PG - 13 for violence and profanity) Romeo and Juliet re-imagined as a
romantic horror
comedy set in a devastated, post-apocalyptic America and revolving around a
zombie (Nicholas Hoult) who falls in love with the girlfriend (Teresa Palmer) of one of his victims.
Nicholas Hoult stars as a lovelorn
zombie in this
romantic horror
comedy from director Jonathan Levine.
The
zombie romantic comedy targeted teens and debuted to $ 8.1 million Friday, which projects to a three - day total of around $ 20 million.
Although it works better as a
romantic comedy than as a horror movie, this film is cute and breezy with a likable cast that might help
zombie fans overlook the glaring lack of gore.
SHAUN OF THE DEAD — 2004, Focus Features, 99 min, UK / France / USA, Dir: Edgar Wright Director Edgar Wright and star Simon Pegg cowrote this funny and bloody film, which breathed new life into both the
zombie and
romantic comedy genres.
Vampires are one thing (and though the «Twilight» comparisons are inevitable, they're completely unwarranted), but the idea of doing a
romantic comedy where a
zombie falls in love with a human is ripe for exactly the kind of dark humor that «Warm Bodies» will hopefully deliver in spades.
While Warm Bodies falls far short of the greatest
romantic comedy with
zombies, Shaun of the Dead, it is harmless fun that would serve as a fine date night for the younger crowd.
SEE THIS MOVIE IF: you don't mind a surprisingly entertaining
romantic comedy half populated by
zombies.
Perhaps the existence of Warm Bodies deflates the importance of a film like Life After Beth, both
romantic comedies which explore the relationship difficulties that emerge when one of the members of the happy couple is a
zombie.
by Walter Chaw Shaun of the Dead isn't a spoof, it's a traditional
zombie film introduced as a
romantic -
comedy and infected with a sly British - cum - «The Simpsons» intelligence and sensibility.
You can say this about Life After Beth, the indie
zombie romantic comedy (zom - rom - com?)
The Wackness and 50/50 director Jonathan Levine is back with the
romantic horror
comedy Warm Bodies, which stars Nicholas Hoult as a lovelorn
zombie who falls for the girlfriend (Teresa Palmer) of his latest victim.
The lovingly crafted
romantic comedy and
zombie horror film — a «rom - zom - com,» as marketing called it — remains, perhaps, the most satisfying of any of them.