XYZ Films will kick off international sales in Toronto on the all - star
zombie comedy Life After Beth, reports ScreenDaily.
After breaking through with films made by an emerging avant garde — including Josh Trank's Chronicle, Derek Cianfrance's The Place Beyond the Pines and Josh Krokidas» Kill Your Darlings — this year the 28 - year - old actor has starred in two very of - the - moment genres, first playing Harry Osborn, Peter Parker's childhood pal turned homicidal supervillain Green Goblin, in The Amazing Spider - Man 2, and now appearing opposite Aubrey Plaza in
the zombie comedy Life After Beth.
Not exact matches
Leave it to the truly soulless medium of television to bring the
zombie archetype full circle with CBS's Babylon Fields, an hour - long series the network describes as a «sardonic, apocalyptic American
comedy - drama where the dead are rising and as a result,
lives are regained, families restored, and old wounds reopened.»
First time director Jeff Baena tackles the
zombie movie with a different kind of twist in
Life After Beth, and the result is a
comedy that mixes in dramatic elements alongside the impending
zombie apocalypse.
From that unspoken no - no comes the horror
comedy «Cooties,» a semi-spirited
live - action cartoon about infected
zombie schoolkids.
Life After Beth, all - star ZomCom (
zombie comedy), made a huge splash at Sundance this winter and now is...
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.
There's plenty of Peter Jackson and Sam Raimi influenced physical
comedy in this film, from tanks running people over to
zombies attacking a wheelchair to a «special»
zombie who is essentially destroying his body by serving as a multi-tool while Martin keeps bringing him back to
life.
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.
Jeff Baena had the difficult task of uglying up the wonderful Aubrey Plaza for his
zombie -
comedy Life After Beth, a charming indie film that stars Dane DeHaan as Zach, who finds out that his deceased girlfriend mysteriously returns from the dead.
The dark and disturbing Shallow Grave, the adrenalin - fueled drug -
comedy Trainspotting, the high - spirited romance A
Life Less Ordinary, the Leonardo DiCaprio thriller The Beach, the bone - chilling
zombie thriller 28 Days Later — each launched by his explosive imagination.
WHY: «
Life After Beth» is a terrible movie, a dead - on - arrival
zombie comedy that's just as much in need of some brains as its title character.
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.
Between the embarrassing attempts at dark humor and the ludicrous development of a full - on
zombie apocalypse in the final act, «
Life After Beth» is so bad that it's hard to believe it was made by the same guy who co-wrote David O. Russell's underrated existential
comedy, «I Heart Huckabees.»
From the embarrassing attempts at dark humor, to the idiotic and unexplained development of a full - on
zombie apocalypse in the final act, «
Life After Beth» is so bad that it's hard to believe it was written by the same guy who co-wrote David O. Russell's underrated existential
comedy, «I Heart Huckabees.»
You can say this about
Life After Beth, the indie
zombie romantic
comedy (zom - rom - com?)