You told her you ate her ex......

Rating: 8/10 (31 August 2013)

Survivors of a Zombie outbreak live in a city surrounded by walls that separate them from the living dead.
Grigio sends a group of teenagers, including his daughter Julie, to the outside to collect food and supplies. They are surprised by a group of zombies. Among them, R, who is a young zombie without recollections but very introspective.
R eats Julies boyfriends brain and revives his memories and sensations with Julie, and falls in love with her. He saves Julie from the other zombies and hides her.
They develop a strange relationship and become friends. Soon R changes his emotions and is capable to dream, and gradually to feel again.....
I wasn't looking forward to this, to me it just looked like another movie to fill Twilights shoes, but doing it with Zombies, and the fact the Julie is almost a dead spit for Kristen Stewart, it just put me off.
Its not often I'm wrong, but on this occasion, I was very wrong. Its a fun movie, riffing on Romeo and Juliet (we even get the balcony scene), but the concept works so well, even if R doesn't get shot by Julie (in any other Zombie movie, he'd be cannon fodder).
The two leads are great, and they have wonderful chemistry, but the support, especially from Corddry and Malkovich is wonderful, as well as the soundtrack.
But its pretty dark stuff, and I'm surprised that it was a 12a here in the UK, because the first act is scary, and violent.
But hey, I'm a father, so that's my little gripe over.
So all in all, its a great movie, criminally under-seen in cinemas, but what could have made it more remarkable, is if the makers went against the book narrative and have R killed at the end, that would have been just as tragic as Shakespeare's source.
Still good though.