
A hike alone in the woods ends tragically for Beth Slocum with a fatal snake bite. Her death leaves her parents and boyfriend Zach reeling. After the funeral, Zach tries to make friends with Mr. and Mrs. Slocum, but even they reject him, and he's determined to figure out why. Then he sees Beth. Her parents are trying to keep her resurrection a secret, but zombie Beth provides Zach with the opportunity to do everything with her that he didn't get to do while she was still aliv... (Full plot summary below)
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A hike alone in the woods ends tragically for Beth Slocum with a fatal snake bite. Her death leaves her parents and boyfriend Zach reeling. After the funeral, Zach tries to make friends with Mr. and Mrs. Slocum, but even they reject him, and he's determined to figure out why. Then he sees Beth. Her parents are trying to keep her resurrection a secret, but zombie Beth provides Zach with the opportunity to do everything with her that he didn't get to do while she was still alive. But with Beth's increasingly erratic behavior and even more strange occurrences around town, life with the undead Beth proves to be particularly complicated for her still-living loved ones.
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| Los Angeles TimesSheri LindenStars Aubrey Plaza and Dane DeHaan are game, as is the lineup of mostly wasted supporting actors. But what might have been a snappy short is interminable at feature length, the mayhem-in-suburbia conceit generating few laughs as it stomps along. |
| Blu-ray.comBrian OrndorfWisely avoids obvious surges in intensity to balance relationship habits with oncoming disaster, generating a movie that's grotesque and broad, but somehow relatable in its understanding of human need. |
| Movie MezzanineAndy CrumpA feminine point of view could have made all the difference. |
| Arkansas Democrat-GazettePhilip Martin...leaving aside the disappointing inevitability of the script, a gore-stained Plaza supplies us with some wonderful physical comedy, and an underused Anna Kendrick sparkles adorably. |
| honeycuttshollywood.comKirk HoneycuttThis genre mashup - a zombie romance - never quite makes sense in either genre. |
| VarietyGeoff BerkshireBlending smart fantasy elements, broad comedy, tender romance and an atypically slow-burning apocalypse, the directorial debut of “I Heart Huckabees” co-writer Jeff Baena is charming, thoughtful and laugh-out-loud funny. |
| Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)John BeifussLove means never having to say you're wormy. |
| Orange County RegisterMichael SragowFirst-time writer-director Baena casts the film slyly and directs individual sequences with a lot of sneaky wit. |
| The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeSometimes tender, sometimes frantic and always funny, the film's surprising coherence is exemplified in a climactic scene that pairs credible heartbreak with pure slapstick. |
| Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyThe premise would make for a great Funny or Die video, but stretched out to feature length, it runs out of ideas pretty quickly. Still, Plaza is terrific. She commits so fully to her rabid, Romero-esque alter ego, she chews the movie up. |