Life After Beth (2014) 7/10

Starring : Aubrey Plaza, Dane DeHaan, John C Reilly, Molly Shannon, Cheryl Hines, Paul Reiser, Matthew Gray Gubler, Anna Kendrick
Director : Jeff Baena
Running Time : 89 mins

As Zach (DeHaan) tries to get over the death of his girlfriend Beth (Plaza), he thinks he sees her at her parents’ house. He soon discovers that Beth has come back from the dead as a sort of zombie, and he manages to continue their relationship from where they left off. But Beth’s increasingly erratic behaviour starts to cause Zach to wonder if her return from the dead has brought her back exactly as she was before.

The first hour of this movie is really fun, with DeHaan thinking Beth faked her own death, and then their weird relationship together and how Beth reacts to things, but it takes a decided left turn and turns into a full on zombie movie at roughly the hour mark. I guess there was no other direction for this to go in, and the writers and cast handle the transition well, but people who are expecting a standard comedy might be surprised to see that this is quite a gory horror, though the gore is very much tongue in cheek.

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