Warm Bodies

R (Nicholas Hoult) is a bit under the weather. Lately he has been looking slightly pale and he has not been feeling too talkative. There has also been that persistent craving for human brains. Oh right… he is a zombie.

Warm Bodies is a rom-zom-com that takes an unconventional look at what happens after the outbreak, as humanity hides behind The Wall from the shambling hordes that roam the city. R and his friend M (Rob Corddry) are shuffling around the streets looking for lunch when they sniff out a group of humans on a scavenger hunt for medicine. R immediately falls for Julie (Teresa Palmer), and his affection only grows after he eats the brains of her newly deceased boyfriend. R saves Julie from his undead cohorts and tries to keep her safe in the abandoned plane that he calls home, playing her some old records and taking her for a spin in a dusty BMW. However, their unlikely bond faces trouble from Julie’s father (John Malkovich), an anti-zombie army commander and from the Boneys, skeleton corpses without a shred of compassion who are enraged by the signs of life in R, M, and their fellow zombies.

It is up to R and Julie, with the help of M and Julie’s best friend Nora (Analeigh Tipton), to stop the Boneys and to show the world that the power of love could be the cure to give the zombies back their humanity. A witty new take on the zombie genre, Warm Bodies is a romantic comedy with plenty of “braaaiiiinnnsss.”

Katherine Bradburn