The movie did not reach my expectation, but still I enjoyed watching it. A story like this I never thought would do fairly, a better movie from the average section. I think not without the Aubrey Plaza, she as a Beth was excellent. Not a career defining performance, but funny enough. The story looks only faintly different from other similar films, but a few good scenes saved it. If it had a couple more good jokes and maybe a twist, surely would have been done greatly at the box office.There's no surprise material in it, I thinks that's negative about it. Easy to read the situation and predict the story within the first 15 minutes, but the second half was drastically changed its pace as well as the atmosphere in the story. If you've not seen many zombie films, especially comedy ones, then you may find it better than average.Definitely a decent direction for a first timer, got a good support from the cast. For a small budget, this is a wonderful production quality. It surely upset you if you expect like 'Warm Bodies' or 'Shaun of the Dead', but if you know all about it before giving a try, the disappointment will be lessened and you may have a decent time pass with it.6/10

Version: Grimm Up North festival screeningActors: 7/10Plot/script: 7/10Photography/visual style: 7/10Music/score: 7/10Overall: 7/10It's astonishing how broad the range can be even within a sub-genre of films. Life After Beth is best described as a 'horror comedy', and yet it is completely different to other horror comedies I saw on the very same day.The comedy comes from the situation, not the characters, who are played pretty straight. Beth (Aubrey Plaza) comes back from the dead, forcing her boyfriend Zach (Dane DeHaan) and parents (John C Reilly and Molly Shannon) to confront their grief and the conflicted feelings they have about her and their lives with her. Over the film, her behaviour becomes more abnormal, and other undead appear, causing increasing chaos.The pacing and balance of the film are remarkably well managed. Plaza does a great job with her performance, slowly showing increasing signs of deterioration from ordinary teenage girl to mindless zombie, and each other character's reaction to the bizarre situation is shown to be ridiculous at one point or another. I note that director Jeff Baena's main other contribution to film is co-writing the script for David O. Russell's surreal comedy 'I Heart Huckabees', and I think he should really be seen as a writer who has taken up directing.Lots of ideas are explored through Life After Beth, such as grief and the way our memories change as time passes. There is a little bit of action and tension, but mainly this is a melancholic, thoughtful piece which brings humour out of the behaviour of normal people in an abnormal situation. It's a writer's film, and an actor's film, and I found it rather touching as well as entertaining.

Review: This film is really weird! It's about two teenagers who really love each other but the girl dies from a mysterious snake bite and the boy feels like he can't survive without her. His only way of dealing with the his lose is by going to the dead girls parents house, only to find out that the girl is still alive and still very much in love with him. After a while the girls mood starts to change and she becomes very violent which makes the boy question who she really is. I quite enjoyed the beginning of the movie but then it gets a bit out of hand when the zombies start turning up in there community. The storyline kind of dries up and reaches a dead end after a while, which is a shame because the concept wasn't bad. I honestly think that it would have been a better movie if it was a straight out comedy without the deep love element. The guy who played the lead was a bad choice because he seemed to take the whole situation seriously, even when she is walking around with a cooker on her back whilst listening to smooth jazz. John C. Reilly and Molly Shannon were a great choice as the parents because they are veterans in this genre but I personally was hoping for more laughs. Average!Round-Up: Dane DeHaan has only been on the scene since 2003 and he has had major roles in the Amazing Spiderman 2, Lincoln and Lawless, which isn't bad for the young looking 29 year old. He doesn't have the most noticeable style of acting but he has a unique look which has worked in his roles. Personally I think that this movie could have done with a comedic actor like Seth Rogen or Jonah Hill but thats just my personal opinion. Aubrey Plaza, whose starred in movies like Scott Pilgrim, Funny People and 10 Years, was a great choice for her role because of her striking dark looks and big eyes which worked as the scary girlfriend. The main problem for me was the far fetched storyline was a bit weak and it needed the Shaun of the Dead, Simon Pegg touch.Budget: $2.4million Worldwide Gross: $250,000 (Terrible!)I recommend this movie to people who are into their romance/comedy/horror movies about a boy who has to deal with the lose of his girlfriend who suddenly comes back as a zombie. 3/10

I had heard nothing good about this horror comedy, but it was short and starred Aubrey Plaza, an actress whom I dearly love from the television show Parks & Recreation, so I gave it a go. What do you know, it was a pleasant surprise. There's not much new you can do with zombies, and I can't say this is super original (My Boyfriend's Back comes to mind in particular), but it has a couple of really fun aspects. The zombies in this film are not the brainless, Romero ones, but can talk like normal people. At first, they seem completely normal, but as time passes they start to get more and more aggressive. Plaza is really funny, particularly when she starts getting mean and violent. My favorite thing about the film was the reactions of her parents (John C. Reilly and Molly Shannon), who want nothing more than to keep their daughter's resurrection as quiet as possible and get life back to as normal as they can get it. Her moody boyfriend (Dane DeHaan) wants to tell her the truth, though. I also really liked DeHaan's parents (Paul Reiser and Cheryl Hines). Anna Kendrick also appears as DeHaan's new love interest. Really, they could have cast anyone in that role, so I have to wonder why they spent the money on a named actress.