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The fact that Zach clings so strongly to a zombie of a person he once knew is, easily, the best part of the film, but they only really touch on that with any insight at the end of the film, when Zach and Beth go hiking. There's a good idea here with Zach getting a second chance at love, as corny as that sounds, and he finally gets to tell Beth all the things he never did while she was alive. You have to realize when something is poorly written and the zombie apocalypse and its integration into this film's story is really terribly executed. I know that writing scripts are hard, I'm not trying to minimize the hard work that it takes to write a great movie, but come the fuck on. Then Zach runs home and the shit has already hit the fan. Zach and Beth have an argument at a cemetery, Beth steals Zach's car and she leaves. Again, if it had been something gradual, but it's not. It's a jarring tonal shift that's just really poorly fucking written.

It's just like 'the zombie apocalypse is now and that's the way it is'. They definitely do tease that something is wrong, since Zach keeps seeing people that he hasn't seen in ages, but they don't even ease into it gradually. Then, inexplicably, the third act of the film is the zombie apocalypse. Aubrey Plaza is great in this movie, and she makes this transformation work, but the scripting, again, is one-note. Then Beth finds out she's a zombie as her behavior becomes increasingly more erratic and aggressive. They get some chuckles out of the situation, but not nearly enough. That's like a third of the film and it gets really repetitive after a while.

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Essentially, the film boils down to, at first, to keeping Beth's death a secret from her, even as her skin starts to deteriorate and she starts behaving strangely.

It's not that it's something that's really that unique to begin with, but I think you could've done far more with it than they did here. There's just too much working against them for this film to be good. Though, honestly, it's not like that's much to begin with. I think the cast is definitely solid enough to elevate the shallow script past to what you end up seeing on screen. Don't get me wrong, it's not bad in the conventional sense. We go from one extreme of the horror/romance genre with Spring to the other with Life after Beth.

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