Great Film overall

Excellent but underrated film

Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

Not sure why this is listed under "horror" aside from lack of a subcategory, but it's a light hearted, zombie ex-girlfriend flick. No big shocks or twists, just some fun psycho zombie entertainment. Perfect for when you want to watch something but aren't sure what yert.

After a prolific career during the 20th century, director Joe Dante decided to reduce the frequency of his projects in the 21st one, almost exclusively limiting himself to TV series and occasional short films (not to mention his popular "retro" site Trailers from Hell). In this century, he has only made three films: the mediocre Looney Toons: Back in Action; the entertaining, but not very memorable, The Hole; and, more recently, Burying the Ex, a likable horror comedy which evokes his independent period (when he worked with the great Roger Corman), shot on a low cost and in a very short time; it's definitely not among his best movies, but it still deserves a moderate recommendation, specially to movie buffs who appreciate Dante's naughty style and the constant references to classic fantastic cinema. Max, the main character of Burying the Ex, works at a disguise and Halloween decorations shop, something which justifies the presence of classic posters, specialized magazines (Fangoria, Famous Monsters, Video Watchdog) and fragments of films such as Plan 9 from Outer Space and Night of the Living Dead. And we even have incidental tracks from Tarantula, It Came from Outer Space, and I don't know how many other ones. But those are just audiovisual ornaments. The most important thing in Burying the Ex is the bizarre love triangle between Max, Evelyn and Olivia. Like in many other zombie films, the infection (or curse, in this case) isn't useful only to create the threat of the living dead, but also to explore some aspect of human experience. For example, Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead (1978) and Day of the Dead (1985) employed the zombies as a metaphor of racism, consumerism and class division (respectively). Burying the Ex takes a more humorous route, using the zombie as the metaphor of the "hellish girlfriend" who wants to control her boyfriend's life and alter his way of being; it might not be a particularly deep idea, but it adds some substance to this humble film. Anton Yelchin brings a good performance as a docile "geek" submissive to his girlfriend's requests, while Ashley Greene transmits Evelyn's emotional evolution with conviction, and Alexandra Daddario brings a natural and credible performance as a romantic interest more compatible with Max's personality (by the way, it's difficult not to question how Yelchin manages to attract such spectacularly beautiful women... that might be the authentic fantastic element of the film). On the negative side, Alan Trezza's screenplay is too obvious, with many predictable situations which lack of the imagination I expected in a film directed by Dante. Fortunately, the screenplay improves during the third act, when the romance clichés give way to the more immediate danger of the zombie girlfriend, almost invincible and willing to do anything to retain her boyfriend. I'm a fan of Dante's, and that might have made an influence in my appreciation of Burying the Ex; it's definitely not a great or highly memorable film, but it kept me entertained and it keeps a continuous degree of tension which is easy to lose whenever comedy and horror are combined.

Um . . . well . . . "quirky and romantic". That's as apt of a description as one can hope for, I guess. Ridiculously campy? Of course, that's the whole point. It had its moments, although at times it was perhaps trying a bit too hard to be over the top ridiculous.Some scenes were reasonably well done, but at a certain point the endless zombie clichés', intended as they were, got to be a bit much. This is one of those productions that could have actually been really funny, there was definitely a story concept here, but it just wore thin after awhile.It's not quite Plan 9 from Outer Space, nor is it Rocky Horror . . . sort of in between somewhere. But hey, I've seen an hour+ spent on far worse examples of attempted filmcraft.

After reading some bad reviews I was ready to drop this movie. However it was late to search anything else of just 1h30 min, so I gave it a go with my hand on the remote ready to press stop.It wasn't too bad. I let the remote aside and grabbed a pizza. The story is a copy paste of "Life after Beth" at a point I am surprised there is no legal claims there. Anyhow this one is slightly more colorful has better filming and acting, together with eye-candies in the... eyes of Dadario. That, takes the film to a teen-romantic-comedy style where you might wonder why no such blue eyes ever stalked you when you separated.My gf and I enjoyed it overall, but Joe Dante has lost his magic.