Life After Beth - There’s life in the old genre left

Yes, it’s another zombie film.  There are so many these day that they kind of all merge into one, therefore anything that actually stands out among the B-movies that have gone straight to DVD is actually quite rare. ‘Life After Beth’ is okay.  Nothing more.  However, when compared to its current crop of rivals, it’s actually not all that bad.

Zach’s girlfriend, Beth, dies and he’s naturally heartbroken.  Although, it’s not all bad as she comes back.  She’s welcomed back by her grieving parents who are quite happy to put aside the ‘hows and the whys’ of her resurrection, just so long as they’ve got their child back.  But, as you probably can guess, having a reanimated corpse as a close family member is a recipe for disaster.

Yes, she starts out okay to begin with – her slight loss of memory surrounding her untimely demise can easily be blagged.  But it doesn’t take too long before she’s pulling apart small buildings and getting hungrier and hungrier for... well, what do zombies normally eat?

If you’ve seemed ‘Warm Bodies’ then you probably know the sort of genre we’re talking about here.  It’s a kind of love story for teenagers, but with the undead thrown in.  Personally, I preferred ‘Warm Bodies’ as it was bigger budget and had more to it.  Life After Beth is like its poorer cousin.  Like I say, it’s not a bad film.  It has enough black comedy moments to amuse, but there aren’t really enough to make it a straight comedy.  Nor is there enough gore to class it as a horror.  You’ve basically got a teen romance story which borrows from a few other genres.

It doesn’t have to be watched by teens.  I think it’s adult enough to be watched by anyone who’s sort of into zombies/horror/black comedy.  Just don’t expect too much.  Everyone plays their part as well as can be expected.  Bottom line: if you enjoyed Warm Bodies and are happy to sit through – yet another – zombie film, you might like this.  If nothing else it’s quite short!

7/10 if I woke up on Groundhog Day and had to watch this again, I could live with that