La novia recientemente fallecida de un joven regresa misteriosamente de entre los muertos, pero poco a poco se da cuenta de que ella no es como la recordaba.La novia recientemente fallecida de un joven regresa misteriosamente de entre los muertos, pero poco a poco se da cuenta de que ella no es como la recordaba.La novia recientemente fallecida de un joven regresa misteriosamente de entre los muertos, pero poco a poco se da cuenta de que ella no es como la recordaba.
- Premios
- 6 nominaciones en total
- Dan
- (escenas eliminadas)
- Roz
- (escenas eliminadas)
- Lucy
- (as Elizabeth Jayne)
Reseñas destacadas
Actors: 7/10
Plot/script: 7/10
Photography/visual style: 7/10
Music/score: 7/10
Overall: 7/10
It'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.
But the movie turned out to be just another mediocre zombie movie, and I will say that "Warm Bodies" was much, much better than "Life After Beth". So there is a comparison for you right there.
While "Life After Beth" started out alright, then director Jeff Baena set up the scenario for more than he could handle, and t he movie just fell to a heap of disappointing pieces.
There wasn't a single moment throughout the movie that made me laugh, so for a comedy, then the movie failed to deliver. The movie was adequate entertainment, don't get me wrong, but it hardly sustains more than a single viewing.
The cast list was good though, and people were doing good jobs with their given roles and characters.
"Life After Beth" was a mediocre movie that set out to accomplish more than it could handle, and as such it scores a very mediocre five out of ten stars from me.
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
¿Sabías que...?
- CuriosidadesNick Offerman can be heard narrating the documentary on Machu Pichu in the beginning of the film. One of the several ties to Aubrey Plaza's role in the series Parks and Recreation (2009).
- PifiasWhen Zach is inside the MRI scanner, he would not have been allowed to lift his head to look down as this would affect image acquisition. Also, it would not be possible for him to see his mother sitting in a chair reading a magazine as he stared down through the bore of the scanner. MRI scanners produce high magnetic fields and for safety reasons, the waiting area will not be in such close proximity to the scanner.
- Citas
Erica Wexler: I'm so sorry about Beth, by the way. Your mom talked to my mom about it.
Zach Orfman: I used to really want her to come back.
Erica Wexler: Of course.
Zach Orfman: But things are really complicated between us, you know? Like kind of fucked up.
Erica Wexler: Right.
Zach Orfman: Now, I just kind of wish she would stay dead.
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Detalles
- Fecha de lanzamiento
- País de origen
- Sitio oficial
- Idioma
- Títulos en diferentes países
- Mi novia es una zombi
- Localizaciones del rodaje
- Empresas productoras
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Taquilla
- Presupuesto
- 2.400.000 US$ (estimación)
- Recaudación en Estados Unidos y Canadá
- 88.273 US$
- Fin de semana de estreno en EE. UU. y Canadá
- 15.843 US$
- 17 ago 2014
- Recaudación en todo el mundo
- 274.717 US$
- Duración1 hora 29 minutos
- Color
- Relación de aspecto
- 1.85 : 1