Highly Overrated But Still Good

brilliant actors, brilliant editing

A Masterpiece!

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

I love Joe Dante, I'm in love with Alexandra Daddario, and I liked Anton Yelchin in pretty much everything he did... But... What the hell is this movie?A script that goes nowhere, not the glimmer of a surprise in the story progression, no character development to speak of. Lots of stuff hinted at, but nothing getting fleshed-out... What's worse is Dante's direction... It looked like a TV movie for crying out loud! The "Mickey Mousing" music got on my nerve in the first five minutes... Poor Dick Miller had to get off the crapper to do his usual cameo in this crapper of a movie...Joe! What the hell, man? I was hoping for something of the same caliber of "Drag me to Hell", but I guess your style was never as broad as Raimi's... Your strength has always been nostalgia driven, and here it got lost in this bad script...I'll go watch "Gremlins" and "Matinee" a couple of time to wash the after taste of this dud.

Romantic horror comedy of sorts,Not entirely watchable but not entirely a flop either

It's hard to enjoy a film when everyone in it is so bloody annoying!I originally watched this for Anton Yelchin but he wasn't entertaining enough to hold my attention, especially when his character was part of what made movie crap for me.Max (Yelchin) needed to grow a pair and every predicament throughout the movie, it all happened because he wasn't honest.The character of Travis (Oliver Cooper), who happens to be the half brother of Max, was rude, inconsiderate and just a plain dickhead!It just seemed to me that they gave each character one-personality trait and turned it up by 1000.CHAPPY THINKS all copies of this film should be buried alongside the Ex!

Wuss (Anton Yelchin) works up the courage to break up with his girlfriend (Ashley Greene) but, before he can go through with it, she's hit by a bus and killed. Just as he is about to start a new relationship with another hottie (Alexandra Daddario), the dead girlfriend returns as a zombie.I had a hard time liking Anton Yelchin's character. He's this wimpy hipster unmotivated guy that I doubt I could stand for five minutes in real life. Surprisingly, there's no mention of his smoking weed as there usually is with characters like this. You're slacking on your clichés, Joe Dante. He also doesn't contribute much in the humor department. That's left on Ashley Greene's shoulders. Oliver Cooper plays Yelchin's half-brother, which is itself supposed to be a joke of some kind. It's repeated throughout the movie despite never being funny. Some people have half-siblings. I don't get what's funny about that. Outside of that 'joke,' he's pretty much the Jonah Hill character. You know, the fat gross guy who is inexplicably attractive to women and whose material is something that was envelope-pushing decades ago but now seems trite. Consider yourself warned he is naked in this so don't eat while watching. As for Ashley Greene, she owns this thing. She delivers all of the movie's laughs and things just seem less interesting when she's off-screen. Sexy Alexandra Daddario is given little to work with but does fine.I'm glad to see Joe Dante is still around and hasn't completely lost it. I mean, this is nowhere near the stuff he made in his prime, but it's better than anything John Landis has made lately. It's got a lot of the expected Dante touches (perhaps too many), such as old horror movies constantly playing in the background, a moving truck with the name Romero on it, and an amusing guest appearance from Dick Miller. It almost feels like Dante is homaging himself at this point. Aside from these touches, there really is nothing about this that stands out from a thousand other directors with less status. The movie looks as though it could have been made for television, honestly. It's a watchable horror comedy, funny in parts and gross in others. Worth a look but don't expect much.