Video: Check Out the Trailer for 'Warm Bodies'...
by Shannon Keirnan“Why can’t I connect with people? Oh, right. It’s ‘cuz I’m dead.”
Well, I give up. I just don’t know anymore.
I never thought I’d see the day when they were making movies about the romance between a zombie and a humans… but then again, I never anticipated vampires would sparkle, either.
The premise of “Warm Bodies” is… odd.
“After a zombie becomes involved with the girlfriend of one of his victims, their romance sets in motion a sequence of events that might transform the entire lifeless world.”
Okay...?
Yet, when you watch the trailer, it somehow works. Maybe it’s just that star Nicholas Hoult has an uncanny ability to lurch and groan like one of the undead while still seeming sweet, but there’s something oddly appealing about the contrast between his sharp internal monologue and outwardly… zombie-esque appearance.
“Don’t be creepy, don’t be creepy,” he admonishes himself mentally as he and his lady love settle down to sleep in an abandoned airplane.
Hoult plays “R,” who can only remember that much of his name, stars beside Teresa Palmer, of “I Am Number Four” and “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice,” who first sparks life back into his cold, dead heart.
“I don’t understand, but he’s changing, and he feels, and he’s learning to be human again!”
Apparently this regeneration reverses the disease infecting both “R,” and we soon see the soldiers realize, “Whatever it is that you two have, it’s infecting the others.”
“They’re somehow curing themselves,” Palmer insists to her father, who, from what I can tell, doesn’t give a rat’s top hat about the reversal and is more interested in shooting them in the face.
So, zombies in love? Is this is next big supernatural fetish? What will be next?
“Romancing Bigfoot?”
“The Troll Who Loved Me?”
Wait... Dibs.
"Warm Bodies" hits theaters in February of next year... Just in time for Valentine's Day.