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Warm Bodies (12A)
Directed by Jonathan Levine
Thursday 07 February 2013
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The horror comes in many forms, from the "safe" environment of the cinema to the terror of meeting somebody different.
That's what happens to Julie (Theresa Palmer), a pretty young woman survivor who, under assault from voracious zombies, gets rescued by R (Nicholas Hoult), one of their number.
It's love at first sight. He starts to look after her while she discovers that zombies are not as bad and scary as she thought.
Subverting genre conventions, Levine's surrealistic style recalls the masters of horror from Mario Bava to Joe Dante.
Brimming with humour, Warm Bodies rises a considerable way above the Twilight saga.
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