Burying the Ex
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Short description
Max is a horror fan whose relationship with his girlfriend Evelyn sours after they move in together. She turns out to be controlling, and although he wants out, he cannot bring himself to end things. Before he can, Evelyn dies in a bizarre accident. Max grieves briefly and then starts over, eventually meeting Olivia, who shares his taste for horror. Just as this new romance takes shape, Evelyn returns from the grave as a zombie, still fixated on the promise that their love would last forever, and unwilling to let him go.
Joe Dante directed the film, the fifteenth of sixteen features in his filmography by release order, following The Hole and preceding Nightmare Cinema. Alan Trezza wrote the screenplay and produced with Mary Cybriwsky and Carl Effenson. Anton Yelchin plays Max, Ashley Greene plays Evelyn, and Alexandra Daddario plays Olivia, with Oliver Cooper, Dick Miller and Mark Alan in supporting roles. The film runs 89 minutes.
Released in 2014, the comedy-horror production came from Voltage Pictures, ArtImage Entertainment and Scooty Woop Entertainment. On IMDb it holds a rating of 5.6 out of 10 from 532 votes, while its film critics' rating stands at 4.4 out of 10 from 38 reviews, so critics rated it lower than audiences did.
What's left behind the scenes
- Shortly after the beginning of the film, the viewer sees a van driving by with the inscription "Romero & Sons" on its side. This is a tribute to George A. Romero, the "godfather" of zombie films.
- A joke from the film's director, Joe Dante: the appearance of the bartender, played by Mark Alan Brown, is an exact copy of a character named Mortis from the Netflix miniseries Splatter (2009), produced by Roger Corman and directed by Joe Dante. The bartender in the film "My Girl is a Zombie" (2015) dresses like Mortis and even sports the same hairstyle.
- A horror film, "Night of the Fear" (Tom Holland, 1985), is on TV while Max and Evelyn are making love. Anton Yelchin, who played Max, starred in the comedic remake of the same name, directed by Craig Gillespie in 2011.
- The role of the police officer was played by Dim Miller, an actor who appeared in all of Joe Dante's films.
- Travis's zombie costume, as seen near the ice cream parlor at the end of the film, is a reference to Skip's costume from Ray Peterson's nightmare in Joe Dante's horror-comedy "Suburbia," released in 1989.
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