Life After Beth (2014)'s comments

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DPN137

Disappointing is the word that springs to mind, I felt like this was a great premise executed poorly, with a script short of laughs and devoid of any horror.

However, despite these shortcomings it felt like the actors did their best with the material and some of the performances were very good because of it, especially from Aubrey Plaza.

9 years 4 months ago

mono-no-aware

This movie is awesome. Parody. Comedy. Romance? Zombies. Smooth jazz. Sort of gives me the same messed up vibe that old cheesy 90s cult movies like Idle Hands did.

8 years 11 months ago

zexthatico

Amazing. Zombies like never before.
Loved the humour too and the story is pretty cool.
Zach Braff-y indie movie.
A fav.

9 years 6 months ago

John Milton

Big A24 fan, might have ran my expectations a little too high. But, Aubrey Plaza is still here, being all Aubrey...

4 years ago

Houdini

It would make sense that zombies vary in degree of whatever infects them. Imagine talking zombies in 'The Walking Dead'. That would never happen but I can still imagine.

8 years 4 months ago

mondovertigo

I never really like zombie movies but this is a good one. Original and funny. Not too big a fan of the ending but I feel the rest of the movie makes up for it.

9 years 5 months ago

cathedra

it feels a little bit sad in the end of all, but its a good movie

9 years 6 months ago

Siskoid

In Life After Beth, Dane DeHaan's girlfriend (Aubrey Plaza) returns from the dead giving him (and her parents) a second chance at doing it (romance/parenting) right, though she soon starts to deteriorate into a zombie monster as a mini-zombie apocalypse sets in in their gated community. The metaphor seems to be how second-chance relationships seldom work out and indeed can be quite toxic, attempts are doing things right often just (perhaps hopeful) playacting until the underlying problems return as they always would, until you have to pull the trigger on the relationship and accept it was never going to work. Fine, though I'd be more comfortable with it if it also didn't come with a kind of "psycho-bitch" metaphor (perhaps if the reversed the genders - it's not like DeHaan looks that alive - it would work better). It's a black comedy and has some fun moments, but I think it's far more interesting when Beth is the only undead character. I suppose in the above metaphor, the end of a teenage relationship is the end of the world, but it still feels more rote when we get to that point.

1 year 1 month ago

filmclub

good at first but then went shit

9 years 2 months ago