Burying the Ex
Joe Dante’s feature has the horror elements you’d expect from the guy behind Gremlins, The Howling, and The ‘Burbs. And it also factors in romance, although things turn gruesome pretty damn fast. Anton Yelchin plays a nerdy cult-movie fan who realizes too late that his seemingly perfect girlfriend (Twilight’s Ashley Greene) is a control freak—but before he can end things, she’s hit by a bus. Things go from “I guess the universe did me a sick favor” to “holy shit!” when she returns in zombie form, ready to resume their relationship… just as he’s begun to pull himself out of his guilt spiral by dating someone new. Awkward! Burying the Ex does play into the well-worn psycho ex-girlfriend stereotype, but all the horror-movie flair that’s infused into the story does give it a (dismembered, putrid, rotting) leg up on others of the genre. (Tubi)
