Warm Bodies (2013): How the warmhearted zombie comedy embraces survival

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Written By Chris Well

“I am dead, but it’s not so bad.”

When we put together our list of the 13 funniest zombie movies, we had to include the zombie-romance Warm Bodies, based on the novel by Isaac Marion. The idea behind Warm Bodies is that love rekindles humanity.

Early on, R believes that life has lost all meaning. Most zombies are desensitized to emotions. All they feel is hunger.

But after he saves a still-living girl from an attack, the two form a relationship that sets in motion events that might transform the entire lifeless world…

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Chris Well

Chris Well been a writer pretty much his entire life. (Well, since his childhood.) Over the years, he has worked in newspapers, magazines, radio, and books. He now is the chief of the website Monster Complex, celebrating monster stories in lit and pop culture. He also writes horror comedy fiction that embraces Universal Monsters, 1960s sitcoms, 1980s action movies, and the X-Files.

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