But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is a killer of zombies. Roll over, Jane Austen. Shakespeare’s great romance is the latest classic to get an undead makeover in Warm Bodies, a clever redefinition of the idea of star-crossed lovers.
Romeo died at the end of the play, as I recall. In Warm Bodies, that happens up front, before the movie even starts. The young man who will later be known only as ”R” (Nicholas Hoult) has shaken ”the yoke of inauspicious stars from this world-wearied flesh”. He’s dead, in other words, but not in a good way.
He wanders aimlessly through the wrecked terminal of a modern airport. Other zombies mill about looking for someone to eat, but the living are scarce. It is eight years since an apocalypse killed most of the humans. The ones who survived are holed up in a fortress, encircled by an enormous wall. Their leader, General Grigio (John Malkovich) is a benevolent dictator who wages relentless war against the zombies, since they killed his wife. He sends raiding parties out at night to rescue supplies from the suburban wastelands.
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