Laaaaawd, have mercy. What you’re looking at, if your eyes have adjusted yet, is the first image of Nicholas Hoult in Warm Bodies. He’s playing a zombie named R who falls in love with a human girl. It was only a matter of fucking time. Since Twilight first dropped a huge bomb of fuckery on our heads, it seems like Hollywood has been in this constant race to find the next teen/horror/romance phenomenon with shows like The Vampire Diaries and movies like Red Riding Hood (whatever the fuck that was).

I can just barely take a sexy vampire that sparkles and won’t have sex with you and wears pea coats and drives Volvos and puts in hazel contacts when he’s fed on mountain lions or whatever. Fine. But sexy zombies? Really? With the brain-eating and the decomposition and the lack of ability to speak? I mean, I’ve always thought of the zombie genre as really versatile - movies like 28 Days Later and Zombieland and Shaun of the Dead prove the many incarnations a zombie film can take. But like, in doing some light internet research (aka Wiking it) I found the following blurb:  ”Director Levine sought to expand the zombie mythology by making the zombies better looking than in other films.” Well. OK.  

This movie, like Twilight, is based on a book. It also, like Twilight, is being produced by Summit Entertainment. And it’s co-starring Teresa Palmer or, as I like to think of her, The Australian Kristen Stewart (they seriously look freakishly alike). I really don’t know how to feel about all those components. I haven’t read the book so I don’t know what the tone is, but If the movie doesn’t take itself too seriously it could be an interesting parody or black comedy of sorts in the the teen-horror-romance genre…but something about Nicholas Hoult’s smoldering, deadened zombie eyes in this picture tells me that’s probs not the case.