Take your pick: “Romeo and Juliet” or “Beauty and the Beast”. Those are basically the premises behind this zombie movie, a love story with a unique take. In a post-apocalyptic world the zombies are beginning to take over. One named “R” (he can’t remember his whole name) helps the other zombies kill humans and eat their flesh as they must do so of necessity to survive themselves, although they are no more than walking corpses without a heartbeat.

Then R meets Julie and, despite the fact he kills her boyfriend and eats his brains, he falls for Julie the moment he sees her and his heart actually begins to beat. R begins to become human with each passing day he is with Julie and she finds herself attracted to him and learns he is sorry for what he did but did it to survive. There are some genuinely funny moments in the movie, such as two zombies grunting to each other and understanding each other and Julie teaching R to remember how to drive a car.

Despite the humor this film is violent, with a bullet hole seen in a character after he is shot, zombies eating flesh and brains with blood on their mouths, and other violent moments. The language is strong too so for these reasons we are unable to award our Dove Seal to this movie as a family-friendly film.