After Zach walks home, he discovers that his dead grandfather is also resurrected, as well as the previous owners of his house. While at the gravesite, Zach attempts to break up with Beth, but she grows angry and steals his car. Zach tells Beth that she died and somehow came back, she doesn't believe him until he takes her to her grave. He is now growing tired of Beth and cannot handle her violent tendencies, especially after she flies into a violent and jealous rage when she sees him having lunch with his childhood friend Erica. Zach is able to eventually convince Beth's parents to let them go outside, and he and Beth go to a park where they have sex.Īs time goes on, Zach notices that people around town are acting strangely and similar to Beth, who has grown increasingly violent and has mood swings. They decide to go on a hike, but Maury and Geenie convince them to stay in the house since they are scared that people will see her. Though still confused about the situation, Zach is thrilled that she is back and promises to go hiking with her like she always wanted. Her parents explain that soon after the funeral Beth suddenly appeared and aside from having no memory of the past week, appears and sounds completely normal.īeth and Zach go to the attic of her house where they have an emotional conversation about their relationship. He returns to Beth's house and successfully enters and discovers that Beth's parents had been hiding her. The next day, he goes to Beth's grave and sees that there is a large hole. He attempts to break in, but her parents call Zach's older brother Kyle, who is a security officer and Zach is forced to leave. Later, while looking through the window, he sees Beth. One day, Maury and Geenie stop answering the door and block his phone calls, which upsets and confuses Zach. Zach feels remorse and guilt due to the fact that he never did any of the things Beth wanted to do. One day, while playing chess and smoking marijuana with Maury, Zach reveals that he and Beth were having problems in their relationship and that she had expressed desire to see other people in the days before she died. After Beth's funeral, Zach begins to spend time with Beth's parents Maury and Geenie as a source of comfort. Baena should have let this one die.After his girlfriend Beth dies from a snake bite while on a hike, Zach is devastated. But even if Life After Beth is a unique entry in the zombie canon, it still registers as overkill. Baena had released this film when he’d written it, he might have come across as a prescient director.
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Life After Beth may be the mellowest zombie movie in recent memory, mostly because the action is seen through Zach’s eyes, and he’s usually away from it, except when he runs over Beth with his Saab. DeHaan’s sulky character, on the other hand, is kind of insufferable.) Plaza does a convincing job pretending to have been dead, mumbling and wheezing and clumsily sashaying, zombie-style, through town, her body deteriorating with every movement. Her eyes gloss over at the sound of a syrupy saxophone line as she slips into a narcoleptic haze. The only thing that puts Beth at ease, for instance, is smooth jazz, which is probably the movie’s funniest and most redeeming detail. Baena co-wrote with the director David O. Life After Beth has some of the absurd, slapstick humor to be found in I ♥ Huckabees, which Mr. As Beth begins to decay, other zombies start coming back-the mailman, Zach’s grandpa, the short-order cook-and then she eats her dad. In one surreal scene, they have sex in a playground in broad daylight, which, I guess, makes Zach a necrophiliac, or whatever you might call a man who penetrates zombies with something other than a silver stake. Still, Beth has no memory of the fact that she broke up with Zach before she died, so he takes advantage of her amnesia (she wears the same black and white, polka-dot dress every day), and the two of them get along swimmingly, for a short time. Where there’s one zombie, there’s probably more on the way. But Beth’s boyfriend Zach (Dane DeHaan) is skeptical. Reilly and Molly Shannon, both mildly funny) are so happy to see her that they chalk the whole thing up to a Biblical sort of resurrection, ignoring that she dug herself out of her grave. Plaza, as Beth, dies from a snakebite and returns as a walking corpse-benevolent and relatively clear-minded at first but cannibalistic and insane later. The plot is simple enough, if also nonsensical. Starring: Aubrey Plaza, Dane DeHaan and John C.