Burying the Ex
- warm
- brisk
- intimate
Warm, kinetic, measured comedy / horror, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Before horror enthusiast Max can break things off with his girlfriend Evelyn she dies in a bus accident. In time, Max meets another woman only to have Evelyn resurface as a zombie ready to resume their relationship.
Our read · Burying the Ex (2014) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive comedy · horror · zombie entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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The shape of Burying the Ex
What watching it is actually like.
“You want Joe Dante's playful zombie rom-com about escaping a clingy ex.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if zombie gore and needy-relationship comedy feel too juvenile tonight.
The reading.
Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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