Warm Bodies (2013) poster
2013 · horror · comedy · romance · disaster

Warm Bodies

Directed by Jonathan Levine1h 38m2013
ElsewhereIMDb6.8254kRT81%Metacritic60
  • brisk
  • extreme
  • inventive
Movie DNA

Neutral, kinetic, extreme horror / comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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After a zombie becomes involved with the girlfriend of one of his victims, their romance sets in motion a sequence of events that might transform the entire lifeless world.

Our read · Warm Bodies (2013) reads as a neutral, kinetic, inventive horror · comedy · romance entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes 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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What watching it is actually like.

You want zombie apocalypse as quirky rom-com with genuine sweetness.

ends upliftingyou’ll feel glowing aftergrabs you earlygrips by minute 8attention 3/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgraphic violence

Skip it tonightUndead romance and occasional gore will kill the cozy vibe you wanted.

DNA · twelve axes

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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.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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