Swoon, Scream and Laugh @ Romance Zombie Comedy Movies
In 2024, we mark the 20-year anniversary of the world's first self-dubbed RomZomCom movie and the establishment of a new sub-subgenre with the premiere of 'Shaun of the Dead' (2004) that year. While other movies may have preceded this film by combining all three of these elements, it was the first to be marketed as a RomZomCom. Also, it is arguably the most successful and most critically acclaimed film in the RomZomCom sub-subgenre to date. It led to the term, RomZomCom, being coined in the first place and the film's popularity made RomZomCom part of the permanent lexicon of pop culture and film lovers alike.
Which of these selected RomZomCom movies that mixes romance, zombies and comedy has the best combination of swoons, screams and laughs?
Discuss the topic here. Existing Face-Off Poll: Favorite romantic comedy... with zombies
Which of these selected RomZomCom movies that mixes romance, zombies and comedy has the best combination of swoons, screams and laughs?
Discuss the topic here. Existing Face-Off Poll: Favorite romantic comedy... with zombies
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- DirectorRuben FleischerStarsJesse EisenbergEmma StoneWoody HarrelsonA shy student trying to reach his family in Ohio, a gun-toting bruiser in search of the last Twinkie and a pair of sisters striving to get to an amusement park join forces in a trek across a zombie-filled America.
- DirectorEdgar WrightStarsSimon PeggNick FrostKate AshfieldThe uneventful, aimless lives of a London electronics salesman and his layabout roommate are disrupted by the zombie apocalypse.
- DirectorJonathan LevineStarsNicholas HoultTeresa PalmerJohn MalkovichAfter a highly unusual zombie saves a still-living girl from an attack, the two form a relationship that sets in motion events that might transform the entire lifeless world.
- DirectorRuben FleischerStarsWoody HarrelsonJesse EisenbergEmma StoneColumbus, Tallahassee, Wichita, and Little Rock move to the American heartland as they face off against evolved zombies, fellow survivors, and the growing pains of the snarky makeshift family.
- DirectorSam RaimiStarsBruce CampbellEmbeth DavidtzMarcus GilbertWhen Ash Williams is accidentally transported to 1300 A.D., he must retrieve the Necronomicon and battle an army of the dead in order to return home.
- DirectorPeter JacksonStarsTimothy BalmeDiana PeñalverElizabeth MoodyA young man's mother is bitten by a Sumatran rat-monkey. She gets sick and dies, at which time she comes back to life, killing and eating dogs, nurses, friends, and neighbors.
- DirectorBurr SteersStarsLily JamesSam RileyJack HustonFive sisters in 19th century England must cope with the pressures to marry while protecting themselves from a growing population of zombies.
- DirectorStephen SommersStarsAnton YelchinAshley SommersLeonor VarelaIn a California desert town, a short-order cook with clairvoyant abilities encounters a mysterious man with a link to dark, threatening forces.
- DirectorChristopher LandonStarsTye SheridanLogan MillerJoey MorganThree scouts, on the eve of their last camp-out, discover the true meaning of friendship when they attempt to save their town from a zombie outbreak.
- DirectorRodman FlenderStarsDevon SawaSeth GreenElden HensonA teenage slacker's right hand becomes possessed with murderous intent.
- DirectorAndrew CurrieStarsKesun LoderBilly ConnollyCarrie-Anne MossIn an Earthly world resembling the 1950s, a cloud of space radiation has shrouded the planet, resulting in the dead becoming zombies that desire live human flesh. A company called Zomcon has been able to control the zombie population. Zombies can be temporarily neutralized by being shot, but can only be permanently neutralized by their brain being destroyed. Their ultimate disposal is through cremation, or burial, the latter which requires decapitation with the head being buried separately from the body. Conversely, Zomcon has created the domestication collar, when activated and placed on a zombie makes the zombie controllable, and thus an eternally productive creature within society. Because all dead initially become zombies, the elderly are viewed negatively and suspectly. And all people, adult or child, learn to shoot to kill to protect society. Zomcon is the go to organization for all things zombie. In the town of Willard, the Robinsons - father Bill (Dylan Baker), mother Helen (Carrie-Anne Moss), and adolescent son Timmy (Kesun Loder) - are one family who don't own a zombie as a domestic, since Bill is afraid of zombies, as, when he was a child, he had to shoot his own zombie father, who tried to eat him. Bill has thus become fascinated with funerals to see zombies put away permanently. But Helen feels pressured to get a zombie when Zomcon's new head of security in Willard, the officious Jonathan Bottoms (Henry Czerny), moves into the neighborhood with his family. Never having had to deal with a zombie directly, Timmy is initially wary of their zombie. But as a lonely child who has no friends and is often bullied, Timmy eventually befriends their zombie, who he names Fido (Sir Billy Connolly), as he treats the zombie much like a faithful pet dog. Timmy protects Fido at all cost, even after Fido, due to no fault of its own, is implicated in some deaths, which creates a mini-wave of loose zombies unknown to Zomcon. But Fido may play a larger role within the family as a companion for Helen, who is largely neglected by Bill, since he sees human affection as ultimately resulting in such difficult issues as what happened between him and his own father. With Timmy and Helen treating Fido with kindness, Fido, in turn, may prove that not all zombies, even when without their domestication collar, are out to kill anyone and everyone in their path.
- DirectorFred DekkerStarsJason LivelyTom AtkinsSteve MarshallAlien brain parasites, entering humans through the mouth, turn their host into a killing zombie. Some teenagers start to fight against them.
- DirectorJeff BaenaStarsAubrey PlazaDane DeHaanJohn C. ReillyA young man's recently deceased girlfriend mysteriously returns from the dead, but he slowly realizes she is not the way he remembered her.
- DirectorAbe ForsytheStarsLupita Nyong'oAlexander EnglandJosh GadA washed-up musician teams up with a teacher and a kids'-show personality to protect young children from a sudden outbreak of zombies.
- DirectorGregg BishopStarsJared KusnitzGreyson ChadwickChandler DarbyOn the night of the big High-School Prom, the dead rise to eat the living, and the only people who can stop them are the losers who couldn't get dates to the dance.
- DirectorJoe DanteStarsAnton YelchinAshley GreeneAlexandra DaddarioA guy's regrets over moving in with his girlfriend are compounded when she dies and comes back as a zombie.
- DirectorLloyd KaufmanStarsJason YachaninKate GrahamAllyson SereboffZombified chickens attempt to kill the fast-food workers that cook them in a restaurant built on an ancient burial ground.
- DirectorPaul HoenStarsMilo ManheimMeg DonnellyTrevor TordjmanStudents from Zombietown are transferred to a high school in a suburban town preoccupied with uniformity, traditions and pep rallies.
- DirectorBen BlaineChris BlaineStarsCian BarryAbigail HardinghamMandeep DhillonSuicidal Rob starts dating a colleague at the supermarket. But whenever they have sex, his dead girlfriend, Nina, pops up.
- DirectorBob BalabanStarsAndrew LoweryTraci LindDanny ZornA teenage boy comes back from the dead because he is determined to win the most beautiful girl in school.
- DirectorKyle RankinStarsMaria ThayerMichael CassidyJulie BristerAfter a girls' night out, endearingly awkward Deb wakes up in the apartment of the most attractive guy in Portland, Maine. Pretty boy Ryan only knows it was a mistake and ushers her out the door into a full-scale zombie apocalypse.
- DirectorPaul HoenStarsMilo ManheimMeg DonnellyTrevor TordjmanThe continuing adventures of Seabrook High students Addison and Zed, whose budding romance is threatened by the arrival of werewolves.
- DirectorPaul HoenStarsMilo ManheimMeg DonnellyTrevor TordjmanZed anticipates an athletic scholarship while Addison is gearing up for Seabrook's international cheer-off competition. Then suddenly, extraterrestrial beings appear around Seabrook, causing more than friendly competition.
- DirectorJarret TarnolStarsReece ThompsonRebekah BrandesBrent TarnolAfter years of yearning for the girl next door, Artie finally builds the courage to woo her only to find out the girl of his dreams and best friend, April, is moving away - sending Artie into a deep depression.