A short while back I wrote a review for the appalling hit movie Twilight, mourning the fact that vampires and werewolves were being ruined by soft-serve sex fantasy addicts, but rejoicing that at least zombies were safe. No way to make a zombie into somebody’s clingy boyfriend, right? Right?

Wrong. Zombies themselves are under attack, their fearsomeness rendered conventional and silly. In Hollywood, as we speak, they’re planning to make a romantic comedy with zombies in the lead roles.
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