Aug 15, 2014 By Austin Trunick

A romantic comedy set against a zombie apocalypse may seem quite fashionable right now, but when filmmaker Jeff Baena wrote the screenplay over a decade ago—before The Walking Dead, before Zombieland, and, yes, even before Shaun of the Dead—it was ahead of its time. An attempt to make the film in 2003—at the time starring Joseph Gordon Levitt—fell through, and the script wound up collecting dust in a drawer for the next ten years.

The script would finally return from the dead as a vehicle for actress Aubrey Plaza. The actress plays Beth, a girl who dies during a hiking trip only to return to her grief-stricken boyfriend (Dane DeHaan) and parents (John C. Reilly & Molly Shannon) just days after her funeral. Her loved ones are so happy to have her back that they don’t question her rotting skin, cravings for human flesh, or sudden love of smooth jazz. More