Cobbled collectively from the cleavered-off physique components of quite a few 80s horror-lite teen comedies (I’m undecided I’ve ever seen a movie that extra desperately needs to be Heathers), this Athena-poster-hued, girl-meets-corpse romcom by no means absolutely reanimates. It’s a misfire from Juno screenwriter Diablo Cody, who normally manages, on the very least, to inject just a few strong jokes into her materials.
Kathryn Newton stars as Lisa, an introvert even earlier than her mom was murdered, her father remarried and he or she discovered herself with a brand new faculty and a judgmental, lemon-faced stepmother (Carla Gugino). Lisa finds it exhausting to socialize, so she spends her spare time within the native deserted cemetery. However then a midnight want backfires and a lumbering, malodorous corpse lurches into her life. On a poorly defined whim, Lisa hides him in her wardrobe; he turns into her confidant and her associate on a neighbourhood killing spree.
In the meantime, Lisa inexplicably morphs from mousey shy woman to supercool goth vamp in a single day. And if the central character isn’t constant or at the least credible, what probability does the remainder of this sloppily paced, tacked-together mess have?
