A zombie tale with a young-love twist, “Warm Bodies” puts a contemporary spin on an old story — a really old story.
This hipster horror yarn about “forbidden romance” between would-be lovers from two worlds never meant to mingle is a straight-up, post-apocalyptic reworking of “Romeo & Juliet” spiked with modern-day mojo for audiences weaned on Hollywood’s starry-eyed “Twilight” movies about love between humans and not-so-humans, as well as the rotting-corpse funhouse of TV’s hit “Walking Dead” series.
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