Trailer For Burying The Ex, A Zombie Film From Gremlins' Joe Dante

Anton Yelchin stars in the zomantic comedy.

By Brendon Connelly /

It's been some time since Joe Dante's Burying the Ex premiered at last year's Venice Film Festival but there's finally a trailer. Here is Anton Yelchin trying to break up with Ashley Greene though she's a rather single-minded member of the undead.At least he didn't deal with her the Ash Williams way. Dante is a fine director, but word from Venice was that Alan Trezza's script was fraught with issues, including a lot of 'nagging girlfriend' cliches that were more embarrassing than funny. The metaphor of an undead relationship is a good one, but it won't fly if the representations are cheap, tacky or offensive. There's also the small matter of Life After Beth coming along recently and taking a very similar take on the whole zomantic comedy thing. Still, I'm hoping that there's a lot of fun to be had here. Dante should be able to pull off a few good visual gags at least, and the cast are at least likeable. Burying the Ex - which should never have had the title, but I guess it's too late to change it now - will reach US VOD on June 19th. We might be witing a whil over here in the UK.