RT Rating: 26% Joe Dante's tale of haunting by ex should have been a lot better than it actually ended up being, and you get the sense that it probably would have been if it was made 30 years ago. The premise is simple enough, with a thoroughly dislikable girl staying alive to torment her boyfriend long past the sell-by date of both her and the relationship, not entirely realising that she's dead. As she goes full zombie, he seeks a way out of the relationship (still wanting not to hurt her despite her being monstrous and dead) leading to far fewer laughs than were probably intended. Sadly, the film is just too nasty for its own good: we are invited to hate the Ex simply because she expresses her love too much and dares to be organic and redecorate, and there's very much a sense that nothing was pushed hard enough. Plus Anton Yelchin is basically the poor man's Michael Cena, and he's not really likeable enough, or believable enough as an object of burning love to really sell the concept.
