10 Films Coming In 2016 That Really Shouldn't Exist

9. Pride And Prejudice And Zombies

Take a regency romance novel that's suffered as many shocking screen adaptations as Bram Stoker's blood-sucking Count, lash it with the gory violence of the latter, and recruit a surprisingly star-studded cast to cut-and-slash its way through legions of undead-yet-well-dressed opponents and you might expect to be in for a hellaciously humorous couple of hours. Somehow, though, despite the whole "zombies trying to consume flesh and destroy humanity" thing being set against the plot of a classic literary work, this movie has managed to take itself more seriously than Anne Robinson cutting down the Weakest of Links. Based on the equally divisive and arguably as turgid mash-up novel of the same name, far from offering the amusing absurdity of Zombieland or emulating the stirring romantic-yet-comedic Warm Bodies, PAPAZ (an acronym much funnier than its subject matter) at once plays out much too gravely for a period cannibalistic send-up intended to make Austen palatable (pun intended) whilst at the same time failing to significantly differentiate from the Prejudicial original to be anything but a dire derivative. Cue puzzled perplexity as Lily James, Suki Waterhouse and co. attempt to fend off with great stoicism a tide of flesh-eaters whilst, more importantly, subverting the same patriarchy as in the old-fashioned original. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foGraEVNI0s