10 Great Horror Movies With Terrible Concepts

Rom zom com fatigue was an inevitability in the 2010’s, after everything from 2004’s Shaun of the Dead to 2009’s post-apocalyptic Zombieland having tapped the sub genre’s potential dry.

However screenwriters soon came up with the innovation of making one of the rom com characters a zombie themselves… Only for this idea to be almost immediately exhausted too.

When the Anton Yelchin vehicle Burying the Ex was released in 2014, the indie horror comedy was coming out the same year as the darker Life After Beth, a year after the YA novel adaptation Warm Bodies, and a year before the spikier low-budget hit Nina Forever.

So the question was, did horror fans need yet another rom com wherein the hook was that one of the relationship’s participants is undead?

Hell yeah they did, as this comeback for Gremlins helmer Joe Dante turned out to be a fantastic romp which coasted by despite a lack of originality thanks to a winning script and a trio of stellar central turns from Twilight’s Ashley Greene, I Summon the Darkness’ Alexandra Daddario, and the late great Yelchin.