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4. R Becomes Real - Warm Bodies (2013)

Army of the Dead Maria Cruz
Summit Entertainment

Back in the early 2010s, Warm Bodies chose a truly unexpected path to explore its zombie threat: romance. 

Rocking up in the wake of Twilight, during a time when the prevailing attitude in terms of making-it with supernatural monsters was very much anything goes, the film is the story of boy-next-door zombie R (Nicholas Hoult), who seeks nothing less than the lifelong companionship of living, breathing human Julie (Teresa Palmer) - the only woman who has made his heart beat in the past eight years.

One thing leads to another, and as he gradually wins her trust and affections through a series of gestures, grunts and a stick-with-it attitude, R begins to come back to life. In fairy-tale fashion - well, reverse, twisted, zombified fairy-tale fashion - R receives true love's kiss and is transformed. Each moment of this scene needs to be ogled in freeze-frame for the fine details to be appreciated, as the colour comes back to his face, his eyes change and he starts breathing again, emphasised all the more by the sudden bullet that catches him in the shoulder.

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