Then Zach runs home and the shit has already hit the fan. Zach and Beth have an argument at a cemetery, Beth steals Zach's car and she leaves. Again, if it had been something gradual, but it's not. It's a jarring tonal shift that's just really poorly fucking written. It's just like 'the zombie apocalypse is now and that's the way it is'. They definitely do tease that something is wrong, since Zach keeps seeing people that he hasn't seen in ages, but they don't even ease into it gradually. Then, inexplicably, the third act of the film is the zombie apocalypse. Aubrey Plaza is great in this movie, and she makes this transformation work, but the scripting, again, is one-note. Then Beth finds out she's a zombie as her behavior becomes increasingly more erratic and aggressive.

They get some chuckles out of the situation, but not nearly enough. That's like a third of the film and it gets really repetitive after a while. Essentially, the film boils down to, at first, to keeping Beth's death a secret from her, even as her skin starts to deteriorate and she starts behaving strangely. It's not that it's something that's really that unique to begin with, but I think you could've done far more with it than they did here. There's just too much working against them for this film to be good. Though, honestly, it's not like that's much to begin with. I think the cast is definitely solid enough to elevate the shallow script past to what you end up seeing on screen. Don't get me wrong, it's not bad in the conventional sense. We go from one extreme of the horror/romance genre with Spring to the other with Life after Beth. An impromptu event that happens among Carrie's phys ed classmates against her leads to her classmates being punished. White whose beliefs are well known in the community. The only adult authority figure who tries to help Carrie with her life is her phys ed teacher, Miss Collins, who is nonetheless warned not to get too close to go against how Mrs. White's beliefs were taken to that extreme largely because of her own failed marriage and her husband Ralph long ago having run off with another woman.

She even believes natural associated processes such as menstruation are a sin, about which she has refused to mention to Carrie. Her mother, Margaret White, is a religious fanatic, her extreme views primarily targeted against sex, which she believes is a sin. High school senior Carrie White is a social outcast, largely due to being unwise to the ways of the world based on her upbringing.

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