Warm Bodies Virus Explained: How It’s Different Than Other Zombie Movies – Screen Rant

The Romeo & Juliet inspired movie Warm Bodies features a zombie virus unlike any other in the horror genre. Here's how major their differences are.

Jonathan Levine's horror romantic comedyWarm Bodiesfeatures a zombie virus that can transform the living dead back into their human form, making it vastly different from other zombie movies. While other movies in the sub-genre attempt to find a cure or vaccine to remedy the issue of reanimated corpses wreaking havoc across the globe, thisRomeo and Julietinspired flick suggests that it can naturally occur under specific circumstances. The zombie virus has existed in horror movies for nearly a century,butWarm Bodiesattempted to drastically alter how it manifests and its ability to be cured.

Warm BodiesstarsNicholas Hoult ofX-Men: First ClassandMad Max: Fury Roadas the hopeless romantic zombie R and Teresa Palmer ofLights Outas his human love interest, Julie Grigio. One night, R leaves the safety of his makeshift home in an abandoned airplane to find food, but when he sees Julie, he feels his heart beat for the first time. As the film progresses, the zombies start to turn human again. There are not many horror romantic comedies, especially those that include cannibalism, but they occasionally make an appearance as proven bythe upcoming Netflix original,The Hills Have Eyes For You.However, zombie comedies such asZombieland, Little Monsters,andShaun Of The Deadhave maintained steady popularity for the majority of the 21st century.

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Each zombie movie has its own, unique take on the virus, but there are more traditional ones to be found in the sub-genre as well. George A. Romero'sNight Of The Living Deadbecame the foundation for the concept of burning the bodies of the undead after destroying their brains. Consistently throughout zombie movies and TV shows, the only cure for a zombie has been a bullet to the brain or decapitation.Warm Bodiesproposes that there is a cure: love, hope, and friendship. This is not only a different take for a movie in the horror genre to take, but also a major difference from others of its kind, which tend to err on the side of post-apocalyptic hopelessness.

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