Every week brings a new vampire or zombie picture and this one, a tongue-in-cheek, teeth-in-flesh yarn, is from the revisionist school that ends up taking a benevolent view of the undead. It is based on a novel that began as a short story on the internet where it attracted a cult following. The romantic appeal no doubt, consciously or otherwise, resides in it being a reworking of Romeo and Juliet, set in a post-apocalyptic North America and shot on location around Montreal. A small remnant of society has barricaded itself in a dilapidated city that makes the Los Angeles of Blade Runner look like downtown Abu Dhabi, from where they venture forth to engage in street fights with marauding zombies and the even worse tribe of living skeletons called Boneys.

But Julie (Teresa Palmer), daughter of a fierce zombie hunter (John Malkovich), is attracted to a sad zombie she names R (ie Romeo), despite the fact that he's killed her boyfriend Perry (ie Paris). She comes to believe the enemy may be capable of regaining their humanity and with the help of her friend Nora (a sort of Nurse figure) starts changing hearts and minds. It's all rather endearing.