Sensibly prioritising straight-faced weirdness over goofy gags, writer/director Baena keeps things just the right side of believable, eschewing explanation in favour of cracked domesticity. The House of the Dead III is a 2002 light gun arcade game with a horror zombie-survival theme, and the third installment to the House of the Dead series of video games, developed by Wow Entertainment and Sega. Sega has now finally pulled the zombie finger out of its backside (nice image) and released the latest in the franchise, The House Of The Dead III, on PC. Normal relations resume temporarily, but there’s something alarming about Beth’s twitchy lust for life, causing Zach to be even more scared of her than usual.
Stricken with grief by the loss of his girlfriend, dorky emo Zach (Dane DeHaan) is astonished when she shows up at her parents’ house, an inexplicable occurrence that they deem “a miracle”. A sparky addition to the rom-zom-com roll-call that includes such diverse films as Brian Yuzna’s Return of the Living Dead 3 and Edgar Wright’s Shaun of the Dead, Jeff Baena’s tale of love after death sees Aubrey Plaza letting rip as the eponymous girl unaware of her own mortality.