Life After Beth

2014 "Boy meets girl. Girl eats boy."
5.7| 1h30m| R| en| More Info
Released: 15 August 2014 Released
Producted By: American Zoetrope
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
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Official Website: http://a24films.com/films/life-after-beth/
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Zach is devastated by the unexpected death of his girlfriend, Beth. When she mysteriously returns, he gets a second chance at love. Soon his whole world turns upside down...

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Marketic It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.
JinRoz For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!
Kidskycom It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.
Kayden This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama
TdSmth5 Some kid is depressed. It takes this movie a while to bother telling us what the hell is going on. Turns out his girlfriend died from a snakebite while hiking. The kid gets along with the girl's parents and spends his time at their place. After he doesn't get a call from them for a couple of days he decides to stop by at their place and finds the girl, Beth, inside. He barges in and she just receives him as if nothing had happened. He visits her tomb and sure enough the hole is dug up and empty. Her parents won't let her leave anywhere. Eventually the guy escapes with her at night and takes her to the beach where she turns violent for no reason. She develops some ugly rash on her face. She becomes more and more violent.Eventually there's an outbreak of zombies and some guys start taking them out. Of course our guy keeps going back to Beth again and again and again pretending she's just normal. Eventually he finally realizes he has to take action.Yes, Life After Beth is different and somewhat original. But a movie can be different in good ways and bad ways, and there's really nothing good about this one. I guess it's supposed to be a romantic horror comedy or some such nonsense using/abusing the zombie genre as is apparently obligatory in Hollywood these days. It's not romantic, not funny, not scary. Whatever deep thoughts the writer and director claimed to have had as inspiration (Blake and Derrida) it sure doesn't come across at all in the final product. Life of Beth was a waste of resources and energy by the crew. And to think that countless good scripts get no chance. This movie is also a waste of time for the viewer unless you like watching pointless movies with lots of hysteric screaming.
rmclin The characters, the acting and especially the articulation their chemistry and bonding is something very rarely seen. More power to independent filmmaking and cheers to Jeff Baena on a of great masterpiece. I might seem to be too positive about it. Maybe Im slightly manic. Or I have been in a great place today. I don't want to talk about the movie because all art for itself. I was sort of surprised the 5.7 overall rating. I was slightly prejudiced having watched season 3 of "Being Human" on DVD. I got Beth at the and grab most media I watch from the library. I like watching the special features and watched the Post Mortem one. I thought it was so cool how the casting evolved in that many of the cast had current relationships way before they were exposed to the screenplay. Keep up the great work and look forward to what might be next and possibly will check out some of your other works. Thank you. Robert
jeffreyhillen-364-945381 Life After Beth is a Comedy/ Drama/Horror film about Zach Orfman ( Dane Dehaan) who just lost his girlfriend Beth (Aubrey Plaza) . He spends a lot of time at Beth's parent and finds it difficult to accept that Beth isn't alive anymore. But when all of a sudden the parents don't answer the phone anymore and don't let Zach in anymore he is starting get frustrated. He keeps coming and suddenly sees Beth walking in the house. That leaves Zach with a lot of questions and Beth's father is letting him now ad tries to explain. Beth has been resurrected but she can't know, Zach must find a way to deal with this. And tries to solve the problem.While this film is mainly meant as a Comedy there are also so much emotional scenes included. The scenes between Dane Dehaan and Aubrey Plaza are amazing. They deliver an fantastic job and give a great performance which helps the audience help to understand their characters. The scenes between them are very funny and they bring that over fantastic. Further casting deliver an acceptable job doing their role but Dane Dehaan and Aubrey Plaza deliver definitely the best performance.I think this script has been written really great. There are some romantically moment, some Dramatic moments for the main character, but also there are lots of Comedy moments. The story has been written beautifully and the characters are developed on screen really great.The thing about the film which I disliked was when more Zombies came you really didn't see them doing anything particular. There were no moments of action scenes, you didn't see them attack. And it took really long before they suddenly knew how to kill them. You, also, never saw them find out how to kill a Zombie, they just suddenly knew. While there was a moment in the film were Zach had to visit someone finding out what happened. But he never heard how to kill them, they never explained how to kill it- they just suddenly knew. Also I wasn't happy with the ending because Zach should never be able to love someone so soon already. Because he still loved Beth so much.Rating this film was quite difficult but I think give the rating : 6/10. Dane dehaan and Aubrey Plaza's performance helped to make this film great to watch. The comedy moments were also really funny but there were a few things which I disliked about the film. And that was all the reason for this rating.
willcarson4358 What's with all the negative comments? It's not suppose to be 'Gone with the Wind'. It is an actually funny movie takeoff on the zombi genre. I predict it will be a cult film of late teen- early twentys low-wage workers on a Friday or Saturday night movie. I really liked it. The combination of John O'Reily and Aubrey Plaza is perfect (as well as all the cast.) Well, as I have to add more lines to fill the required 10 lines, a couple of my favourite films are 'Criminal' staring John O'Reily and 'Safety Not Guaranteed' staring Aubrey Plaza. OK . . . . 'getting high with Doug'? starring Aubrey Plaza and Doug. Oh, Paul Riser, now I remember where I've seen his acting before! Aliens.' How about other film recommendation? The Hedgehog- A french film. Well, thats ten lines! Life after Beth is an enjoyable flick