Make-Out with Violence2008
“Dead is the present tense”
Directed by Deagol Brothers
🏆 7 wins
The premise
A genre-bending tale of a boy trying to fulfill his unrequited love for a girl who has risen from the dead. It tells the story of twin brothers Patrick and Carol Darling, newly graduated from high school and struggling to come to terms with the mysterious disappearance of their friend, the bright and beautiful Wendy Hearst. When a drive through the countryside surrounding their suburban community leads to the discovery of Wendy's mysteriously animated corpse, the boys secretly transport the un-dead Wendy to an empty house in hopes of somehow bringing her back to life. As the sweltering summer pushes on, they must maintain the appearance of normalcy for their friends and family as they search for ways to revive the Wendy they once knew, or, failing that, to satisfy their own quests for love amongst the living and the dead.
Horror Vault's take
In the languid heat of a post-graduation summer, twin brothers stumble upon the reanimated body of a beloved missing friend and make a desperate, secret choice that will test the limits of love, loyalty, and sanity. Make-Out with Violence is a quietly haunting indie that wraps its zombie premise in the ache of adolescent longing rather than splatter and screams. It moves at a poetic, unhurried pace — more John Hughes fever dream than grindhouse — drawing power from what its characters refuse to let go of. The result is a genuinely strange and affecting meditation on desire and denial.
Content: Undead Imagery, Themes Of Necromantic Obsession, Mild Gore
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