Burying the Ex

Burying the Ex (2014)

Some relationships just won't die.

Before horror enthusiast Max can break things off with his girlfriend Evelyn she dies in a bus accident. In time, Max meets another woman only to have Evelyn resurface as a zombie ready to resume their relationship.

Date of release
2014-09-04
TMDB
5.6 / 10 (537)
Runtime
1h 29m
Genres
Comedy, Horror
Director
Joe Dante

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Box office: $604.5K

Burying the Ex is a 2014 American zombie comedy film directed by Joe Dante and written by Alan Trezza, starring Anton Yelchin, Ashley Greene, Alexandra Daddario and Oliver Cooper. It screened out of competition at the 71st Venice International Film Festival, and was released on June 19, 2015, by Image Entertainment.

Production

Burying the Ex was originally produced as a 15-minute short in 2008, written and directed by Alan Trezza. It starred Danielle Harris as Olivia and Mircea Monroe as Evelyn, with the male lead (then named Zak) played by John Francis Daley. Trezza later expanded the short into a feature film script. According to an interview with director Joe Dante in 2014:

I met Alan several years ago, got the script for the feature, which was not substantially different from the one we shot. I thought it was funny and different. Cut forward five years. Unexpectedly, after another project fell through, money appeared so we could make the movie, but we had to shoot cheaply and quickly. We shot in 20 days and it was a lot of fun, a hectic shoot, but there was a lot to do.

Principal photography began November 17, 2013 and ended December 19, 2013. Mary Woronov played the owner of a store called Bloody Mary's. However, she was cut out of the film. Dante said the film was "very EC Comics, but it's not a comic book movie, I think the characters are a little bit more real. ... I was left alone in terms of creativity." He added that the film was made for his fans.

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