Film Review – Burying the Ex

Director Joe Dante has forged a career on a love for genre pictures. The helmer of “The Howling,” “Gremlins,” and “Matinee,” Dante has demonstrated a devotion to Hollywood and all its ghoulish highlights. “Burying the Ex” is more of an easy lay-up for the moviemaker, but it plays to his strengths of dark comedy and horror, successfully molesting romantic comedy formula to fit the askew needs of undead cinema. “Burying the Ex” is hilarious, icky, and smartly made, reinforcing Dante’s gifts as a storyteller and his endearing appreciation for shock value and uncomfortable laughs. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com