Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is not a good zombie film

The Bennet sisters stash swords under their gowns for a reason. (credit: Jay Maidment/Sony)

This review contains minor spoilers to the film Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

There are a few reasons a person might decide to watch the film Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. You might be a fan of Jane Austen and absorb anything to do with the 19th-Century author. You might be a fan of zombie films—even the bad ones—and will sign up to see any brains eaten by the undead. Or, maybe you want to watch Games of Thrones’ Lena Headey fight zombies while sporting an eyepatch throughout an entire film.

These are all valid reasons to walk into a theater to see a parody film based on a parody book based on an essential book. But while Pride and Prejudice and Zombies does include some awesomely bloody zombie fight scenes—we can confirm, Headey is definitely some kind of zombie warrior—it’s not a very good film. In fact, that’s being generous. This film is a mess. It takes the main characters and the rough outline of the plot from Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, mixes in some zombies, and then develops a whole new weird plot about zombie rights.

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