The premise promised Regency class and Romero shocks. The results, though, are only intermittently entertaining, and a better adaptation of Austen than a monster mash.
Wise-cracking Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy slash away at reanimated corpses in a bloody reworking of Jane Austen. But it’s not as much fun as it sounds.
For the most part a surprisingly fun, bloody take on Jane Austen’s classic – but it does turn stale as the final reckoning approaches.
Unfortunately, for the most part, it feels like the Sleepwalking Dead.
It is lively and entertaining early on but once we get accustomed to its strange mix of gentility and blood-letting, the magic dissipates.
This gimmicky reworking of Jane Austen’s classic uses deadpan decapitations to satire the prim costume drama but its gags are ultimately unearned.
Austen and the undead fail to raise laughs or shocks in a misfiring mashup.
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