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BLEEDING LOVE

1 IT'S A LOVING TRIBUTE TO THE 80S

elda Williams wanted to be an unabashed ‘love letter’ to the 80s, zombies and romcoms. Scripted by Diablo Cody, the story of a teenage girl, Lisa (Kathryn Newton), falling for a reanimated corpse, Creature (Cole Sprouse), is transformed into, by way of . I feel like everything these days has to look at the joke and acknowledge it.’ But she wasn’t interested in being meta. ‘I wanted to do the opposite.’

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