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  • The zom was a squat man in the rags of what had once been a mail carrier’s uniform.

    Rot & Ruin Jonathan Maberry 2010

  • "Shaun of the Dead" (intentional): The first -- as far as we can recall -- movie to define itself as a zombie romantic comedy, or zom-rom-com, Edgar Wright's pop-culture-riffing tale about a pair of slackers swatting off the undead set a standard for scary comedy that's tough to match.

    Friday List: Hilarious horror movies Jen Chaney 2010

  • The Playlist reports that writer-director Jonathan Levine (The Wackness, All the Boys Love Mandy Lane) will adapt the upcoming romantic zombie comedy novel (or “rom-zom-com” as coined by the tagline for Shaun of the Dead), Warm Bodies.

    WACKNESS Director Jonathan Levine Snuggles Up to Zombie Flick WARM BODIES – Collider.com 2010

  • The kids were dressed in school uniforms, and there was a male zom in the middle of them who still wore the rags of a school bus driver.

    Rot & Ruin Jonathan Maberry 2010

  • Stronger, faster, maybe smarter than the image of a zom that Benny had in his mind.

    Rot & Ruin Jonathan Maberry 2010

  • A string of curry-related murders provide the narrative thrust of this rom-zom-poppadom-com, which really does boast death by chapati among its killer recipes.

    Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2010

  • Nothing can top Shaun of the Dead as far as a rom-zom-com goes. kthnxbai.. sean zombie flicks are my guilty pleasure, but the zombie/comedy has been done so well with Shaun of the Dead and Fido ...

    Jesse Eisenberg in Zombieland | /Film 2008

  • He had never known anyone who had become a zom—not since the disease had taken his mother from him.

    Rot & Ruin Jonathan Maberry 2010

  • If a guy died at the urinal, would he come back as a zom-pee?

    I See Dead People | Her Bad Mother 2008

  • There was no sign of Nix, but for a moment—perhaps it was his imagination or the shimmer of the heat or even a wandering zom—but Benny thought he saw another small figure moving across the field toward the treeline, heading in the same direction that the men had taken Nix.

    Rot & Ruin Jonathan Maberry 2010

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