Matt Smith & Douglas Booth on the Tone and Timeliness of ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies’

Less the genre mishmash you’d expect and more just Jane Austen with the undead in the background, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is a surprisingly faithful adaptation of the romantic classic – well, as faithful as an adaptation can be with heads intermittently being lopped off. The film spends far more time on the romantic back-and-forth-and-back-and-forth of the Bennets and their various suitors than on the horror of zombies, biting and decapitation. If anything, the zombie element brings much of the subt