My Zombabe

My Zombabe (stylized as MY ZOMBabe) is a 2024 Philippine zombie romantic comedy film directed by Bobby Bonifacio Jr. and written by Juvy Galamiton and Bobby Bonifacio Jr. It stars Empoy Marquez and Kim Molina. The film is about a man who falls in love with a woman who is turning into a zombie.^[2]

The film starts with the protagonist Pong dreaming about a zombie woman (Yasmine) running in the woods. He calls for her repeatedly and when she is about to look at him, he suddenly wakes up. His brother Gohan immediately helps him calm down. Pong looks for Yasmine and Gohan jokingly tries to find Yasmine but he tells Pong that Yasmine has already been gone for a long time. Pong says that he still misses Yasmine and Gohan says that the reason he can't move on because he still has a photo of Yasmine under his pillow. Gohan tries to tear the picture of Yasmine but Pong stops him. Gohan discovers that there's a lot of pictures of Yasmine inside of Pong's pillow and tells him to stop daydreaming and that they are gonna be late in their morning routine. (A siren noise is played in the background, indicating their morning zumba).

They both run to catch up with the others while dancing their Zumba routine. While the people are dancing, the captain is telling them to watch the person next to them because if the person is infected they will forgot the steps of their zumba dance. One of the lead dancers, Ahmed, appears pale and begins to forget the steps. The Captain notes that Ahmed is the 'star dancer' and questions his confusion and sickly appearance. Marisol, who is the wife of Ahmed, gives an alibi that they are having their anniversary and didn't get enough sleep. Gusting also said that maybe Ahmed is tired doing their daily morning routine. The Captain hardly stepped on Ahmed's foot and asking if it's hurt or he didn't feel anything. The Captain wants Ahmed to shut his eyes and the Captain grab his head and aim it into his butt then he fart. Marisol asking her husband to tell what the smell of their Captain's fart and when Ahmed did not speaking anything the Captain aim his gun to Ahmed. Marisol wants Ahmed to sing their favorite song, while hugging him Marisol started to sing. Pong, Gohan and the other people are watching them while crying. When Ahmed is trying to sing he suddenly change and turned into zombie, causing to people to afraid and run. Gohan and Pong run to their house and listening on what happening outside then they hear two gunshots.

Pong and Gohan join the villagers on the beach for a prayer service. When the night gets deeper Pong is imagining Yasmine while playing guitar he imagined that they about to kiss when suddenly see the real Yasmine and she is already a zombie. They are both yelling and Pong pushes Yasmine. The Captain appears and asked Pong of what happened, Pong said that he was bitten by an ant. As the captain leaving Gohan came worrying if Pong was bitten by a zombie, Pong tells him to help him dig the sand and when they dug the sand they saw Yasmine unconsciously and they bring her to their house and that's the start of their struggle of how they keep Yasmine a secret to the captain.

• Empoy Marquez as Pong
• Kim Molina as Yasmine / Jasmine Alcantara
• Yanyan De Jesus as Gohan
• Anjo Yllana as Captain
• Andrea Del Rosario as Marisol
• Gary Lim as Gusting
• Andrew Muhlach
• Billy Villeta
• Liz Alindogan
• Shirley Fuentes
• Marnie Lapuz
• Mark Gabrador
• William Noyer

Development of My Zombabe began in 2018. Filming commenced in 2020 but was delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic.^[3]

My Zombabe was released theatrically on January 10, 2024, under Viva Films. The release was originally planned for January 8 but was pushed back by two days to allow more space from the extension of 2023 Metro Manila Film Festival. ^{[4] [5] [6]}

The movie received a score of 67/100 based on 10 reviews according to review aggregator website Kritikultura, indicating generally positive reviews.^[7]

Film critic Philbert Dy of Letterboxd gave My Zombabe 3 stars, writing "The movie as a whole is still pretty clunky, with scenes that go on for far too long, and a resolution that is just another example of the film's apparent disdain for narrative and logical consistency. And yet, it lands on something sweet and unusual; arriving at a conclusion that feels kind of unique in our cinema."^[8]

• My Zombabe at IMDb