Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith (2009): Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - The Classic Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem
The concept is simple, if bonkers. Take a classic piece of English Literature, the sort of gentle story telling thousands of students are made to read every year, and introduce a Zombie apocalypse.
As someone who loves the source book, and has read it many, many times, I should probably hate this. But it is very well done. Much of the content is lifted directly from the source, and the insertions are well done, matching stylistically the origin. The additions have been done by someone who clearly loves the original, but can see a branched, alternate reality which sits alongside the original and meets their desire for Zombie slashing fun.
It is also very funny.
The book is great. As is almost always the case the film isn’t as good. It isn’t awful, but it has to change the ending and, like other feature length adaptations (see the Aldous Huxley screenplay version of P&P) it suffers from compression. But the lovely Lilly James is excellent, and very lovely. She could kick my arse any time!