The Zombie Love Story AI trend is 25 seconds of fiction in two halves. In a derelict grey room a survivor cries, aims a pistol at the zombie he loves, lowers it and opens his arms. At about 10 seconds a hard cut puts the same two people in a golden wheat field at sunset, laughing, hugging and running. You supply the faces with two photos. This guide goes from choosing your pair to posting, in order. When your video is back, the companion article, checking your Zombie Love Story result, goes through it second by second.
Make your own zombie love story
Add one photo for the survivor and one for the partner, review your credit quote and make the 25-second landscape clip with the original sound.
What the template gives you
The whole reel is the template: one setting after another, the same cuts and camera moves, and the same sound. The room is cold blue-grey and the field is warm gold, and the change between them is the match cut at about 10 seconds, where a gentle instrumental begins. Only the two faces are yours.
The standoff at about two seconds, before the cut. This is the reference reel by @rmbks96, not an Oakgen output.
The hug in the field has several names around the web: "zombie hug", "zombie couple", "zombie love story". The source page lists which public names we saw and what we could not confirm.
Step 1: Choose and ask your pair
Pick two people who agreed to be in the video. Tell them what will happen to their face: one of them will have pale grey skin, clouded white eyes and cuts on the forehead for the first ten seconds, and the first scene is a tearful standoff with a prop pistol that is lowered, never fired. They do not have to be a couple; who to cast and how to ask them goes through partners, friends and what to say. Never use a celebrity, a public figure or anyone who has not said yes.
Step 2: Cast the two roles
The survivor does the emotional acting: tears, a two-handed aim, a lowered pistol, open arms with the eyes closed, then laughing, a hug, lying in the grass and sitting at sunset. The partner snarls and roars in close-up, lunges, then is healthy and smiling in the field. Give each person the role that suits them, then put the survivor's photo in the first slot and the partner's photo in the second. Casting the survivor and the zombie explains what each photo controls.
Step 3: Pick the two photos
- One person in each photo, nobody else in the frame.
- Face sharp and turned to the camera, forehead and hair visible, no sunglasses, no heavy filter.
- A calm or gently smiling expression. The zombie snarl and the crying come from the template, so a photo that is already contorted fights it.
- Two photos of similar quality, so neither face is the blurrier one.
- Any outfit is fine. The black jacket, tie, cardigan, zombie makeup, white sundress and cream sweater are template costume.
Step 4: Read the quote and generate
Choose the output resolution. The quote covers the whole video, the preparation of both photos and the scene references, and the studio shows it before anything starts. There is no prompt to write; what a zombie love story prompt has to decide explains why the template handles that for you. The button stays off until both photos are added.
Step 5: Check the result
Watch once with sound and once without. With sound: the snarl at about 4.5 seconds, the roar at about 9 seconds, and the instrumental starting right at the cut. Without sound: the pistol is only lowered, never fired, the partner is a zombie only before the cut, and neither face changes across it. The result check has the whole list with timestamps, and the hug and the match cut shows what the hug should look like.
Step 6: Post it as labelled fiction
The clip is landscape 16:9 and 25 seconds long. On vertical apps a centre crop keeps the two people for most of the field but loses the wide shots at the end, so consider letterboxing it on a blurred background. Keep the sound on: the cut from room tone to music is half the effect, and a muted autoplay loses it.
- Say the video is AI-made and fictional, and credit @rmbks96 for the original reel.
- Tell both people before you post.
- A clip with a prop pistol can be treated differently on different platforms. Check the rules of the app you post on; we have not verified them.
- The music is the reel's own, which we could not identify, so we cannot say how a platform will treat it.
Where the clip comes from
The reel was posted on 29 September 2026 by @rmbks96 and had 204,658 likes when we fetched it on 23 October 2026. That is a count of likes, not views, and we make no claim about who started the format or how big it is. Other public pages disagree about its origin.
Looking for another two-person trend made from photos? How to make What's the Move casts an asker and an answerer at an outdoor funeral, and how to make Beer Spill Kick casts three people in a football slapstick.
