Zombie Love Story trend

It is a 25-second landscape AI clip in two halves. In a derelict room a young man cries, aims a pistol at his zombie partner, slowly lowers it and opens his arms as she snarls and lunges. A hard match cut then shows the two of them as a healthy couple in a golden wheat field at sunset: she catches him in a hug, they tumble into the grass, run hand in hand and sit watching the sun go down. Oakgen's template puts your faces and hair on both roles and keeps the zombie look, the outfits, the two settings, the cut and the sound.

Several AI template and video sites call this format the Zombie Love Story or the zombie couple or zombie hug AI trend. They are mostly product pages, so this shows how the format is named, not how big it is, and their accounts of where it started disagree. Zombie Love Story is the name Oakgen uses.

From an Instagram reel by @rmbks96, posted on 29 September 2026, whose caption explains how to make it in a third-party app. We credit the creator and do not promote that app. The two people in it are real-looking performers; Oakgen's template never keeps them, so both photos are required.

Yes. The survivor and the partner each need a photo, so none of the reference people appear in your video. One photo per role is enough: the partner's photo is used for both the zombie in the room and the healthy woman in the field.

The survivor is the young man who cries, aims the pistol, lowers it and opens his arms, and who is the man in the field. The partner is the woman who is a zombie in the room and a healthy, smiling woman in a white sundress in the field.

The looks are part of the trend. Whatever you wear in your photos, the survivor gets the black bomber jacket, white shirt and tie in the room and a cream sweater in the field, and the partner gets the zombie makeup, black cardigan and pink bow in the room and a white sundress in the field. Your faces and your hair come from your photos.

The survivor holds a pistol in a tearful, fictional standoff, then lowers it and opens his arms. The template asks for no gunshot, muzzle flash, blood, bite, wound or injury, and the clip cuts to the field before the zombie reaches him. The pistol never appears in the field. The zombie look and the weapon are instructions to the model, so check your result before sharing.

No. There is no dialogue or lyrics, only room tone, breathing, a zombie snarl and a roar, then a gentle acoustic-guitar-and-strings instrumental from the cut to the field. Nobody lip-syncs. We could not identify the music, so we do not name it; your video keeps the reel's original soundtrack.

Your own, or photos of people who agreed to be in the video. Do not upload photos of celebrities, public figures or anyone who has not consented, and label AI videos clearly when you share them.

25 seconds in landscape 16:9, from the first close-up of the survivor to the last wide silhouette shot in the field.

No. It is the credited AI reel used as the reference, not an Oakgen result. Review faces, hands, the zombie look and the cut before sharing.

5,294 credits per 720p video. The quote includes both photo preparations, seven scene references and the complete video. Check it before generating.