Just the right amount of cannibalistic dismemberment perfectly peppers a recently released comedy horror film of blood-choked zombies.

Written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick and directed by first-timer Ruben Fleischereich, “Zombieland” is a dark comedy set in a catastrophic world of mindless zombies bent on making meals out of stars Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin.

“Zombieland” opens with Jesse Eisenberg’s Cliff Notes narration of “how the world came to end as we know it” and the rules he lives by to survive these harrowing times.

These rul...