Zombie Love Story Prompt

The prompt behind the zombie love story

The AI zombie trend follows one story: the world has ended, someone you love has turned into a zombie, the survivor raises a gun but cannot shoot, the zombie walks closer and hugs them, and many versions cut to a warm memory of the two of them. Most clips are widescreen and run about 12 to 24 seconds.

Getting that from a prompt is harder than it looks. The two faces swap, the zombie stops looking like the person, the hug never happens, or the scene turns into horror. The prompts below are written to avoid that. Copy them into an image-to-video tool such as Dreamina, Kling or Veo, and change the parts in capitals.

Full AI zombie trend prompt (gun, hug, memory)

Use the two reference images. PERSON 1 is the person in image 1 and is
the survivor. PERSON 2 is the person in image 2 and is the zombie.
Keep both faces exactly as in their photos for the whole video.

A ruined, grey, abandoned city after the end of the world: broken
windows, dust in the air, cold muted light. PERSON 1 stands alone and
raises a gun. PERSON 2 appears down the street as a zombie: pale
grey-green skin, cloudy eyes, torn dusty clothes, but clearly the same
face as in image 2. PERSON 1 recognises PERSON 2, their hands shake,
and they cannot shoot. They slowly lower the gun. PERSON 2 walks closer
and wraps their arms around PERSON 1 in a long, tender hug.

Then cut to a warm memory: the same two people, in the same embrace,
in a sunny green field, both looking normal and happy, golden light.

Bittersweet and cinematic, not horror. No blood, no wounds, no gore.
Slow camera. Widescreen 16:9. About 12 to 15 seconds.

If your tool can only do one scene at a time, stop the prompt after the hug, then make the memory as a second clip (the last paragraph on its own, with the same two photos) and join them in CapCut.

Short prompt: just the turn and the hug

Use the two reference images: PERSON 1 from image 1, PERSON 2 from
image 2. Keep both faces the same throughout. On a foggy, empty city
street at dusk, PERSON 2 slowly turns into a zombie: pale grey-green
skin, cloudy eyes, worn clothes, the same face. PERSON 1 does not run.
They look at each other and share a long, tender hug. Emotional and
quiet, not scary. No blood, no gore. Widescreen 16:9, about 10 seconds.

Tips for keeping the faces and the roles

• Lock the roles in the first lines. Say which image is the survivor and which is the zombie, then use those names every time. "They" is where models swap people.
• Use one clear photo per person. Front-facing, well lit, in focus, no sunglasses or heavy filters. Two upper-body shots of a similar size work best.
• Change the skin, not the face. Put the zombie look on skin colour, eyes and clothes, and say "the same face as in image 2".
• Write the beats in order. Setting, gun, hesitation, hug, memory. Models follow a sequence better than a mood list.
• Say what to avoid. "No blood, no wounds, no gore" keeps it a love story.
• Keep the memory in the same pose. Repeating the embrace in a sunny place makes the cut feel like a memory rather than a new scene.
• Change one thing at a time. If a face drifts, try a better photo before rewriting the prompt.
• Sound. There is no single trend song; keep the audio your tool makes or add a slow, emotional sound in the editor.

Or skip the prompt: the gun-and-memory version is built in

On this site the whole trend story is built in as the Zombie Story effect, so there is no prompt to write and no roles to lock. It is the same story as the full prompt above, made in one continuous widescreen clip of about 12 seconds:

• The standoff. A grey, ruined city. The survivor raises a handgun with shaking hands as the zombie walks out of the haze: ashen grey skin, dark veins, torn clothes, the same face.
• The choice. A close-up, tears. The survivor can't pull the trigger and drops the gun; the zombie hugs instead of attacking, and they hug back.
• The memory. A hard cut to the two of them as healthy, happy people, laughing and hugging in a golden wheat field at sunset.
• The sound. An emotional score with piano, strings and wind, no speech. No shot is fired, no blood, no gore.

The roles are locked by the photos, not by wording:

1. Photo 1 is the survivor who holds the gun; Photo 2 is the one who turns. With one photo of both, the person on the left holds the gun and the person on the right turns.
2. Keep Zombie Story selected in the studio above. It is already widescreen 16:9, 12 seconds and 720p; the options let you pick 5 to 15 seconds, vertical 9:16 or square 1:1, and 480p.
3. Make it and download the MP4 a few minutes later.

The trade-off, plainly: the scene and the memory are the effect's own. You can't write a custom scene, swap the wheat field for another place or add text or a voice, and it is made for two people, not pets. If you want your own memory photo or song, add them after the clip in CapCut or the TikTok editor. Every new account gets its first zombie video free during launch.

Use photos with permission

Whichever tool you use, only use photos of people who agreed to be in the video.

More on the same scene: the zombie love story, the AI zombie hug, or the zombie apocalypse AI video.