Black Comedy: Fido

Fido (2006)

After Timmy Robinson's zombie attacks a neighbor, he decides to hide the evidence so his new "best friend" isn't taken away. That's right, Timmy has a pet zombie, as do most of his neighbors. Some of them even have more than one! Set in the 1950s, the film plays on the prejudices of the "nuclear family," yet still shows how humans can have humane feelings towards beings that, if given the chance, will eat them like a Tiger in India!

This film was absolutely brilliant! Billy Connolly plays Fido, the Robinson family's zombie servant. The back story, which includes a summary of the "Zombie Wars" that lead up to the setting of the script, was extraordinary. Written and directed by Andrew Currie, the plot includes minuscule details right down to how zombies still roam the "wild zone," how current survivors have to watch out for the elderly (since radioactive space dust still resurrects the dead), and the fact that only 10% of the world's population get funerals. What happens to the other 90%? What else! They're turned into slave labor.

Being a huge George Romero fan, I was utterly astonished by the lengths Currie went to cover every single aspect of the status quo trying to maintain some sort of normalcy in a post apocalyptic world.

I highly recommend this movie to anyone who is a fan of zombie flicks and to anyone who will get the references to previous films of this genre.

you gotta see this shit