wayzim
28-Nov-2009, 05:34 PM
Accidentally caught this oddball yet fun flick a few days ago.
Fido (2007 ) is about an idyllic town named Willard which was one of several communities to survive a zombie uprising in the 1950's. This fenced in town thrives with technology which controls the cannibal instincts of the walking dead through special collars.
The rest of the movie concerns a boy named Timmy whose family, Mom( Carrie-Anne Moss from The Matrix films ) and Dad (Dylan Baker )obtains a zombie servant which the son names Fido (Billy Connolly )
When a malfunction causes Fido to attack a neighbor, the mishap creates a series of further misunderstandings and incidents in Willard to undermine the perfect society.
This is a fun movie, a mix up of the original NOTLD, Leave It To Beaver & Lassie, with Connolly ( Last seen in the newest X-File movie. )as a perfect parody of Bud(Day of The Dead )
While the odd connection with Romero's Dead to the 50's ( as in the Stubbs Zombie video game and a few other films and TV shows ) almost throws devotees out of the movie, and the lack of extreme gore might turn off others, still Fido manages to infect the rest of us with it's playful take on several genres.
And of course there's the odd neighbor, Mr. Theopolis (Tim Blake Nelson ) whose relationship with his zombie, Tammy, ("No teeth, Tammy! ) seems slyly beyond any conventional domestic arrangement.
Wayne Z
School Children: [singing] In the brain and not the chest. Head shots are the very best
Fido (2007)
Fido (2007 ) is about an idyllic town named Willard which was one of several communities to survive a zombie uprising in the 1950's. This fenced in town thrives with technology which controls the cannibal instincts of the walking dead through special collars.
The rest of the movie concerns a boy named Timmy whose family, Mom( Carrie-Anne Moss from The Matrix films ) and Dad (Dylan Baker )obtains a zombie servant which the son names Fido (Billy Connolly )
When a malfunction causes Fido to attack a neighbor, the mishap creates a series of further misunderstandings and incidents in Willard to undermine the perfect society.
This is a fun movie, a mix up of the original NOTLD, Leave It To Beaver & Lassie, with Connolly ( Last seen in the newest X-File movie. )as a perfect parody of Bud(Day of The Dead )
While the odd connection with Romero's Dead to the 50's ( as in the Stubbs Zombie video game and a few other films and TV shows ) almost throws devotees out of the movie, and the lack of extreme gore might turn off others, still Fido manages to infect the rest of us with it's playful take on several genres.
And of course there's the odd neighbor, Mr. Theopolis (Tim Blake Nelson ) whose relationship with his zombie, Tammy, ("No teeth, Tammy! ) seems slyly beyond any conventional domestic arrangement.
Wayne Z
School Children: [singing] In the brain and not the chest. Head shots are the very best
Fido (2007)