Ridiculous Zombie Movie

There is beauty in ridiculousness such as this. I can’t wait to find / download / buy / watch this movie.

Behold Stacy: Attack of the Schoolgirl Zombies

The Blair-zombie project

The Zombie Diaries (2006)

The Zombie Diaries (2006): 3.5/5

It’s what the title says it is- a bunch of (video) diaries that chronicle a “virus” (zombie!) outbreak . Although the z-word is never mentioned in the film, the sub genre is really quite obvious while the audience has to accept that whatever happens, the person holding the camcorder will never ever drop it. It’s ‘Cloverfield’ set in London without the monster and ‘The Blair Witch Project’ with zombies. Anyway, there’s nothing really special about the film’s plot (what plot?) but it certainly gets interesting knowing that all 3 diaries start to cross over.

The ending becomes a rather pleasant surprise though; it has little to do with zombies and more to do with people- and that’s all I’ll give away. It’s not the best zombie movie I’ve seen but it’s very effective and consistent. I just wish they’d nix the film scoring as it totally ruined the realism. Realism- honestly, that’s the key word all throughout this film! There’s no storyline or main characters or attempts to cure the virus etc etc.- we simply watch a group of people react to this situation. And the result? Pure entertainment. Mwahaha

Good zombie

Fido (2006)

Fido (2006): 5/5

A zombie war has broken out in the early 50’s but thanks to the good people at Zomcon, scientific advances allow zombies to become useful members of society. It’s a completely different take on zombie humour when compared with Shaun of the Dead, but definitely puts it at par with the Simon Pegg starrrer. Fido is a dark comedy with an incredibly original story (though at times it becomes reminiscent of Edward Scissorhands and the Lassie movies meshed with a Pleasantville set). It’s one of those movies that actually has depth in character and if it isn’t obvious enough, Fido also touches on the current state of society and (American) people’s obsessions such as materialism, violence, slavery, etc. Great performances by Carrie-Ann Moss and convincing yet appropriate over-acted performance by that kid who plays Timmy Robinson (“I knew you wouldn’t eat me, boy!”).

If you like zombies or don’t like zombies; if you’re bored or even too busy, go see this movie!