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I have a new favorite zombie movie. It’s called “Fido”. No, that’s not a mistype. Think an old-fashioned boy and his dog movie but the dog isn’t exactly a dog. It’s a zombie. The little boy’s name in the movie is Timmy, so at one point in the movie his mother, played by Carrie-Anne Moss of Matrix fame, says to the zombie, the proverbial, is Timmy in trouble, speech? She doesn’t actually say, “Is Timmy down the well, Lassie,” but it’s darn close. It was way too much fun.
It is set in circa 1950s America, if some sort of radioactive space cloud thing hit the earth and caused the dead to rise. The way civilization copes with zombies is both funny and frightening, but not in the typical horror movie way. It’s more summed up with Timmy’s question to his teacher, “Are zombies dead or alive?” Well, hmm, that’s a very interesting question, Timmy, and the movie does sort of answer it, eventually. Oh, and the next door neighbor and his zombie, well, it’s Robot Chicken Wrong. And if you don’t know what I mean by that phrase, I’m not sure I can explain it, let’s just say, it’s wrong-wrong-wrongity-wrong. But in a fun way.