November 1, 2007

Fido (2006)

I rented a couple movies from Netflix for our Halloween in, and so last night and again this morning, we watched Fido.

Synopsis:

Timmy Robinson's best friend in the whole wide world is a six-foot tall rotting zombie named Fido. But when FIDO eats the next-door neighbor, Mom and Dad hit the roof, and Timmy has to go to the ends of the earth to keep Fido a part of the family. A boy-and-his-dog movie for grown ups, "FIDO" will rip your heart out.

Fido is about all the living dead, the zombies, who after the great zombie war in the 1950's, are now either used as pets or servants like mailmen, milkmen, and gardeners, those types of jobs, and controlled through the use of a special collar created by Zombcom.
Some other zombies which could not be used, are in the areas known as the wild. Each town is fenced off from the wild, and basically each other.
People who screw up and set their zombies free by choice or accident, are sometimes punished by being dumped into the wild where the flesh eating zombies run free.

Timmy Robinson and his parents, finally get a servant zombie of their own even though Timmy's father Bill Robinson hates them because during the war, he was just a kid and had to kill his zombified grandfather.
He is still afraid of them.
But they finally get their own zombie and Timmy names him Fido.
During a game of catch, Fido's collar is accidentally shut off by the walker of a neighbor, Mrs. Henderson.
Then he eats her.
Then she becomes a zombie and bites someone else.
Timmy tries to stop it all, but can't, and pretty soon the town has a wild zombie problem again.

This is a hysterically funny movie. It's very dark humor though, not everyone will laugh.
It has a rating of 4 stars on Amazon, and some pretty decent reviews.
This isn't your typical zombie movie though, but if you are a fan of zombie flicks, it's worth checking out.
You can check out the trailer, and then rent it.
It's totally worth it.