The Meat

You. Yes, you. Stop what you are doing right now and go find a copy of Fido. I mean it. Don’t even bother reading the rest of this review, we will all wait for you. Do not miss out.

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Many years ago, a cloud of radiation engulfed our planet. These space particles caused the reanimation of dead bodies - Zombies! Creatures with but one destructive need, to devour the flesh of the living and so, we were forced to defend our homeland. The Zombie Wars!. Mankind pitted against legions of the unstoppable undead. But, in our darkest hour - a savior - Zomcom! Zomcom disovered that if the brain was destroyed, the zombie was destroyed, never to reanimate. And so the Zombie wars - were won!

Zomcon built security systems like the perimeter fence that surrounds our towns in a wall of protective steel. But even within the fence, danger lurked. Lingering raditation ensured that anybody who died became a zombie! And then - a breakthrough! the domestication collar. With the collar in place, the zombies desire for human flesh has been contained. Making the zombie as gentle as a household pet.

Thanks to Zomcon we can all become productive members of society. Even after we die. Zomcon a better life though containment.

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Fido is set in a post apocalyptic society, 5 years after the Zombie wars in the 1950’s. Its a beautiful fenced community, nobody locks their door and everyone has a flower bed, a white picket fence and a domesticated Zombie slave. In this community young Timmy’s mother (played by Carrie-Anne-Moss) has just rented a new Zombie (played by Billy Connolly) from Zomcon. This zombie comes into a family with a distant father, a mother trying to hold the family together and Timmy, who is bullied at school and holds opinions of zombies which differ from the norm and changes all their lives.

The Bones

The cinematography in this movie is fantastic and the performance by Billy Connolly, who can only communicate through facial expressions, grunts and roars really brings this movie to life.

The Zombies are portrayed as your standard lurching type and although the makeup used makes the zombies look like people with skin conditions, little touches like torn mouths make a big difference.

If you are into dark comedy see this movie while you can, i highly recommend it.