Firstly I've been watching a tonne of films over the Christmas holiday period, some great and some not so great!
I'll start off with one of the good ones.
Fido is a film about a boy and his zombie. Imagine a Lassie film, with a zombie adopting the role of Lassie and the concept behind the last few scenes of Shaun of the Dead, thats basically it. If it wasn't for the zombie element it would be quite a heart warming family film, it still kinda is... until the zombies start killing and eating people!The film is set in the 50's after the great 'Zombie War', a time when the earth was plagued by a deadly zombie virus bringing back to life all of the dead. The zombies have since been domesticated thanks to a special flesh-inhibiting electrified collar and now work for the living as slaves (i.e; the end of Shaun of the Dead).
Fido is a zombie, a luxury must have household assistant to the Robinson family. He soon becomes a replacement father figure in the life of the young Timmy Robinson, his own father not interested at all in him, afraid of getting too close just in case he may one day have to kill him (if he or anyone else turns into a zombie).
What pleased me the most about this film is the almost unrecognizable Billy Connolly playing the lead role 'Fido'. He literally has no lines in the movie other than the occasional moan but expresses so much in his facial expressions (or lack of) and zombie shuffling, a brilliant and interesting role for the comedian.
