Fido (2006)

Within the wide world of zombie movies, I've never come across one that stands out as much as this one. Fido is an interesting take on what would happen after the main story of most undead lore. What if zombies were enslaved and trained to work under mankind?

What Fido does that I enjoyed so much, is it almost satirizes the idea of the caged animal. Zombies pretty much have their own genre of anything these days, and because of that there are things that any horror fan would know right off the top of their head. Zombies eat people, are a great threat in numbers and can only be defeated by severe head trauma or decapitation. Since the movie is a new take on zombies, reducing the flesh-eaters into household pets (hence the name "Fido"), it certainly calls for some real zombie aggression, as they are being forced out of their fictional nature to do the jobs that we would all rather have someone else do. A zombie can be hired to do your gardening, deliver papers, or even be a milk man. A concept that Romero somewhat introduced in Day of the Dead.

Fido is set in a 1960's post-nuclear era in a world conquered by zombies with the exception of an isolated society. Years ago a meteor impacted Earth that carried a strange virus, causing humans to turn zombie upon first sign of death. Suffice to say, this is where the film gets a lot of its humor.

Among all of the dainty, brightly colored theme of a perfect life there is a paranoia that is very well portrayed by actor Dylan Baker, who plays a highly tense opposite to a rather open-minded family that puts up quite a resistance to this walled society's rules. Baker says what is probably my favorite line from the movie, "Old people can't be trusted."