Zombie People Praise "Fido"

by JTshockley | June 5, 2007 at 07:40 pm
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NEW YORK CITY, June 5th - Anxious groups of eager fans lined up in lower Manhattan's Forbidden Planet today to get their faces made in the style of their favorite flesh eater. The event was coordinated in cooperation with the makers of the new Andrew Currie film "Fido" in an effort to promote the soon to be released zombie/comedy/horror film coming out June 15th. The movie stars Carrie-Ann Moss, Billy Connolly, Tim Blake Nelson, Dylan Baker, and Henry Czerny

http://www.fidothefilm.com/

 

SYNOPSIS
Welcome to Willard, a small town lost in the idyllic world of the 50's, where the sun shines every day, everybody knows their neighbor, and rotting zombies deliver the mail.

Years ago, the earth passed through a cloud of space dust, causing the dead to rise with a craving for human flesh. A war began, pitting the living against the dead. In the ensuing revolution, a corporation was born: ZomCon, who defeated the legions of undead, and domesticated the zombies, making them our industrial workers, our domestic servants - a productive part of society. ZomCon would like the people of Willard to believe they have everything under control… but do they?

Timmy Robinson doesn't think so. At eleven, Timmy already knows the world is phony baloney - Mom and Dad just won't admit it. Now ZomCon's head of security has moved in across the street, and Timmy's Mom refuses to be the only housewife on the block who doesn't have a zombie of her own. When she brings a zombie servant home, Timmy discovers a new best friend, and names him Fido. And even though Dad has a bad case of zombie-phobia, Timmy is determined to keep Fido, even if he does eat the odd person...

Sometimes, it takes a dead man to teach us all what it means to be alive.

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Brian A Kennedy
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at 05:47 on June 6th, 2007

Awesome article, Justin -- thanks for this.

Jordan Yerman
Jordan Yerman
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at 05:51 on June 6th, 2007

I don't care how many times they do it, when New Yorkers zombify themselves, it's pretty amazing to watch. A few years ago there was soem sort of Zombie event at Manhattan Mall, but I was too late to get any good photos.


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JTshockley

no prob:) I went to the screening also. It was really funny. Billy Connolly spoke before the film and did a Q&A after. He is hilarious! I still remember watching him on the sitcom "head of the class."

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