Tagline: You might not remember them, but they remember you!
Genre: Zombie-Flick
Starring: A whole bunch of actors and actresses that you used to watch
Target Audience: Probably a cult somewhere

Synopsis: In an attempt to circumvent the hostility to Hollywood re-makes a crazed director (Benicio del toro) uses the Black Arts to raise dead actors from beloved sit-coms of times gone by to make proper remakes. Of course, the zombies are okay for a while but then they rebel in their quest to feast on the brains of the living.

Note: Throughout production of this film nobody notices that the reanimated actors are all as old as they were when they were famous depsite living for decades afterwards and dying as penniless hobos/junkies.

Dubious CGI Extravaganza: Instead of hiring actors/doubles to actually play these parts the Director (possibly after a big night out) decides to use old footage of the actors and splice them into the scenes. This has thee added bonus of making this a nightmare from a legal standpoint and needing a drastic re-writing of scripts to fit in original dialogue but it does allow for the version for each country’s release to have local actors also spliced in (Nudge from ‘Hey Dad’ for instance). Of course this increases local interest but compounds the problems stated above.

Quite how these CGI actors from the past turn into ravening zombies is frankly up to brilliant direction and unparalleled suspension of disbelief.

Reviews: David Stratton on ‘At The Movies’ said “Weep for the future, Margaret. Weep for us all.”

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