Suburbia Meets Zombie In "Fido"

Anagram Pictures has released a sneak peak at its new zombie comedy "Fido," starring Carrie Anne Moss (the "Matrix" trilogy). Just two photos were posted to the studio's website, but it's enough to get genre fans talking.

The film is set in 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 carry the mail.

Using the tried-and-true "earth passed through a cloud of space dust creating zombies with a hunger for human flesh" scenario (my favorite of this was 1985's "Night of the Comet"), the film takes a different path when scientists create a collar that makes the zombies docile, even useful. Thanks to the success of the collar's patent, a company - ZomCon - is born. Under the control of the collars, zombies become gardeners, milkmen, servants, and even pets. ZomCon's execs would like everyone to believe that they have the world under control - but do they? (Cue dramatic music!) Timmy thinks it's a crap until his parents buy a zombie to help around the house and they become fast buds. That is, of course, until Fido's collar goes on the blink and neighbors start experiencing a few "issues" with Timmy's new pet.

Directed and co-written by Andrew Currie, the film also stars Billy Connolly ("Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events"), Tim Blake Nelson ("Syriana"), Henry Czerny ("The Exorcism of Emily Rose"), Dylan Baker ("Spider-Man 2") and K'Sun Ray (TV's "Fielder's Choice"). Currie's directorial debut was the critically acclaimed "Mile Zero." He also produced the hit comedy "The Delicate Art of Parking," one of Canada's top grossing English-language films of 2004.

Costing an estimated $8 million, there's no word yet on a release date - other than it's scheduled for sometime this year. --Shannon Nolley

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