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Join THE FABULOUS SEBASTIAN and MISTER J as they take a personal look at the myriad delights of your local DVD library… this week we explore DVD OF THE DEAD.
People say that death and taxes are the only two things you can rely on, but at DVDP, we think crappy zombie films are number 3. Zombies are everywhere in popular culture – SBS had a zombie festival, Australia has it’s annual zombie marches, zombies have returned to the small screen in Charlie Brooker’s Dead Set, and we’ve even seen zombies in the white house. We however, like to trawl for zombies in their regular hiding place ... the video store.
 DAY OF THE DEAD (2008)
The latest remake of a George A. Romero zombie film is not really a remake at all. The original’s scenario, plus all of its claustrophobia, tension, and despair are replaced by the now standard storyline of people on the run, this time including trigger happy soldiers Mena Suvari and Ving Rhames. The only twist here is the zombies aren’t just fast and manic, but they can also climb walls and run across the ceiling. I guess they were bitten by a radioactive spider.
 FIDO (2006)
In a picture perfect fifties-style world, zombies wear control collars and exist as semi-useful members of society. When Dylan Baker (Happiness) brings home Fido (Billy Connolly), he doesn’t expect his wife, Carrie Ann Moss (Matrix) and son to grow quite so fond of him. It’s a quirky, intriguing, and rather charming story of a boy and his zombie.
 OTTO; or UP WITH DEAD PEOPLE (2008)
Canadian writer/director Bruce LaBruce tries to do for the disaffected, teenage, German zombies of today, what Heathers did for the disaffected, teenage, American girls of the eighties. Except the movie Otto is like the character Otto – lifeless and uninteresting, despite the deadpan narration and explicit gay sex.
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