Fido

Director: Andrew Currie Andrew Currie

Overview

In a 1950s-era alternate universe where domesticated zombies play a functional role in society by delivering the milk, carrying the mail, and even helping out with household chores, one boy is about to find out just how big of a personal responsibility "pet" ownership truly is. When the Earth passed through a cloud of space dust and the dead arose from their graves to devour the flesh of the living, it first seemed that all hope for humanity was lost. Society's rapid slide into chaos, however, was soon halted when scientists at a company called ZomCom created a special collar that turned the rampaging animated corpses docile. Now, thanks to ZomCom, everything is under control -- or is it? Timmy Robinson (K'Sun Ray) isn't quite convinced. Quiet and withdrawn, the skeptical young boy spends so much time locked away in his room that he's almost become invisible around the household. His mother Helen (Carrie-Anne Moss) has recently purchased a zombie to help keep things tidy around the house though, and when the creature attempts to engage the curious youngster in a game of catch, a friendship is forged between boy and zombie that finds the amiable gut-muncher nicknamed Fido (Billy Connolly) practically becoming a part of the family. Things take a turn for the worse however, when Fido's collar malfunctions and Timmy's neighbors begin dying in droves. When ZomCom's top zombie control specialist Mr. Bottoms (Henry Czerny) moves in across the street from Timmy, the increasingly complicated situation threatens to place a serious stumbling block in the path of human-zombie relations.

Product Details

Release Date:	10/23/2007
UPC:	0031398218807
Original Release:	2006
Rating:	R
Source:	LIONSGATE - 600000-AEC LGE
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:32:00
Sales rank:	33,972

Special Features

The making of Fido; Composer select scene audio commentary track; ZomCom "Zombie Me" Creator - exclusive DVD-ROM feature!; Audio commentary with director Andrew Currie, producer Mary Anne Waterhouse, and actress Carrie-Anne Moss; Deleted scenes with optional director audio commentary; Storyboard, makeup and concept art galleries; Theatrical trailer; 16x9 widescreen; 5.1 Dolby Digital audio; English and Spanish subtitles

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Carrie-Anne Moss	Actor,Actor
Billy Connolly	Actor
Dylan Baker	Actor
K'Sun Ray	Actor
Henry Czerny	Actor
Tim Blake Nelson	Actor
Alexia Fast	Actor
Jennifer Clement	Actor
Sonja Bennett	Actor
Aaron Brown	Actor
Brandon Olds	Actor
Mary Black	Actor
Bernard Cuffling	Actor
Tiffany Lyndall-Knight	Actor
Adam Scorgie	Actor
Andy Parkin	Actor
Michael P. Northey	Actor
John B. Lowe	Actor
Raymond E. Bailey	Actor
Jan Skorzewski	Actor
Kevin Tyell	Actor
Lynn Pendleton	Actor
Gary Slater	Actor
Taylor Petri	Actor
Glenn Richards	Actor
Raphael Kepinski	Actor
Carl-James Kalbfleisch	Actor
Mike Azevedo	Actor
Glen Power	Actor
Doug Abrahams	Commanding Officer
Michael Irwin	Actor
Liam Crocker	Actor
Rob La Belle	Frank Murphy
Lauren Oleksewich	Actor
Harold Courchene	Actor
Geoff Adams	Actor
Lauro Chartrand	Bezerk Zombie,Actor
Doug Abrams	Actor
Jacob Rupp	Actor
Clint Carlton	Actor
Andrew Hedge	Actor
Chad Sayn	Actor
Rick Pearce	Actor
David Kaye	Voices
Don MacDonald	Composer
Kesun Loder	Timmy Robinson

Technical Credits

Andrew Currie

Robert Chomiak

Dennis Heaton

Andrew Currie	Director,Screenwriter
Robert Chomiak	Screenwriter
Dennis Heaton	Screenwriter
Heidi Levitt	Casting,Producer
Lynne Carrow	Casting
Mary Anne Waterhouse	Producer
Blake Corbet	Producer
Peter Block	Executive Producer
Patrick Cassavetti	Executive Producer
Jason Constantine	Executive Producer
Shelley Gillen	Executive Producer
Daniel Iron	Executive Producer
Trent Carlson	Producer
Kevin Eastwood	Producer
Greg Behrens	Special Effects
Anke Bakker	Sound Effects
Jay Cheetham	Sound Effects
Jacqueline Cristianini	Sound Effects
Caroline Field	Stunts
Clint Carlton	Stunts
Melissa Stubbs	Stunts
Devan Kraushar	Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

The vacant stares, the jerky movements, the easily escapable speed of their pursuit -- zombies have always carried with them an element of comedy, intentional or otherwise. But Andrew Currie's Fido does something a little different than the majority of the "zom coms" out there, placing his zombies in the 1950s -- the archetypal 1950s, the kind you remember from those "duck and cover" instructional films. The portrait-like perfection of the family unit was one of the hallmarks of that decade, and here, zombies complete that portrait -- as domesticated "pets," who mow the lawn and carry in the groceries. And keeping a beloved family member on in zombie form is better than no form at all, right? There are a lot of fun satirical opportunities in this cheery, pastel-colored world that gets spattered in blood from time to time, and Currie doesn't miss out on them. Billy Connolly is virtually unrecognizable as the titular zombie with a dog's name; his closest cinematic forebear may be Peter Boyle's monster from Young Frankenstein. Connolly uses a combination of sad eyes, inquisitive grunts, and gruff signs of loyalty, not only to become probably the most sympathetic zombie in film history, but also to demonstrate why society has kept the undead around, rather than just unleashing them all into the "wild zone," where they run rampant. There's even a government agency -- called ZomCom, in a spoof of the film's genre -- assigned to regulate them, an intentional skewering of Bush-era tactics for policing the element of "other" in American society. Good performances from Dylan Baker, Carrie-Anne Moss, and Tim Blake Nelson keep this whimsical alternate universe moving forward joyously. Fido is a lot of fun.