Fido

In an alternative nineteen-fifties America the zombie war has been won and the dead are kept in the house on collars. A family buys one for status, and the son gives him a name. The film uses the zombie not for horror but as an accessory of suburban order; the narrative is really about neighbours watching each other and a father who cannot reach his son. The colour and design are deliberately like an advertisement. Andrew Currie directed. Billy Connolly plays the zombie and barely speaks. It is a Canadian production. Who it's for: those who like genre mixtures and satire of the nineteen-fifties. Who it's not for: viewers expecting real horror; the tone stays close to comedy throughout.