Fido (2006)

Regisseur:

Andrew Currie

Drehbuchautoren:

Robert Chomiak (written by) &
Andrew Currie (written by) ...

Premierendatum:

16. März 2007 (Canada)

Genre:

Komödie | Drama | Horror | Romanze

Werbezeile:

Laugh your head off.

Plot:

Timmy Robinson's best friend in the whole wide world is a six-foot tall rotting zombie named Fido. But when FIDO eats the next-door neighbor...

Plot Keywords:

Decapitation | Next Door Neighbor | Child Murder | Dead Body | Creature

Filmpreise:

13 wins & 12 nominations

Nutzerkommentare:

I wish I didn't have to wait for this to come out in the US...

Besetzung

David Kaye	...	Narrator (voice)
Jan Skorzewski	...	Eating Zombie
Kevin Tyell	...	Zombie's Victim
Andy Parkin	...	Dr. Hrothgar Geiger
Lynn Pendleton	...	1940's Mother
Gary Slater	...	Father Zombie
Taylor Petri	...	Little Girl
Glenn Richards	...	Vicious Zombie
Raphael Kepinski	...	Collar Light Zombie
Carl-James Kalbfleisch	...	Child Zombie
Tiffany Lyndall-Knight	...	Miss Mills
K'Sun Ray	...	Timmy Robinson
Alexia Fast	...	Cindy Bottoms
Henry Czerny	...	Mr. Bottoms
Aaron Brown	...	Roy Fraser

Alternativ:

Fido - Gute Tote sind schwer zu finden (Deutschland) (DVD title) [de]

MPAA:

Rated R for zombie-related violence.

Länge:

91 Min

Produktionsland:

Canada

Sprache:

Englisch

Farbe:

Schwarzweiss (one scene) | Farbe

Seitenverhältnis:

2.35 : 1

Tonverfahren:

Dolby Digital

Altersfreigabe:

Singapore:NC-16 | Australia:MA | Portugal:M/16 | USA:PG-13 (original rating) | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | France:U | Canada:14A (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba/Ontario) | Finland:K-13 | USA:R (re-rating) | Japan:PG-12 | Brazil:12

Drehorte:

British Columbia, Canada

Firma:

Lions Gate Films

Dies und das:

'Carrie-Anne Moss 's mother, Barbara Moss, has a few seconds on screen playing Carrie-Anne Moss' character, Helen Robinson's mom.

Pannen:

Abfolgefehler: The bullies in the park were using a BB rifle but when they're apprehended they were using a much more harmful 22 caliber rifle.

Dialogzitate:

Cindy Bottoms: Hi Timmy. Surprised?
Timmy Robinson: Sort of.
Cindy Bottoms: It's okay. It's sort of cool in a way. And he's a lot nicer.
Timmy Robinson: Do you wanna play catch?
Cindy Bottoms: Sure.
Timmy Robinson: Does, uh, your zombie wanna play? What do you call him anyways?
Cindy Bottoms: I don't know. Right now I'm just calling him 'Daddy.'
Timmy Robinson: Sure, okay. Come on.
Cindy Bottoms: Come on, Daddy.

Bezüge zu anderen Titeln:

Enthält ausschnittsweise Night of the Living (1997)

Soundtrack:

Put a Lid on it

I wish I didn't have to wait for this to come out in the US...

I suppose the ultimate curse of attending the Toronto Film Festival is your release date time table get messed up. Quite frankly, I'm just happy Fido got picked up for US distribution. In any case...

Ever seen Shaun of the Dead? Good. How about Lassie? Able to reconcile the two? Well, if you can your name might be Andrew Currie, Canadian helmer of the first ever family themed zombie comedy, or zomedy. (Seriously, that's what the press book in Toronto called it.) Though not as violent, dry, or British as Shaun of the Dead, Fido remains true to its roots: a devotion to old 50s black and white television including both Lassie and the infamous sci-fi pulp that was being pumped out during the period.

Fido's talented headliners (Carrie Anne Moss, Billy Connelly, Dylan Baker, and Tim Blake Nelson) stand as a testament to the brilliance of the script. The film explores all the implications of its premise: a world where zombies have been converted to servants because of the sheer number of them due to a strange accident. What would you use your new undead servant for? A butler? Manual labor? A pet? Unspeakable acts? Fido tackles all these possibilities in a sweet and surprisingly classy way, with much thanks to the work of Connelly (as one of said zombies) and young TV actor K'Sun Ray, who seems at times to be a better young Elijah Wood than the young Elijah Wood was.

If you're expecting another Shaun of the Dead, don't waste your time. There's not nearly enough gore and pokes at the genre to satisfy you and you'll just leave the theater bitter and depressed. But if you're willing to take a look at what happens to Shaun of the Dead when it jumps across the lake, you're in for a treat. Think of Fido as the sensitive, more often beaten up little brother to Shaun of the Dead's rebellious loser, and you're starting to get the drift. If you like (or at least tolerate) zombies, small children, and loads of deadpan satire, Fido's the film for you. If that's not the case....well, you know the drill. Just hit 'em square between the eyes.