My zombie radar is pretty sharp, but someone “Fido” slipped past my sensors two years ago. The uber-subversive comedy stars Billy Connolly as Fido, a zombie who works as an indentured servant for the Robinsons.
The brief “making of” featurette doesn’t fill in many blanks regarding the true meaning behind the film. Try this interview from Rotten Tomatoes for a better look inside the world of “Fido.”
Director Andrew Currie’s impulses lean to the left - and more power to him for doing so with such a creative spin. Sadly, film critic John Anderson of Newsday used the film as his own ideological cudgel:
But the real story is about Mom and her rotting house servant: In a world where conformity is currency, Mom would prefer a sensitive corpse to a live conservative. Therein lies a lesson for us all.Biases, like zombies, never die.
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