This low budget science fiction film follows a different kind of alien invasion, as illegal immigrants in Mexico jack into the US electronic infrastructure to perform manual labor remotely, running various construction robots and doing other meniable labor through the Interent. This film won multiple awards at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and has drawn rave reviews everywhere it has played along the festival circuit.
“One day you are in your boat and you get attacked by zombie fish.”
Back when I worked at American Express I had a colleague who was as fascinated with zombies as I was. Much like Derek he was deathly afraid of the very concept of zombies and as such we would have deep philosophical discussions on the nature of the undead.
When we first heard that George Romero was making a new zombie film for the first time in twenty years we were quite excited at the prospect. I took it upon myself to track down a copy of the script and printed a copy out for the two of us to read, and within its pages came about a concept that afforded us hours of time wasting discussion.
The film, at the time still untitled but soon to be known as Land of the Dead, had an interesting, if somewhat throwaway scene that was to lead off the third act of the film. With zombies encroaching upon the city, an unknowing loan man on patrol stops for a quick smoke break under a bridge. As he stands there something stirs in the darkness. Soon it seems as if the entire underside of the bridge is shifting and as the man looks up a horde of zombie rats drop down upon him and quickly devour him whole.
It has been awhile since I watched a zombie film so I thought it was time to throw another one in the DVD player and enjoy the ride. This time the zombies are attacking a small Australian town called Berkley after a meteor shower, as an extra added bonus it seems aliens are invading as well. With a plot like that how Undead could possibly be anything less then awesome is beyond me.
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