We're all up to here in zombie movies these days, but this one's a little different. It's also a love story, and not a bad one: Boy meets girl, boy marries girl, boy eats everybody in the neighborhood. The standout here is Tracy Coogan as Denise, clearly the star of this ensemble film, who keeps this film centered and on course as wackiness breaks out all around her. (One of the adorable things about Tracy is how her native Irish accent sometimes breaks through the general American one she's assumed for her character.) Tracy has, I think, the best scene in the film: Toward the end, when her zombie husband Danny (Graham Sibley) has killed all the cops and their friends and is looking around the house for her, Denise is seen cleaning off her makeup and putting on a nice, red dress -- a clear reference to something that happened during an earlier scene in a restaurant. Denise seats herself on their bed, carefully arranges her skirt around her, and waits resignedly for her husband to come upstairs and kill her. And then something happens.
I understand there's a sequel in the works after more than ten years. Talk about your zombie movies.
I understand there's a sequel in the works after more than ten years. Talk about your zombie movies.