If you want a regular zombie (ie "horror") flick. Don't watch this one. It's a comedy. And a great one at that, if you like deadpan humor.
You probably know the zombie tropes. People trying to survive an apocalypse with dead people returning to life and the number of regular live people dwindling - strength in numbers, shoot the zombies in the head, barricade yourself in a house with a steel door (and walls made out of paper), the zombies like to eat human flesh and/or brains, etc.
Sound familiar? OK, here be spoilers.
That's not what this movie is about. It pokes fun at those tropes. Some of the zombies don't want brains, they want coffee. Or red wine. Or power tools. And so on. Yeah, it does kill the immersion. At least for those who are actually capable of believing that dead people would come back to life, that is.
But as a deadpan comedy poking fun at the stereotypes in zombie movie making, it is a masterpiece.
You probably know the zombie tropes. People trying to survive an apocalypse with dead people returning to life and the number of regular live people dwindling - strength in numbers, shoot the zombies in the head, barricade yourself in a house with a steel door (and walls made out of paper), the zombies like to eat human flesh and/or brains, etc.
Sound familiar? OK, here be spoilers.
That's not what this movie is about. It pokes fun at those tropes. Some of the zombies don't want brains, they want coffee. Or red wine. Or power tools. And so on. Yeah, it does kill the immersion. At least for those who are actually capable of believing that dead people would come back to life, that is.
But as a deadpan comedy poking fun at the stereotypes in zombie movie making, it is a masterpiece.