Fido (R) David Kaye, Jan Skorzewski, Kevin Tyell, Andy Parkin, Lynn Pendleton |SwapaDVD.com

MPAA Rating: R
Content Advisory: Violence, Gore
Movie Release: 2006
DVD Release: 10/23/2007
Format: DVD - Color,Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV
Audio Tracks: English
Subtitles: English, Spanish
SwapaDVD Credits: 1
Number of Discs: 1
Run Time: 1 hrs 32 mins
Studio: Lionsgate
Members Wishing: 44
Genres: Comedy, Horror, Period Film, Horror Comedy

In a 1950s-era alternate universe where domesticated zombies play a functional role in society by delivering the milk, carrying the mail, and even helping out with household chores, one boy is about to find out just how big of a personal responsibility "pet" ownership truly is. When the Earth passed through a cloud of space dust and the dead arose from their graves to devour the flesh of the living, it first seemed that all hope for humanity was lost. Society's rapid slide into chaos, however, was soon halted when scientists at a company called ZomCom created a special collar that turned the rampaging animated corpses docile. Now, thanks to ZomCom, everything is under control -- or is it? Timmy Robinson (K'Sun Ray) isn't quite convinced. Quiet and withdrawn, the skeptical young boy spends so much time locked away in his room that he's almost become invisible around the household. His mother Helen (Carrie-Anne Moss) has recently purchased a zombie to help keep things tidy around the house though, and when the creature attempts to engage the curious youngster in a game of catch, a friendship is forged between boy and zombie that finds the amiable gut-muncher nicknamed Fido (Billy Connolly) practically becoming a part of the family. Things take a turn for the worse however, when Fido's collar malfunctions and Timmy's neighbors begin dying in droves. When ZomCom's top zombie control specialist Mr. Bottoms (Henry Czerny) moves in across the street from Timmy, the increasingly complicated situation threatens to place a serious stumbling block in the path of human-zombie relations. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

David Kaye - Narrator
Jan Skorzewski - Eating Zombie
Kevin Tyell - Zombie's Victim
Andy Parkin - Dr. Hrothgar Geiger
Lynn Pendleton - 1940's Mother

Michael G. (mgmirkin) from PORTLAND, OR wrote on 11/8/2009...

1 of 1 member(s) found this review helpful.

I don't know if a superlative exists that properly encapsulates this movie... For the ZomCom / Zomedy fan, it's transcendent. I laughed myself silly over this one. And that's saying something. It's a kinder, gentler zombie movie. These zombies are shamblers and [mostly] quite docile.

As other have said the setting is 1950's-esque, set after the Zombie Wars were spawned by (what else?) radiation from space that caused the dead to rise and feast on the living. Thank God for ZomCon, the mega-corporation that gave us such innovations as shooting zombies in the head and the zombie pacification collar (which removes a zombie's drive to eat your flesh, thus allowing them to fulfill useful roles in society such as butlers, movers, dog walkers, maids, etc.).

What could possibly go wrong in this Polly Perfect Paradise populated by pacified undead cannibals (and their human masters)?

One little malfunctioning collar can really ruin a good thing.

Truly, this gem is a keeper! If you like ZomComs / Zomedies, par excellence, this is the one to beat.

If you like this, you might also like Shaun of the Dead and Undead or Alive. But don't expect frenetic action like 28 Days Later, Automaton Transfusion, Evil or the remade Dawn of the Dead.

Jennifer J. (Avon-Girl-Jenn) from BALTIMORE, MD wrote on 10/19/2009...

This was a fun movie. It was a fun twist on the boy & his dog type story, except the dog (zombie-Fido) eats people. This movie had quite a Tim Burton feel to it. I really enjoyed this movie, and I am glad that I posted it today, and made another members' wish come true. I enjoyed it for a while, and found that it was time to share it with another. This is one film that is hard to forget once you've watched it as much as I have. I practically know this entire film by heart.

James B. (wandersoul73) from LANCASTER, TX wrote on 6/23/2009...

0 of 1 member(s) found this review helpful.

What fun, zombies as our pets. Nothing could possibly go wrong.

Vanessa V. (sevenspiders) wrote on 2/1/2009...

2 of 3 member(s) found this review helpful.

I have to admit my expectations were not high on this one, and I was pleasantly surprised. Fido is the most charming zombie movie I've ever seen, for those who find zombie movies charming.

Set in a parallel pastel 1950s America, the people of Willard use zombies as gardeners, butlers, cooks, nannies, you name it, thanks to ZomCom- the dream team company that keeps the zombies in check. Zombies are now essential and productive members of society- or are they? When ZomCom's technology goes on the fritz it puts little Timmy Robinson's beloved zombie Fido in serious trouble.

As a fantastic zombie Old-Yeller with a perfectly natural kid actor in K'Sun Ray, never to sweet or precocious, and Carrie-Anne Moss as his 50's housewife mom, Fido is fun, winning and gross all at once.

Leigh P. (Leigh) from DECATUR, GA wrote on 11/14/2007...

cute, ultra-50's take on zombies as friends, zombies as pets, and unfortunately, zombies as lovers. Even *I* draw the line somewhere.