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HOH First Look: FIDO
By Dave Dreher
Feb 24, 2006, 07:39

I love the twist on the zombie genre that this film offers.  While clicking around looking at future Lionsgate projects I stumbled across information on several sites for a film called FIDO.  I was able to find an official site and find out what the film is all about and although it sounds a little goofy, I’m intrigued.  Read on and see what you think:

Welcome to Willard, a small town lost in the idyllic world of the 50's, where the sun shines every day, everybody knows their neighbour, and rotting zombies carry the mail.

Years ago, the earth passed through a cloud of space dust, causing the dead to rise with an insatiable hunger for human flesh. Terror spread across the land, until a collar was invented that made the zombies docile, even useful. A company was born: ZomCon. Thanks to their patented domestication collar, zombies became gardeners, milkmen, servants, and even pets. ZomCon would like everyone to believe that they have the world under control - but do they?

Timmy Robinson doesn't think so. He thinks the world is "phony-baloney". An awkward loner, Timmy spends so much time in his room even his own parents don't notice him. So when Mom buys a zombie to help around the house, Timmy is surprised, and even curious, when the beast wants to play catch - and when the zombie saves him from the local bullies, a true friendship is born and Timmy names the zombie, "Fido".

But Fido's collar goes on the fritz, and the neighbors start paying the ultimate price. To complicate matters, ZomCon's notorious zombie-control specialist, Mr. Bottoms, has moved in across the street.

What begins as a quaint small town, becomes a bizarre "boy and his zombie" story - that ends up teaching one family the price of fear, the rewards of risking love, and the true meaning of what it means to be alive - all from one, almost dead, zombie.
 
Director:  Andrew Currie
Originial Story by:  Dennis Heaton
Written by:  Robert Chomiak & Andrew Currie & Dennis Heaton
Starring:  Carrie Anne Moss, Billy Connolly, Dylan Baker, introducing K'Sun Ray with Henry Czerny and Tim Blake Nelson
Producers:  Mary Anne Waterhouse, Blake Corbet
Co-producers:  Trent Carlson, Kevin Eastwood, Heidi Levitt
Executive Producers:  Peter Block, Patrick Cassavetti, Jason Constantine, Shelley Gillen, Daniel Iron
Distributors:  TVA Films (Canada), Lionsgate (USA)
Broadcasters:  CHUM Television, The Movie Network, Movie Central
Production Financing:  Telefilm Canada, British Columbia Film, CanWest Western Independent Producers Fund, FIDEC
Development Financing:  Telefilm Canada, British Columbia Film, The Harold Greenberg Fund, Chum Television, Movie Central
Genre:  Horror/Comedy
Status:  Post production

See what I mean, silly but intriguing. 

I’m looking forward to it.  You see the teaser poster up top there and at the bottom of the article is a still from the film.  We’ve got this one on our radar now so keep it here for all the latest on this strange little project.

To visit the films official site, click here.