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Fido

FilmUndeadRadiation2000 to 2009

Fido is a domesticated zombie, befriended by a boy in an alternate 1950s where the dead are kept as servants. The film is a Canadian comedy that blends the zombie film with family melodrama. Its director cites George A. Romero's films among his influences.12

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First appeared
2006
Released 2006
Source work
Fido (2006)
Andrew Currie
Age rating
R
Made in
Canada
What causes it
Radiation
Radiation from space makes the dead rise.
How you become one
Anyone who dies turns, unless the body is decapitated or cremated.
Intelligence
Some intelligence
Weak spots
  • decapitation
  • cremation
  • a control collar suppresses the hunger

When did it first appear?

Ancient world
Middle Ages
1500 to 1899
1900 to 1967
1968 to 1999
2000 to 2009
2010 to today
2006

Released 2006

field notes

What the sources say

1

Played by Billy Connolly12

2

The company ZomCon sells collars with remote controls that switch off a zombie's appetite for flesh12

3

Collared zombies work as household servants in fenced 1950s-style suburbs12

4

The setting is a world that won the Zombie Wars12

5

Influences named by the director include Lassie Come Home and Douglas Sirk's melodramas12

6

The script was first written in 199412

Sources

  1. Fido (film) - Wikipedia
  2. Fido - Rotten Tomatoes

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Same era: 2000 to 2009

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