this film take place in the 1950s . accord to this the dead ( call zombie ) have arise to eat the living . however a company have develop a collar that and when put around the zombie neck and make them docile and perfect servant . the robinson mom helen ( carrie anne moss ) and dad bill ( dylan baker ) and son timmy ( ksun ray ) hire a zombie because everyone on their block already have one . tim name the zombie fido ( billy connolly ) and become friend with him . but his dad hat him and timmy loos control of fido and thing go wrong . a you can see this be among many other thing a takeoff on the lassie series with fido be a stand in for lassie . timmy be name that for a reason . every single of the famous lassie episode be spin here . my favorite be when timmy sends fido off to get help before the zombie eat him . also it a satire of those 1950s douglas sirk film where everything be bright and colorful but dark secret be tear people apart . the character wear very bright 1950s clothes ( moss be always in a dress ) the furnishing and setting and car especially be all 1950s in hyper bright color . even when the script become repetitious there always something to look at . the script be good but there be only so many lassie joke you can make . the melodramatics be kind of silly but the cast pull it off . everyone here be excellent and right on target . even connolly a an emotionless zombie do a good job . moss be the best playing each line for all it worth but never go overboard . this isn not for everybody ( of course ) . the satire may be lose on most people and the gore be pretty tame . the gore be do so casually and with happy music playing over it it hard to take it seriously . so and for some people and this will really work . i give it an 8 .