Treatment

Ok, what we’re dealing with here is a twenty-first century treatment of the zombie ‘genre’. On a particularly insightful day in the woods many years ago, I came to the conclusion that life is a great cosmic joke and was not meant to be taken seriously. However, this conclusion has not led me to letting everything fall at the wayside, I have no plans of becoming a hermit or bum. In fact, because of this, I am only more impassioned with life and my goals. I just take them less seriously, as I think most people should.

This film is not meant to be taken seriously. And yet, for its absolutely absurd content, it should be taken deadly serious (pun intended). Zombies, as a motif or ‘genre’, have meant many different things throughout many generations. I find it fascinating that they have risen into such particular popularity in the last few years, despite being around as subject material for over four decades. Just like skinny ties, zombies will go in and out of popularity over the course of our lifetime. So, if there was ever a time to broach the subject, as a mindless youth observing his world from an idealistic stance, now is the time.

What I present here is a zombie tale unlike most I have encountered. Although there have been zombie comedies, there are seldom to none where you root for a zombie protagonist, in a world that has been taken over by zombies. In fact, you would prefer that the humans get eaten. It’s a piece that shows there is even life after the zombie apocalypse, albeit technically it’s a dead one. Then again, the humor comes from the fact that despite having gone through an apocalypse, life resumes to normal: people go back to work, they ride buses, they ascend in elevators. They fall in love. The crux, the turning point in this whole project, however, is the musical number at the end. Not unlike many people I’ve met, zombies are technically dead on the outside, they are rotting flesh that walks (*cough* just like CELLS *cough*) but we are all so ALIVE on the inside. So by having zombies singing and dancing in the end of my film, maybe we can get a glimpse of the curious and unusual singers, dancers and lovers inside ourselves.