Screens: March 16, 2007
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D: Glasgow Phillips; with James Denton, Chris Kattan, Navi Rawat, and Brian Posehn
One audience member pegged this film: Blazing Saddles meets Dawn of the Dead. In a festival full to the lurching brim with zombies, this Western take on the oeuvre is a standout. How can a film that opens with zombie Posehn biting the head off a chicken (the actor best known for TV's Just Shoot Me is a major metal music fan, thus the inside joke) not be a winner? Denton of Desperate Housewives fame is our antihero, Kattan is the goofy sidekick, and Rawat (who's actually an India Indian) is the Native American with an attitude. On their trail is a gang of zombie lawmen infected by Geronimo's White Man Curse. The result is a lasso full of laughs and plenty of brains for dinner. Writer/director Phillips admits readily that it's designed as the perfect midnight film. He's right. It is. I smell an undead DVD cult classic. – Joe O'Connell