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One way to celebrate Black History Month is to immerse yourself into the multifaceted world of Black Cinema. These films can teach, enlighten, inspire, and reflect a countryâs past and present. Streaming services, like Netflix, have made it much easier to watch films about, created by, and starring Black talent. In recent years, Netflix has been one of the leading companies producing and hosting highly acclaimed Black films, like
Dolemite Is My Name, Da 5 Bloods, and
This week, zombie pets and dynamite Vietnam vets combine for a pair of hilarious late-2000s parodies.
Fido
(2007)
For a seemingly limited genre, it’s amazing how many great zombie pictures have risen up and shambled onto the screen.
Fido could be the funniest living dead romp since George Romero put an amen on his archetypal trilogy with
Day of the Dead. It’s easily the sweetest comedy ever made about necromance.
Judging from the meticulously appointed ZomCon corporate training film that opens the movie, it’s a safe bet that we’re in the care of skilled mimics. Not a splice, scratch or bad haircut is overlooked. (Though there is one jarring continuity flaw: although set in the 50s the film’s opening montage features clips from Romero’s 1968 version of