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Clay (David Chandler) really only had the best intentions, he only
wanted to hook his sister Mia (Eva Boehnke) up with his best friend Todd
(Maxwell Moody), when he shot dead Mia's boyfriend. Now that of course
sounds a lot harsher than it is, because in a way Mia's boyfriend was
already dead but has returned to life as a zombie - which is more the rule
than the exception in those days ... one year after the zombie apocalypse. You
know, the zombie apocalypse wasn't as bad as it first looked - sure,
zombies were attacking the living, and the living shot them in the head
... but once the living figured out they had over-reacted and zombies
won't eat brains unless one of them is shot, and are actually much more
into oats, the situation gradually cooled down, and the actual zombie
apocalypse only lasted for 12 hours. Since then, zombies are lurking the
streets, but they are harmless, really. Also, the recently deceased are
kept in fenced areas, the new graveyards, where they are kept together so
their relatives can visit them just like they would visit graves in the
olden days. The zombies don't mind ... Thing is, Mia's boyfriend has
died one year ago, and hardly a day goes by without Mia visiting him in
the graveyard. And Clay figures it's time for her to move on - and how
better to do this than by killing her boyfriend for good. There's just one
tiny oversight in his plan though: The zombies don't like one of their own
being put to death - to final death that is ... Ok, so in
writing A Plague so Pleasant might sound like a rather bland
comedy, it's humour derived from putting genre clichés on their head and
little else - but fortunately, while totally aware of its plots
absurdities, the movie plays it straight for the most part, only sparkled
with occasional subtle, macabre humour, instead putting an emphasis on
tension and excitement, triggered in a rather unexpected way, and chase
and fight scenes that show originality rather than slavish adherence to
genre conventions. A pretty cool movie, actually!
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