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Ed (William Cutting) has been a loser for all of his life - at school,
at work, at sports, with girls, with people in general, you know the
routine - and then one day he wakes up a zombie ... major bummer, because
in that state he drives away his last two friends. In his despair, Ed
calls a zombie suicide hotline - and Teddy (Kelly Petering), the girl
running the hotline, tells him to go out, meet other zombies, and even
volunteers for a date. As a zombie, Ed has to realize he's ...
irresistible - suddenly everybody thinks he's great looking and he gets a
modeling deal, suddenly he's good at (zombie-)sports and joins the Olympic
team, suddenly he becomes the biggest star of zombiedom. And Teddy from
the hotline doesn't only date him, she falls for him head over heels, and
the two are a couple in no time. But Teddy has a terrible secret: She's
a ... vegetarian - a total no-no in zombiedom. Curiously enough, Ed isn't
too much into eating humans as well, but is a really great vegetarian
chef, who can make vegetables look just like human flesh - which curiously
has the exact same effect on zombies as actual human flesh. So Teddy
comes up with a great idea: To attain equal rights for zombies (so far
impossible because of the zombies' eating habits), she has to make them
all vegetarians - via a big national cooking show starring Ed. Will that
scheme at all work, or will Ed totally blow it? Zombie Ed
has an interesting concept and plenty of good ideas and jokes ... for a
short film - but unfortunately, Zombie Ed runs about 100 minutes,
and during that time, the concept runs a bit stale, the jokes become
repetitive ... but the main problem of the whole thing is that there's no
actual conflict in there, no narrative buildup. Actually, the
protagonist's life goes from strength to strength for the movie's entire
running time, there doesn't seem to be a bump in his road to success to
actually maintain audience interest. The other thing about Zombie Ed:
For a zombie flick, it's surprisingly unmorbid - there are next to no gore
and gross-out effects, next to no killings and severed bodyparts ... heck,
this film's zombies don't interact with humans at all (at least not in a
zombie way). In all, a film that does show some promise, but simply
never delivers.
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