Fido

by | Feb 17, 2022 | Film, Fun | 149 comments

This man is celebrating his third booster shot for COVID.

Fido 

Time to show some respect for Canada again. They make some awesome films. And as of the last two weeks they proved they got big balls too.  Keep it up, Canadian truckers!

Looking back at the archives, I have done hopping Chinese vampires, demonic possessions, werewolves, undead beavers  and close but no cigar on just plain old zombies. This must be rectified! So today you get a straight-up zombie film!
This movie came out in 2006 and almost immediately went underground. For those of you who haven’t seen this film, it is set in a 1950’s style world where radiation has caused the dead to rise from their graves. A collar has been developed to make the zombies passive and useful for menial chores, house pets, and even… sex toys. But do the zombies really need the collar? Or just some respect?
The director and writer of this film is Andrew Currie. He had done some TV movies prior to this and thriller called Mile Zero. This was his first attempt at something really different. I’d have to say it is a little underrated on IMDB at 6.7/10. This was a big effort. If I was going to say one thing about the marketing, it would be that the shot of Billy Connelly as the zombie on the front cover gave off a straight horror vibe and people were thrown off by the happy colorful 50’s vibe and comedic touches within the actual movie. This film cost $8 million to make and didn’t gross jack squat. Barely one million in the theaters. Painful! Andrew went back to making straight up thriller films again with Barricade in 2012 and has not looked back at the horror/comedy genre. It’s a shame, because this is a very well done film, it’s enjoyable and it even got an 72% on Rotten Tomatoes. But it just couldn’t get distributed in theaters. Like so many other good films, it got a second life on DVD. Give this movie a chance!

So watch! Or don’t! Everything is voluntary! Next week, we have Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death. Young Bill Maher! Adrienne Barbeau! Amazons in bikinis!

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R.J.

R.J.

Hello. My name is R.J. I am a Tulpa with extra cheese and sour cream.

149 Comments

  1. Count Potato

    *hits play*

  2. westernsloper

    Does this have anything to do with vaccines?

    • R.J.

      No. Just a joke about the skin tone of the zombie.

  3. westernsloper

    Holy shit zombie sex slaves.

  4. Count Potato

    Timmy’s mom got it going on.

  5. westernsloper

    LOL at funeral savings plan for Timmy because the other kids hate him.

    • R.J.

      I like the head coffins. I think that comes later.

  6. JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

    For some reason that poster makes me think of Rammstein.

    • R.J.

      It’s that shouty face. Very Rammstein.

  7. slumbrew

    Going, briefly, off topic:

    Did we get a L0b0t update?

    • CPRM

      I haven’t been around for a few nights, what’s going on with l0b0t? (other than his BIG D and trying to move that has been going on for a while?)

      • slumbrew

        He just hasn’t been around, so there’s some concern.

  8. Tonio

    “big balls”

    It’s punks like RJ who are ruining this place, ruining it, I tells ya.

    • R.J.

      I do my best.

  9. R.J.

    Blue shorts and black socks were never acceptable.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      Should I change?

  10. pistoffnick the refusnik

    From previous post:

    Jacinda “Corn Annihilator” Ardern

    You funny girl, KK!

  11. westernsloper

    I have a hard time believing that little girl can carry a head coffin. At some point these movies always get unbelievable and we have reached it.

    • R.J.

      Have you gotten to “Go get help boy!”

    • Fourscore

      Some things in some movies may not be true. My personal advice is watch with some possible skepticism.

  12. westernsloper

    I am going to have to put this on pause I am really tired, nice weird fucking movie pick RJ

    • R.J.

      Thanks!

  13. R.J.

    Timmy’s dad may be a jerk, but he did buy Timmy a sweet revolver.

  14. Ted S.

    I actually have this on DVD. Some time back I was looking for Earth Girls Are Easy on DVD, and found a box set with it. Fido is one of the other movies in the set, although I haven’t watched it yet. One in the set that I have watched is Blood Diner, which is terrible, but in a spectacularly entertaining way.

    • R.J.

      That sounds like an interesting box set.

      • R.J.

        I vaguely remember ‘Boy Eats Girl.’

    • Brochettaward

      I do like the assertions that peaceful protests that have harmed no one are examples of “extremism.”

      And I’d argue the complete and utter overreach of the branch covididans calls for a pretty fucking extreme reaction, regardless. Far more than, say, the killing of George Floyd did.

  15. Yusef drives a Kia

    I just found this bit of fun,
    “Trudeau — Pajama Boy Hitler.”

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        “And you probably all have it too!”

  16. CPRM

    Watched this years ago, probably shortly after it came out on DVD. It’s hard to find decent indie films anymore. Not because they aren’t out there, but because streaming services make it so hard to judge what is watchable and what isn’t. I could wander around the video store for hours each week and walk out with 10 movies that were mostly enjoyable. Now I scroll through 3-4 streaming services for hours and don’t find anything to pique my interest. Another thing I miss from the physical media days are the trailers. The trailers on most DVDs were for similar films that you may never had heard of. Now all there is are youtube trailer channels that throw every trailer for every big budget movie at you, or just every fucking trailer and it becomes difficult to filter.

    • The Hyperbole

      Have you tried yelling at clouds?

      • CPRM

        Everything internet is ‘The Cloud’ now. So isn’t that exactly what I’m doing?

    • R.J.

      Agree on all points. Because I have no life, I filter for you here, at least. And I also miss trailers. I don’t even read magazines anymore to get exposure.

  17. Winston

    https://theunpopulist.substack.com/p/why-populism-deserves-its-bad-rap?utm_source=url

    Shitsia’s definition of populism raises some questions:

    One big difference is that a popular uprising is a resistance movement against an illicit power that is ruling in explicit violation of the will of those it governs. Populist movements, on the other hand, are aimed at a domestic “establishment” which was formed with the consent of the people but overtime has become corrupt — genuinely or allegedly.

    Gandhi’s Quit India movement targeted a small — and alien — ruling power denying self-rule (and franchise) to an entire people. Some separatist movements, such as the one in Catalonia in Spain or the Kurds in Turkey and Iraq, are dubbed populist uprisings. Regardless of what one thinks of the justice of their demands, they are, however, more in the vein of anti-colonial struggles like Quit India given that they are directed against an “enemy without.”

    Populist movements, by contrast, are a pathology specifically of established democracies where the people already have self-rule. However, the dominant majority feels that this rule no longer works for it because the establishment in control no longer cares for its wishes, or, worse is actively hostile to them. So these movements are oriented against the “enemy within.” For example, Modi’s populist nationalism is directed against a secular elite that regards the majority Hindu population’s desire for a homogeneously Hindu India as anathema.

    Not mention the classical liberals constantly railed about and othered the aristocracy who in many cases were the “domestic establishment”.

    • Don escaped Texas

      I probably have an elite view of populism that doesn’t agree with the definition. For me, a child of very poor and uneducated people, populism is the proletarian mob’s impulse to satisfy an immediate desire without any rationalism using first principles, little care for the consequences, and a complete disregard for holes and inconsistencies in their arguments….vulnerable, weak, mad, too unread to even argue their own case.

  18. trshmnstr the terrible

    I had to go a little more PG tonight with the kiddo loitering about, so I’m watching The Blob.

    • CPRM

      Which one?

  19. CPRM

    *SPOILERS – DON’T CLICK IF YOU DONT WANT – SPOILERS*
    Late Night Leak. I have a set-up for the next cartoon. Trying to get in a frame of mind to write it.

    • The Hyperbole

      Now I have a Jerry Reed song stuck in my head, so if that was what you were going for, mission accomplished.

      • CPRM
      • The Hyperbole

        I prefer the SAHB version.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Bobble Trump! I can’t wait!

    • CPRM

      Wrote a script…that was a harrowing 5-6 minutes of work. I’m exhausted.

      • Tulip

        I really enjoyed the post you did about how you animated something.

      • CPRM

        That wasn’t about the animation, that was about building the animation models, but thank you. Animating is really easy once I have all the assets worked out, thanks to the software the pre-patreon Glibs helped me purchase. Spent about 2 hrs this morning just working out how to animate one of the gags for this next cartoon, because usually I don’t do anything special for the animation just use the automation.

    • Sean

      O M G.

      *waits to bid on NFT*

  20. rhywun

    Enjoying a video game until I had an epic rage-quit.

    I’m too old for this shit. I don’t have the time or the patience to repeat sequences over and over.

    As someone who has briefly dabbled in their construction, I know full well that the point is to frustrate the player but FFS have some pity.

    • CPRM

      What I hate is when I get frustrated after hours, look up walkthrough instructions and it’s exactly what I’ve been doing for hours, but somehow it works after looking up the walkthrough. WTF!?!

      • rhywun

        I already know I just don’t have the skill of a fourteen-year-old that is needed for most kinds of boss battles.

        It’s where I usually quit playing and this game seems to be following the pattern.

      • Sean

        I was gifted Metro Redux this week.

        I might have to remove the Fallout 4 disc from the console.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      The shirt DeSantis is holding up?
      Priceless

  21. The Bearded Hobbit

    Too local: NM dropped its mask mandate this afternoon, two weeks early.

    MLG feeling the results of the Freedom Convoy in her chances for re-up in November? Let’s hope. I just donated again to the campaign of one of her opponents.

    • commodious spittoon

      Is there an upset due? I’ll donate to that.

      • The Bearded Hobbit

        I met Jay Block and discovered that he was key to lowering my property taxes (he is currently a county supervisor). He’s running as an R but hates Queen Lujan as much as I do so I’ve thrown him a few bucks and signed his petition. He is one of several announced candidates.

      • The Bearded Hobbit

        And I have little doubt that my hopes and money will all be for nothing as she will be re-elected by a 2:1 margin.

    • rhywun

      Have some complete insanity from the Great White Way.

      Soon a member of staff came to warn me that I had failed to pull my mask up fast enough after my most recent swig of beer. As the show began, someone with a name badge saying “Libby” came over and told off another member of our group for failing to bring their mask up swiftly enough after sipping another of the overpriced drinks the Lyric Theatre had just sold us.

      • Gender Traitor

        The only moment of relief came at the show’s climax when the dark lord Voldemort appeared on stage. Very scary. High tension. Some cowering from the younger members of the audience. Eventually, the Dark Lord came down off the stage and made his way scarily through the center of the audience. “He’s going to tell us to pull our masks up,” said some wag.

        ::opera applause!!!::

      • CPRM

        I believe my place of work is the only place in the county still doing mask BS. Security seems to take a sick pride in enforcing that shit, but they are very lax amongst themselves about doing it when not in view of the customers. They just love the power trip.

      • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

        You, sir, have not been on a college campus lately, have you?

        I thought not.

      • CPRM

        There isn’t one in my county.

      • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

        Inside the Lyric Theatre, they had tried to recreate the atmosphere of an English boarding school. As a survivor of such an establishment, I can tell you they did a grand job emulating the most sadistic aspects of such institutions.

      • grrizzly

        People who attend Broadway shows in these conditions are cucks. They have no self-respect. I have no sympathy for them whatsoever. And that includes Jordan Peterson. I never understood why he had any kind of following.

        By the time the interval came, one of my Canadian friends — Jordan Peterson — and I decided it might be a good idea to do that regrettable thing and ask to speak with the manager. We asked. At which point we were reintroduced to Libby. Libby was the manager, and explained that we were under suspicion because our group had already received three warnings for insufficiently speedy remasking after sips. Jordan and I both asked for further guidance on what exactly constituted permissible sip length.

  22. Count Potato

    That was a good movie. Thanks RJ 🙂

  23. LCDR_Fish

    I posted Critical Drinker’s take on LOR from Amazon.

    TLDR — Don’t fuck with other people’s work.

    Basing loosely on Tolkien’s work but not an actual book is smart. They get to use his universe but make it all woke and diverse.

    JustSomeGuy has consistently put out excellent videos on this stuff….I guess he’s a bit more of a superfan when it comes to Tolkein. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36lviVvo-jw // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rCmGtMhreY

    ————–

    Is there anything more worthless than a chaplain in the military? Maybe in actual combat they do good. When I served they were nothing more than worthless.

    Really depends. My artillery unit had a Southern Baptist…of course, he got sanctioned by Big Chaplaincy/Army/etc for praying “In Jesus Name” during some services…. (Iraq 2005 – think he was interviewed for Stars and Stripes at some point). It all depends because they have to be recommended by their denomination first.

    My last reserve unit actually had one too – although he “volunteered” for a mobilization to Djibouti or somewhere IIRC (needs of the Navy). His civilian job was as a chaplain at a VA hospital in Richmond so it was a pretty good fit. (He might have even been Greek Orthodox…can’t recall offhand).

    • Swiss Servator

      Our Lutheran chaplain was quite useful in Afghanistan 2204-2005.

      • Plinker762

        Sad to think we will be fighting there again in another 180 years.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Gotta get through the chemical attack in Ukraine…wait Syria…Iraq….dammit…we’ve used that line so many times I don’t know what country we are trying to stick our dick in anymore.

    • CPRM

      I wonder…JustSomeGuy is a black Tolkien fan who has been railing against the SJW usurpation of Tolkien for a couple years and last week South Park did an episode about ‘Token’ being named ‘Tolkien’ and how racist Kyle was to assume his name was ‘Token’….I doubt it, but that’s the kind of thing those guys used to be good at.

  24. LCDR_Fish

    Forgotten Weapons take on the new prototype Gauss rifle is pretty cool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAHKS0nVlL4

    1. Mostly 3D printed
    2. Multiple size rounds capable from a single weapon with virtually no modification
    3. Multiple power/temp settings.

    Very promising on the whole I’d say. The power conversion built into the unit is pretty effective, but I’m guessing you could do more with a belt/backpack unit too (but a lot of promise for an all-in-one).

    • Not Adahn

      EM weapons suffer from the same problems as EVs: It’s much simpler, more compact, faster and more efficient to transport and use chemical energy than stored charge.

      • UnCivilServant

        I was working on snark, but now I’ve got a mental image of a dozen greenies pdalling bicycle generators to charge up one handheld coilgun for another shot…

      • Not Adahn

        And honestly, has there ever been a coilgun that matched the performance of a railgun?

        Youtube used to have some videos of railguns with the capacitors stored in a car trunk that could deliver insane amounts of energy downrange.

      • UnCivilServant

        The biggest problem for me is the wearing parts in the mechanism. I forget how few shots it was (probably depends on power levels) but the rails on railguns need constant changing.

  25. Ownbestenemy

    Really disturbing are the arrests of the convey organizers and they are all filmed but the officers never say why they are being detained or what the charges are. Do officers in Canada don’t have to explain why you are being arrested?

    • Plinker762

      I’m sure in a state of emergency they are allowed to summarily execute non-compliers.

    • hayeksplosives

      I was in the hotel lobby bar (here in Livermore, CA) hanging out with a Cajun Louisiana boy (electrical lineman) and 2 construction guys from Houston. Then along came an African American couple who happened to be on their wedding anniversary driving trip.

      We all huddled and discussed Canada and the craziness of the oppression. A good cross section with furor society, and we all love freedom to the point of being willing to die for it.

      • CPRM

        Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Making cartoons is one thing, but nobody said anything about dying!
        *renounces the Glibertarian Faith 3 times*
        *Rooster crows *
        *Becomes first pope of Glibertarianism*
        [suck it Jimbo]

      • hayeksplosives

        That was pretty awesome, CPRM.

        I looked back at my comment and have no idea what “furor society” meant. I think it was an autocorrect of “our society”.

        Whatevs. Point being, we all agreed on the importance of individual freedom and individual lives.

      • Chafed

        I just assumed you were talking about Canada’s führer society.

    • Gender Traitor

      Tell me about it. It’s not quite light enough yet for me to see whether I’ll have to chip my car out of a block of ice before I leave for my cousin’s funeral in Hamilton, OH. ?

    • rhywun

      61º and heavy rain here. Temp to drop like a stone all day 🙁

      • Gender Traitor

        That’s what we had yesterday. Sorry – and surprised – we didn’t use it all up here before it went further east.

    • rhywun

      Seems legit. (Really.)

    • Gender Traitor

      I’d rather have Bailey’s ice cream.

      Damn. Now I really want Bailey’s ice cream.

      • Gender Traitor

        Oh, yeah – and good morning, Sean, U (who’s probably driving right now,) and HE (who’s probably asleep now.)

      • UnCivilServant

        Naw, I finished driving, but I needed to eat breakfast. (I tend to do that at my desk for time management reasons)

      • Gender Traitor

        What was for breakfast?

  26. Sean

    Uh oh…fire truck sirens in town. ?

  27. UnCivilServant

    Time to commute.

    I can’t believe I used to do this daily. I guess I was used to it then.

  28. Ghostpatzer

    Mornin’ GT, UCS, Sean and …

    Crazy wind just picked up here. Will be enjoying my quarterly “mental wellness” day off today. We’ll still be crazy tomorrow despite the best efforts of management.

    • UnCivilServant

      I wanted to take today off.

      Didn’t, because half the team already did.

    • rhywun

      I’m giving myself one of those next weekend, the Monday after.

      I really need one.

    • Gender Traitor

      Good morning, ‘patzie!

    • Festus

      Mornin’ Watched this some years ago and it was almost completely unmemorable. I don’t get “Family Day” off, which is fitting. Good wishes to Babs and any other Glibs wading through the muck and mire!

    • Ghostpatzer

      Mornin’!

      New Fall of Civilizations podcast just was released.

      • Ghostpatzer

        WTF? Was going to say that we are in the process of writing the next chapter.

      • Trigger Hippie

        You gotta give Me Cooper about a year or so to sort through the mess before he can write up our story.

    • Festus

      Yep. Great sleepy-time link. I wake every two hours so just go back to the last part that I remember. Drachinifel is pretty great for that reason, also. Nerd me up! I’m going in!

      • Trigger Hippie

        I’ll have to wait until after work to listen.

        And yes, as much as I’m facinated with these episodes they do tend to zonk me out.

        My favorite ASMR.

      • Festus

        Check out Russell Stannard. That shit will knock you stone dead in ten minutes or less…

      • Trigger Hippie

        Will do.

    • Tulip

      I love that show!

      • Trigger Hippie

        Yep. One of YouTube’s few redeemable qualities is this program.

      • Festus

        Mark Felton fits my coffee break (not a euphemism)!

  29. Tres Cool

    suh’ fam
    yo whats goody

    • Ghostpatzer

      Yo! Here’s what’s goody. The youngest Patzer is coming home to pay us a visit, and Mrs. Patzer insists on a royal feast whenever he’s here. Tonight: Porterhouse. Tomorrow: a visit to an excellent Hibachi establishment. Yum!

      • Festus

        Nice!

      • Tres Cool

        Ass.
        I just got home, and Im starving.

      • Festus

        So? Go eat some ass.

      • Tres Cool

        Ive eaten more ass than rectal cancer.

      • Trigger Hippie

        *checks cupboards, sees eggs, bread, peanut butter, and instant noodles*

        Shut up, dude. 😉

      • Festus

        Needs bacon. What the hell happened to Bacon Magic, anyway? Life intrusions? I always liked him, funny guy.

      • Trigger Hippie

        What the hell happened to—(fill in the blank)?

        I get the feeling our already small community is slowly getting smaller. A lot of really interesting people have vanished over the last year or two, which is a damn shame.

      • Tres Cool

        I’m not saying it’s aliens, but….

      • Trigger Hippie

        Guess we’re not interesting enough to be lifted of this hellhole…bummer.

      • Festus

        Politics are in a waning mode. Come the build up to the mid-terms traffic will wax.

    • Festus

      That’s like the odds of swallowing a fly when I mow the lawn. Hard pass!

    • UnCivilServant

      Even then, for most people, the risk from the bug isn’t enough to fret over.

      • Ghostpatzer

        Not sure about that. Most people seem to subscribe to the precautionary principle.

      • Festus

        Most people are imbeciles.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      15 year old girl do 15 year old girl things. More at 11.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Seriously though, figure skating is on the same level of child abuse as child pageants. Those girls are probably profoundly mentally broken because of the process of getting there.

      • Festus

        ^^^! Same with gymnasts and swimmers.

      • Not Adahn

        Did she, or did she tank it to give her teammates a medal ceremony?

    • UnCivilServant

      I thought the Bee was supposed to be satire.

  30. Sean

    Mornin’ y’all.