We continue the Christmas spirit, now, with a film that in no way has any Christmas spirit. No, to counteract the sheer terror that fell over me today, when I saw The Shaggy Dog and Mary Poppins were on the telly, I watched a comedy horror film that my sister got off Lovefilm ages ago, and that we’ve been very useless in getting round to watching.
The film is Doghouse. The Christmas spirit is put on hold. The outlook is ‘violence with a large helping of gore’.
And zombie women. Y’see, the plot of Doghouse sees a group of entire misogynistic men (including Danny Dyer, blech, how I hate that man), who trek off to a villager in the middle of nowhere, to help one of the blokies get over his divorce. Only when they get there, they find the village is devoid of men, and all the women have turned into ravening zombie monsters.
Cue much hilarity and comedy gore, as well as the odd bit of analysis of what it actually means to be a man. Oh, and evil zombie hairdresser. And a demonic lollipop lady. And Romana, ex-president of the Time Lord Council (yes, I am showing my nerd credentials here) as the evil mayor of the village (so far as I could gather).
And gore. Buckets, upon buckets, upon buckets of gore.
So, what results is, whilst it’s not as good as Shaun Of The Dead or the almighty Braindead, one of the funniest zombie movies I’ve seen for ages. And yes, obviously (since I’m talking about it here), it had mobile phones in. Hell they even played a major plot point for a change, when Danny Dyer’s character bans them on the minibus on the way in, to prevent, as he puts it, “spousal abuse through T-Mobile”.
Honestly, it’s the first film in ages where they came up with a compelling reason for them to not have mobile phones, other than the standard cop-out of not having any signal (every American horror film of the last few years, I’m looking at you). But what were the mobile phones on display?
Well, I’ll be honest, I kinda wasn’t paying attention to them. I think it’s a safe bet to say they weren’t top-enders like the Nokia N900, though…
So, in conclusion, mobile phones that actually played an important part in the plot for a change, a zombie virus designed only to turn women, demonic lollipop ladies and about 400, 000 gallons of fake blood.
I call that a result!
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