ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction

(USA, 2009, 92 mins, HDCAM)

International Premiere

EXEC PRODS: Ali Hamedani, John Sinno
PROD: John Sinno
SCR: Kevin Hamedani, Ramon Isao
CAM: John Guleserian
ED: Andrew McAllister
MUS: Andrew Rohrmann
Cast: Janette Armand, Doug Fahl, Cooper Hopkins, Russell Hodgkinson, Cornelia D. Moore

When the Puget Sound community of Port Gamble is overrun by a terrorist virus that turns the townspeople into ravenous zombies, a diverse band of survivors, including a young Iranian-American woman and a not-completely-out gay couple, must band together to fend off flesh-eating ghouls. Life in a small town is never easy, but zombie attacks have a way of putting things in perspective. Or do they? The locals, already infected with post-911 paranoia, rampant homophobia and Islamophobia, are newly possessed of the powerful need to devour human flesh. But at least their agenda is clear. As the survivors turn on each other and blame the outbreak on the Iraqis or the homosexuals (working together maybe), the first casualty of the zombie menace appears to be the truth. Sound familiar?

Kevin Hamedani's splatter-filled comedy tears into juicy issues like religious intolerance and torture with relish, biting off almost more than it can chew. But in this political allegory (with emphasis on the gore), reality is far worse than any horror movie cliché. ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction reserves its biggest horror show until the end, when the statement about the banality of evil becomes more akin to the evil of banality. A veritable scream in more ways than one, this is bloody good social satire with a critical bite.

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