Perhaps out of desperation to make the rip off less transparent, their “Fido” is a pastiche of the zombie, child-pet camaraderie, and 1950s family sitcom subgenres.

| Apr 21, 2023

Fido tries very hard to keep the tone light, but it doesn't succeed in meshing hilarity and horror: the more disturbing ideas it's messing about with poke through.

| Aug 23, 2017

Subtle? No, but it's clever and funny in a thoroughly reimagined alternate universe, where the paternal smiles of authority figures hide an unchecked police state keeping the gated communities white, middle class, and compliant.

| Oct 6, 2016

Pretty funny, surprisingly smart, pleasant to look at, and often quite sick.

| Aug 28, 2015

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Andrew Currie's script incisively observes how taboo preferences have become policies in the reality "Fido" creates. Macabre and satirical with the brash brio of all great zombie movies, "Fido" understands that the true ghouls' hearts are still beating.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 24, 2010

Surprisingly gentle in most of its humor and its gore quotient, making you wonder who exactly it was aimed at.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 26, 2009

| Original Score: A | Oct 18, 2008

Fido finds a new wrinkle in the nearly exhausted zombie genre.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 11, 2008

This set-up sounds like an amusing premise for a mild little low-budget spoof, but Fido is much more than that: it's a full-blown social satire with zombies at its center.

| Jul 11, 2008

The filmmakers get darkly amusing mileage out of the notion of tamed zombies in suburbian servitude

| Apr 26, 2008

Cute and witty, if a bit too dependent on its delightfully goofy storyline gimmick.

Full Review | Original Score: 76/100 | Nov 8, 2007

This indie exercise is so stultifying you might want to check your own pulse.

| Oct 23, 2007

One senses that zombie film kingpin George A. Romero, who satirized consumerism in "Dawn of the Dead," would smile like a proud papa if he saw it.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 27, 2007

Starts with an excellent idea, but doesn't carry it far enough

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 30, 2007

If this movie's concept appeals to you at all, I urge you to reward the filmmakers by seeing in the theatre if at all possible. It's so small but so special. For you zombie fans, it's a great dessert after all the carnage, but it still delivers what we

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 16, 2007

Fido's humor comes from the clash of genres: bright cheery Americana butting up against the death and destruction of zombie horror.

Full Review | Jul 14, 2007

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 14, 2007

Funny films have been in short supply lately. Don't miss this one.

| Jul 7, 2007

It's a one-gag movie that starts off clever and cute, but wears thin after half an hour, and ultimately is like an excruciating Enzyte commercial for an hour and a half.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 6, 2007