12 Hidden Gem Zombie Movies You've Probably Never Seen

Coming on like the lovechild of Pleasantville and Day Of The Dead, Fido is a zomcom that views the zombies as just a loveable, quirky and only occasionally infectiously deadly extension to the nuclear family.

Fido was just one of a number of examples of 2000s zombie media to focus on the aftermath of the outbreak and "Zombie War" that would itself have formed the main body of most classic zombie stories. But, while the likes of sadly underseen BBC Three TV series In The Flesh played this period of reconciliation for serious drama, Fido goes for something broader and sillier.

Taking place in a sort of parallel 1950s suburbia where the gated communities are that way because of the space radiation that ressurects the dead as brainless walking corpses, Fido's world is one in which zombies can be domesticated. Through a controlling collar, the walking dead like Billy Connolly's title character can be made to help out with menial household tasks. Of course, as is inevitable in any zombie scenario, the collars malfunction and chaos ensues.

Yes, there's blood and gore, but it's in the context of an oddly wholesome story which both satirises traditional family values while pointing toward the strength in alternative and found families.

The oddball Canadian comedy was a box office bomb on release in 2007, but its unique outlook and style mean that it thoroughly deserves to be rediscovered today.