No Sunday Night Movie this week, too tired to make it through any film and I watched part of Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S.

So instead I have a mini review for you of a film I watched view Netflix streaming Saturday afternoon with a couple of friends and my sweetie-wife; Cockneys vs Zombies.

You have to pity someone wanting to making a zombie film these days. The vein was never very thick and it has been throughly mined. We have seen Zombie at Night, at Dawn, in the Day, Nazi Zombies, fast zombies, indestructible zombies, Zombies on a boat, zombies on a plane, Zombies on an island, Zombies in Spain pretending it was the Uk, rom-com zombies, Romeo and Juliet zombies, Sex-slave zombies, and pet zombies, so it’s getting pretty  hard to find a new angle on the genre.

This film builds its humor on when the lower class, and stereotypical seen as criminal, London east-enders, Cockneys face the Zombie a apocalypse. The plot is barebones, a group of cockney youths are pulling a bank robbery to have the funds to keep their grand dad and his pals in the east-end when the pensioner home is demolished. Thanks to greedy and archeologically ignorant construction workers, the zombie plague is loosed on modern London, specifically the east-end. Both the youths and the pensioners fight the zombies, as the the crisis worsens.

Like Shawn of the Dead this si player for laughs, but more regional that rom-com. It is bloody and it is graphic as one should expect from a zombie film, but it is funny and touching, and has more than a touch of satire.

I recommend it.