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Second Banana Bracket – Round Two – Fido vs. Day of the Dead

Second Banana Bracket - Round Two - Fido vs. Day of the DeadAfter a rather heated matchup, Return of the Living Dead moves forward into the next round, setting up an interesting matchup. Now we move into the final four. Only a couple of more matchups and we have our second banana.

Here is the first matchup of Round Two. Fido versus Day of the Dead.

Here’s the Fido synopsis:

In a 1950s-era alternate universe where domesticated zombies play a functional role in society by delivering the milk, carrying the mail, and even helping out with household chores, one boy is about to find out just how big of a personal responsibility “pet” ownership truly is. When the Earth passed through a cloud of space dust and the dead arose from their graves to devour the flesh of the living, it first seemed that all hope for humanity was lost. Society’s rapid slide into chaos, however, was soon halted when scientists at a company called ZomCom created a special collar that turned the rampaging animated corpses docile. Now, thanks to ZomCom, everything is under control — or is it? Timmy Robinson (K’Sun Ray) isn’t quite convinced. Quiet and withdrawn, the skeptical young boy spends so much time locked away in his room that he’s almost become invisible around the household. His mother Helen (Carrie-Anne Moss) has recently purchased a zombie to help keep things tidy around the house though, and when the creature attempts to engage the curious youngster in a game of catch, a friendship is forged between boy and zombie that finds the amiable gut-muncher nicknamed Fido (Billy Connolly) practically becoming a part of the family. Things take a turn for the worse however, when Fido’s collar malfunctions and Timmy’s neighbors begin dying in droves. When ZomCom’s top zombie control specialist Mr. Bottoms (Henry Czerny) moves in across the street from Timmy, the increasingly complicated situation threatens to place a serious stumbling block in the path of human-zombie relations. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

Here’s the synopsis for Day of the Dead:

Day of the Dead, the third and concluding chapter in George Romero’s zombie trilogy is the most distinctly 1950s-style science fiction version of the lot. Set in Florida, as the film begins the dead have taken over the world, outnumbering humans 400,000 to one. The handful of surviving humans have taken refuge in an underground missile silo and argue and yell at each other like players in a Rod Serling Twilight Zone episode. Among the survivors are Sarah (Lori Cardille) — a scientist who is trying to reverse the process whereby the dead turn into flesh-eating, irrational zombies — and Dr. Logan (Richard Liberty) — an out-of-his-mind psychologist who wants to capture the zombies and turn them into domestic help. Things heat up when the military tries to take over the scientific experiments. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide

Which is the better zombie film?

Second Banana Zombie Bracket

Filed under: Zombie Madness Bracket Challenge

3 Responses to "Second Banana Bracket – Round Two – Fido vs. Day of the Dead"

  1. greg says:

    How come REC has yet to show up? The first movie was awesome and the second one was even better plus the zombies were F-ing nuts.

    1. Brian says:

      Hey Greg … we ran a movie bracket sometime back in which Night of the Living Dead won hands down. It was only a sixteen movie bracket, and this bracket has been created from the losers. Around March Madness time, I’m planning to do a full on sixty-four movie bracket with all the zombie movies you can think of.

  2. Greg says:

    REC 2 haha that movie was just hands down one of the best.

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