No Nutritional Value: My Boyfriend's Back

[trinityvixen]

Of course, I object on principle to any movie that makes any zombie seem sympathetic in any way. However, My Boyfriend's Back is worth a view, not because the zombie lead is sympathetic but because his family, friends, and neighbors are surprisingly unaffected by his refusal to stay dead. The entire-town-is-indifferent-to-the-monster-in-their-midst was done before in Teen Wolf (and, sorta, previous No Nutritional Value entry, My Best Friend Is A Vampire). I didn't really care for Teen Wolf. Can't say why, just didn't strike a chord with me.

But the Dingle family--particularly Mama Dingle--and their willingness to pick up stray children and corpses to feed to their recently departed son/brother is all kinds of hilarious. Apart from them and Zombie Johnny Dingle's constant harrumphs of harassment over people's assumptions about his zombism (which are awesomely funny), the movie is deader than its lead. (Okay, so, the brief scene with Saint Peter was giggle-inducing, too.) I was hard-pressed to pick a favorite line. There are so many. (Mama Dingle being at the center of most of them.) But I think I'll have to go with:

Johnny: I'm just dead. It's not like I'm an asshole or anything.

Oh, okay, one more.

Johnny: I almost took a bite out of my friend Eddie, and it was such the wrong thing to do. He's very mad.

Comments

[arcane-the-sage.livejournal.com]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368296/

If netfliks doesn't have it let me know and I can lend you my copy (assuming my sister hasn't stolen it again).

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Netflix does appear to have it. What you failed to mention was that it seems to be a Japanese horror movie. Given my previous attempts to wade into Japanese horror, I might have to skip this one.

[arcane-the-sage.livejournal.com]

...this is very much not horror, not by any stretch of the imagination ^_^

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

You say that now, and then I end up watching Suicide Club.

[arcane-the-sage.livejournal.com]

Ok, between the Evil Dead/Army of Darkness references and how it ends, I expect you to be laughing more than cringing.

[arcane-the-sage.livejournal.com]

A good review (doesn't spoil much of anything)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsWuvhPAvwk