Review by Charles Cassady, Jr.
There are a lot of things I meant to do but never got
around to it. Like having a gainful career and healthy relationships. But one
of the more attainable of my missed goals was an aspiration to see filmmaker
Grace Lee's
AMERICAN ZOMBIE. A direct-to-DVD curio about which I've heard some
very good things, it seems to be a sardonic mockumentary takeoff on zombie
lifestyles, as seen from the POV of a TV camera crew who present the walking
dead as an unfairly maligned minority group outside of the US mainstream.
But no, I haven't yet seen AMERICAN ZOMBIE. Maybe
someday. But I have watched Lee's latest, JANEANE FROM DES MOINES, which could be considered
sort of a followup to AMERICAN ZOMBIE. It also plays tricks with film fact and
fiction, and it confronts another type of supernatural creature that was once
human, now a flesh-eating predator: conservative Republican politicians.
Oh, now that's just mean, a cheap shot. Meaner and more
unfair than anything in the movie itself, I think. I dunno. Maybe you make the call.
