Review: Doghouse

Director: Jake West
Year: 2009
Country: United Kingdom
A plethora of zombie films have saturated the horror film landscape for almost a decade, drawing the ire of those who simply want something more than the same ol’ same ol’ out of the walking dead. Every so often, however, we’re given a unique zombie film, be it outright horror or the increasingly popular zombie-comedy (”zom-com”), to satisfy our lust for originality. Sadly, many of these fail to get the recognition they deserve and as such, they tend to make the rounds at film festivals and gain popularity through word-of-mouth before ultimately being released to DVD without so much as a limited theatrical release. With luck, Jake West will buck the trend, as his splatter zom-com Doghouse is a triumph of horror-comedy that takes basic zombie tropes and turns them every which way. The result is one of the most inventive and gut-busting horror comedies to be released in years
