Hide and Creep

Hide and Creep (2004): This is sort of a southern fried zombie horror comedy. Shot near Birmingham, AL. by locals, this low budget zombie fest hits on many cylinders and captures our southern zeitgeist rather well. The movie opens with a naked guy in a tree and goes down hill from there. It seems aliens have abducted people and somehow learned to animate the dead. Don’t expect a lot of detail on how this all works just sit back and enjoy the zombies. You get standard zombies, well dressed zombies, red neck zombies, zombie clergy and even zombie strippers, what more could you ask for. And this is a real low budget affair so don’t expect your zombies to look like much more than the producers friends with white face paint and lots of eye shadow. There is a lot of good dialogue and some typical southern traditions to be lampooned. One favorite was the fellow watching the pre-game show to the big football game getting extremely irritated about the local news breaking in to explain his town is being invaded by zombies. In true southern tradition, football takes precedence over national disasters. And there is also a long Tarantino-esc soliloquy about the differences between coke and pepsi that could only happen in a movie about the South. Overall, its armed red necks to the rescue defeating red neck zombies with a short lived FBI agent thrown in to the mix. You could spend time watching a whole lot of worse movies than this surprising little low budget B movie from the Deep South. The only real flaw I could see was that all the zombies were rather young looking, what happened to all the dead old people? The movie is rated R for: naked male buns and naughty bits, topless zombie strippers, multiple head shots, swearing pastor, and especially for the naked gal falling from a flying saucer into a pool.