In a zombie movie mood, but also looking for something a little funny? Perhaps Fido is for you.

Fido is a funny little look at what can happen when you can almost tame zombies, and are stuck in the 1950s, and your mom is Trinity from the Matrix.

Unfortunately, if you're browsing zombie movies on Netflix you'll possibly be turned off by the odd, primitive, low-budget-looking cover art, which is not the nice poster shown here.

The Fido cover art is a shot of Fido (probably in full color, but he's a zombie, so he's deathly grey anyway) making a scary face, not unlike this one (but without the endorsements). Don't let the cheap-looking cover art dissuade you, though; it's actually a pretty good watch.

Imagine if you were in American suburbia in the 1950s. Also imagine cosmic radiation has turned the dead into zombies, and a great zombie war has occurred. By the time the movie starts, this has happened. Also, they have managed to develop a dampening collar that the zombies can wear to suppress their human-eating desires, allowing zombies to become nearly productive members of society again.

We follow the Robinson family as they succumb to peer pressure and finally get a zombie of their own. Tommy, the boy-child of the soon-to-be nuclear family, affectionately names the zombie Fido. Dad's a bit put off, as his father had turned zombie and once tried to eat him. Mom (played by Matrix vixen Carrie-Anne Moss) just wants to keep up with appearances, at first.

Of course, what's a zombie movie without a little mayhem? Through a slight malfunction, Fido's collar fails and he attacks an old woman (the elderly aren't to be trusted--if they die alone, they'll become zombies, too), who attacks someone, who...well, you know the drill.

In all, it's a zombie jaunt along the lines of Shaun of the Dead; a "serious" zombie movie with humorous characters and happenings.