As much as I love it when filmmakers give me advance warning, up front, about the quality of their short film material, I hate it when they steal my catchy, pithy phrases that I might well have used in a review.  For instance, in this case, the director came out with: “This movie has zombies. This movie is garbage.”

Dammit, I was gonna use that line!

Anyway, today we’re talking about the short Zombie Garbage, and it’s sort of a foregone conclusion when even the director can’t say enough bad things about it.  However, I’ll say this–the central idea, in which a zombie makes a phone call for pizza because he’s hungry and instead goes after the pizza guy, is a rarely seen concept and should be commended.  I haven’t seen this trick used since Return of the Living Dead did “…send more paramedics”.

However, Zombie Garbage quickly lives up to its name via the implausible, unlikely and thoroughly gore-drenched last half.  Seriously, it makes little sense and I’m not sure I really WANTED to understand the display of high pressure fake blood that was throwing out.

The Screenhead Ten Scale, meanwhile, averages out great idea with horrible execution to yield a four out of ten.  Not too bad, but not as good as it might have been.