Aijón (Miguel Ángel Aijón) is thrown out of his parents' house, until he
"makes something of himself". His idea of that though is to try to
produce a film, & he soon hooks up with his best buddy Scurf (Miguel Ángel
Aoaricio) - a radioshow host who has just been fired from his job, so they can
cook up something original, & soon they are joined by Carla (Mayte
Navales), who claims to have some connections to the film industry, &
promises to help them, even though they don't even have a sibngle page of
script. Meanwhile - maybe on another plane of reality - the zombies are
loose, a gang of undeads created by Entrecot (Santiago Segura), a mafiaboss
& antichrist who provoked a gang war in order to get enough corpses to
create himself a willing army of thugs, & it seems that Scurf has sold one
of them, Johnny Maldad (Raúl Sanz) - his personal arch-enemy no less -
Aijón's appartment to finance the film ... but then there's Goblin (Nacho
Rubio), who has some personal vendetta going on against Entrecot, & who
somehow drags Aijón into the proceedings by having him film the execution of
Johnny Maldad & friends, as a friendly messaghe for Entrecot. After that
though, Aijón gets more & more into writing his script while Scurf &
Carla are getting dragged more & more into the zombie-business, even being
abducted by Entrecot's gang & only just being saved by Goblin. After
that, Carla (naturally) wants out, which is when Scurf notices he is in love
with her (by doing the jerk-off test, if you know what I mean ... yup, it's
just what it sounds like), & by serenading under her window with an
incompetent heavy metal combo, he even gets free access to her more private
regions ... which is when Aijón calls Carla that he has finally finished the
script (bad timing) ... which is when Scurf is kidnapped by Entrecot's zombies
again, & locked in with a cute redhead (Salomé Jiménez), while Carla can
just get away & back to Aijón, asking him for help ... which is when
Goblin calls Aijón, & identifies Carla as Fists, a killer in Entrecot's
employ, & Aijón can only just lock her in & get away before something
nasty happens. Later, Aijón & Goblöin meet up at the graveyard where
Entrecot is hiding out, & plan to attack his place head on, when they run
into Carla again ... who turns out to be not Fists at all - & Goblin would
know because Fists is his ex turned rogue, turned Entrecot's zombie-assassin.
So Fists is still on the loose - & of course she turns out to be the
redhead locked in with Scurf ... In the finals pretty much everyone shoots
(or otherwise kills) everyone else, Scurf is shot by Entrecot, Carla is killed
by Aijón's mum (María José Moreno) - who has been turned into a zombie too
-, Entrecot is shot by ... Fists, who has not forgottebn that she's in love
with Goblin, but somehow both her & Goblin are shot as well ... & in
the end, only Aijón is left alive to tell the tale ... & he tells the
tale to producer Santiago Segura (playing himself in addition to Entrecot) who
likes it ... but wants more nudity & a happy ending. So in the end, Scurf
gets together with Carla ... & maybe the whole Zombie-tale was just taking
place in the head of Aijón ... Despite the fact that
zombie-comedies/parodies more often than not are doomed to fail right from the
start, & gross-out jokes more often than not backfire, this
zombie-comedy/parody full of gross-out jokes does work surprisingly well ...
& the reason for it might be that it tells an original story rather than
trying to hang up a few jokes along a formula story, & it uses an unusual
way of storytelling, never quite making it clear how much of the goings-on are
real (inside the reality of the film's narrative), & what is only taking
place in whose head ... but despite all that, the movie noever forgets to
entertain & tell its story despite everything.
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