Described as a “Walking Dead” fan film, Ralf Kemper and Stephan Lötzer’s short “Zombiage: Don’t Play with the Walking Dead” is more of an original zom-com short that pays tribute to “The Walking Dead” than a typical fanvideo. Sure, it has “Rick,” or, more accurately, a guy stumbling around in a sherriff hat for some reason, but it’s not a direct takeoff of the franchise’s living characters. Instead, the German film (there are English subtitles for the very few lines) follows a couple who are somehow not zombie chow to the relative safety of a comic book shop. Will copies of “The Walking Dead” hold back the horde?
Features awesome still photos by Dirk Lepperhoff and great soundtrack music by Speed Chicken. If you like Zucker Brothers’ absurd slapstick comedy, “Zombiage” is along those lines — with more gore, of course.
