White-Collar Zombies just can’t catch a break these days.

First we had W.O.R.M., later incorporated into ‘III Slices of Life’, which was an unfortunately ground-breaking piece of cinema dealing, harshly and unjustly, with the topic of Zombie integration into a white-collar workforce. Previous Anti-Zombie films had largely dealt with ‘Zombies’ attacking prominent symbols of working class and blue-collar America: farms, malls, the military, the police and so forth. Think about it: the vast majority of the ‘classic’ Anti-Zombie films of the post-’Night of the Living Dead’ era concern these middle and working class icons being ‘menaced’ by the Differently Animated. Was this clever marketing or did it derive from the background of independent horror filmmakers? The ZRC has no answer to that question.

In recent years however, White-Collar Zombies have been more and more prominent. ‘III Slices of Life’ brought the outbreak to the cubicle farm of a tech firm, while ‘Diary of the Dead’ covered affluent film students and faculty. ‘Alice Jacobs is Dead’ concerned a celebrated researcher and academic who had created a ‘cure’ for Zombiism. Jonathan Coulton had a big hit with his Anti-Zombie song dealing with office relationships, ‘Re: Your Brains’

Is this the new wave? Is Anti-Zombie media being marketed at a somewhat more well-heeled viewership?

If so, ‘Bloodlust Zombies’, with its tale apparently concerning bioweapons developing defense contractors, is cynically arriving on the scene just in time:

Like typical 9-to-5 cubicle dwellers, the workers at Zlantoff Industries are just counting down the minutes and seconds to the end of the day. And just like any office, mishaps are bound to happen: spilt coffee, jammed fax machines … mutant viral outbreaks.

When a chemical spill in the lab on an otherwise uneventful weekday puts the office on emergency lockdown, the staff unwittingly becomes the first test subjects for an experimental, biological weapon — and if the mutant virus doesn’t spur cannibalistic murder, the passive aggressive office banter will.

Office-satirizing Zombies crossed with unethical technology development? Man, this *is* reminiscent of ‘III Slices of Life’.

Only, apparently with a lot more sex. One more for the picketing list most likely.

The movie apparently comes out in July 2011, and you can see its trailer embedded below:

Tags: Movies, Youtube Mischief

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