Well, with Zombies being associated with every negative thing from aging retail stores to cash-strapped companies to various animal parasites and even seasonal colds, I guess it was inevitable that Zombies would be tied to terrorism.. again.

We saw this before in the remarkably-awful ‘Zombies of Mass Destruction’, which I had hoped would be the high water mark of mixing Anti-Zombiism with terrorism fear.

I was probably wrong about that:

The Obama administration thought they had planned for every contingency when they took out terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden, but they didn’t expect this.

In a low-budget film that could be making its way screens this summer, an undead Osama returns from his watery grave to raise an army of zombie terrorists.

Kynan Griffin, executive producer of “Osombie: The Axis of Evil Dead,” told ABC News that the script was “too good to pass up.”

Oh, somehow I doubt it.

In a nutshell, a special forces team in Afghanistan has to hunt down Zombie Bin Laden and stop him from unleashing the Zombie Apocalypse using, and I swear I’m not making this up, a ‘zombie insurgency’.

Questions abound. Why would Zombie Osama go to Afghanistan, when he’d been working out of Pakistan for years while still alive? Doesn’t ‘insurgency’ imply that the Zombies in question have concrete political goals and aspirations, and therefore shouldn’t be treated as mindless movie monsters? Is the intent to blur the lines between current foreign policy goals in Afghanistan (ie, fighting the insurgency, which is in fact mostly Taliban and not Al-Qeada) with the hunt for (now-Zombie) Bin Laden?

For now, I’ll leave you with a link to their Kickstarter (naturally) and the trailer, which sadly doesn’t shed light on these questions and adds a few more (like, why are Western troops in Afghanistan fighting with swords?):

PS: They’re actually peddling ‘Zombie Insurance’ on the Kickstarter page.

Zombie Insurance – if you or any of your immediate family members are ever attacked by zombies, our Zombie Hit Squad will provide the necessary support. Zombie Crisis Hotline number and insurance card will be provided.

Tags: Movies, Youtube Mischief

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