¡QUÉ HORROR! 2017
Candidate #9
I AM A HERO
(October 2015)
And here's another zombie film that takes
an interesting and atypical approach to its narrative.
Based
on the manga by Hanazawa Kengo, Sato
Shinsuke’s I Am a Hero follows
struggling mangaka’s assistant Hideo
(Ôizumi Yô), still waiting for his big break, much to the increasing annoyance
of his girlfriend, Tekko (Katase Nana).
Will
our, ahem, hero finally get his own work published and serialized, and get the
girl?
Then
again, it probably doesn’t matter, ‘cause, you know… zombie apocalypse.
As
we well know, zombie apocalypses tend to muck up the small, trivial things the
human race has usually got going on, things like plans and life…
There
are dollops of thrills and black comedy and pathos here amidst the gore and the
grue--and there’s a whole lotta that,
so be warned--as well as a tip of the zombie hat to Romero’s Dawn of the Dead.
I Am a Hero is the
perfect antidote for those all-too-relentlessly grim soap opera zombie titles
out there…
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