Zombies are one trick ponies of the dead. They kill. People run. People fall. People get eaten. Since we all know their M.O., a good zombie movie has to do more than just be disgusting. It has to approach zombies in a different way. The ones I think are the best aren’t even horror movies; they’re more like zombie comedies. Zomedies. One of my favorites is Stacy: Attack of the School Girl Zombies.
In Stacy: Attack of the School Girl Zombies, all girls start dying off between the ages of sixteen and eighteen. All teenage girls, everywhere. But, all is not lost; the girls rise from the dead to feast on the flesh of anything in their path. Society gets used to it, the zombie schoolgirls are generally referred to as Stacies, and a whole new industry has bloomed to deal with them.
In Stacy, the government encourages families to “re-kill” their daughters when they rise from the dead. Parents who can’t bring themselves to do that can call the Romero Troops, a government sanctioned repeat kill corps. If Mommy or Daddy would rather do it himself, they can buy the Bruce Campbell Right Hand 2, a chainsaw made for re-killing Stacies.
All of that would be enough, but Stacy goes further and gets pretty convoluted. There’s a subplot with a puppeteer turned Romero Corps recruit. There’s another subplot involving the Drew Illegal Re-Kill Corps, named after Drew Barrymore. And yet another involving a scientist searching for the solution to the Stacy problem.
Oh, yeah. And the zombies are covered in something called Butterfly Twinkle Powder. It’s not your average glitter eyeshadow.
Stacy delivers a weird explanation for the zombie schoolgirl Armageddon and I’ve never been sure if it was a joke or if it was intended to be an attempt at some sort of social comment on the position of girls in Japanese society.
It’s not a great movie, but I like Stacy because of it’s take on zombies. The zombies are treated like a social problem for the government to deal with rather than a mere threat of horror, which makes sense, since not everyone is turning into a zombie. It’s a very manageable situation. And its disgusting. There’s a lot of dissecting. It’s seriously gross.
Lisa Fary's earliest influences are Princess Leia, Rainbow Bright, Astronaut Barbie, and her 6th grade teacher, Ms. Palmer. She's angry that it's 2011 and she still doesn't have a hovercraft, but will accept a jetpack as consolation. That jetpack had better be pink with a rhinestone monogram. 
Score! It looks like I am going to have to hit up the local movie joints for this hot action horrendously amazing Zomedie this weekend! Thanks for the suggestion. I hope it’s a nice mix between Dawn of the Dead, D.E.B.S. & every other horribly funny movie on earth
w00t! I’m psyched. Gotta love zombies, school girls and chain saws.
it’s good, i like JP girls,they arecute.
i like your blog