Colin the Zombie.
Is it possible to sympathise with a zombie?
I'd have said 'Don't be silly' if you had asked that question earlier this evening. A zombie is an unthinking eating machine and what it wants to eat is you. You cannot reason with it and you can't kill it because it's already dead. It's not possible to sympathise with such a creature under any circumstances.
Then I watched 'Colin', a film by Marc Price and produced by Justin Hayes. It's low budget and full of unknowns but it's well made, well acted, and the idea is astounding in its brilliance.
A zombie story from the point of view of one of the zombies!
Throughout the film we learn more about Colin's former life and finally find out what made him a zombie. It's the only film I've ever watched in which I actually felt sorry for the zombies! The living humans are even more monstrous than the flesh eaters in some places.
But then, they always were.
