Somerville Theatre Needs Brains!

Zombie Movie Marathon
Somerville Theatre
55 Davis Square
Saturday, October 6, 7:00 pm to 7:00 am Sunday
$24 in advance/$30 day of show

BostonSci-Fi.com, the same folks who brought you the SciFi Film Festival, is offering a little taste, so to speak, of what's to come with night full of brain-starved zombies.

Garen Daly, local sci-fi master, has listed a few of the movies of the evening on the Boston Sci-Fi.com website. The Somerville Theatre is still wrangling prints, last we heard, so expect a few surprises in the mix. Nothing is final. Especially if you're a zombie.

What we do know is that Shaun of the Dead, now enshrined in the horror canon, will screen, along with some old standbys such as Fulci's Zombie. The Brattle screened Zombie a while back as part of its Grindhouse series, and it is best known for a fight between a shark and a zombie. Caution: The Somerville serves beer, but you might not want to drink too much before that one, lest you become queasy.

Also on the bill is Dead Alive from Peter Jackson, before he became Peter "Lord of the Rings" Jackson, and Fido, a story about what happens when zombies meet capitalism. Or when capitalism meets zombies, depending on how you feel about those sorts of matters.

And, just to say, we hope that the people in this zombie audience don't act like a bunch of douchebags like some people did at the Feast of Flesh.

Poster from the Somerville Theatre's website.