Zombieland opens this weekend and I may have to see it to see why everyone’s dangling from its balls.  From what I’ve seen, it looks like a straight ripoff of Shaun of the Dead with a bunch of lame movie clichés thrown in.  I say this to introduce the trailer for The Revenant, another zombie comedy, which, dare I say it, actually looks funny.

The Revenant is a story about an ancient pestilence recurring to infect modern society.  Officer First Class Bart Gregory is killed while fighting in Middle East. His body is shipped back to the United States and laid to rest, but before the lid can be put on his tomb, Bart inexplicably awakens in his coffin and climbs from his grave; confused and horrified–a moldy, putrefying living corpse–a Revenant…In their quest to keep Bart from decomposing, Bart and his best friend Joey stumble into a solution—a way to obtain blood without taking innocent lives, becoming “The Vigilante Gun-Slingers”. But as their macabre crusade continues, they become entwined in an ever escalating cycle of violence, mayhem and ghoulism . . . all while cruising in a 1979 Camaro.

I dunno, maybe it was the blood vomiting, maybe it was the hobo killing, maybe it was “Only In Dreams” from Weezer’s first album, or maybe driving around in a Camaro just resonates with my Italian ancestry, but this looks awesome to me.  It recently screened at Fantastic Fest and I didn’t see it, but I give the trailer three crotch grabs and a “what the fack a you lookin’ at?”

[via /Film and QuietEarth]