Five genetically-enhanced zombies live together as a family in the forest in Super Z. At a sinister laboratory known as “The Purgatory” a mad scientist (Jean-François Gallotte) performs viral experiments for The CEO (Jacques Boudet), leading to the creation of a family of four zombies: Gertre (Johan Libéreau), Stephana (Julien Courbey), Marcelline (Audrey Giacomini), and Georgette (Florence Bebic-Veruni). However, a side effect of the experiments gives the zombie family sentience and they escape to a cabin in the woods, infecting and adopting a young man named Yvon (Fabien Ara) on the way. However, their peaceful existence is threatened by a Mercenary (Laurent Bouhnik) on their tail.
Super Z is a horror-comedy from the French filmmaking duo of Julien de Volte and Arnaud Tabarly, based on their 2014 short film The Foodies. The film focuses on the misadventures of a family of zombies, who are hiding out in a cabin and having family dinners consisting of human body parts. Yvon, the newest member of this family, is upset that he isn't taken out hunting with Gertre and is the victim of bullying by his “sisters” Marcelline and Georgette. This leads to Yvon venturing out on his own, where he falls in love with a farmer's daughter named Augustine (Marion Mezadorian).
Super Z is a very different, and very French, take on the zombie film, where this blue-skinned and squeaky-voiced living dead family are framed as the protagonists. While Super Z features the extreme violence you would expect from a zombie film, the focus is much more on its demented and crude sense of humour, which features everything from male appendages being licked like lollipops or a zombified severed head bouncing away to safety. Overall, Super Z is a film with fun moments, though the toilet humour might be a bit too much at times.
Super Z is streaming beginning on October 16th, 2021 as part of the virtual 2021 Toronto After Dark Film Festival
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Trailer for Super Z – Toronto After Dark 2021
