Zombie Problems — Day 26

Genre: Comedy / Horror

Logline: The Walking Dead—from the Zombies' perspective.

Premise: Phil and Rita live in constant terror. All around them, lurking in the shadows, armed to the teeth, and moving at lightening speed are predators who hunt them without conscience or remorse: human beings. Phil and Rita, like most of the planet, are Zombies. Though numbers and time may be on their side, the human scourge infesting the earth refuses to let them live in peace, and is engaged in a steady pogrom of zombie extermination. 

Despite their numerical superiority, the zombies have many handicaps. They have the attention span of goldfish. There are some communication barriers among their people, since grunting and gnashing of teeth is still a young language. And most of all there's the hunger. The relentless, punishing, totally distracting, never-ending hunger for—of all things—human brains. Of course a human could never understand the perversity of this. But imagine for a second that you are a human, and the only thing that you can eat to survive is the gallbladder of Great White Sharks. Sure. There's plenty of Great White Shark gallbladders available in the ocean. Here's a fork and a snorkel. Good luck with that. And from Mississippi to Mongolia that's how zombies live EVERY. DAY. If there's a Zombie God, he's got a pretty dark sense of humor.

Rita and Phil only know two things—mostly because that's all their 10 second attention spans will allow. Thing #1: They are HUNGRY. And thing #2: They love each other. That's why when Phil is snared by a human booby trap and carted off in a truck one day, Rita knows that she must overcome her limitations and mount a rescue mission for her one true love:  BRAINS....  No, wait.... PHIL. ...Phil.

Can Rita stretch her attention span far enough to hatch a rescue plan? If yes, will she then be able to unite her people and focus them long enough to pull off the daring rescue? And the question that terrifies Rita most: if she doesn't act quickly enough, will her memory of Phil fade away, leaving her merely with her hunger for more brains? This is Rita and Phil's love story, and the story of a long oppressed people who must finally rise up and defend their right to exist, or else lose the earth they have inherited.