Cinema Suicide

I mentioned the Alive zombie TV project by some writers from Star Trek: Enterprise a little while back, but this is the other side of the coin.  Dan from Exploitation Retrospect mentioned this one, which prior to his sweet name check I had not heard of.  This sounds a lot more tantalizing to me than just another gun-crazy zombie stomp.  When your subgenre is as tired as the old zombie adage, you really need to hit it with something unique if you hope to hold anyone’s interest.  Babylon Fields was looking to do just that.

From TV Weekly:
The show explores the emotional and societal ramification of loved ones coming back from the dead. You know, like in “Pet Sematary.” But by the end of the episode, the zombie thriller is crossed with a crime procedural. So small-town police detective Stevenson is given a murder to solve while zombies wander the streets. It’s “ZSI.”

Unfortunately,  Fields was pulled from the fall line up at the last minute and it looks like it will never surface.    Thanks to James Hibberd of TV Week, we’ll at least get a look at what was turning out to be an off-beat comedy/horror/police procedural drama.  Head on over to their website and check out the clips.