Unassuming serial killer, Ken, stops in at a near-deserted roadside diner, and kills Rose and Fred, the waitress and Chef.
While he's clearing away the bodies, a couple arrive to use the diner, and before he can kill them, the local Sheriff stops by for a coffee, so Ken poses as a new employee of the diner.
All is going relatively smoothly, until the sheriff spots Fred in the back room... Walking around.
A neat concept, perfectly suited for a micro budget movie (only 7 speaking parts in the whole movie, 1 location), sadly ruined in the execution.
The title, and even the script, would suggest that this is a comedy; sadly I think someone forgot to tell the actors, who read their lines with less life and enthusiasm than you would expect them to read one of the diners menus; it isn't so much that they lack comedic timing, as that they lack timing of any kind; draining potentially funny lines of all life with the same deftness they use to suck any sense if urgency from potentially tense moments.
While the script could certainly have used another re-write or three, I'm not convinced it would have helped without a total recast. Rose, who dies before the opening credits, seems to be the only person on set who knows the difference between 'acting' and 'memorising words'.
The effects are the best thing about the movie, they are nothing that couldn't be replicated easily at home, but it seems to be a limit that the film makers are aware of, and so they are kept to a minimum, with nothing too ambitious to believably achieve being attempted.
The most interesting thing about the movie was the DVD box, which as well as making me expect zany OTT zombie action, also uses the films alternate title ("DIEner... Get it?" - yes the "get it?" Is part of the title) on the back of the box, while using the KFZ title on the front.
Once again, if you see this film in Poundland, save your £1.
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