Zombirama
2011 · 7m · Argentina
Directed by Ariel López V., Nano Benayón
In March 1976, Buenos Aires is invaded by zombies, and the plague grows through the years of terror and desolation, reaching its climax in the 1990s.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A zombie film that uses genre as a Trojan horse for Argentine political collapse—the undead aren't metaphor, they're literally the country decomposing across two decades. Everyone else sees horror; Felix sees a filmmaker weaponizing B-movie vernacular against consensus history.
The conceit is clever, but the execution trades formal rigor for conceptual broadness; a film more interested in its premise's political resonance than in the sustained visual or editorial choices that would make it linger in the programming conversation.
The decision to compress 15 years of national crisis into escalating zombie incursion forces every frame to do double work—the budget constraints actually sharpen the allegory, making the mounting chaos feel genuinely claustrophobic rather than didactic.