This wacky zombie comedy exploits to the full this genre's juicy potential for satire: a more solemn kind of movie maybe couldn't get away with being quite as irreverent about the Castro government. A 40-year-old waster called Juan hangs around Havana with his mates, fishing, drinking, womanising, and brooding about what it might be like to go to Miami. But the atmosphere is torpid, rather than happy: ennui is in the air, and the appearance of shuffling zombies is hardly noticed. A moribund administration has no answer but to call the zombies US-sponsored "dissidents". Juan decides to make some money by running a zombie-extermination service; a free-market dabble that brings nothing but trouble.