The Last Taxi Driver (Short)
You would think that, between “The Walking Dead,” “28 Days Later,” “World War Z,” “Shaun of the Dead,” and the exhaustive “Living Dead” franchise, the zombie apocalypse genre would have run it’s course a long time ago, and deep down, maybe it has. But, have you ever seen someone genuinely continuing to go about their regular lives during a zombie apocalypse before? That’s where “The Last Taxi Driver” has you covered, and it’s a very entertaining 14 minutes, as Dorman (Robert Clohessy) continues to take calls, and get fares, in the first months of the zombie apocalypse. Who’s going to stop him, right, and look at it this way– chances are, his competition is already dead. That he actually gets some real calls is a bit of a surprise, but I think the zombie prank call was more surprising for me than the one from a busty wife who doesn’t go anywhere, or the blonde who gets a ride, but doesn’t have money to pay him until some zombies come by looking for brains. Writer-director Debra Markowitz has a simple setup that she executes extremely well, and with just the right comedic sensibility– this movie should never have been a real horror movie, and she understands that perfectly. And let’s be honest here, the ending is not a surprise, but it would have been disappointing if it had turned out any other way. After all, it is a zombie apocalypse, with the operative word being apocalypse.
