In writer-director Adrian Jules’s F*ck Florida, the country’s so-called “powers that be” hop on a slick virtual call where food shortages are imminent. They decide Florida is the perfect sacrificial lamb for “population reduction” in a post-pandemic world. The state is now earmarked for deletion, timed to cause maximum chaos, with an airborne virus meant to turn it into a zombie apocalypse. Detonation is set for spring break.
Down in Jacksonville, at a local church meeting, Cedric Brown (Carl McDowell) sounds the alarm. However, nobody wants to take him seriously. Channel 11 reporter Susan Whitley (Maura Grace Athari), chasing a credible source named Trish Cummings (Chloë Angst), tries to get out ahead of the mess. Then a new kind of parishioner visits the congregation. Now, this ragtag crew consisting of Cedric (McDowell), Susan (Athari), Trish (Angst), Pastor Earl James (Adrian Jules), Rose Hill (Erica Colarusso), and “Country” Williams (Arden Maden) has to unify, fight through the undead, and try to stop the spread and save the state of Florida
“…this ragtag crew…has to unify, fight through the undead, and try to stop the spread and save the state of Florida.”
F*ck Florida is a 7-minute self-financed short that Jules says, “came out of a wild comic book idea I couldn’t let stay on the page.” It’s a zombie comedy built around political corruption and backroom dealmaking, in which a committee of five decides the fate of hundreds of thousands of people, all in darkness. The comedy comes in its manic mayhem, and this short serves as the setup for a bigger series, maybe even a feature.
Though light on budget, F*ck Florida pushes its limits to produce a complete first episode. I’ll be honest: as fun as this zombie survival looks, I don’t have enough information to see where it goes from here. That said, it’s hard to believe our destinies are in our own hands when the “Illuminati elite” are calling the shots.
"…manic mayhem..."
