The Mad
- Billy Zane: Dr. Jason Hunt
- Maggie Castle: Amy Hunt
- Shauna MacDonald: Monica Tepper
- Evan Charles Flock: Blake MacNaughton
- Jordan Madley: Steve
- Rothaford Gray: Charlie
- Ian McPhail: Arlen Sutter
- Matthew Deslippe: Harry Sutter
The Mad is a Canadian / American horror - comedy from director John Kalangis from the year 2007.
Action
The apathetic farmer Arlen Sutter farmed together with his son Johnny, the Creekside cattle farm. One day on the farm there breaks out an epidemic that can be unsalable animals. The government continues to operate then quarantined, which brings the Sutters to the brink of economic ruin. To avoid bankruptcy, they acquire via dubious channels, genetically modified substance Genrem, a cocktail of antibiotics and various hormones. This yellowish liquid that is administered to the animals in the diet eventually heals the infected cattle, so that with them the pathogen can prove no more - but with a significant side effect: The cattle and their meat make consumers extremely aggressive.
Be sold to the unsuspecting Arlen as organic meat angepriesenes, ecologically valuable beef to the surrounding rural communities. The African- Americans Charlie, who runs an inn with his stepdaughter Steve, also relates the meat from the local Creekside Farm. His restaurant is a popular destination for many tourists.
Dr. Jason Hunt doing here together with his partner, his daughter Amy and her boyfriend a stopover on the way to their holiday home. In Charlie's rural inn to spend a cozy evening, which also includes a meal, as they are suddenly attacked by the guests present, previously fed on minced meat from the diseased cattle. The bloodthirsty attackers were transformed with the enjoyment of the flesh in man-eating beasts - in instinct- driven zombies. Jason fights from now on with his family for survival. Nevertheless, Blake 's friend Amy, as well as Monica, Jason's girlfriend infected. The number of survivors decimated further when Restaurant owner Charlie and stepdaughter Steve also bless the temporal. Jason and Amy flee then from the scene of the massacre to Creekside Farm to investigate the circumstances of the zombie epidemic.
Of the Sutters they are received hostile, contrary to expectations. The two cattle farmers are trying to get rid of the unwanted guests, but they resist successfully the attacks of the two men. It succeeds Jason and Amy to kill the two moronic cattle farmer. At the end of the film sämtliches building under circulation meat is confiscated by the government and the entire area temporarily isolated. In an open end Jason and Amy travel with an infected government officials from the starting point of the zombie epidemic, the Creek Side Farm.
Reviews
Focus on Film wrote that the film was " consumer- critical splatter slapstick of format. "
The film magazine video week praised the superior zombie productions because of its "strong cast, written characters, the sound equipment and a variety of original ideas. " This film was " black humor and splatter slapstick for horror freaks and jokers with good nerves. "