Step by step I catch up with my 2017 animation list. This week it was time to see Zombillenium, which is NOT a French remake of Hotel Transylvania. Still, there are vampires, werewolves, zombies and family issues. The dead relatives are nothing like the ones in Coco either. It resembles a bit that old Nicolas Cage movie, in which Cage escapes Hell for his daughter. Here a father gets a strike in Hell. The movie was based on Arthur de Pin’s graphic novel, and the author was also a writer and director, working together with Alexis Ducord. Like in MFKZ the story style reminds of a real-life action, yet benefitting from all the creativity one can find in animation. I personally was impressed of the sincere mocking of almost every worn out movie genre. I mean – the Devil owns an amusement park, whre zombies and werewolves are put to work, while sparkling vampires, bishonen-style, are the one and only winning attraction (teenage girls vanity in a thing anywhere). An unsympatheti...