Prepare yourself for the spread of Ebola Zombies on video

Former Georgia Straight music editor Sir Bob Geldof recently launched an online campaign to raise funds for the Ebola crisis in West Africa.

Now a Hong Kong horror flick set for release on video this March will take a much less kind and not-even-close-to-gentle approach to drawing attention to the virus.

The film, Ebola Zombies, will be unleashed on DVD by Wild Eye Releasing on March 24. It is described as "The Raid meets Dawn of the Dead".

Here's the official synopsis:

A group of thieves break into an industrial complex to pull off a jewelry heist, but stumble upon a hidden laboratory where unorthodox SARS and Ebola experiments are taking place on stolen cadavers, who soon mutate into bloodthirsty zombies. Now, the thieves must punch, kick and shoot their way to freedom from the police and the growing army of the undead.

So what's the next title in this new trend of making fright flicks to profit from earthly catastrophies, Fukushima: The Devil's Meltdown?

That one's too scary to even contemplate.