The first box office weekend of October went to the living dead. Zombieland, which by the way is not a biopic of the place where Halloween director Rob Zombie grew up, topped the box office this weekend with a respectable $25.0 million, which already puts the flick, budgeted at $23.6 million, in the black.

Following quite a ways behind was Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs, the animated family film that brought in $16.7 million in its third week of release. The 3D re-release of Toy Story and Toy Story 2 came in third with $12.5 million, which rounded out the films that topped at least $10 million for the weekend.

The Invention of Lying, the new comedy from Ricky Gervais, came in a distance fourth place with $7.35 million, barely ahead of Surrogates, which claimed $7.34 million, rounding out the top five. The Drew Barrymore-directed comedy Whip It, budgeted at $15 million, made not even a third of that back, coming in tied for sixth place with Capitalism: A Love Story at $4.85 million.

At least Whip It! was funny, unlike Michael Moore’s latest propaganda piece. The rotund director would make a better living involved in RV financing.