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Not a film, but...
Dead Set, which I have already mentioned in the Halloween 2008 thread.
Shown initially as a five parter across five nights culminating in last night's Halloween finale. It's being shown tonight as a feature length showing.
Imagine Day of the Dead, or 28 Days Later, but this is set in and around the Big Brother show. As the world ends, the contestants are in the only safe place, unaware of the carnage outside. The virus is brought to the set, as evction night gets into full swing. Crowds of screaming fans, reunions of ex-BB starlets, and all the iconic Big Brother touches so familiar to the world. One of the isolated survivors outside the BB house, a lowly runner on the show. Played by Ray Winstone's daughter, and what an actor that girl is.
The show is darkly humourous, biting satire on BB and 'celeb' culture, written by one of our most insightful cultural and media commentators but played absolutely straight.
The zombies are brilliantly done. Some of the death scenes are amazing. And tense...
Oh. My. God.
I watch a lot of horror flicks. I don't often find them scary or unbearably tense. I have seen many zombie type films, and mostly I find them a good giggle and that's about it. I spent this show literally on the edge of my seat, or deliberately not looking at the screen and talking to pilau to break the tension in the room.
I don't ever need to see another zombie film again. I've now seen it done as well as it is possible to do :P
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