Well, it’s Hallowe’en week this week, so most of us are starting to consider watching a horror movie or two. For those of us who have no interest in the torture porn of Saw 5, or the inferior remake of REC, called Quarantine, UK cable channel E4 has taken the initiative. Starting tonight, and continuing through to Friday, is a zombie mini-series entitled “Dead Set“.
The premise is that a run of the reality-TV show Big Brother is interrupted by hoards of reanimated dead, or zombies as we know and love them as. The series follows the contestants and crew as they realise what’s happening, and their tightly run show turns into a struggle for survival.
The show is created by Charlie Brooker, a comedy writer and journalist for the Guardian. And the comedy background seems to have paid off in terms of this show’s outset, which sort of acts as a satire against reality TV, while of course featuring vast amounts of gore and shocks. But at least the social criticism is present, considering its lack in some recent horror films.
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