Two confessions: I've never seen a zombie film (I switched off Shaun Of The Dead after about ten minutes) and I expected Dead Set by Charlie Brooker to be pretty rubbish (A zombie film? By a journalist? Set in the Big Brother house? Pah.)
In fact, it was excellent. Really good. Tight, gripping, funny and just scary enough.
Very well acted and directed. Brilliant effects. And the writing, apart from the occasional Brooker-ish flourishes, was mainly quite understated (in a good way) - which seems a surprising thing to say about a zombie film, by a journalist, set in the Big Brother House.
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