ZOMBIES!!!!

Shaolin_monkey · Post by **Shaolin_monkey** » Mon Oct 27, 2008 11:11 pm

I thought Dead Set was awesome from start to finish!! What a premise! Great build up, fantastic shooting, solid acting, gore everywhere!! Davina as a zombie was inspired. Can't wait for the next episode!!

Coyote Smith · Post by **Coyote Smith** » Mon Oct 27, 2008 11:13 pm

I must say I didn't expect it to be as violent as it was, particularly that scene at the end.

aeonis · Post by **aeonis** » Mon Oct 27, 2008 11:31 pm

It was far better than i thought it was gonna be...really enjoyed it!

I wanna see zombie specials of all the soaps now.

onewild · Post by **onewild** » Mon Oct 27, 2008 11:46 pm

I thought it was pretty average to be honest. One can only hope it will get better because that first episode had nothing special about it.
Single zombies all the time that only seemed to go for the neck and banged on doors like an angry husband.
So far so let down

Skev · Post by **Skev** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 8:20 am

Yeah I agree.
It seemed like it had all been done before. Shaky cameras, angry zombies and nothing to make it special.
Very average.

Bob Syko · Post by **Bob Syko** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 11:24 am

I thought it was great as well. I do love them Zombies though.

Bloodbath McGinty · Post by **Bloodbath McGinty** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 8:47 pm

Better than I expected!

What made me laugh is how Brooker said that you shouldn't analysis it, just enjoy it as a good ol' romp, yet he's the guy prepared to anally analysis every programme he sets eyes on! I also thought the Big Brother 'Northern Guy' wouldn't have said "they're coming to get you, Barbara!" in reference to Night of the Living Dead - as if he's seen it! Totally out of character. Nitpicking aside, it's surprisingly good.[/b]

Andy Kurosaki · Post by **Andy Kurosaki** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 8:53 pm

Haven't been able to see this (bloody Satelite only shows), still the dvd is apparantly out Novemer 3rd, so i'll catch this then.

James · Post by **James** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 8:58 pm

Umm...Yeah...I liked it I think

But having all these super fast 'infected' running around makes me miss the old Romero zombies from time to time. Still fun though.

onewild · Post by **onewild** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 10:46 pm

Andy Kurosaki wrote:Haven't been able to see this (bloody Satelite only shows), still the dvd is apparantly out Novemer 3rd, so i'll catch this then.

Now don't ever say I don't do anything for you Andy but you can watch it online with 4oD. Just go to channel4.com

Sly Reflex · Post by **Sly Reflex** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 3:53 am

Bob Syko wrote:I thought it was great as well. I do love them Zombies though.

This. I quite like the running zombies, ones that shuffle about are a bit shit now.

James · Post by **James** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 12:16 pm

I re-watched the original Romero Day of the Dead some weeks back and those slow lumbering zombies, in particular on the streets at the start and inside the bunker at the end, still had an excellent scare factor. I think part of the fear is knowing that they are slowly making their way towards you. I mean a quick death is one thing, but having it slowly creep up to bite you in the ass is another.

Saying that, the Dead Set zombies still bring their own scares to the table, and they seem to be a decent mix of the old Romero themes with the new infected (from the 28 Days/Weeks films) traits. What made me miss the Romero zombies though was that these new zombies (Neo Zombies?) donâ€™t seem to have as much emotional pull as their predecessors. I mean youâ€™d sometimes end up feeling sorry for some of the Romero lot, seeing them stand there staring into oblivion or, for the ones without functioning bodies, knowing that they were stuck in that one spot until someone comes along to kill them. Perhaps that is just me but it was a big part of their appeal.

The new zombies (and I put the ones from the Dawn of the Dead remake into this boat too) have yet to reach that stage yet but then again its still early days for them. Iâ€™d love to see Romero make a film with these new zombies, if anyone can make you feel sympathy towards an old dead person who wants to eat your intestines then its him. At the moment the new zombies just come across as being wild creatures, scary yes, but not in the same way as before.

Still, a regular zombie television series would be awesome, perhaps Dead Set is testing the waters? .

Shaolin_monkey · Post by **Shaolin_monkey** » Sat Nov 01, 2008 1:06 am

So now the series has run its course, what did you think?

spoilers
That scottish woman was far more interesting as a zombie than as an annoying contestant.

I knew that idiot producer would end up fucking it up for everyone. Could see it coming a mile off. It was still nice when the zombies got him, lovely Day of the Dead homage.

Shame the lead character copped it in the end. I was hoping for a slightly less nihilistic ending. It was still good though.

The Big Brother setting was genius. That it broadcasted the horror 24 hours a day was very good, and the scene at the end with the zombies watching the lead characters zombified face on the telly was pretty cool.

My partner thought I was going to bang on about the significance of a decadent society exemplified by Big Brother brought to its knees so easily by the zombie plague, and made sarcastic remarks to that end. However, that hadn't occurred to me. I was still reeling from all the incredibly well done blood and gore. I still have a vivid memory of the spike going through Davina's eye socket.

So yeah, overall a very welcome zombie experience on our screens. And to think, 25 years ago it would have been considered an extreme video nasty. Now it's on a popular TV channel. Hurrah for libertarian telly!

onewild · Post by **onewild** » Sat Nov 01, 2008 1:13 am

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Bob Syko · Post by **Bob Syko** » Sat Nov 01, 2008 1:13 am

I thought it was excellent and I'll be watching it again with my bro soon since he put it on his Sky+ box....along with everything else.

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