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sweavo 4th Nov 2008
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Good Points: Pace, tone, character development, tension, blood and guts.
Bad Points: Blood and guts.
General comments: This was second a comedy and first a tense and bloody horror. It works very well watched back-to-back in the "feature-length edition". Great use is made of British light though continuity slipped on one occasion from deep night to grey evening. Characters are caricatured but played completely straight. Most of the acting was completely believable, and the herione's reaction to an invasion of zombies seemed pretty realistic to me. This is work that does not try to be anything else; that stands up on its own terms.The comedy was in the dark and savage observation of human folly. It left you with a wry question mark over whether zombies are so distinguishable from the British TV-watching public...
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Dreadlocksmile

28th Oct 2008
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Day One in the Dead Set house and it's off to a cracking start. Ok, so some of the acting is a little ropey. The majority of the 'Big Brother' housemates seem to have taken lessons from the Keanu Reeves school of acting. The Big Brother behind-the-scenes production crew were uber cheesy, hitting almost every possible tv crew stereotype there is. Still, you'd expect no less from such a tongue-in-cheek zombie romp.
I found the pace was set well from the very start, diving straight into some flesh ...- Read Dreadlocksmile's review (340 words)





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