Dead Set Review

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...