Corel
11-20-2008, 07:37 PM
"28 Days Later meets Reality TV's Big Brother? Surely not Corel!" I hear you hallow as you rattle the gates. Don't worry: I too was first sceptical about the entire concept before watching, but I was pleasantly surprised with how it turned out!
I am pasting this transcript taken from another forum talking about the series, for I think it sums up the show much more eloquently than I could.
Deadset (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Set_(TV_series)) is written by warped misanthrope par excellence Charlie Brooker, he of Screenwipe and TV Go Home fame. The basic premise is this: a plague of (running) Zombies sweeps the UK and spreads to the set of pisspoor reality TV show Big Brother. Much gore is shed, and the surviving housemates and production crew are forced to survive. Or at least try to.
It may sound contrived. Yet the show succeeds by striking a perfect balance between satire, serious horror, zombie homage, genuine tragedy and bleakness, black humour and unrelenting despair. Throw in some superb camerawork and editing, and the show looks as well as feels shockingly grim.
The cast is also great and brings depth and sympathy to what might so easily have been flat stereotypes. Patrick the megabastard producer (played with glee by Andy Nyman) in particular stands out as the comic relief, voice of brutal wisdom and Captain Rhodes-style hate figure. But the rest of the cast does a stirling job too, especially Big Brother presenter Davina McCall, playing herself albeit in a rather 'traumatised' way.
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...Most of all, Dead Set never forgets the one harsh, unbending rule of both zombie films and life itself: the bastards always get in.
The trailer (Albeit a poor one) can be found here (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=HQjq639WPiU).
The series has already been shown on UK TV and are available to stream on-line here (http://www.channel4.com/video/brandless-catchup.jsp?vodBrand=dead-set) for a limited amount of time only.
However I have a feeling that it is for UK based ISPs only, I apologise non-Anglos! I'm sure it will crop up more on the Internet as time goes by(if they have not already) or when the DVD is released.
Edit: Sorry non-IE browser users, it seems the video player it streams in won't support any other browser (unless with the use of the correct plug in).
I am pasting this transcript taken from another forum talking about the series, for I think it sums up the show much more eloquently than I could.
Deadset (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Set_(TV_series)) is written by warped misanthrope par excellence Charlie Brooker, he of Screenwipe and TV Go Home fame. The basic premise is this: a plague of (running) Zombies sweeps the UK and spreads to the set of pisspoor reality TV show Big Brother. Much gore is shed, and the surviving housemates and production crew are forced to survive. Or at least try to.
It may sound contrived. Yet the show succeeds by striking a perfect balance between satire, serious horror, zombie homage, genuine tragedy and bleakness, black humour and unrelenting despair. Throw in some superb camerawork and editing, and the show looks as well as feels shockingly grim.
The cast is also great and brings depth and sympathy to what might so easily have been flat stereotypes. Patrick the megabastard producer (played with glee by Andy Nyman) in particular stands out as the comic relief, voice of brutal wisdom and Captain Rhodes-style hate figure. But the rest of the cast does a stirling job too, especially Big Brother presenter Davina McCall, playing herself albeit in a rather 'traumatised' way.
...
...Most of all, Dead Set never forgets the one harsh, unbending rule of both zombie films and life itself: the bastards always get in.
The trailer (Albeit a poor one) can be found here (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=HQjq639WPiU).
The series has already been shown on UK TV and are available to stream on-line here (http://www.channel4.com/video/brandless-catchup.jsp?vodBrand=dead-set) for a limited amount of time only.
However I have a feeling that it is for UK based ISPs only, I apologise non-Anglos! I'm sure it will crop up more on the Internet as time goes by(if they have not already) or when the DVD is released.
Edit: Sorry non-IE browser users, it seems the video player it streams in won't support any other browser (unless with the use of the correct plug in).