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Post by Snuffleuff on Apr 13, 2013 12:19:56 GMT -5
OK, my contribution to "Zombie shows no one has heard of" is the UK's "Dead Set", from a few years back. BBC ran this in half hour parts for the week of Halloween when we were living overseas, so I got to enjoy it on first run. It's a very black tragicomedy that follows events at the Big Brother reality TV house through a zombie apocalypse. The first time I saw it I thought it was fun but just OK, but it got much better on rewatch and IMO the subtlety of the humor comes through better with exposure. Basically, the incredibly shallow characters inside the Big Brother house, and the incredibly vicious and selfish producers and execs running the show, are all thrown together when the zombie apocalypse happens in the country around them... Once they finally notice.
Most of the humor comes from putting the Big Brother people, who think relationships and bad hair are tragic, into situations where they have to deal with *genuine* tragedy and nightmare. Also in watching their helpless bungling continually screw up their perfect shelter (Already barricaded, fenced, and with its own power and food). It's dark, sad, funny, farcical, and worth seeing. The one major demerit I give it is the use of handheld jerkicam/quickcut action scenes. That fad needed to die before it ever got started.
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Post by Spiderzed on Apr 13, 2013 12:54:28 GMT -5
Actually, there was an Urban Dead map dedicated to Dead Set: wiki.urbandead.com/index.php/BorehamwoodIt even had the big brother house. It's a shame that I've entered the game to late to see it for myself.
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Post by bullgod on Apr 13, 2013 21:15:34 GMT -5
i still have an alt there, there's not much to see now of days but defiled graffiti and buildings ransacked years ago.
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Post by zorinth on Apr 13, 2013 21:24:45 GMT -5
Ditto. Mine ate it once and I never stood them back up.
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Post by Petite Fille on Apr 13, 2013 22:04:58 GMT -5
I saw the Dead Set series several years ago and it was pretty good. If I remember the ending correctly, the last two survivors had closeted themselves in a storage room of some sort and then decided that they couldn't stay there so they were going to take their chances and fight their way out of their not-so-very-safe house full of the ravenous, shambling undead. I think I remember that door opening and the machetes started swinging before the movie cut away to the credits. I am going to assume that the zombies ate them for breakfast and it was a very happy ending. For the zombies, anyway. I played Borehamwood when the game first started and managed to stay alive for quite a while but once my survivor died, I didn't pick her back up. I just played my zombie after that. That game was huge! I know that people were trying to map it like they did Malton but I'm not sure anyone was able to actually map the whole board. It was easy to get lost there.
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Post by ZombieGeorge on Apr 15, 2013 14:04:50 GMT -5
I saw it back in 2009ish . . . I assumed that I was the last person on the planet to see it They really dragged their zombie feet in getting a US dvd release, iirc. . . like two years?
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Post by bullgod on Apr 16, 2013 0:11:15 GMT -5
not the last person, i still haven't seen it, not terribly interested either it didn't look great.
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