Dead Set (2008)

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

A Masterpiece!

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

Some producers would smell a sitcom, restricting all action to just the Big Brother set with the cast inside unaware of the zombie situation. Dead Set toys briefly with the idea, but abandons it for thrills and spills - inside and outside. If Psycho made you afraid of taking a shower, Dead Set will make you never try to operate a waterway lock again! More 28 Days Later than a chamber drama then, it delivers the goods with glee. With zombies flocking, there is a gentle poke at the Maybe This Place was Important to them Speech from Dawn of the Dead. It is a bit of a breather for writer Charlie Brooker between his more probing works regarding media and technology: The excellent news satire Brass Eye and his current Black Mirror series. It is in a bit of a hurry, but a good watch.

Download it from Sky on demand. It sounded really stupid, like the walking dead meets big brother, and that is exactly what it was!! I am not a a big brother fan either, But surprisingly enough it was absolutely brilliant. Im so glad I taped them because I was able to watch one straight after the other. The acting was excellent, it was well scripted and the makeup was brilliant. The best part of all, was watching the most irritating woman on TV, Devina McColl get whats been coming to her after many years of waiting for this to happen. For this alone I should give it a 10!! All we want now is for them to make a follow up with Tony Blair and I would die happy.

Couple of nights ago i was trying to find a zombie TV show and came across this.Looked on IMDb,this show got 8.0 rating.I thought, OK i could give it a try, after all 8 is not bad at all.some other TV shows that i actually like had the same rating or even worse then this one.I'll start this review saying that this show does not deserve such a high rating.Not at all.What is good in this show-they portrayed well those big brother contestants.Performances are OK,plot too,could pass,although it doesn't develop much. We never get to know why does this outbreak happen-is this a virus?experiment?how is it going to end?nope.no answers there.That's what i really hated about this show.It seems to me,that this show was so pointless.From the first to the last episode we only get to see how they are all being overwhelmed by zombies.No one is being saved.Nobody survived.They all turned into zombies.And at the end of the show you get the feeling that the entire population is dead and there is nobody alive.OK but give us some answers.What is with that french voice from the radio?what did it say?i mean come on what is the purpose to make a show where we are only going to see how the last 6 people on the planet are being killed and turned into zombies?what is the point.i don't see one. I was annoyed with many more things in this show but i'll name here only couple more -ok zombies are in this flick represented like sprinters-and somehow they can't get out of the small swimming pool?no sense there.and it seems they can't really get over fence ,only there are like 20000 of them at the gates and it seems they can't knock it down? -there is a zombie outbreak of some kind and immediately everybody loses phone signal?why?maybe wires caught the virus too I could go on but no point there.This one is just bad flick.You would want to pass it,unless you like seeing pointless TV show about zombies running around and killing everybody.I don't recommend it.

Wow! "Dead Set" is one of the better zombie entertainment installments I have seen in awhile. I bought the DVD from Amazon and I am really glad that I did. I had no idea what it was about, just that it was something with zombies, so of course I had to own it. I had put off watching it for awhile, a big mistake on my account.The story in "Dead Set" is about an outbreak of zombies on a global scale. We follow the people inside a 'Big Brother' house, as they are shielded from the outside world and have no idea that the entire world outside is dying, literally, and coming back from the dead. But soon enough, the zombies come crashing through the gates...I found that "Dead Set" was a lovely mixture of both types of zombie genres; the Romero zombies and the "28 Days Later" zombies. And it actually worked out quite well. Personally I am not a fan of agile, running zombies, but it was quite fitting in "Dead Set".The characters in "Dead Set" were believable and realistic, and I loved the way they portrayed the people in today's society that are blinded by the media and lusting for their 15 minutes of shame in the eye of the public. It was really a great touch to the series that they portrayed some of the people like that, as it is as true to the reality of reality show competitors as it gets. Yeah, you guessed it, I have no love for reality shows, nor for the people participating in them."Dead Set" is driven by the great combo of the action, storyline, gore and the characters. The characters were really so greatly detailed and fleshed out, that you got a lot of chance to delve yourself into their situations and grow with them. I liked that about "Dead Set", because the characters (and the actors/actresses portraying them) were really helping along the series so well.The zombies in "Dead Set" were great, nice details, nice gore, great aggression. However, and this is a personal preference of mine, but I didn't care much for them running around all agile and quick, that is not in my taste. And also the eyes, well it was a good enough attempt, but it would have worked better with some contact lenses that milked over the eyes, instead of making them have eyes like Marilyn Manson."Dead Set" is good entertainment and lots of fun. I enjoyed it from the very start up to the very end. It is a great addition to any zombie aficionado's DVD collection. If you enjoy zombie movies, then you definitely have to check out "Dead Set". And it is well worth checking out if you are a fan of the "28 Days Later" series or any of the Romero zombie movies - or both!