{"id":3306,"date":"2009-10-06T20:01:10","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T00:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=3306"},"modified":"2009-10-06T20:01:10","modified_gmt":"2009-10-07T00:01:10","slug":"dead-set-2008-charlie-brooker-yann-demange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/3306","title":{"rendered":"Dead Set (2008, Charlie Brooker &#038; Yann Demange)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/tag\/horror\">SHOCKtober<\/a> gets off to a rocky start with this five-part British miniseries.  The premise is that there&#8217;s an apocalyptic zombie attack which we see through the eyes of reality show Big Brother participants.  I think maybe if I&#8217;d ever cared about the show (or even seen it) this might&#8217;ve made a bigger impact&#8230; movie seems geared towards fans.<\/p>\n<p>Who loves <em>Dawn of the Dead?<\/em><br \/>\n&#8220;Why do they keep coming towards the house?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;This place used to be like a chuch to them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I hope to see no more work from director Demange and cinematographer Tat Radcliffe who provide garbage visuals for Brooker&#8217;s cliche but sometimes exciting story.  Every time there&#8217;s a bit of action the cameraman goes spastic.  Since the bits of action are what make zombie movies fun, this one kinda blows.  Fun to see zombies unleashed on a reality TV set though, ripping up the only character I liked, a girl whose only line seems to be a dismayed &#8220;I don&#8217;t like it!&#8221;  We&#8217;re supposed to be thrilled instead at the prolonged, gory death of mega-asshole producer Andy Nyman, but he was too cartoonish to hate &#8211; I just appreciated his death scene because it was the only zombie-attack bit where the camera stood still.<\/p>\n<p>MPEG noise over gloomy clouds makes the sky appear to be full of tiny birds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SHOCKtober gets off to a rocky start with this five-part British miniseries. The premise is that there&#8217;s an apocalyptic zombie attack which we see through the eyes of reality show Big Brother participants. I think maybe if I&#8217;d ever cared about the show (or even seen it) this might&#8217;ve made a bigger impact&#8230; movie seems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[102,54,52,100],"class_list":["post-3306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-britain","tag-horror","tag-television","tag-zombies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3306"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3357,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306\/revisions\/3357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}