Dead Set Reviews

A year ago, to coincide with Halloween, the clever guys over at Channel 4 decided that, in order to help push the upcoming series of Celebrity Big Brother, they would release this 5 part series, giving us a drama featuring the reality TV show, but with a zombie twist. The story starts as the BB house is on the verge of an eviction ...  Read the complete review

Dead Set revolves around the Big Brother house, who remain uninformed (but not for long) after the sci-fi standard zombie outbreak which engulfs outside. We follow three overlapping story lines. Kelly, a drone of the Big Brother production team, her boyfriend Riq and her bastard of a producer. It's written by Charlie ...  Read the complete review

Plot: Big Brother 20XX, and the country has been taken over by Zombies, only the contestants don't know. But they will soon. Acting: Poor at best, it's a cheap laugh, and as such has the acting talent to go with it. Davina McCall's blood soaked cameo is entertaining but certainly not likely to win any awards. Overview: I ...  Read the complete review

Well, I have only just watched this after having it on my Sky Plus for ages. To be honest I really expected it to be a poor effort at a horror movie however it really could rival some top horror moviezs that have been made. It is written by Charlie Brooker who is known for his comedy however this was released on Halloween originally in 2008 ...  Read the complete review

I had no idea what to expect from this, other than it was a brilliant idea by CH4, and lets face it, how many brilliant ideas do Channel Four have these days. That idea in question was to spoof Big Brother in the cruelest and most self-deprecating of ways, the house being over run by zombies, what most people think about the cretins who apply to ...  Read the complete review

Written by Charlie Brooker and originally shown on channel 4's sister channel, E4, on the week of halloween, Dead Set takes the premise of what might happen if a group of Big Brother housemates became trapped in the house during a zombie outbreak. To be fair, this could've gone either way but thankfully it was actually pretty damn good and was ...  Read the complete review