Thought of you people while watching a BB movie

[Donovan]

It was called Dead Set, was based in Britain and the story basically concerned a hot but lowly intern on the set of the latest Big Brother season, as she fetches stuff for and receives abuse from her asshole producer boss. It's elimination night, there's a huge crowd awaiting the eviction of the bubbleheaded but hot Scottish redhead while all the other vapid but standard Big Brother cliche characters stay inside. The fancy gay man, the jock bro preppie, the street smoldering cute guy, the fat black matronly girl, the obnoxious pervy geek older guy everyone calls Gollum, and the hot but dumb blonde who is showmancing the preppie. Meanwhile, behind the scenes the hot, capable and underappreciated intern chick juggles demands, chaos, a crumbling romance with her boyfriend and the temptation of the hot but stupid hipster intern she is toying with, and the catty attention of hipster boy's last conquest. Standard soapy drama...


And then the zombie apocalypse happens. Hordes of undead invade the lot, the town, the country, the world, and a series of horrible events makes the only safe place the set itself.

I will say this. For a B movie and a horrible plot premise, this movie was way better than it deserved to be. It turned where it wasn't expected to, was funnier, scarier, more horrible and terrific than it had any right to be. Technically they call it a series, but it's only half a dozen "episodes" at 22 minutes each, so about movie length with a very decisive end.

Watch it. It is worth it.

 

[CaptainWacky]

I watched it when it was first shown on tv here a few years ago. It was good, yeah! I liked Kevin Eldon as the pervy BB housemate.

If you liked it you should watch Black Mirror which is (mostly) written by the same person (Charlie Brooker.) It's a science fiction/horror anthology series.

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

Yup I've seen it too. It holds up years later, too. I love that that whole thing is on YT since it's hard to find other places.

 

[Donovan]

I'm not even sure where I saw it the other day, it wasn't Youtube but one of the offshoot channels Roku has. It was good enough to watch straight through when I was thinking I'd give it five minutes. I will look for Black Mirror.

One of the funniest things I love about British filmmaking, especially horror or action flicks, is the creative lack of weaponry. Five years into Walking Dead and they haven't even so much as started counting bullets, and they have things like gun rooms. In this one, there were only a couple, they were fired maybe four times, and their presence was odd enough that every time a gun showed up someone needed to know how they got it. Nobody in American cinema would care or think to ask where a gun came from, it was just assumed everyone had one lol

 

[CaptainWacky]

Black Mirror is on Netflix. There's a new season starting soon.