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Big Brother UK and all international versions are a hit around the world, why? It’s hard to say. But the fact remains that it is. Love or hate Big Brother Dead Set is an official fictional incarnation directed by Charlie Brooker. In a nut shell the story is that a zombie outbreak occurs in the outside world, but the house-mates are unaware of the chaos outside of the Big Brother House.
The five part episodes ran on E4, but is better watched as a whole. The style of the filming is similar to the virus flicks 28 days/ 28 weeks later and Dead Set could almost be seen as a companion to the two movies.
Dead Set is bleak, bloody and full of irony as the wanna-be celeb’s have to fight for their lives.
UK past contestants including Imogen Thomas, Ziggy Lichman and Helen Adams make brief appearances. But Davina McCall steals the show playing herself and then scarily convincingly as a member of the un-dead. Some of the effects and action are horrifically realistic, at times real tension and emotion is built, over all it’s a great reflective piece of drama/horror/black comedy style of entertainment.