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I was going to say this could have been really bad but the mind of Charlie Brooker probably wasn't going to mess this up, and it delivered on multiple layers. brilliant acting, brilliant characters, possibly too brilliant gore effects. This is so much more than a zombie flick and it really had to be to succeed.

Andy Nyman had many of the best lines but there were so many to go round, including Kathleen Mcdermotts delightfully dense pippa. all of em were engaging and believable, and Jamie Winstone obviously inherited some skills from her dad, she rules her scenes.

watching something like this renews your hope in TV. there's probably more depth than can be consumed in one sitting and its incredibly entertaining to boot. I'll be thinking about this show for the next few days. more please.

Considering this is a low budget TV film Charlie Brooker has pulled off a fantastic little gem, based on the premise of a Zombie Outbreak in England and the tale of a eclectic band of survivors (most of whom already hate each others guts) stuck in the Big Brother House, a satirical comment on the vacuousness of Reality TV to rival Romero's commentary of consumerism in the original Dawn of the Dead.

Taken as a gore fest with a huge dollop of black humour it works a treat and even the nihilistic ending fits so well into the message. Some great references throughout for Zombie Film Fans and Big Brother Fans alike. I like fast Zombies, much scarier and more threatening than traditional shufflers and considering the limited time this mini-series had they really were a necessity. Having some of the real ex-house mates and Davina as Zombies was a great touch.

If you enjoyed Dawn of the Dead (2004), 28 Days and Weeks Later, REC and Shaun of the Dead, Dead Set is definitely worth a viewing.

Maybe it's impossible these days to make a zombie movie which doesn't feel reminiscent of others; in the case of the Charlie Brooker-scripted TV movie Dead Set, too much of the zombie carnage feels lifted from 28 Days/Weeks Later and the Dawn of the Dead remake. But to focus on that would be to overlook the brilliant angle Brooker brings to the genre, not least its premise: that some of the few survivors of the zombie holocaust are the house-mates in Big Brother. Other horror films have been had reality TV settings, but this Endemol-produced flick has the advantage of featuring actual BB stars: Davina McCall and a host of former house-mates. Of the actors, Andy Nyman stands out as the BB director whose character is clearly Brooker's stand-in for himself, and whose comedy scenes are sensibly kept separate from the horror until the final scenes. And it's so well-written that you'll actually be rooting for everyone to survive.

If you love (a) zombie movies, or (b) Big Brother, Dead Set is *unmissably* good.

However, I would recommend waiting for the 138-minute DVD on 3rd November, as I can't imagine it having half the impact when it's chopped up into five episodes, complete with ad breaks, as it will be on E4 next week.

Hopefully Dead Set won't be quickly forgotten as a quirky little TV series on a minor channel, and will be recognised internationally as one of the decade's best zombie flicks.

What can i say, i was expecting really bad zombies and really bad horror from dead set, and i'm glad to say i was pleasantly surprised.

although the acting wasn't amazing the rest of the programme was excellent, the zombies looked good, the special effects where OK and i really enjoyed the jerky camera angles.

although any fan of horror wont find this scary (think dawn of the dead 2004 or 28 days later) it was very enjoyable.

Channel 4 have done a great job making something original for a TV audience, i can honestly say i have not seen any original "horror" programming this good on TV since Ghost Watch about 15 years ago.

well done channel 4!

Charlie Brooker might be my favorite person working in entertainment on both sides of the biz: commentator and content creator. His series, "Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe", is one of the most astute, insightful, hilarious and informative about television you'll come across, and its spin-off, "Newswipe", really lifts the lid off TV news). As a longtime zombie aficionado (as well as purveyor), I came to this with high expectations and was not disappointed. If anything, it overwhelmed me with how breathtakingly good it was.

Ballsier than most horror features, "Dead Set" is also richly satirical, brilliantly written and beautifully acted. Each character is fully realized and distinct, the performances across the board stellar, with lead Jaime Winstone tough, capable and winsome. Andy Nyman almost steals the show as Patrick, the profane producer. He channels Brooker's venomous wit and amps it up. Whereas Brooker as a TV personality can spew invective with charm and good humor (even when he seriously loathes something), Patrick radiates malignance. But because of Nyman's great gifts as an actor, he renders Patrick somehow magnetic. Even when he's doing some truly unspeakable acts, you cannot look away (though some more sensitive viewers might want to watch through interlaced fingers).

I would put this on the top shelf of zombie--or indeed any horror--cinema. It's credible, exciting, captivating and worthy of multiple viewings.

Although I'm fan of Big Brother, I have only just got round to watching Dead Set. I love the idea around this mini series and it turned out to be a great watch.

The characters were likable and portrayed well, they was like proper housemates. Having Davina as the host also made it feel more real. The plot was great and progressed at a nice pace, leaving you wanting more after every episode had finished. This action was extremely fast paced and gory, there was also quite a lot of humour which I liked, it was just a good solid drama series in general. Jaime Winstone who played Kelly really stole the show, she was great.

It was kept short and sweet with just 5 episodes, 4 of which were only 25 minutes. The set looked great and the zombies were very detailed. The action was thick and fast.

The way it all ended might not be everyone's favourite but for me that was inevitable. Overall an extremely good series, better than I thought it would be. Would recommend it to anyone, although it isn't that scary.

9/10.

For such an incredibly pervasive cultural icon (who doesn't have a Zombie Survival Plan?), the zombie is incredibly poorly represented by cinema. Most zombie films are terrible. In fact, the only zombie films that can really rank as classics even in horror movie terms are the first three Romero films. Beyond that you've got a band of competent efforts: some of the remakes of Romero, the comedy zombie films (Return of the Living Dead, Braindead etc.), the variations on the theme (Dario Argento's Demons, 28 Days Later, Versus) and Lucio Fulci's Zombie. All told that's less than a dozen films. Just about everything else has been terrible and I mean really terrible. Some of the worst cinema ever made is about zombies, most of it either zero-budget American dross or the worst Italy has to offer.

With that in mind, Charlie Brooker's mini-series-cum-TV-movie Dead Set stands out from the pack by miles as a treatment of zombies which is actually very good. It's very well written, mixing realistic dialogue, spot-on satire of reality TV contestants and dark humour without ever getting the tone wrong. It's gory enough to please any splatter fan, with the first competent "ripped apart by zombies" scene in ages, and it manages to create an authentic mood of apocalyptic despair, with the collapse of society sharply depicted. Brooker even manages to fit some decent social commentary into the mix, and does it in a far more holistic and subtle manner that George Romero's latest attempt. Zombies-as-metaphor has always been the preferred way to impart depth onto the death, and Brooker puts in enough subtext about the braindead masses and their mindless consumption of TV and cinema to give you something to talk about afterwards other than the gore effects, should you so wish.

What holds Dead Set back somewhat is its acquiescence to cliché. Like most 21st Century zombie outings, it's packed full of references, most of them to Romero, and the ultimate direction of the plot should be familiar to anyone who's ever watched a zombie film. Many of the shocks and outcomes to scenes will be utterly sign-posted to any fan of zombies, and even the gore effects are content to merely copy the work of Savini et al rather than strike out in his spirit of finding ever-more innovative mutilation of the human form. The over-use of shaky-cam is a more stylistic example of its unoriginality: using wobbly hand-held cameras to create that gritty documentary realism may have been original in 1998 in Saving Private Ryan, but in the decade since then it's been done to absolute death (excuse the pun).

While it does nothing new, Dead Set is still a triumph because it does the old far more proficiently than most have managed. And it's nice to see a British backdrop to the nightmarish apocalypse once again.

Set largely in the confines of a fictional "Big Brother" house and cleverly containing appearances from real previous occupants, this low-budget British horror comedy is a surprisingly effective television mini-series.

The first episode is longer in length than subsequent installments but really sets the scene for the mayhem to come.

Jaime Winstone is the feisty heroine of the tale, a runner who's just as competent at smashing a zombie's skull with a fire extinguisher as she is fetching coffee for the crew.

The sight of a zombified Davina McCall is genuinely chilling. McCall's performance is stunning, I really didn't expect such a convincing appearance as a member of the undead's growing ranks.

While it may be argued that "Dead Set" does nothing to enhance zombie mythology, I think it's a perfect companion to the best examples from this genre.

Unmissable.

Well into the latest season of England's reality TV hit, Big Brother, a zombie plague suddenly breaks out. With chaos erupting outside, the house-mates are safely locked away in the Big Brother house without the faintest idea that anything's wrong.

I watched this back in January after receiving the DVD from Amazon UK, and what can I say? I suppose that I could best sum it up by just saying wow! Dead Set is a brilliant serial, not to mention the best damn thing to come out of the UK's horror scene in well over a decade. To hell with The Descent, Charlie Brooker's zombie opus is horror to be proud of! I really appreciated the nihilism on display here. There's satire, and it's spot-on. However, make no mistake about it, this is a bleak piece of work. The use of the Big Brother house is very inspired, and depending on how you look at it, the fact that the contestants are the only people who are truly safe just adds to the depressing nature of the series. Of course, human nature can ruin that safety net real quick.

That brings me to the characters. Most of them are annoying, as they should be. This is Big Brother we're talking about here! The only 100% likable character in the series is Alex (Liz May Brice). She's also the only character with no connection to the reality series, big shock. Then there's Patrick (Andy Nyman), the show's tyrannical director. He's an over the top lunatic, but he's so much fun to watch. Donkey Punch's Jaime Winstone gets the lead role of Kelly, the producer who clues the house-mates in to the carnage going on around them. Of the show's contestants, Joplin is the most memorable. Again, he's not exactly likable, but I did find myself feeling a bit sorry for him. The others in the house treat him poorly and refer to him as Gollum behind his back. Kathleen McDermott plays Pippa, the most grating house-mate. If I have one complaint, it's that they killed Davina McCall off far too quickly. Pippa should have been offed instead.

This thing doesn't hold back on the gore either. There's some nasty stuff here, often accompanied by jet black humor. Just look at the bit where Patrick goes off on a hilarious diatribe while cutting up a body to distract the zombies. I also got a kick out of the nods to George Romero's films, such as Patrick's demise and Mark mistaking Riq for a zombie.

I watched all five episodes back to back. At about 140 minutes complete with "previously on" intros, this feels like one big zombie epic. I loved the absolute hell out of it.

I thought that there would never be a zombie epic to beat or even overshadow George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead (apart from Shaun of the Dead) and now FINALLY I think we in Britain have finally got a film/TV movie/ mini series that does rival that. Dead set is a horror set around the Big Brother phenomenon and a terrifying real zombie apocalypse. The general public and the house-mates even the crew of Big Brother become unknowingly involved in a vicious fight for survival as the dead start eating the entire British population one chunk at a time. I truly loved this, I love zombie movies (yes even the crap and extremely cheesy ones too) and this was the best millennium zombie based survival horror I have ever seen. As far as I was concerned the remake of Dawn of the Dead, remake of Day of the Dead, the new 3D version of Night of the living dead and every other 'poser' zombie movie out there nowadays that doesn't fulfil the code of the zombie horror movie i.e. intense scenes and graphic gore, Dead set fulfils on all levels. Firstly the acting is great from Andy Nyman (severance) as the totally obnoxious producer of Big Brother Patrick to Jamie Winstone as the poor floor runner Kelly forced to become the heroine in charge of the survival of the house-mates of the Big Brother house. There's even past BB housemates who star in cameos at the start of the series and some even become zombies later but you'll have to watch it to find out who becomes one and who becomes zombie brunch. Next I'll move to the gore. Don't think that just cause this was a made for TV movie that they skimp on the gore because they don't. I was very surprised by the gore and bloody carnage that they were allowed to put on the small screen. E4 have definitely pulled out their balls and had the guts (no pun intended) to show this movie he way we'd expect it to be seen in all its gutsy glory (again no pun intended.) Some of the effects rival that of Tom Savini's groundbreaking and very gruesome special FX on the original George A. Romero's Day of the Dead. I was in awe by what they were allowed to show on the screen and thank god they did. Next the social commentary that George included in Dawn is re-invented and used in Dead Set. How the characters talk about the zombies and how the zombies watch the revealing show via TV sets that they walk around finding their next meal and what society is reduced to. Lastly the zombies in this are genuinely chilling, they look menacing and vicious even at times somewhat evil and very ravenous… and I mean ravenous for human flesh (take note Resident Evil Trilogy) Yes even for the first time I can even pass the fact that these zombies can run and pretty damn fast. Just like the zombies from Dawn of the Dead remake, Day of the dead remake and 28 days/weeks later these will tear after you if you are seen and that is scary but although they can do that the slow style of zombie i.e. Romero's zombies are much more frightening than the fast future style zombies of today. The dark overtone of the story adds an air of dread to the atmospheric tension and terror that Dead Set has deep in the underbelly of Charlie Brooker's well thought out script. Britain proves that what Hollywood can do, with a bit of careful structure and preparation the UK can do it better. We did it with Shaun of the Dead which was a global hit and I believe that we can easily do it again with Dead Set when it finally reaches USA shores soon. The climax genuinely had made both thrilled, chilled and scared and not many horrors can do that with me.

Dead Set is a thrilling gory"shoot me again I ain't dead yet" exciting piece of UK style horror and should be seen to be believed.

OMG LOVE THIS PROGRAMME! just saw the first episode on E4 and i bloody love it! it was about time they made a show about zombies and I've got to say its some scary stuff. It feels so real as i have always followed the big brother show and it feels as if it is actually happening as the show shows camera angles as if you were actually watching big brother! The zombies are totally scary and the special effects are great for just a TV programme. Davina did an amazing job as acting herself obviously when she was doing the eviction scene but when she became one of the zombies she was very good and was believable cannot wait till the next episode tomorrow if anyone missed it they should definitely catch up on it on 4OD absolutely brilliant! I even jumped a few times!

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!

If you've watched every episode of The Walking Dead and seen all the quality zombie movies such as The Dawn of the Dead remake, Shaun of the Dead, Zombieland etc... and your wondering what's left. The answer is Dead Set.

Imagine 28 Days Later the mini series and that just about sums it up. A zombie apocalypse breaks out in London in the midst of the production of the latest series of Big Brother. This premise allows for plenty of social commentary & biting satire. The BB director character Patrick is like David Brent from The Office but even more of a jerk. Hilarious. There is bitter sweet emotional drama too. The action is intense and frightening. Damn those fast zombies. They are stressful. Give me the slow American ones any day. Just kidding. Absolutely loved it! Check it out!

I don't often watch horror movies. I saw "Night of the Living Dead" when I was young and it scared me so much I still had nightmares well into my adulthood about zombies attacking me. But when I heard about "Dead Set" I was intrigued.

Every year since "Big Brother" started in the UK I would say I wasn't going to waste another summer watching it, and then I would get hooked mid series and spend hours on the Digital Spy Big Brother Forums arguing about the chances and the personalities of the housemates. "Big Brother" began as a curiosity, and an experiment. The first series was fascinating as a study of aspects of British society: how people from different backgrounds interacted in a confined environment. The second series was not as revealing as the audience and the contestants knew what to expect, but it was still interesting to watch. But by Big Brother 5 the tone of the show changed from participation to conflict: that series was notorious for a fight that broke out between the housemates that was so violent the live TV feed was temporarily taken off the air. By the end of the 7th series I felt the housemates entered the programme solely to obtain magazine deals and promotional contracts and they would do whatever they felt necessary to raise their value as celebrities, including having sex on camera or abusing other housemates. I was sickened by scenes of housemates being bullied and lingering shots of upset contestants crying. I didn't watch the last two series of the show.

"Dead Set" is frightening. The gore didn't scare me: I was actually impressed by the prosthetics. The premise is apt: "Big Brother" eviction nights have become known for baying crowds. It's rare now when a housemate doesn't get booed, and the security has obviously been increased to keep housemates from being attacked by the crowd. I can see the crowd becoming bestial and tearing the contestants apart, as they do in "Dead Set". The portraits of the contestants are accurate: people were discussing on the Digital Spy BB forum which former housemates the "Dead Set" housemates reminded them of. It's telling that when one encounters Kelly he ignores her distress and her being covered with blood and immediately asks how he's perceived by the outside, and how another picks up a Heat magazine in a garage forecourt shop and comments on how the magazine's coverage of him is rubbish.

It's also apt that the only TV signal still operating emits from a camera in the Big Brother house. The survivors of the apocalyptic world are left watching at first the housemates fight off the zombies, with the help of Kelly from the production staff. Later, all that is left is the zombie Kelly staring into the camera, being watched by the undead stumbling through shopping malls. The show is still society watching itself: only now the public has turned into savage flesh-eating monsters watching savage flesh-eating monsters.

The casting of former BB housemates and BB presenter Davina McCall is the icing on the cake. Davina's prolonged attack on the producer and the evicted housemate is metaphoric: it's revealing that she is the only zombie who threatens them. I only wish "Dead Set" suggested a little more about how "Big Brother" and the viewers are reduced to mob behaviour and animalistic violence. It would have benefited from more comments about the events of the eviction night and the aftermath by a character who is a seasoned viewer (perhaps one of the fans who attended the eviction night could have survived and joined the housemates, Kelly, and Kelly's boyfriend) or more scenes of people watching the show before and after the outbreak. The satire would have been sharpened from some more inclusion of one of the key elements of "Big Brother", the telephone vote. But as it stands the ending is truly chilling, especially Kelly's pronouncing the housemate in the control room the winner of Big Brother. "Dead Set" raises many questions about what winning Big Brother truly entails; I just wish it raised more questions about what "Big Brother" reflects.

Charlie Brooker breaks a number of boundaries in creating this magnificent series - but most importantly, he has written the only zombie television series to date, either in the UK or the US. Although the plot contains more gaping wounds than Davina McCall after a zombie's had a go at her, what it lacks in integrity it makes up for in sheer suspense and terror. The premise is laughable - a zombie outbreak is bringing Britain to its knees, and the only ones unaware of this are locked safely inside the "Big Brother" house - but this little gem turns out to be an extremely frightening experience.

While Big Brother host Davina McCall steals the show, she does not play a particularly challenging role, and finds her initial role of playing a fictional version of herself even more challenging than playing a bloodthirsty zombie. On the other hand, Jaime Winstone and the rest of the cast put in fantastic performances all round. One of the series' only faults is the very shaky and often frustrating camera-work, which can be effective at times in adding to the realistic "documentary feel", but often just makes it difficult to work out what is actually happening on screen.

While making a few jabs at the state of British television and celebrity culture - the world is coming to an end, yet Big Brother is still on - the series also manages to deliver truly terrifying scenes and a great sense of nihilism throughout.

Zombie films are notoriously bad with bad scrip, bad acting and bad special effects!!

Not so "Dead Set".

Without ruining the film,

Its got a great witty scripted. Top notch acting and super gory effects.

It is genuinely scary and suspenseful.

A must see for any zombie fan, your viewing will be changed.

This show is awesomely brilliant! It can be watched as a typical zombie horror flick due to actors' deadpan delivery and directing style, but the more you pay attention to the dialogue the more of a comedy it becomes. The script by Charlie Brooker is witty and full of biting cynical social commentary. It's also a much better entry into the zombie genre than anything since the original REC. I could be wrong about this next point, but I believe Joplin to be Brooker's doppleganger. Plus if you watch Charlie Brooker's screenwipe you can see some of the characters Brooker parodies in this show. Three out of two thumbs up!

If you're a fan of zombies, this movie, above all others, is for you. Don't even bother reading the rest of this review. Go watch it now.

The concept of using a Big Brother setting was a brilliant idea and worked very well. Whether you loved or hated the characters, they were unique and set apart in their personalities, and the acting was fantastic and believable.

One of the most amazing things about this was the special effects. I've never seen such realistic movie gore; it's definitely not for the sensitive, because they is a lot of blood, guts, and brains in this movie. The zombies were well-made, too. The makeup and acting was far from any cliché zombie you might've seen before.

This was simply wonderful, a movie any true horror fan will love. You won't regret seeing it over and over again.

I've watched several zombie films in my day,( Dawn of the Dead, Land of the Dead, 28 Days Later etc) but this film (I prefer stating it as a film than a series) hit all of my expectations.

Firstly, the acting is very good, seeing as there are several actors in this who I did not recognise. Secondly, the story-line is excellent; whoever came up with the idea to mix Zombies with Big Brother is simply genius. Particularly when more than more of 1/3 of Britain hate the show, and seeing Davina Mcall turn into a Zombie is one scene I will never forget! Also, films such as 'Children of the Living Dead,' and 'Dawn of the living Dead' are muchly predictable which does not create an atmosphere for a horror film. But Dead-Set is different. You simply do not what's going to happen, which is great as you do not know what to expect. Lastly, the zombies are brilliant; I've seen so many films where the zombies are so predictable, but in this they're good and fun to watch!! Altogether, a fan of Horror films or zombie films, please watch this. It won't make you disappointed!! 10/10

An eviction night in the UK's Big Brother TV show is interrupted by worldwide zombie outbreak, the house-mates are left none the wiser locked up, but outside mayhem reigns as the living dead's numbers increase. For a TV production I thought it was very gory and the sfx were also of a very good standard. The script by Charlie Brooker is to the point and very amusing. I wasn't too enamoured early on with the TV producer Patrick, i thought his character was a complete bastard, but as the show went on, i grew to like him somewhat, he had some very funny lines and I guess he turned into an anti hero of sorts.. I did think it started quite slow but the pace and gore factor increased rapidly towards the end so i wasn't disappointed. The Big Brother factor was done quite well, i guess fans of the show will be happy seeing all the familiar faces and those who hate it will love the house-mates getting their comeuppances, so everyone goes home happy. Of course its not without its moments of social comment, the baying mob outside the BB house showing little difference to the real thing.

When I read the synopsis I really thought this might be the most idiotic idea for a horror movie I had ever heard of but all you wonderful IMDb reviewers got me to give it a shot and I'm glad I did.

I did not expect one of the best zombie flicks of the last 7 or 8 years, right up there with Rec* and the 28 movies to be a tie in with a reality show.

Just watch it. This is fantastic horror. I actually enjoyed this more than the 28 movies.

I gave it an 8 because it has some of the WORST shaky cam I have ever seen, they really needed to tone that down a few notches.

SPOILER !

I'm not taken to giving top rating to anything, but it's so hard to find any fault with Dead Set that I'm going to make an exception. The premise, the sets, the characters, the hilarious dialog, the cinematography, even the music, everything is dead on (sorry).

But the real reason why this is so good is because its makers display a exceptional grasp on the things ANY classic zombie flick needs: the remaining character(s) realization that there is ultimately no hope of escape, petty but lethal squabbling amongst survivors, spades of black humor to hide the grimness and a strong theme centering on the flaws of human society.

Charlie Brooker is a god. And a tw*t. A tw*t god !

If only The Walking Dead had turned out even half as good as this...

I don't think there is anything new that can be done with the "zombie film" ( i hope WORLD WAR Z proves me wrong)and this is far from new, but it is one of the best and exciting outlays of the horror genre. Dead set has it all, and for what it is, is very well done, the acting is much better than i expected.Yes, film borrows liberally from other zombie classics notably all the George a Romero films and the new version of " dawn of the dead" and both " 28 Days Later" and " 28 Weeks Later", but in my opinion can hold it's head up proudly as it takes it's place beside them as a zombie classic.It has gore, lashings of humour and is thrilling, and although the climatic sequences completely rip off Romero's " Day Of The Dead" it doesn't cheat and although some reviewers here have said they don't like the ending, for me it concludes the only way it could as a " happier ending" would have lessened the film considerably.For a Channel 4 film, this is very very good and will satisfy horror fans.

I am a huge Zombie fan , and have watch with disappointment all of George A. Romero's latest films .....all very poor , who ever heard of a zombie just wanting to get a long ( land of the zombies ) rubbish ...sorry rant over

Deadset for my money was the best TV zombie series ever ....

Without going into details and really spoiling it .... great Zombies and plenty of nail biting action ....

I must admit i thought it was going to a low rent channel 4 zombie series , but i was shocked at the detail and even the acting ...the camera angles also give it that edgy look ....all in all A+

A must see series ...

Great story great characters. This show had the potential to be an epic series even better than The Walking Dead the creators were too short sighted. Great series could have been one of the best in this genre. Left me wanting more.