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WHAT A BUNCH OF BANKERS…

October 21st, 2008

Horror Reanimated, a blog for dark times. Sure got that right didn’t we?

But we can take solice from the fact that it’s not only books that are considered recession-proof; see Vanessa Thorpe’s article from Sunday’s The Observer on the rise and rise of the horror film, and a nice little primer for a tranche of upcoming celluliod spookiness.

Now, for zombies, obviously…

Zeds… oh my! Do a Google blog search for ‘zombies’ and you’ll get nearly 900,000 entries. And within those entries there’sthis. REMOTE FRICKING CONTROL! And this. So simple.

Check out these images of the latest Zombiecon – this enduring strain of horror is DEFINITELY recession proof. Those Wall Street W*****S got what was coming to them. Now for London’s Square Mile… they’re all walking around like zeds most of the time anyway.

Admit it, there must have been a time when you just wanted Davina McCall to shut up and go away, (or was that Carol Vorderman?); anyway, seemingly ever-present on our screens via Big Brother, Madame McCall’s time is up in Dead Set, Charlie Brooker’s zombiefied apocalyptic vision of reality television. Starts on Monday 27th October and runs each night that week. I wanted to interview Brooker about the series, but needless to say he’s ignored my request – however the linked article answers most of the questions I’d have asked, so that’s good, and saves me some valuable time. Dead Set is not to be missed by all accounts… especially the bit when McCall’s throat is ripped out.

Seriously though, maybe this could be the start of something beautiful… classy, edgy British horror on our television sets. Apparently the BBC’s about to give us Apparitions,  a series centred around exorcisms of ‘possessed souls’, pity Martin Shaw’s in it though. So is this the beginning of home-grown horror, our television programmers actually taking a chance for once? Let’s hope so. We’ve been relying on HBO’s amazing imported series for far, far too long.

And finally, stand by for a new short story from D’Lacey this Halloween. Let’s hope it’s a scary one, or we’re gonna look stupid; or rather he will, we’ll just laugh at him.

The Professor

[Image courtesy of Toast to Life.]

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