I was reading this blog post on SAW III movie musings the other day, and it got me thinking about the fact I haven’t seen a good horror movie in ages. So last night I was on the old flicker and I saw that sean of the dead was just starting. I thought to myself - you were just thinking about wanting to watch a horror movie, so I stuck with it and watched it through.

Now I’ll be straight and honest here, it wasn’t quite what I was looking for. I was looking for a horror movie that would give me the wibblies a little and be generally quite repulsive at points. There were zombies in Sean of the Dead, and there were certainly moments of being made to jump and a couple of really disgusting moments (there is a bit where a drunk girl falls backwards and impales herself on a metal pole – then pulls herself off again as they realize that she is not a girl but a zombie!). So it had the main elements of the horror genre. The difference? It was hilarious! It was one of the funniest movies I have seen in a long time I can tell you! They kept in all the main horror elements, the blood, the ‘scary’ moments, the unstoppable overwhelming hoards of flesh eating zombies… but they put a twist on it that was just genius!

Sean wonders out the house with a hang over after the zombies have arisen, and fails to notice that anyone is any different! The play on the idea that people are so Zombie like anyway that he doesn’t notice any differences is brilliant! And as for his sidekick – the character is so laid back, so take it as it comes, and strangely so supportive in a bloke kind of way. He is exactly the kind of friend who is exactly who you would want by your side when you’ve just broken up with someone, whilst simultaneously being exactly the sort of bloke you wouldn’t want by your side when you’ve just broken up with someone!! He is excellent, funny, solid, and fully prepared to deliberately crash someone’s car so he has got an excuse to borrow the jaguar for transport reasons!

One of my favorite moments though is slightly surreal – but where he meets his female counterpart. Many of us have all watched and loved ‘spaced’ as a series. Well Jessica Stevenson isn’t a main character in Sean of the dead. She does however show up briefly and is a mirror image of his situation, having the same party members in her group following her and an identical mother and sidekick. This doesn’t seem to read very well off the page, but trust me – it works on screen.

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Sean of the Dead is now old, so I won’t provide you with how to find it details because you won’t need them. I will however urge you to watch out for the woman-zombie in the background on the street who has so clearly had the breast enlargement done. It’s the attention to detail that Simon has given to this movie that really makes it the excellent film it is.