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Dead Set (2008)

★★★★ — Dead Set (2008)

Dead Set (the Australian music documentary, not the Charlie Brooker zombie serial of the same year) arrived at an interesting moment for local rock, produced as a retrospective celebration of the mid-to-late 1990s Australian alternative scene that had briefly threatened to export itself internationally. Director Rob Payne assembled a roll call of bands, You Am I, Spiderbait, Regurgitator, Custard, Grinspoon, Jebediah, Something for Kate, Frenzal Rhomb, Ammonia, Crow, and Bodyjar, who had collectively defined a modest but distinctive era of Australian guitar music. The film mixes talking-head interviews with live footage, operating in the tradition of scene documentaries more interested in capturing a cultural moment than in constructing a conventional narrative.

Probably the 3rd best British zombie media after Shaun of the Dead and 28 days later Captured big brother perfectly

Rating: ★★★★ | Year: 2008 | Watched: 2025-07-15

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