An original take...

with the first 'running zombies', and very influencial in bringing about the glorious new Zombie renaissance that culminates in the long-awaited fourth installment to the genre-defining Dead series, Land of The Dead (please let it be good please let it be good please). For this alone, I love this film. It's such a shame that British films can't get the same financial backing their Yankie counterparts have. Budget restrains that mean rather than being driven through the smouldering remains of Manchester, as Boyle and Garland had envisaged, we get to see it in the distance. The (jaw-droppingly brilliant) pre-credit opener of the remake of Dawn Of The Dead probably had more money spent on it than the whole of this film. Mind you, an episode of friends probably did too.

A MUST SEE. And if you saw it in the cinema, get this out! Watch the DVD extras, including an alternative SECOND HALF of the film (albeit only storyboarded), and a superb alternative ending where Cillian Murphy is replaced with a chicken.

If worshipping Zombie films was a religion, with the Dead Trilogy being the Zombie-bible, this could be a worthy hymn book.