Dead Creatures (2001)

UK
Feature Film
Writer/Director/Composer: Andrew Parkinson
Cinematographer: Jason Shepherd
Cast: Beverley Wilson, Antonia Beamish, Brendan Gregory, Anna Swift, Bart Ruspoli, Fiona Carr, Eva Fontaine

David Parkinson’s leisurely paced low-budget second feature, a thought provoking, challenging, humourless, slightly grim, and above all else, tremendously well-made anti-horror film, is, for want of a better term, a zombie film. Although, I’m sure that pedants and horror movie buffs alike will frown upon the term. Because, these “zombies” are, and here’s the problem, very much alive. They drink, they smoke, they socialise, they have sex, they make small talk. At first glance they appear to be very much boringly normal. Of course, anyone who feasts on the flesh of a human being is anything but normal.