Dead Meat

Is there such thing as an Irish horror movie? Some have tried before. Coppola made his first feature here in the early '60s and it was called Dementia 13. The first Irish horror movie? Maybe. But for homegrown filmmakers horror was a genre picture that should be ignored. Then a spout of new horrors arrived: Boy Eat Girl, Isolation, Shrooms. Stuff that looked well but appeared to have been made by non-horror fans. Well, Dead Meat was made by horror fans. It shows in a bad way though. Nothing original (even for a zombie movie), fast-paced, confusing, and not particularly scary. The kind of movie you look at rather than watch. Come on! We can do better than this? It's set in Leitrim and there's an outbreak of cow disease. People turn into zombies. There are narrow escapes galore, and gore. Famous locations such as castles are used and guess what? The army arrive to save the day from this horror. Except we've see this in loads of other zombie movies (with better music). So what was the point of Dead Meat? That we can make serious horror? It wasn't serious though. Maybe the point is that we can do what other countries can do? Is that a good thing?