Rodney's Reviews
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The Living Dead "The Living Dead" cannot make up its mind what it wants to be: spoof horror with the appropriate Hammond organ music suddenly turns into a James Bond set underground, with a firing squad which manages to be both unpleasant and ludicrous at the same time. Julian Glover is perfectly cast as the deadly mastermind but is sadly wasted as his performance is out of place in what is otherwise a fairly shambolic episode. The FOG versus SMOG debate, Kermit the Hermit and the Monty Pythonesque leader of the firing squad are typically heavy handed Clemens "touches" which send Avengers eccentricity reeling into the dull realms of inane stupidity. The climax draws heavily on "The Town of No Return" but whereas the latter is a memorable episode which unfortunately loses its way near the end, "The Living Dead" fails to set up an interesting dramatic undercurrent in the first place. Without the type of unsettling backdrop which Clemens is often so able to set in motion, the whole thing is IMHO rather empty and soulless. |
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