Screamingly good fun!… Buffy Revamped @BuffyRevamped

Spike has been awoken from his eternal rest, meaning the apocalypse must be close at hand! It all began to turn south in 2016, apparently, when all the best celebrities died (and dark forces began to arise in the US, presumably heralding the return of ‘The Master’), and now time is running out! Thankfully, Spike (aka Brendan Murphy) is here to save the day, resurrecting all that was good and innocent about us in the times before…

Buffy Revamped is a brilliant stand-up show in which we get a reprise of all seven series of Buffy in just 70 madcap minutes, complete with comedy impressions, a superior retro sound track, odes to all your fave characters (and a few you’d forgotten about!), mini video-lectures (thanks, Giles!), and even Angel trying to steal the show. And. Spike. Is. Not. Jealous. How. Dare. You!

Every member of the audience is issued with chopsticks doubling up as ‘Emergency Stakes’…

… which proves to be very handy! You’re also issued with a damn good time, including laughs aplenty, nostalgia galore, and something for everyone. It was amazing to see the different generations of fans (clearly, the pandemic saw a whole new generation binge-watching our fave vampire-epic), and a timely reminder that there are things that can still unite us all in celebration.

If you weren’t the biggest fan of some of the cornier episodes back in the day, you’ll enjoy this gentle spoofing of it. And if you were the biggest fan, you’ll adore the homage that is Buffy Revamped and you’ll want to rewatch the whole seven series again, just in time for the modern reboot that is rumoured to be in production! It was all fangtastic! Sorry.

You can catch the hit show in London at the mo… and there’s bound to be demand for other venues…

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Dead Snow – movie review

Norwegian mountains. Kids on a snow-boarding holiday. A lost treasure. And Nazi zombies. What more could you want from a horror film? Well, a decision on whether it’s a comedy/spoof or it’s genuinely intended to frighten would have been nice. Dead Snow gets caught between the two, unfortunately, and doesn’t completely deliver on either. For all that, there are things to recommend it: better than usual characterisation and dialogue during the set-up, a decent building of tension, some entertaining set-pieces, and some laugh out loud lines. Things that really should have been better: the rationale for why the Nazis are still ‘animated’, a consistency on the strength of the zombies (they go from superhumanly fast to pathetically slow and weak), and fewer ‘silly’ deaths. Overall, it’s a 6.5 out of 10. Dale and Tucker versus Evil is a far better film in the genre.