Zombies, anyone?

If all you know about me is Dry Season, then you wouldn't guess that I harbour a dark secret. You see, anyone who knows me well, knows I'm a sucker for a zombie film. I just love to see those figures shambling from the near distance, coming into focus, gathering, crowding, reaching out . . .

I grew up in the era of the 'video nasty' – the tabloid headlines filled with excitable slogans, Mary Whitehouse calling for films to be restricted, censored, banned. But while the respectable British...