Dead Meat

The DVD package includes writer/director Connor McMahon's humorously macabre graduation film, The Braineater, which won best short at the Sitges International Fantasy Film Festival. Shot and edited with wit and economy, featuring some of the cast of Dead Meat, it is fine as far as it goes, although the sound is terrible and it lacks an ending.

The audio commentary is an entertaining and engaging glimpse at low-budget horror filmmaking. Both the producer and director are self-effacing and refreshingly matter-of-fact, with an encyclopaedic knowledge of horror and exploitation cinema. They discuss the production history and how to achieve convincing special effects with no money and their diverse influences that range from the obvious (Evil Dead, Lucio Fulci's zombie films) to the surprising (Walkabout).

On the other hand, the Making Of featurette, entitled Mad Cows and Zombies, is an utterly perfunctory waste of time.