Craig (CLIFFHANGER) Fairbass is the lead in this gangsters meet vampires Brit flick in a substrate of horror that is fast becoming "High Street Horror" taking up residence at your local supermarket.
Fairbass plays the preposterously named Freddie Franken (my spellcheck just suggested Frankenstein there) who no sooner has achieved his dream of opening a strip club than he's lost it in an underground fighting bet. To a bunch of Romanians. Who are vampires. Led by Billy (DOGHOUSE) Murray and other British soap actors. Eventually, really, really eventually, they all scuffle, not really fight, it's all more of a struggle.
The production of DEAD CERT is very much a jobs for the boys number, nearly every key actor is a producer or executive producer on this show. The aligning of the gangster and vampire genre will not please fans of either being a half-baked cut and paste retread of the simplest of themes from both. Watching the trailer would lead you to believe there's a British FROM DUSK 'TIL DAWN waiting for you instead of the tame episode of Footballers Wives with Halloween fangs that you get. There's some pretty women on display but even the stripper characters remain clothed, where's the sex that used to ooze of of British horror in the Hammer heydays?
Shot in mostly master shots with a couple of poorly advised "name" cameos DEAD CERT is dead rotten ( I hope I haven't inspired the sequel there!) and a load of "soppy bollocks" though more of a silly film than actual outright bad. Floppy.
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