The horror, the horror

And I'm not talking about Halloween..
Although I could, as I've just sat through a good horror double bill (something of a tradition, you have to see at least one scary movie on October 31st!).. watched the remake of George A Romero's "Dawn of the Dead" and it was okay.. Yup it was pretty good, no where near as good as the original of course (we sat round in the office the other day and tried to think of one remake which is actually better than the original, and came up with nothing? Anyone care to make any suggestions?).. but entertaining.. Unfortunately there is nothing scary about fast-moving zombies (they can make you jump I'll admit, but 28 Days Later did that WAY better).. the whole point of zombies is, although they're slow (and a little silly, the way that they shuffle towards you), they're relentless and eventually.. they'll get you. There were more genuine scares in Shaun of the Dead for fucks sake..
Anyway, the real horror this weekend featured on Match of the Day last night, where they kept on showing the footage of Djibril Cisse picking up a comminuted fracture at Ewood Park on Saturday (that's three players in two games who've had their legs broken there - bastards!). The tackle didn't look that bad whilst we were at the ground (but then it was at the other end of the pitch from where we were), but on TV -ewwww! Oh my lord, that looked fucking painful. Cisse's leg bent in the middle of his shin, and his foot was just lolling about in mid air.. Not surprising when you consider his Fibia and Tibia were simultaneously broken..
And yet the Beeb felt the need to show this again.. and again.. and again. It's enought to make one lose one's lunch, I tell thee.. I wonder if they cut that from the Sunday repeat as that footage was definitely post-watershed!