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A lament for dementia and a love story of May-December friendship, the least interesting thing about Harold’s Going Stiff is that it also happens to be a zombie movie.

Shot in Sheffield on a shoestring, Keith Wright’s impressive horror uses a mock TV-doc format to follow ‘patient zero’ Harold Gimble (Stan Rowe) as he descends into zombieism; Rowe and Sarah Spencer, as Harold’s care assistant, Penny, are exceptional as the leads.

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Rosie is the former editor of Total Film, before she moved to be the Special Edition Editor for the magazine group at Future. After that she became the Movies Editor at Digital Spy, and now she's the UK Editor of Den of Geek. She's an experienced movie and TV journalist, with a particular passion for horror.