It seems pointless to have remade the 1973 George Romero low-budget cult classic horror – reckoned to be the forerunner of the many following ‘deadly toxins in the water turning the locals into fruitcakes’ – but somebody went and did it anyway.

THE Venice Film Festival has capitalism in its sights this year, with premieres of Michael Moore’s documentary on the USeconomic meltdown and a drama starring Matt Damon as a corrupt corporate whistleblower.

A surprisingly decent re-make of the George Romero horror-fest of l978 in which America is threatened by a mass rising of the undead.