Review:
MTV-DEATH VALLEY

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.

It seems that there is no escaping the modern day obsession with everybody’s favourite bloodsucker… the vampire.

Whether your tastes run to the sparkly kind such as Mr E Cullen, the more “fangs included” variety that populate True Blood or even the misunderstood (but frankly scary) young lady from Let Me In, it clearly appears that somewhere along the line there was some hefty PR work done for our Nosferatu friends.

Yes they have their foes and their crosses to beat (pun intended) but there’s also a level of glamour surrounding them that I don’t think even Mr Boreanez could have created in his Angel days. Yes the vampire appears to have friends everywhere these days…Well almost everywhere.

Death Valley- “These are the stories of the cops that capture the monsters and the camera crew that captures the cops”. The San Fernando Valley in California is probably not the first place to spring to mind if you’d had to guess where the supernatural were to strike, but this is exactly what’s happened in MTV’s black comedy horror mockumentary, one year ago Vampires, Werewolves and Zombies descended upon the neighbourhood and have been a plague on the residents ever since.

So who you gonna call?
The UTF (Undead Task Force) is the specialist group within the police force that has been charged with keeping Joe Public safe from the things that go bump in the night and in true Cops style their doing it with a camera crew in tow.

The result? Well it’s bloody, graphic and half the jokes/plot ideas appear to have been sucked straight out of the minds of teenage boys… but that doesn’t stop it being downright funny. Yes you may not be holding your sides at every episode but I defy you not to laugh at the majority of lines uttered by the team’s Captain Dashell (a PR nightmare all on his own superbly played with a straight face by Bryan Callen), or snigger as the UTF try to deal with issues such as vampire prostitution (Blood for Sex) or the werewolf who ignores his full moon curfew to star in a porn film all with their every move being taped for TV.