5 October 2001

Myself, the rest of the cast and crew of Bikini Zombies From the Moon journeyed down to Studland, near Poole to the cottage that had been rented for the weekend of the films shoot.

The director had brought along plenty of wine to get everyone in the mood for shooting Zombie Big Brother which we would all be participating in, cast and crew, and seeing as the girls would be in bikinis we were required to strip down as well.

I was being the narrator and the voice of Zombie Big Brother inside the diary room. The zombies were called in one by one to talk about how they were coping in the zombie household and to give their eviction nominations. A few hours and several bottles of wine later we had finished filming and went off to our rooms to get some much needed sleep. (For more on Zombie Big Brother click here.)

The place we were staying at was called a cottage but it had about seven bedrooms and two floors. I literally got 10 minutes sleep that night as there was a doorway in an alcove next to my bed which was padlocked shut and I just couldn't shake the odd way the room made me feel.

Before I knew it, it was time to head off to the beach to begin filming.
As you can imagine filming Bikini scenes on a beach in October was a cold prospect for the girls especially as it was pissing down with rain at times but they all did a great job of being bikini zombies.

I was playing Sergeant 'Scraps' McGuthrie who, along with Captain Chad Goodfellow and Professor Straczynski try to save the world from the terror of bikini zombies created by exposure to red moon radiation emitted from a meteorite that has crashed onto Bikini Beach.I was annoyed that I had been told just a few days before that I had been pencilled in

Once we had shot all the exterior beach scenes we returned to the cottage to film the interior zombie attack and bloodbath. It was more "bloodshower" than "bloodbath" as towards the end the zombies get cornered in the shower room and shot to pieces with chopped tomato being used for the gore effects.

It was quite a sight to see bikini clad zombies in a shower getting splattered in chopped tinned tomato - I usually have to pay good money for that kind of malarkey.

Towards the end of filming the camera went on the fritz and we weren't sure if a lot of what we had filmed had come out okay but we continued filming and hoped for the best.

You can read the complete article here at the BBC's website.