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The Undead Symphony
by Darren Smith, Michael Avery and Guests
An undead podcast discussing all things zombie. Movie reviews and TV shows, franchises and chats with fans and the ghouls and boils who bring us this much loved genre.
Episodes
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Episode 400: 30 Days of Night (2007)
The Faculty, Lucky Number Slevin, Below, Trap, Penny Dreadful, I do love Josh Hartnett, and as we creep over the frozen wilderness in the pitch dark of winter Michael and I, for our 400th episode will cover 30 Days of Night. And this is a vampire movie not the faint of heart. This isn't The...
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Episode 401: I Would Rather Die aka Prefiero la Muerte (2026)
Sneaking this one in to make a mockery of the whole numbering thing, for tonight we record episode 400, we have already recording half of the Japanese/Thai insanity that pairs Stacy and SARS Wars: Bangkok Zombie Crisis but I have just completed the 8 episode Amazon MGM Mexican Young Adult zombie...
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Episode 399: Evil in the Time of Heroes (2009)
Sneaking in before Michael and I discuss the craziness that is the Japanese Stacy and the Thai SARS Wars - Bangkok Zombie Crisis, and our 400th episode on which we cover vampires, and more so the Josh Hartnett bloody and brutal 30 Days of Night, I have this, Evil in the Time of Heroes (2009), the...
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Episode 398: Evil aka To Karo (2005)
A Greek zombie movie that splits it's reviews between tasty kebabs and rotting tzatziki. Set in Athens it tells the story of a zombie outbreak caused by builders digging into a cavern that houses some sort of evil. The three builders who go in come out weird and the start attacking others.…
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Episode 397: Not All Movies Are The Same: Dual
Advertised Plot: After losing everything to a personal mistake, a suicidal man discovers a portal to a parallel world where a family is trapped by zombies. He must communicate across dimensions to save a dying girl and fight for his own redemption. Reality: 16 moon shots! 16!!! That nearly…
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Episode 396: Resident Evil (2026) chat
It is one of those rare occasions, recently only seen when the 28 Years Later and Colony came out that Michael and I are right up to date with a new movie in the genre, so we have to record a chat. TBH when it was announced that Zac Cregger (Weapons, Barbarian) was taking on Res Evil I was...
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Episode 395: The Undead aka Mutant Vampire Zombies from the Hood!
Where to start? There is probably a reason why this C Thomas Howell effort was renamed, and as reason he isn't on the cover, or mentioned in the description. I wonder what it is? The title? Mutant Vampire Zombies from the Hood! Not great is it? No wonder it was repackaged as The Undead, one of…
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Episode 394: Zombie Family and Resident Evil (2026)
I have been waiting for something decent for such a long time that I went to the movie theater to see Zac Cregger's attempt at Resident Evil. I can see what he was trying to do, there are definitely computer game-like setups, the woods, the road tunnel, the hospital parking garage and elevator...
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Episode 393: SARS Wars: Bangkok Zombie Crisis
Sometimes, rarely, more rarely than you would think, I unintentionally end up watching similar movies back to back. And while the stories of Helldriver and SARS Wars: Bangkok Zombie Crisis are very different, the movies themselves have the same feel. The same this is fucking awful, cheap nasty…
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Episode 392: Helldriver (2010)
Let me put it this way... "In a scene that really epitomises this movie the starfish shaped alien attached to the zombie queen's head since the alien asteroid blew a whole through her chest, forcing her to rip out Kika's heart and stick it in her missing chest cavity, grows batons out of two of…
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Episode 391: Dreidel of the Dead
In this special episode of the Undead Symphony Michael returns to discuss my 30 minute animated short Dreidel of the Dead, a stop motion zombie movie in the sub-genre of apartment survival horror and love letter to the genre and all we have seen over the past 4 years of the podcast. I'd love to...
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Episode 390: Together Till The End
This is a piñata full of shit, and I just hit it and it is spilling everywhere. A 2026 Mexican effort that sucks as bad as the other Mexican zombie movies we have seen Los Infectados (3/10) and Some Be (3.5/10) maybe even worse. In this "every single fucking thing happens off camera" hotchpotch…
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Episode 389: Stacy - Attack of the Schoolgirl Zombies (2001)
After a slight disappointing opening where I mention all those people who I sent Dreidel of the Dead to but didn't watch it or tell me if they did, the episode goes downhill as I watch Stacy from 2001, one of those low end Japanese oddities that is just too odd. Our 12th Japanese movie and…
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Episode 388: Les Revenants/The Returned (2004)
I asked ForeignHorrorMovies on Insta for a few recommendations and this was the first one available to me. Les Revenants/The Returned from 2004. Worldwide 70 million people who died in the last 10 years return from the grave, but rather than blue faced Romero zombies, crumbly and crusty Fulci...
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Episode 387: Zombies! Wicked Little Things (2006)
If you take the Lou Diamond Phillips zombie movie Route 666 where a road gang of zombies use their road digging tools to kill people on the stretch of route 66 they died on, the 1980 The Children where a school bus of kids were killed in a tragic accident and come back to kill, and Maggie you get...
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Episode 386: Code Red (2013)
A bizarre horse dick of a Bulgarian (country 45 baby!) zombie film that starts brilliantly before collapsing into absolute diabolical nonsense. The WW2 openng section, set during Stalingrad, is brutal, tense and genuinely exciting. Hans, played by Valeri Yordanov, is easily the highlight as he...
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Episode 385: Night of the Creeps
A fun one for our 400th zombie movie or show, a classic that was one of the IMDB top 50 zombie movies and the only one of that top 50 that we were yet to cover. And there is a lot to unpick here. We have aliens sending an experiment in mind control down to Earth in 1959 at the same time as an axe...
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Episode 384: The Dead 2: India
The Ford brothers are at it again, after The Dead (2010 and episode 36 of the pod), in which a white American must fight his way from one dry, desolate village in Africa to another during a zombie outbreak, we have The Dead 2: India (2013), in which a white American must fight his way from one…
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Episode 383: I am Omega
By far the worst adaptation of Matheson's I am legend, with Mark Dacascos high kicking his way through a post-apocalyptic Los Angeles full of rubber suited bald zombies with their vertebrae hanging out. His wife and kid died. He scavenges from the wrong places. And somehow has working…
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Episode 382: Dead Don't Die in Dallas
A random from Amazon, the 2019 LGBTQ+ Dead Don't Die in Dallas aka Kicking Zombie Ass for Jesus. Drag Queen salon owner Beth Ann Fetterman and Preacher Daniel butt heads as they end up together with the preacher's promiscuous wife and a lesbian boxing champion in an abandoned building as the…
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Episode 381: Hello Zombie! (2014)
A low budget Japanese indie with a runtime of 45 minutes this follows the well trodden path of a production company making a zombie movie only for then the zombie apocalypse to actually happen around them. It is rarely done well, I am thinking the godawful Reel Zombies as well as Diary of the…
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Episode 380: Johnny Gruesome (2018)
Wading through TUBI again this weekend and the stink is under my fingernails. Johnny Gruesome is next up, a story of a revenant coming back to wreak revenge on those he thinks did him wrong. In this case it is D student metal head Johnny Grissholm, a drink driving, pot smoking thug that they try...
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Episode 379: The Signal (2007)
Not to be confused with the 2014 movie of the same name with Brenton Thwaites and Laurence Fishburne this is a mixture of the movie we watched before this, Cell, with a signal/pulse turning people homicidal, like The Crazies. So if you liked The Crazies this is for you. It is written by and...
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Episode 378: Cell (2016)
John Cusack, Samuel L Jackson and Isabell Fuhrman from The Orphan movies, based on a Stephen King novel about zombies created by a pulse and linked to cellphones, and directed by the director of Paranormal Activity 2. Should have been a slam dunk. Was it? Well, no. The book purists slammed it.…
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Episode 377: Colony
I am back once again with the renegade master Michael Avery as we talk kids names, the education system, and other random nonsense before embarking on a lengthy chat about Colony the latest zombie movie from the man who brought you Train to Busan. Is it simply Train to Busan 2? No. It is…
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Episode 376: Employee of the Dead with Ellie Rae Winstone and Aaron Truss
Recently Michael and I were lucky enough to catch up with part of the talented team behind Employee of the Dead, the new British zomcom currently crowdfunding on Indiegogo. It was our absolute pleasure inviting Ellie Rae Winstone, star/associate producer, and co-writer/director/producer Aaron…
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Episode 375: Bloodthirsty (2026) and Urban Flesh Eaters (2025)
An African-American led pair of modern zombie movies from TUBI this time around, my 17th and 18th movie from the streaming channel leaving just three movies for me to watch before I can say that I have completed it. In Bloodthirsty we have Brian and Sarah, a 20-something year old couple of…
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Episode 374: Air Shift (2026)
There are three radio station based zombie movies and this is by far the worst. Writer/director Chris Maes creates an absolute shambles of a movie that only stretches to 76 minutes thanks to repeated use of the same shots of zombies slowly heading to the radio station, the same record on the...
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Episode 373: Los Infectados (2011)
Mexican so the second Mexican zombie movie we have seen after Some Be. The sudden outbreak of an unknown virus turns people into rabid and hungry creatures. Marcos, Claudia, Renato, and little Zoe, a 5-year-old girl; decide to run away and hide on a hill; but the infected begin to appear near…
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Episode 372: Shorts
A shorts day today, I am going to find and watch half a dozen zombie shorts and give you my thoughts. Did that rhyme? Woah, I'd better not break into song. FIRST WAVE 2014 6 mins 55 on Youtube The blurb - Following the outbreak of an aggressive virus, a young woman awakes in a hospital bed. As…
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Episode 371: Zomboat! (Parts 4 to 6)
And so I am back into the second half of the show, the 2019 Zomboat! available on Amazon, an ITV2 show of 6 20 something minute episodes. So to break it down, it is set in Birmingham, for those not in the UK, it is the second largest city in the UK, in the middle of the country. We have Kat a…
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Episode 370: Zomboat! (Parts 1 to 3)
This one passed me by completely. A British zom com set in Birmingham on the Grand Union Canal to London. Made in 2019, it is about four characters Kat, and her sister Jo, Amar and Sunny, surviving the zombie apocalypse on a canal boat. And, I have to a feeling I may echo GertieFlyyyy from Reddit...
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Episode 369: GallowWalkers
"Forgive me father for I have skinned." - Cancer spelled Kansa. A movie so terrible I had to take five sitting to finish it including a nap and a work call I didn't even need to be on, a movie so bad it needed narration and constant music, a movie so bad I had to double check it wasn't made by…
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Episode 368: The Silence After (2025) aka Lost in Darkness ((2022)
Our first (and potentially second) zombie movie from Barbados. It is really a post COVID, post vaccine, anti-vaxxer load of tosh in which we barely see anything from the government or the mysterious military chemical facility in the description, and instead are treated to the incompetent Kyle,...
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Episode 367: Zombiology - Enjoy yourself tonight!
2017 and from Hong Kong this movie is a bag of cats. It is all over the place. A supposed comedy movie with two slackers Lone and Yeung, living in a run down Cantonese opera house run by their aunt, thinking they are the Heavenly and Earth dragon, the double dragons. Instead they are an...
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Episode 366: Lee Donaldson returns with more Dead Zero
Always happy to talk Dead Zero, having followed the project for so long, and in this episode we have the man himself, Lee Donaldson, back now we have seen the first chapter. We talk the future of the project, and funding options for fans and followers alike. Follow the project here...
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Episode 365: Everyday of the Dead (2023)
In a post-COVID Japan we get four stories that make up the anthology Everyday of the Dead. Pretty dreadful acting, pretty awful writing, pretty awful cinematography. We have Punch of the Dead, where a dumped guy comes out of lockdown to go see his girl, only to be dumped over the phone. He…
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Episode 364: Colony (2026)
Once the Bone Temple was released we looked at the calendar and the next big ticket item for zombie movie fans wasn't the gender swap NOTLD remake (another one!) or the scene by scene remake of ROTLD, no, sir, it was the next zombie movie by Yeon Sang-ho the write/director of Train to Busan -...
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Episode 363: Dead Zero (2026)
The time has come. Our friend Lee Donaldson is now finally showing off the labours of his hard work, Dead Zero. In a windy hotel on Southend seafront Michael and I attended the Horror On Sea movie festival, meeting up with Lee, and watching the first 31 minutes of Dead Zero. What did we think?…
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Episode 362: Episode 1 Revival part 2 and Talking American Zombies
Michael has caught up, watching Tyler Posey and Donald Sutherland in Matt Naylor's Alone (Final Days in the UK), the western version of #ALIVE. Will he like it more? He is also tattooed. He also likes rock music. Listen to find out. I'd love to hear from my dear listeners. Recommend a zombie…
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Episode 361: Episode 1 Revival part 1 and South Korean Zombies
As we excitedly prepare ourselves to head to the Horror On Sea movie festival at the weekend and the premier of Dead Zero, Michael and I go wayyyyyyyyyyyyyy back, back into time, to the first episode of The Undead Symphony Pod. Back then I didn't have a Michael, didn't have a format, didn't have...
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Episode 360: Deadlocked: Dad of the Dead
From the people who brought you Deadlocked (2020) comes an upgrade of sorts. Despite the comic undertones of the title, and the comedy lines from douche nozzle Toby as well as the "come to daddy," goading by the lead as he takes on the undead this is not a comedy. This is a zombie drama set in…
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Episode 359: Michael talks REC and REC2 versus Quarantine
And I have my dog walker and post man disrupting me too. I'd love to hear from my dear listeners. Recommend a zombie movie or show I haven't covered, or some on and chat all things zeke. Or just like and share.
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Episode 358: World War Dead: Rise of the Fallen or Rise of the Fallen. You decide.
Somme-bies! Yes, that is actually one of the many Battle of the Somme jokes made by Marcus (played by the patchy bald soldier from 28 Days Later). Somme-bies! Somme-er Holiday. Somme-body get me out of here. I do hate found footage. I really do. I know some people love it but when it is done…
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Episode 357: Miss Zombie (2013)
In this episode I shall be reviewing a zombie movie that I had seen before I started this podcast. And yet somehow 4 years into it and nearly 400 movies from 42 countries into it I haven’t gone back and reviewed the black and white Japanese movie Miss Zombie. Directed by Sabu and released in 2013...
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Episode 356: Ick (2024)
American made with Arab oil money from the UAE. Is that why the Ick, a monstrous alien lifeform that has been around for about 20 years looks like oil? Maybe. Starring Brandon Routh, poor, poor, Brandon Routh, I do genuinely feel bad for him, this tells the story, kinda, of the Ick, and how it…
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Episode 355: Zombie Reddy
Zombie Reddy is a 2021 Indian Telugu-language zombie comedy crime thriller film directed by Prasanth Varma and starring Teja Sajja, Anandhi, and Daksha Nagarkar. The blurb Mario, a game developer, and his friends, get caught up in the rivalry between two families and a mysterious zombie attack in...
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Episode 354: Bio-Zombie aka Hong Kong Zombie
A random DVD find, and a camp as Christmas Asian zombie movie that scores high on IMDB and RT and pays tribute to George A Romero's Dawn 78. Yes, it is set in a shopping mall, yes the zombie makeup is pretty bad and yes there are amusingly memorable kills as well as comic scenes. We join low…
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Episode 353: Is REC a gamechanger in the zombie genre?
In our first catch up in 2 month I pose Michael the question, "was the 2007 Spanish found footage movie REC a game change in the zombie genre?" I'd love to hear from my dear listeners. Recommend a zombie movie or show I haven't covered, or some on and chat all things zeke. Or just like and share.
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Episode 352: Residence (2026)
It is actually surprising how many Australian zombie movies and shows we have seen thus far… We Bury the Dead | 6.5 Little Monsters | 6.5 Wyrmwood: Apocalypse | 6.5 Cargo | 6 Wyrmwood: Road Of The Dead | 6 Undead | 5.5 Neighbours versus Zombies | 5 Last Hope | 4 Infini | 4 Plague (2014) | 4 Me…
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An undead podcast discussing all things zombie. Movie reviews and TV shows, franchises and chats with fans and the ghouls and boils who bring us this much loved genre.
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