The Undead Symphony

Send us Fan MailA Canadian effort to save me from Daniel Baldwin on TUBI. An eco-warrior group are demonstrating the logging of an island, but the company doing the logging, or raping the land as the hippies say, are doing far, far worse. They are pumping the trees with a chemical that makes them grow three times as fast.The trees, understandably, as not happy about this and are not going to take it lying down, unless they have already been chopped down, of course, and start spitting out this red ooze. A logger gets the red ooze in his blood stream and we have a survival story where loggers, scientists and tree hugging hippies are having to work together to make it out of there.TBF the acting was fine, the gore and zombie make-up was fine but the pacing was all off, the edit was messy and padded with scenes and shots that didn't work. We had way too many cuts away too soon, to show a fucking misty lake, or the tree tops, random POV night scope zombie footage once, and some awful repurposed footage.It was a 4/10 for me with the idea of an eco-disaster causing it, and it being the trees. The trees! It is in the trees! 

Send us Fan MailWoah. Where to start with this one? Unpick this at your leisure; Matool is surviving the zombie apocalypse in Southern Colorado by killing the slow moving, blue faced undead with a hammer and long nails. Okay so far? I was. Then after a zombie attack on the hut he is hiding in with others he runs out into the street and is knocked over by Nathan in his pickup truck. Matool is knocked unconscious, gaffer taped at the wrists and ankles and then driven back to cuckhold Nathan's home for his nymphomaniac trailer trash wife Dexy. And from there we learn Nathan and Dexy have an open relationship, an alternative lifestyle they have difficulty maintaining in the zombie apocalypse, hence Nathan kidnapping Matool and others.Add Dexy's psychotic sister Sassy with a third sibling's face growing out of her side like an arsehole with teeth, and that Nathan is into screwing hot female zombies he keeps chained up in the shed, and this isn't going to give anyone sweet dreams.I scored it 3/10 for uniqueness of story and the zombie gore was ok too. However, I would avoid this like you would Johnny Z.

Send us Fan MailThe Spanish team behind REC would have us hate the Americanized version of their movie, but that dog won't hunt, Monsignor. Much like #Alive and Final Days and Let the Right one In and Let me In, I feel the 2008 US remake of the Spanish game changing REC of the year before deserves a chance.I am a glass half full reviewer and know that his has a decent cast, with Jay Hernandez, Jennifer Carpenter, a young Joey King, Johnathon Schaech and Gregory Germann, Bernard White, Rade Šerbedžija and Doug Jones sliding into the ill-fitting soiled painties of the monster at the end. It will have FX and tension on par with the original. It just isn't the original.The ending does change, and it actually makes more sense, if you are no a fan of possession stories, but the rest is pretty much the same. I think some of the scenes they added add to the story, the brain drill for example, Randy the asshole and the dog, but I can's score it as high as REC as it just isn't original.Still worth a watch at 6/10. REC (7/10), REC2, REC: GENESIS, REC:APOCALYPSE, QUARANTINE and QUARANTINE 2:TERMINAL (6/10)and now this frees me up to watch this weekends diabolical DVD offering The STINK OF FLESH.

Send us Fan MailAnd we are back with the sequel, taking place 2 hours after the end of the first as a SWAT team of four including an idiot cameraman played by the same actor as the idiot cameraman in the first movie go in with a doctor to assess the situation in the apartment building. It is obvious though that the doctor knows more than he is letting on, and it is true! The whole thing is demonic possession, with the virus allowing sufferers to be controlled by a demon. It means we do get some cool voice changing from the kids and cops as they are taken over. And we do have some cool kills. However, this does suffer from the Jurassic Park issue. We had our mind blown by the T-rex in the first, in the second it was ok, and by the third it was meh. Here the hectic style of the first movie is persisted, we do have some good kills and a story loop. We also get a great ending that should have set up another movie between this one and the fourth, however, the third (GENESIS) doesn't continue the story of Angela Vidal.I have scored the others higher now, the series being REC (7/10), and all the others REC2, REC:GENESIS and REC:APOCALYPSE 6/10 making it a consistently entertaining series and well worth the watch.

Send us Fan MailI am going to say something controversial. The gamechangers that have shaped the zombie genre are well known to us all (White Zombie the first, Night of the Living Dead making it about survival, Dawn of the Dead making it large, 28 Days Later making it scary and giving us running infected, Shaun of the Dead making it funny, The Walking Dead making it mainstream TV and World War Z making it an A lister movie) but I am going to put forward this, the 2007 Spanish REC as a potential addition to that list. Why? Well sure, there were found footage movies before it, most will say Blair Witch Project of 1999 was the first but I would say Cannibal Holocaust was a pioneer in horror. But REC, in 2007, has been copied so many times, with the final shot of the lead being dragged back into darkness, that I would say this should take it's place in that list. If Shaun can be there with a simple zombie movie story, but is there as it was the first genuinely funny zombie comedy that others try to emulate, then REC was the first found footage zombie movie and now we have them coming out of the woodwork.It follows Angela Vidal as young reporter for a lesser known show and her cameraman (I still have issues with just how useless cameramen are in horror movies, just filming rather than helping) as they head with a fire crew to a claustrophobic apartment building where an elderly woman is trapped in her flat. Angela is in the second and concluding movies, so her arc is pretty awesome, and much better than Alice in the Paul WS Anderson Resident Evil franchise movies. And of course it all goes terribly wrong. Lots of face biting, blood, infection, screaming fast moving infected, lots of Spaniards shouting over the top of each other, as the authorities lock them in for 76 hectic minutes. There are some great bits, not least the final shot, and the mother being handcuffed and them not being able to do anything about it.I do love the REC movies, I would say they are the most consistently good series of movies, and we have plenty in the genre. All four are good and definitely worth watching. Copied by the Americans with Quarantine, with its own spin-off sequel in Terminal. I would recommend them all. And am more than happy to be watching REC2 next. 7/10

Send us Fan MailWhat in the Uwe Boll have I just seen? As I wade through the cesspool of TUBI trying to find something decent I, for my sins and completeness, need to tick this one off.Not to be confused with Narnia Dark Island, 1962 BBC series or the Dark Island in the Thousand Islands, or the  prominent feature of the Saint Lawrence Seaway, is located in the lower (eastern) Thousand Islands region, near Chippewa Bay in St Lawrence County NY. It is another shitty movie on TUBI from 2010.When a defense contractor loses contact with its lab on a remote island, a team of soldiers and scientists is sent to learn what happened.Rotten Tomateos say Terror awaits a team of soldiers and scientists who have arrived at a bioweapons facility to determine why contact was lost with the researchers there. 8%IMDB says Soldiers and scientists visit a remote island, the site of bio-weapons research, after losing contact with the staff there. 3.3/10Leterboxd says After losing contact with its researchers on a remote island, a military corporation hires a group of scientists and soldiers to find out what went wrong.  2.7/10And none of those descriptions are technically right as a former soldier turned sulky boat owner, a scientist pretending to be a soldier, and blurring the lines, an actual soldier, a toxicologist pretending to be a medic, and a nerd head by boat to an island not dissimilar to the island in Boll's monstrous House of the Dead. Why? Well, a nasty company has been performing experiments that somehow turn people into zombies and then smoke monsters like the one in Lost. Also monster sounds like Lost. So basically a Canadian TV version of House of the Dead meets Lost. Wanna see it? I wouldn't. If anything the highlight of the movie was realising I hadn't covered REC or REC2 yet for the pod, and both are free on Amazon.3/10 don't bother

Send us Fan MailI am sewer surfing on the stinky crest of a TUBI wave this weekend, with Dark Island tomorrow and this the 2010 Defiled.OK, let me give you the premise and we shall take it from there. It is a 100 minute long silent movie inasmuch as the characters do not speak. The humans do not speak at all and the zombies each have a single noise, be it a yar, a grunt, or a high pitched eee.Yar, his name is the sound he makes, much like Gnar from Delamorte Delamore, (1994) has gotten one of this 3 zombie friends pregnant. But, after an ill-advised feast of a dead camper that poisons the other zombies to death, including the mother, Yar must first, and I never thought I would ever write this, perform a C-section with a butcher's hook, before looking after his zombie baby.He saves a non verbal human female from two other zombies and now has a nanny for his zombie baby. And then there is a lot of walking. Walking to the woods. Walking to a farmhouse. Walking along train tracks. Walking through fields. Walking to a factory complex. Walking... walking... zzzzzz.But then, realising they are all poisoned, and wanting to save his baby, they head to find the human scientists and soldiers for help.So, a black and white silent movie told from the zombie perspective? Sounds interesting or shit? Well, to be fair it is both. Conceptually it is a good idea, but it is painfully repetitive and slow. Artsy for the sake of it? Or artsy because of budget and talent? Who can say. It was unique. I have seen hundreds of zombie movies and this was pretty unique. Good? Hm. Recommendable? Only for the uniqueness of it. A 2010 silent zombie movie.4/10 an oddity.

Send us Fan MailI was dubious, and rightly so. I have been burned of late by movies that were not zombie movies, like The Bay. And that has a lot more in common with Itch! (2026) than any of the movies we have covered. However, there is an actual zombie element to this too. A proper, back from the dead and attacking the living element. So, as a  lay person, I can say this is indeed a zombie movie.Written by, direct by and starring Bari Kang this tells the story of a NYC hardware store and a group holding up as a regenerative parasite causes people to first, scratch their own skin off, and then, after dying, return from the dead to scratch other people's skin off too.A low budget effort we have a decent enough location reminiscent of The Mist (if you like depressing endings) and Bait (if you like shark movies), a hardware store in one of the boroughs on a hot ass day as Jay, his non verbal biter of a daughter, rude customer Henry and shop girl Lisa are joined by wannabe robbers Miguel and pregnant Gabriella. Outside, along with some overly used and overly loud external civil unrest sound effects, including a incredibly close plane crash, the "itch" is spreading. People are scratching themselves to death, or being shot by the police if they can't control their itching in 10 seconds. Only to come back from the dead a little later.Time to batten down the hatches and survive, which seems easier said than done.It is a low budget movie but a decent enough effort. They could have made a few simple changes to make it more uncomfortable viewing for the audience but it isn't gross, other than the miscarriage. If anything it could have been more uncomfortable if it was an intolerably hot NYC day, sans AC, and I was a little disappointed that most kills are off camera too.5/10 

Send us Fan MailWith the upcoming gender swap Vivica Fox version of Night of the Living Dead coming up in November, I thought I would have the NOTLD league table in place before then, but with the title and story now in the public domain it means any twonk with a camcorder can make a version.This version from 2015 is the CGI animated version aka Night of the Living Dead:Origins and Night of the Living Dead:Origins 3D and stars Tony Todd reprising his role of Ben from the Tom Savini 1990 version, Captain Rhodes himself Joe Pilato as Harry Cooper, Bill Moseley as Johnny, and scream queen Danielle Harris as Barbara, and is set in a modern NYC over the winter.A few really odd nods to the original, with the old truck, TV and radio, and the building, all look out of place for NY compared to the other locations, but some excellent additions, with the flashbacks to Ben and his wife and son dying in the diner, and Tommy and Judy, as well as Johnny's demise by getting a plane in th face.The one thing that you will notice is the poor quality of the CGI characters, who don't blink, and look like the actors but with a stocking pulled over their head, squishing their face, ears and nose. Given this is 2015, that is only real negative.5/10 for me. The action scenes were decent, the tension, but the animated characters were just poorly created. 

Send us Fan MailBased on Courtney Summer's award winning YA novel of the same name from 2012 we are in a small Canadian town as the zombie apocalypse starts. Annoying teen Sloane is considering committing suicide because of her drunkard violent father, absent mother and now vacant sister.  But then after a bang on the door, we get the noises of the apocalypse and well, darn, it is the zombie apocalypse.After losing her dad after ignoring his advice on staying alive not once, not twice, but thrice, Sloane joins up with the only other survivors from town, who all are from the same class at high school. What are the odds?We get some decent effects and tension, I thought. Sloane is, if anything, the pain in the ass, and being the central character we see too much of her walking off by herself before she causes numerous deaths.Plenty of naysayers moaning about this one, but I actually liked it. Anna and the Apocalypse without the singing, Breakfast Club without the John Hughes factor. You do feel like you've seen this before and that it is all derivative, until you realise the book was written 14 years ago.What can I say? I enjoyed it. It felt like an elongated episode of Black Summer.6/10 

Send us Fan MailI should have known better. When a fellow movie reviewer lists their worst zombie movie of all time, I should have thought, well, if I listed our worst zombie movies (Attack of the Flatulating Dead, Oasis of the Zombies and Hsien of the Dead) I wouldn't then expect them to go out and buy them on DVD before watching them. But guess what I did?Yes, this was bottom 3, on par with the aforementioned bags of steaming horse dung. Zombinator! A documentary style movie where the camera crew are mute at times and just film people being eaten, stabbed, shot, you name it, and don't give their opinions despite them being the only adults in the room of 15 fuckwit wannabe fashionistas.And this was before the zombie apocalypse, created by the "company" and a mad colonel, and before the idiot fashionistas are saved by the Zombinator, a man so tough he wears sunglasses at night, a man who's shotgun doesn't need reloading and a man who's dialect coach should be shot.If I could liken this movie to a liquid it would be the liquid at the bottom of a garbage can, bin juice, in taste and smell.Avoid this one like the syphilitic sore on your pervy uncle's lip as he comes in for a kissy hello.1.5/10 absolute badger shit. 

Send us Fan MailIn Wellington, New Zealand the only known survivors, out of work actor and Lothario Morgan, computer game nerdy accountant Ash and wannabe rock star Jonny enjoy the apocalypse the right way; by living in mansions, drinking beer and playing computer games. But when they run into Stef, a rather delightful scientist who is working on a cure and needs to get to Stewart Island, they have to finally get serious.Okay, so it wasn't Proust, but it wasn't the bottom of the barrel either. Akin to the Dutch Zombibi or Kill! Zombie! this was amusing, a few funny bits but nothing laugh out loud. A simple premise well acted but with some poor cinematography.90 minutes on the dot of low budget unoriginality with a couple of fun kills, and an unsatisfying ending. Still, watchable.5.5/10 from me. I enjoyed it a lot more than Cold Storage.

Send us Fan MailFinally! I had been waiting for this one since pre-ordering it a month or two ago. COLD STORAGE with Joe Keery Georgina Campbell and Liam Neeson. A comedy horror movie that looked great in the trailer. And the thing about that cast is Georgina Campbell if anything has the horror chops of the three – Barbarian, the Watchers, Bird box, Influencers, Psycho Killer and has The Shepherd coming out too. We also have Ellora Torchia from Midsommar as AbigailSo to the plot, when a highly contagious mutating fungus escape a sealed facility, two young employees joined by a grizzled bioterror operative must survive the wildest night shift ever to save humanity from extinction, as the microorganism spreads and destroys everything in its path...After a strong start in Australia with Sosie Bacon it fell away. I thought it was entertaining but weak, not in any way better than the Bruce Campbell Black Friday effort. The repeated jokes like about a suitcase bomb felt flat, Travis’s talking ghetto, and all the deaths just seemed just ok given the opening in Australia including Hero's suicide. In short the trailer had all the best bits.Black Friday I scored 4/10 and I am going to give this the same. Despite some good bursting, the effects were weak, akin to Black Friday, the plot line of Abigail having to help as Richard Brake's Colonel hated Neeson was strange. The dialog was poor and cheesy. I am a bit disappointed to be honest. Now, it is still head and shoulders above the TUBI shit I could have seen, but I am very disappointed by it and wish I hadn't prepaid for it.So, yes, it is a 4/10 for me. Very meh. Average at best.

Send us Fan MailPLAY THIS MOVIE LOUD! The soundtrack is by Pungent Stench, Evit 13, Dead World, Brutality, Disrupt, Mortician, Pyogenesis, Candiru, Winter, and Dismember. If you don’t know who they are, just check grandma's record collection, and it follows a group of bad acting metal heads Brad, Tony, Johnny, Kathy and Angel as Brad wins a contest to get the latest album by his favourite band Living Corpse. The cassette includes a unique song that is not available anywhere else in the world. A song, that when played turns Brad, Tony and Kathy into zombies at the beckon call of the band.So is it virus or voodoo? It is definitely voodoo. And this makes sense to me as the zombies are just slow shuffling looking humans, staring and with dark rings around the eyes. Whilst some reviewers slagged the FX off for not being either bloody Fulci zombies, or blue Romero zombies, I think this is absolutely, and probably accidentally, in keeping with the style of voodoo zombies.Anyway, Angel must save the guys by playing the song backwards, and all the while a serial killer is bear hugging people to death in a Richard Nixon mask. Tricky Dicky indeed.I would have hated it more if I hadn't just seen Hsien of the Dead, and so this is going to be a 2.5/10 for me, on par with Pro Wrestlers versus Zombies. Which may sound bad, but there are over 30 movies below it in our list.Maybe not avoid if you like bad b-moves with a heavy metal theme. 

Send us Fan MailThe elation of finding a movie from our 42nd country was short lived within the first ten seconds of Hsien of the Dead, Singapore's Shaun of the Dead from 2012 and a supposed comedy. Although it was as funny as a road accident. This was awful, just plain awful. The 5.4/10 on IMDB is a reflection of a few idiots giving it 10 and then plenty of people giving it 1/10, and that was only because you can't give 0.With the worst level of amateur acting, bad shot choices, poor camera quality, terrible effects, and pointless plot lines, Hsien, a young army enlistee, Ah Huay a cosplaying martial artist, Edward a porn sensor in the ministry of propaganda, and receptionist Hana all fight their way to meet up in a parking garage, before going out, then back to the parking garage, with the idea of getting off the island on a boat.There is very little to redeem this movie. It is as if random people from the street were asked to ad lib scenes without talking about it before, and with total strangers. The toy helicopter, the cardboard chainsaw, and the terrorist were all low lights in a movie that had perhaps two amusing jokes, dozens of extras, and that I hated. This was 73 minutes of my life that I won't get back, and you can thank me for taking this one for the team.It is the worst movie we have seen since Oasis of Zombies, that at least has the permanence of still being around 50+ years later. Avoid this one. It was not one of those movies that are so bad it was good. This was just so bad.1/10   

Send us Fan MailA little chat-ette to start the week, as Michael appears in the rear view mirror to discuss the short-lived Netflix Resident Evil series and the first season of Black Summer amongst other things.

Send us Fan MailI am going to be lazy here. These two reviews summed this movie up for me.A review 5/10 Some decent elements, but felt like it would never endOnce you get past the cheesy low budget acting, there are some good parts to this movie. Some creepy scenes and the guy who played Chris was great and genuinely creepy. Chad's mum was also a good character/ actor.  But the last 30 minutes felt like 4 hours, I thought it was never going to end. Just non stop running and screaming and shakey camera. I got bored.  The girl, Katie, was pretty annoying in the 2nd half just constantly crying. I was relieved when they finally all died.  When the 3 of them were trying to hide, why did they seem to make as much noise as humanly possible? Stop screaming and make a plan maybe.2/10 Demonic ZombiesI watch about 3 horror movies a day searching for those hidden gem ones.... This was not one of them!! I feel like this movie had a good idea but it was poorly executed. The acting was soooooo bad!! The fake crying was awful and constant for about the last 25 minutes of the movie! It's hard to like any of these characters by the end. Also jerking the camera, yelling and screaming like a blubbering idiot isn't an enjoyable watch! Whoever wrote the dialogue for this movie did a terrible job! I really couldn't wait for it to end...Awful...just Awful! Also a cat and a dog get killed, they're eaten and it's very bloody!In short, the best thing about this movie was that it was 77 minutes long, and that was still 65 minutes too long. A very unconvincing found footage movie where the idiot filmmakers basically filmed everything, including driving there, going to a bar, walking to a friends house to get stoned, and even when a first aid kit is needed, picking the camera up to go find the first aid kit. The two reviews captured it, this was shit, they were annoying and too loud.It is a 3/10 for me, the worst movie I saw this weekend, and that includes two movies from PakistanOut of the found footage and documentary style movies I have seen recently this was a poor, poor, poor Canadian cousin to the others.Savageland 6.5/10The Bay 5this piece of shit 3

Send us Fan MailTwo movies from Pakistan in this episode, all prompted by Ollie Eats Brains who had just discovered Altered Skin but hadn't seen it. Taking a look into it further Pakistan doesn't have too many horror movies and the list of zombie movies is even thinner on the ground. They do have their own webseries version of The Walking Dead called Zombistan but I am here for the movies.After a bit of research, i.e. I googles Pakistani zombie movies, I got two, these two so decided to watch them both.The idea for both of these movies is that the pharma and chemical companies through corruption in government just dump their waste into the waterways and the horrors that follow.Hell's Ground is a 2007 gore fest apparently that tells the story of 5 teenagers from Karachi that bunk school to head to a concert and end up lost in the woods and preyed on by zombies and a family of psychopaths. It is widely classed as Pakistan's first gory movie. And it was alright. We see people demonstrating about the water quality and it causing zombies that look like they have leprosy as the groovy gang of Roxi, Ash, Simon, OJ and Vicky get lost in the woods whilst stoned. Simon is bitten and one by one they end up running into the darkness for one reason or another and are preyed upon by a spiked ball and chain wielding psychopath and his family. So, it all gets a bit Texas Chainsaw Massacre.5/10And Altered Skin was just dull. It was a conspiracy story with investigative journalists getting kidnapped and murdered, as an American ex-pat tries to find the truth to why he wife is in a coma. My interpretation of what the zombies could be was more interesting than the movie itself and other than about 8 minutes of chase scenes and a final battle, the most poster was the best thing about this one.3/10

Send us Fan MailDespite the sneaky rebranding of this movie, from changing the title from Chrysalis to The Living Dead, to making the DVD box look very The Walking Dead including the font and the colour scheme, and including the tag line about day of the ghouls making us think of both Day and Night of the Living Dead, this 2014 low budget post-apocalyptic zombie effort is actually ok.It was referenced in one of the reviews of The Cove aka Escape to the Cove as being so much better and that reviewer was right. I mean, there was plenty to annoy me throughout, mostly that this is set 30 years post the end of society and still todays events, thoughts, attitudes and knowledge is referenced by people who were not even born when the world came to an end.It tells the story of Penny and Josh who are ambling around the post apocalyptic US, occasionally coming across running infected as they camp out in broken down warehouse after cliched broken down warehouse. They then meet Abira, who is heading to the city to meet a group who want to rebuild society by taking the city back block by block. A truly stupid notion if you ask me. And Abira has secrets.I actually thought it was well done. I have seen far worse. I have also seen better. The acting was fine from the 3 leads, and the tension was palpable. Would I watch it again? Probably not. Would I recommend you see it? if this is your bag, then yes. Strides better than The Cove and Zombie Warz, and the like.5/10

Send us Fan MailI hated this one.It wasn't that the writer/director/producer thought he was suited to play the vulnerable, although not really, overly macho nihilistic lead. It wasn't the 5 minute cameo of Eric Roberts in a setting wholly out of character with the rest of the movie, remembering this is a post apocalyptic zombie movie where 99% of people are dead and those that are still alive are scavenging for food and eating cold beans out of a can and Eric in a suit is taking phone calls in a shiny clean bright lit office in front of a working computer. It isn't the appearance of US Navy planes twice with no explanation. Or that the whole thing is a bag of cats set in a marina. Or that the characters wore sleeveless tops and didn't carry weapons. Or that the slow moving blood stained white contact lensed zombies were replaced with glowing eyed fish zombies at some point. It was that Cairo, the supposed lead was an absolute pussy. He is a useless, whiny, weak, pathetic character who wouldn't survive a weekend in a 2 star motel let alone the zombie apocalypse. No weapon. Doesn't even know how the zombies hunt. Doesn't scavenge in houses. Doesn't know anything. Doesn't fight back. You know Berkeley in Zombieland 2? This is not him. Cairo was just pathetic. Why do we join him months or years into the apocalypse, at a point where the streets of LA are empty and this idiot has survived with zero survival skills?Grr.2.5/10 bottom 25 for sure, out of the nearly 400 we have seen. Fuck you, Cairo.

Send us Fan MailFollowing on from a mention on a review of the far superior Savageland, this fake documentary/found footage horror was helmed by Barry Levinson. Yup, Oscar winner Barry Levinson. Good Morning, Vietnam, Rainman, Bugsy... etc etc and the list goes on.It tells the story of 2009, 4th July weekend in Claridge, Maryland, and a horrific outbreak of something that causes lot of nasty side effects, not least having your tongue and liver eaten from the inside. But is it a zombie movie?I asked Google.Yes. The Bay (2012) can be classified as a zombie movie, specifically within the subgenres of body horror****ecological horror, and infected/rage-virus cinema. While the antagonists are technically mutated sea parasites (isopods) rather than undead corpses, the film heavily utilizes zombie tropes and is often cited as a modern "infected" film. And to be fair the cop who kills the chief before offing himself and the woman attacking the mother and baby in the cop car at the end were in so much pain they were not in control. But Trench 11 (2017) and Viral (2016) this was not. Check those two out for proper parasite zombie movies.This wasn't as good as Savageland despite costing a hell of a lot more and having an Oscar winner directing and the Insidious guys producing. Watch that instead5/10

Send us Fan MailA rarity for me, as this is a found footage documentary with a difference. An acted docu-drama where a town of 57 people are massacred and a man, Francisco Salazar, an illegal immigrant from Mexico is the only survivor and therefore the only suspect for the heinous crime.In true crime documentary style this movie follows the case, taking perspectives from a glory hunting writer, corrupt local law enforcement and the family and loved ones of the victims whilst we see Salazar being interviewed by the police.And then it flips, as this is a zombie podcast, to Salazar saying the first victim died then attacked him which is why he had to kill him. And from there we are shown the order or events by a former border patrolman, combined with 36 photos taken by amateur photographer Salazar on the fateful night.Not what I was expecting, hadn't heard of it until I saw a reel by Chris Short listing it as one of the top 10 TUBI zombie movies at the moment. So thanks, Chris, and this one did well for me, 6.5/10, and I would seriously consider a drama of what really happened, so you can watch the two movies in either order.

Send us Fan MailThe first Tamil zombie movie sees mustachioed tough guy traffic cop Karthic take on the zombie hordes after a chemical spill. In true Bollywood style you will need to see past the bright red blood, cartoon sound effects, and at one point a full on pop video complete with backing dancers in a garden centre, as well as a sea of mustaches, to enjoy this zombie movie. In a nutshell it is very obvious, chemical spill, spread, response, then a cure, with a shopping mall, some scenes stolen from other movies, and characters that are purely comical despite it trying to be a serious piece. Or is that their way of making movies, it is a bit of everything. Funny, sad, cheesy, horrific?I am not a fan of Bollywood style movies, or the cheese, or the overly macho mustache hero, flying jump attacks, songs, overly sentimental flashbacks, however, I need to appreciate it for what it is - a bang on average middle of the road zombie movie with a Tamil cultural lean.5/10 

Send us Fan MailThis is one of those movies, like Outbreak with Billy Burke, like Herd, that appeared on the Amazon feed from nowhere. Made in 2025, and doesn't mention the z word at all, instead describing itself as a socially charged horror story about the lingering effects of environmental contamination and corporate denial.So basically it tells the story of a family, lawyer dad, heavily pregnant artist mom, and MS suffering teen daughter who inherit a farm. Although we see the previous family go bat shit and kill each other, very The Crazies but more gross, after a couple of guys dump drums of a chemical into the ground. And it is this chemical, via the water and the fruit that turns everyone white goop drooling, and homicidal.Where in most zombie movies I want everyone to die, the family are ok, other than the trailer trash sister of the lawyer and her pointless son after they turn up.Whilst some of the script and the cinematography is great, we get terrible scenes from time to time, and awful plot devices and design decisions.  The green plant penis was straight out of a Troma comedy, or Night of Something Strange. The hit men for the chemical company were comically bad from their car, their outfits, their choice of weapon and cliched deaths.That being said, it was ok. A bit daytime TV drama, a bit of The Crazies, with the family dynamic of the Griswalds and Cousin Eddie, and some Troma goop.5/10

Send us Fan MailIn this episode Michael and I chat Daisy Ridley's We Bury the Dead, a movie we have been looking forward to for such a long while. Both huge fans of not only Ridley but also Brenton Thwaites (Teen Titans, Office Uprising, Ghosts of War).Ava and Mitch are having marital issues, that they plan to address when Mitch returns from a work conference on Tasmania. But the US military accidentally drops a weapon of mass destruction off the coast wiping out the entire population of the islands.Ava wants to know what happened to Mitch so volunteers to be part of the human relief programme that in conjunction with the Australian military with the idea she will be able look for him when she can. She is part of the effort to find, identify and dispose of the hundreds of thousands of bodies. From the off the military explain in a briefing that some of the dead come back. And they do... and we see them...Hear our thought here.

Send us Fan MailWe have had zombie outbreaks whilst on international flights, we have had zombie outbreaks at a wedding, at a school trip to a petting zoo, and here, we have a bad daytime TV soap opera affair story, set in LA, at Christmas during the zombie apocalypse.The menage-a-trois, complete with daytime TV soap piano, and awful dialog is between overly macho and difficult asshole cop Frank Talbot, his yoyoing wife Sarah who goes between Frank and his younger more handsome, but clearly morally questionable partner Nash.There is too much of this going on. We start with Sarah separating from Frank and going to Nash, but when Nash loses a toe, that Frank cauterizes, she ends up in bed with Frank, then Nash when he wakes up, then Frank again after she shouts and attracts the zombies, then Nash again when they get drunk and Frank heads out to supposedly find supplies but never gets any, before Frank again when he is back after shooting Nash by mistake, and Frank needs a wound cauterized. Too much cauterizing, not enough using the first aid kit in their squad car outside.We do get Lew Temple (The Walking Dead and Zombex) and Felissa Rose (Sleepaway Camp) and Vernon Wells (Commando and Mad Max 2), but they are but fleeting moments of IMDBery. None of them bringing much to the movie at all.And the zombies? Lumpy faced contact lens wearers, the colour of the lenses denoting if you are a runner or a shambler.It was poor, none of the characters likable enough for you to care if they live or died.3.5/10 instead get three TVs and set them up in the same room. Put Days of Our Lives on one TV, a bad cop show on another, and a bad zombie movie on the third and get stoned looking from one TV to the next for similar effect. 

Send us Fan Mail"For a horror movie "The Curse of Hobbes House" was just unfathomably devoid of anything remotely scary."Hm.2020 British, only 3.4/10 on IMDB.Hm.The blurb is that “two estranged sisters visit their ancestral home and are confronted by an ancient curse of the undead following a storm.”The Horror Society, who I rate. wrote about this one that... " this is not a gory flick that most genre fans are looking for. We get some make up effects and a few splashes of blood but nothing that will stand out. Overall the Curse of Hobbes House tries to do what Roger Conner's Rebirth could. Its not a fun or entertaining retelling of a Romero classic. Instead it borrows heavy from the story without contributing. Skip it.”Hm.Another reviewer I listen to, The Irish Film Critic gives it 2.5 stars out of 5 mentions a twist… that I kinda want to find out and says that "overall, despite some inventiveness with its zombie iterations, the story is cliched  and predictable. The character deaths are not shocking or surprising. If you are a zombie fan you may find merit in it but I found it pretty forgettable."Great.So I didn't go into it with high hopes. And I am I didn't. The characters, other then the old woman who puts a gun in her mouth in the opening the scene and her Syrian groundskeeper, were infinitely unlikable. Nigel deserved death from the start and his comeuppance I truly enjoyed. The odd choice for central character was Jane. Jennifer was the much nicer half-sister. I didn't like Jane at all.The zombies are blue eyes screaming zombies, the exterior shots are often reused daytime history or news worthy, the acting wasn't great, the whole thing really didn't do anything for me. It was a few scumbags trying to make some money off a cursed house. And how many times have we seen that?4.5/10 and they should thank me for that.

Send us Fan MailAnd so we are back at it. As I mentally prepare myself to watch the potentially abysmal The Curse of Hobbes House, Michael and I catch up to talk about the zombie entertainment we have seen recently, and what we plan to see in the coming weeks.Michael needs to finish the Netflix Resident Evil series, Daisy Ridley's We Bury the Dead and then move onto the first season of Black Summer. And from there we look forward to season 2 of All of Us Are Dead on Netflix with the first seasons being a top 20 for us, and Colony, from the makers of Train to Busan. That trailer looked amazing. And we give a nod to our buddy Lee Donaldon over at Dead Zero.That was looking forward, looking back at recent watches, we talk Uncontained, which had a lot of clever elements, but ultimately the redneck militia plot ruined it, and I Sell The Dead, with Dominic "Merry" Monaghan and Ron "Hellboy" Perlman, yet another movie compared to Shaun as the best zombie comedy (spoiler it isn't).Enjoy

Send us Fan MailSo just to make sure, this isn’t Red Planet, with Carrie Anne Moss, Val Kilmer, Terrence Stamp, Simon Baker, Tom Sizemore and Benjamin Bratt. That is very different. Robot dog going nuts. As is the Ghosts of Mars the Ice Cube, Jason Statham, Pam Grier effort. That was demonic possession by, I wanna say, the previous inhabitants.This is Liev Schreiber, Elias Koteas and Olivia Williams with space zombies. Yeah. SPACE ZOMBIES! The 8 ma crew is looking for life on Mars. There is a song in that. And one of them chances upon bacterial life. Amazing as it's their last day before they head back to Earth and they were pissed about heading back empty handed.Not amazing as the bacteria turn them into space zombies, and the claustrophobic story takes a dark turn. Reviewers complained about it being low budget but I have no trouble with the cast, the effects or the sets. It all looked very Martian to me. And I enjoyed it. As Space Zombie movies go this one is alright.5.5/10 

Send us Fan MailThere were moments in this show where I really loved it. I thought Lance Reddick as Wesker was inspired. Paola Núñez's unhinged Evelyn Marcus too grew on me. It has tension, and the dual story lines of the teens learning more about Umbrella in New Raccoon City and the post apocalyptic world would, and I stress that word, WOULD have been great IF we had seen the end of the world, IF we had seen why Jade thinks Billie died, and the T-virus spreading across the planet. If anything this felt even more removed from the games than the Paul WS Anderson Milla Jovovic efforts. But ultimately Netflix cancelling it after one season meant we were left unfulfilled. I have seen it twice now. I won't a third time.5.5/10

Send us Fan MailSorry but after a Scooby doo episode in the basement, another fucking boat being the base, World War Z and Shockwaves being ripped off, future Billie becoming Chinese, and Wesker turning out to be a clone, I am a bit done with this one... but here you go... enjoy

Send us Fan MailIn 2022 Constantin the production company behind the Paul WS Anderson and Milla Jovovic movies worked with the asshats at Netflix to create this show that has literally nothing to do with the movies, or Welcome to Racoon City, the movie reboot of the year before.It follows Jade and Billie Wesker as teens as the outbreak is about to happen after their dad, Albert Wesker (brilliant played by the much loved and missed Lance Reddick) and his evil boss and daughter of the original Dr Marcus, Evelyn Marcus, pushes a new happiness drug from Umbrella called Joy, that includes small elements of the T-virus. Why doesn't this sound like a good idea.And Jade as an adult, 14 years later in a post-apocalyptic world, is trying to get home to her husband and child after being in the field in the UK and trying to get samples of something or other before being chased across Europe by Umbrella and a fat beardo in a grey suit.We will be doing this as a three pod breakdown with our chat in the third. In this pod, I cover parts 1 to 3 of 8. Enjoy.

Send us Fan MailAnd we come together to talk two movies high on our watch list for the year, Tina Romero's Queens of the Dead, and 28 Years Later The Bone Temple. What did we think of them? You will just have to listen to find out.

Send us Fan MailSo I saw 28 Years Later The Bone Temple and, unlike it's prequel, I loved it. This is the movie we all wanted 28 Years Later to be from Jim to the old theme tune, to villains getting their comeuppance, to the virus not only being the red eyed blood spewed rage virus we loved, but also some progress in its study and cure.I would question how a bicycle courier has somehow become a history teacher (that bit was stolen from the History Boys), and how Jonno was turned with a simple old school 28 days/weeks infected blood spray, and the Jimmy's aren't affected at all by it.Some iconic scenes inc the Number of the Beast, and the train fight scene, but for me, oddly, it was Jimmy's upside down view of the stars and the bone temple looking like pillars I found the most stunning.It is a bit of an off the cuff ramble, but I scored it 8/10 and will definitely see it again. The Franchise for me is 28 Days Later, 28 Years Later The Bone Temple, then the other two equal third.

Send us Fan MailMichael has gone rogue, going to not only watch 28 Years Later The Bone Temple but also he recorded an episode of the podcast whilst Darren writes and appears in The Fallen Diaries episode 1. Questions will be answered, including but not limited to:Does Michael like the look and feel of prosthetic penises? Has he ever joined a cult?Did Jimmy Savile fix it for him?What other BBC presenters and DJs does he think could be pedophiles?And many many more.Check out his review of Bone Temple, the movie in the franchise that he scores 7.5/10 and describes as "second only to Days."

Send us Fan MailThe things I do for you fucking people.Where am I going with this? Well, since We Bury the Dead and Uncontained, both decent movies, with the Daisy Ridley effort immediately cementing itself in my top 50 zombie movies, we are back on the slippery downward slope with this one – Bong of the Living Dead, not to be confused with Bong of the Dead, although, yes, for you dear listeners I am watching Both! Yes both! The 2011 Canadian movie BONG of the Dead, where Although the world is dealing with a zombie apocalypse, two friends decide to make the best of it. They use zombie brains as fertilizer to grow powerful cannabis. And the 2017 AMERICAN Bong of the living dead Friends fighting for survival realize that the zombie apocalypse isn't all it's cracked up to be. BONG OF THE DEAD from 2011 an experience akin to being the only sober person in a room full of drunk and stoned exhibitionists who think they’re the funniest people on Earth.What a bag of shit… that was bad, like one of those really bad episodes of Z nation that felt like the writers were drunk, high or both, as it had nothing do with the main storyline.3/10 avoid And so onto the second wind of this podcast, we have slept off the 2011 Canadian bong of the dead and now have the American BONG OF THE LIVING DEAD from 2017 It gets a surprising 5.3 on IMDB and although it didn’t have enough reviews on RT to create a score, the two critics that watched it seemed to like it.Tries to be Shaun of the Dead and fails at being remotely funny, despite some decent zombie movie references. Then becomes serious when they run out of weed and fails at that too. In the end it was far better than Bong of the Dead, but it was still shit.4/10 avoid also

Send us Fan MailWinter. A fly over of near black trees. The wilderness in winter seen from above and below. From under the show a shirtless man appears. It is Morley Nelsons Dan. Long hair. Blade. Ominous music.Morley Nelson writes, directs and stars as Dan a bit of a cliché, former spec ops soldier who found the woman of his dreams, and then lost her and their baby, kinda thing. And Dan is confused and lost in the snow as he stumbled upon 7 year old Jack and cute as a button 2 year old Brooke living in a huge house by themselves. What is going on? And this is after a couple forced themselves into the house and were killed by someone, or something.So this zombie virus has two strains, you either turn standard running zombie, I am thinking Black Summer, and will die when killed, these are Deaders, and then there are the Changers, that turn, then turn back, a la zombie versions of werewolves or, more recently, like EAT BRAINS LOVE, but more serious.With the main story being less about the zombies and more about the head of the local militia looking for his daughter, who was part of the couple killed earlier, it does detract a little from what this could have been.It scored 4.6/10 on IMDB and I can see why people would put it around there. I am going to round up to a 5/10 as I found it quite interesting, a fresh take to a degree but with room for improvement. As this was Morley Nelson writing, direction and starring in this well done to him pesonally, it is certainly better than a lot of indie zombie movies we have seen on the pod.If you want to move away from the second rate Romero clones out there, give this a go. It was a few new scenes and a little bit of better writing and acting away from being Blood Quantum ish.

Send us Fan MailI have been waiting for this one for a year. Or so it seems. It has certainly taken its sweet ass time in coming but finally I get to cross off Daisy Ridley's We Bury The Dead.The story follows American Ava (Ridley) as she heads to Tasmania after a US weapon of mass destruction accidentally wipes out the entire population of half a million people. Ridley's husband Mitch was there for a work thing, and she wants to find him/his body.We learn though, as she is volunteers with thousands of others to identify and retrieve the dead that some of them are coming back. And we do see them. Although the are tragic grey skinned, opaque eyed hollow people, grinding their teeth into sharp splinters. The military are overseeing the whole thing and the returned, the undead, are immediately and ruthlessly dealt with.Enter Brenton Thwaites' Clay,  a bit of a loser, and so far away from the clean cut, pretty boy US roles he is famous for (Teen Titans, Office Uprising, Ghosts of War) you have to double take to see the unkempt, long greasy hair and swearing Aussie is him. Clay offers to take her to the other side of the island, 200 miles, to where Mitch was at the time of the tragedy.And so this becomes a road movie, interspersed with flashbacks to Ava and Mitch's troubled marriage, right through the payoff at the end.It is quite haunting, but not the Australian 28 Days Later that some of the trailers hinted at. A sad story about her and him. A story of loss before and after death. Moments of the Schwarzenegger Maggie. Scary moments. Don't get me wrong. Mark Coles Smith from Beast of War, was truly scary as Riley. It will stay with you. But those wanting a bloody, zombie fest will be disappointed.I liked it though, and given this is my podcast, I score it 6.5/10. Well done all. 

Send us Fan MailThere are sub-genres within the horror sub-genre of zombie horror, oh yes there is. Other then the obvious, the apartment survival horror, the South Korean zombie horror there is this, the romantic comedy set in the zombie apocalypse. And if you think that Shaun of the Dead was probably the first, and Warm Bodies is likely the best example, it is a good segue into the genre if you have a reluctant partner who doesn't want to see Zombie Flesh Eaters on date night. There are a lot of examples, and we enjoy the light-hearted nature of the sub-genre. We have covered Better Off Zed, Death do us Part, Life after Beth, Burying the Ex, The Last Marriage, Eat Brains Love, Newtopia and Night of the Living Deb. And there are more out there.The question is in the balance. Directors tend to lean towards one or two of the elements in the zom rom com equation and either make a romantic comedy with little zombies, or a good zombie comedy with barely any romance. It is a tough nut to crack. But they do keep trying in this entry level sub-genre. 

Send us Fan MailIt is battle of the shit biscuits tonight as I pit Amazon against TUBI, the slop bucket of cinema versus the cesspool of slime with Night of the Living Dead Resurrection and Deadlocked.What can I say about Night of the Living Dead Resurrection on Amazon, a Welsh movie that tries to steal as much from Romero's 1969 classic as possible whilst retaining nothing? A movie that ends with the line "throw her in the rape van" when the zombie apocalypse literally started the day before. A movie with a black character called Ben, in a white shirt and trousers, who has Karen Cooper from the original as his phone background image, but then blows his brains out after 15 mins and we are left with a pointless Welsh family who we have no sympathy for. Rubbish. Unoriginal.2/10And from TUBI we have Deadlocked. Not our first zombie movie set in an elevator, but certainly the worst. TBF compared to NOTLDR this is fucking Shakespeare, director by Spielberg, scored by Morricone. It isn't, of course, it is an overly dramatic but of annoying characters with more drama than a season of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills as cop Lee, perp Mason, wannabe actor Connor, runaway Jacqui and alcoholic Olivia get stuck in an elevator as the zombie apocalypse happens outside.Not as good as the Italian movie The End? but certainly better than is rival in this episode.4/10 

Send us Fan MailRecording in Progress...Kirk, Birdseye, Scarlet and Stabbin, we know a few captains, but in this episode I finally get to talk to friend of the pod Captain Magenta, the only Captain that matters. We talk his first, last, best and worst zombie movies. He tells us what he really thinks of the 28 Years Later ending and Jimmy Savile, and why he loves South Korean zombies the most. We give him a shortlist of new movies to watch, and new TV shows and we have just come off the recording and are already planning a follow up. It was that good.So give the man a listen, hook hand, parrot on the shoulder and skull and cross bones flapping in the wind, this is the one and one Captain Magenta...And you can listen to the Captain's podcast here on Spotify...Spilling Brains and Gossip, go check it out. You won't be sorry.https://open.spotify.com/show/0Z3oo1X6h4el0459Mc6yXG?si=IL-yZG5PTlud2AWqmaLPmA

Send us Fan MailAfter a destructive asteroid ushers in the apocalypse and Trump invades Venezuela, the dead begin to rise and Satan's army is unleashed onto the world. Meanwhile, seven archangels attempt to save mankind from evil.... And Michael has gone Han Solo for this one. As Darren talks to Captain Magenta about all things pirate zombie, Michael went off-piste and watched the 2018 French biblical zombie movie ANGELS VERSUS ZOMBIES. Is it PRO-WRESTLERS VERSUS ZOMBIES. Not quite! How dare you!Darren saw the trailer and that was enough, but Michael decided to throw himself onto the grenade and embraces the suck that is Angels versus Zombies.4/10 and it doesn't even have any Baldwins.

Send us Fan MailThe film follows a group of drag queens, club kids, and frenemies who must put aside their personal dramas and use their unique skills to fight the flesh-thirsty undead when a zombie apocalypse breaks out on the night of a giant warehouse party.That is the premise and we start with a spectacular drag queen Yum heading to church to light a candle for Nana before heading out… however she gets a ping on her hookup app and holy moly it is a ripped chunk of Jesus lookalike who bites Yum on the neck, turning her into the Zombie Queen.Oh before we continue just to say we can play ROMERO bingo here with the old school legends…GAYLEN ROSS was the stern doctor who had words with Sam at the start.TOM SAVINI is the mayor personally and references George A Romero on the TV. Lizzys car is called BARBARA and it looks like a Pontiac LeMans 1967 which is the car johnny and Barbara drive in 1969.And this is a fun one. Katy O'Brian is Dre, nightclub owner, who is let down by both spectacular diva Yasmine, and once reliable friend Sam (Sameonce) as Kelsey, Ginsey Tonic and backup dancers Jax and Nico practice for a big Glitter Ball event. As Dre's brother in law Barry, a down to earth New Yorker has trouble with everyone's pronouns the glittery green makeup wearing zombies start to cause havoc, and her wife Lizzy and a drug addict Jane Doe try to make it across town.It is fun, it is light-hearted. The music is great, the characters are all fun and OTT. I had been waiting for 6 months to watch this one and was glad I did.Tina Romero has done her father proud with this one.Make a cocktail, get your favourite wig down from its velveteen box, pull on your highest sequined platform shoes and enjoy Queens of the Dead6/10 watchable and recommendable for sure   

Send us Fan MailWe do love our Zom Rom Coms. Shaun of the Dead, Warm Bodies, Life after Beth, Burying the Ex, all good. All funny in their own way. All with their unique charm. And then there is this... 2014, Night of the Living Deb.It stars Maria Thayer as the incredibly awkward, infuriatingly so at times, Deb, and Michael Cassidy (Jimmy Olsen in Batman v Superman and Sgt Kelly in Army of the Dead) as organic produce eating, bike riding, eco-friendly traditionally handsome Ryan. After a 4th July party hookup Deb wakes in Ryan's bed (fully clothed thankfully), and after some very awkward behaviour (too awkward, what she says and what she does, smashing things by accident) they head out to find their are in the middle of a zombie outbreak.Despite her character being over the top in all ways, the movie is quite funny in places, look out for the graffiti gag, and mom's phone call. Reading the reviews it is polarising, people loved it, or people hated it, and the reason they hated it was Deb's character. People were 7/10 or 2/10, and I am going for 5.5 as I think it was watchable, once you got used to her forced awkwardness, and he was great. Nice little new take on the outbreak too at the end. Decent cast. I'd recommend it if you like ZOM ROM COMS. 

Send us Fan MailAfter I cover the best (MadS) and worst (Oasis of Zombies) in the intro, giving you the top 5 to watch and bottom 5 to avoid, we watch the New Zealand animated web series Bloke of the Apocalypse by Charlie Faulks. It was quirky in an early Adult Swim way, and I enjoyed it so much I wish there was more.5/10 watchable for sure

Send us Fan MailThere is a comedy zombie boxed set, you may have seen it, you may know it. On it you will find three zombie comedies, the Christmas themed Stalled from the UK, we liked that one, I survived a zombie holocaust from New Zealand starring friend of the podcast Harley Neville, and this… Me and My Mates versus the Zombie Apocalypse from Australia.The premise?During the Australian zombie apocalypse, Darryl (played by Alex Williamson) - a mid-twenties telecom tradesman - and several of his co-workers get trapped in a telephone exchange. It is a comedy. But, what do we say, dear listeners, about comedy? That for a comedy to be funny the jokes have to land. And they do not always land. The trailer looks pretty low end. I am thinking Danny Dyer’s Dog House meets New Kids Nitro from the Netherlands. But lets find a review and see if we agree with it.It was shit. Not funnyThe constant running gag of Daryl wanting to be on roys cricket team – not funnyThe constant running gag of Daryl having thrush – not funnyThe running gag of Daryl’s tiny cricket bat – not funnyHitting women zombies and apologising, not funnyThe toolmaster multitool, not funnyDaryl confusing vampires and zombies, not funnyScript was poor, the acting was poor, Jim Jeffries, the main draw, just disappeared, it was like he thought, fuck it, let me die.Remember New Kids Nitro?3.5/10 by far the weakest of the 3 movies on that DVD. No way near as funny as I survived a zombie holocaust, and not as good or original as stalled, and that is set in a womens toilet. But it isn't the worst Australian zombie movie, that award goes to Zombie Brigade from 1988, which looked like it was made in 1978. This was just shit. No wonder Jim Jeffries got out of it half way through.Avoid. This sucked diarrhea through a bum's sweat sock.

Send us Fan MailHo ho ho dear listeners… and we are santa deep in the festive season here… and as everyone sits down with their loved ones to enjoy a rom com after a hefty Christmas dinner, I am doing the same… well not a rom com you understand, this is a rom zom com, a zom rom com, a romantic zomedy… a subgenre of the subgenre we have time for having seen. | Shaun Of The Dead | 7.5 | I Survived a Zombie Holocaust | 7 | Newtopia | 6.5 | Warm bodies | 6.5 | Life After Beth | 6 | The Last Marriage | 6 | Dead Heads | 6 | Burying the Ex | 6And so to this weeks offering, EAT BRAINS LOVE… I like the title, a play on eat pray love, that everyone in the world owned, it is directed by Timothee Chalomet's uncle Rodman Flender, Based on the 2013 book of the same name by Jeff Hart and is one of the DVDs that will to Michael with my spare region free dvd player… merry Christmas, mate.Two high school opposites, stoner Jake Stephens and popular cheerleader Amanda Blake, become infected with a virus that turns them into zombie-like cannibals. They travel across the country looking for a cure. Cass, a teenage telepath, and her partner Tom work for a government agency charged with hunting and killing the infected. Cass develops feelings for Jake as they track the high schoolers. Tom dies in an attack, Cass turns against her agency and joins Jake and Amanda, forming a contentious love triangle as they journey forward, still searching for a cure.5.2/10 on IMDB which isn’t badIt is a 5/10 for me. An annoying ending. It had moments but it was poor. The acting, the story, the obvious plot, I mean why have Jake and Cass have voice over but not Amanda? Why not at least take it to the conclusion? Wouldn't watch it again. It would be ok for some.

Send us Fan MailIn this episode, the 300th anniversary we go off-topic again. After Dog Soldiers and werewolves in episode 100, Hellraiser in space aka Event Horizon for 200 we are covering The Thing universe. We read, or listen to, Cambell's 1938 source material Who Goes There? before watching the 1951 cold war classic The Thing from Another World, the seminal 1982 John Carpenter The Thing and the 2011 Mary Elizabeth Winstead prequel The Thing.Was MacCready infected? Was Child's? Did the prequel suffer from the CGI comparison to the 1982 effort? Was The Thing in the ice the pilot of had The Thing assimilated it? And will we ever know it's true form?Join Michael and me as we discuss all things Thing, the claustrophobia, the snow, the long johns.

Send us Fan MailAfter a surprise effort from North Macedonia we are returning to our favourite source of zombie entertainment – South Korea. A country that has delighted us for many years and 2 entries in our top 10 with train to busan and all of us are dead, if we are including tv shows.  And they really get it with period shows like Kingdom, and the movie version Rampant, modern series such as Newtopia and Happiness, and mock reality shows like Zombieverse. The blurb for this one - Arriving at a reformatory school, a group of students sent there to work on their attitude issues try to stand up to the teachers trying to control, but when a diseased pig from an undisclosed pandemic awakes and turns the faculty into zombies the students are forced to find a way out of the school.We follow three kids, a fighter, a thief and a spoiled brat party girl, as they are taken by boat to a reform school on an island. It is run by a bully boy principal, who kicks down, bully his VP, who in turns bullies Mr Park a teacher, who in turn bullies the pupils. No one bullies the kids like the gym teacher though, he is a violent piece of work.After a slow start where it's all about the thief being bullied by Chicken Hair, and the party girl bullied by Red Hanky, in the space of a few minutes the Principals cat is killed, then he is bitten by a rabid pig that turns him into a zombie. He kills the nurse, who kills the canteen lady, who then combine to kill the gym teacher and before long we just have the cowardly VP and the kids left.We get carnage. And it does have poor man's Battle Royale vibes. It wasn't the worst zombie movie I have seen. And it is encouraging that a bad South Korean zombie movie is still better than a bad US or UK zombie movie. Oh, and we get a cover of Cranberries zombie as the final theme song.. oh myIt was better than the Japanese Junk and much better than the lowest scoring South Korean Gangnam Zombie. I wouldn't watch it again.Probably a 4/10 for me 

Send us Fan MailThe blurbMarko, shielded by his father's iron grip, must face a shattered world shrouded in silence and peril along with a boy with Down Syndrome.OrBeyond the Wasteland follows two kids who form an unbreakable bond in a post-apocalyptic world overrun by zombies.OrThe world has been ravaged by a pandemic. Alone and outside the safety of the forest, Marko faces a shattered world shrouded in silence and danger.5.8/10 on IMDB which is very good and 3/5 from the UK Film Review And it is from Macedonia and you know what that means dear listener it makes it the 40th country we have covered movies from. Set in the woods after a global pandemic turned virtually everyone zeke a 8-10 year old Marko lives with his dad in the woods. It had a lot of surviving with dad in the woods.  Practical survival stuff. Hunting. Traps. Silence. It felt a little at times like the movie Here Alone, but then with the whole Huckleberry Finn meets The Peanut Butter Falcon but, you know, with zombies and in Northern Macedonia.Innocent and endearing. I felt like the sections of JoJo Rabbit when JoJo and Elsa are hiding together after JoJo's mother was hung. But with plenty of menace from the overbearing and quite frightening father, the infected, the marauders, and the soldiers. The hunt for mom, and going to the hospital felt like Apocalypse Z: The Beginning and the end was very tense for me, as you just didn't know what they were going to do.In the end this was a very watchable 6/10. I liked it!