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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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Send us a Text Message.I went into this expecting to get progressively more and more angry about a 2022 French remake of the 2017 Japanese hit One Cut of the Dead. I was ready. Fists and teeth clenched. But then I watched it. And it was brilliant. Sure, it was almost a scene by scene remake of the original, but 1. it looked better and 2. it included references to the movie on which it was based.We follow a small movie production creating a live 30 minute movie in a single take for a new onlin...
Send us a Text Message."Little girl?"Has there been a more iconic pilot episode? Maybe Lost, but they are few and far between. The Walking Dead, 177 episodes, plus 5 spin-off shows, plus numerous computer games, and not to mention the tomes upon which the show is based. It took over people's lives, it made zombies mainstream by creating a universe on TV. This wasn't the Romero's, you didn't need to be a horror fan to enjoy this, it was more like Star Trek, where one iconic cast and show spawn...
Send us a Text Message.He's done it againHe's done it againUwe Boll has done it againWe can't believe itYou can't conceive itHow'd he achieve it?It's the worst show in townAnother Boll movie (bad) and includes the guys responsible for Anger of the Dead (bad) and Beautiful People (bad). Boll appears as the least convincing President of the US without the hint of a US accent, the Secretary of State is Italian, we have a very unconvincing US General from Yorkshire, and all the other US sol...
Send us a Text Message.In this episode we watch, review and try to justify the existence of the 2021 Night of the Animated Dead Starring Battelstar Galactica's Katie Sackhoff and Transformers Josh Duhamel along with the West Wing's Dulé Hill as Ben and Canadian Scream Queen Katharine Isabelle as Barbara. It is a pretty poorly drawn scene by scene remake of the 1968 original with a few added elements. Personally (this is Darren typing this) I think it did add a few elements that made it worthw...
Send us a Text Message.My weekend plans seemed so simple. I would enjoy the sun, chill out with the dog, do a few chores with the impending arrival of the parental unit coming up - they will find something in which to find fault and so I try to preempt it with some target tidying. I had loosely planned to watch the next Uwe Boll produced bag of crap Zombie Massacre but then Bloody Babble poked the bear by asking if I had ever seen this, the 2011 Chilean Zombie Dawn. Had I seen it? It was one ...
Send us a Text Message.The recipe for Gangnam ZombieCooking time 81 minutes1 young handsome male debutante with Taekwondo skills and a crush on the female lead1 difficult female lead who hasn't made a movie in 7 years and wears the noisiest shoes everA dick of a bossA bigger dick of a building ownerA chubby workmate of the male lead2 useless security guards1 petty criminal as patient zeroA dash of COVID from a Chinese cat80 minutes of constant incidental musicAdd the dash of COVID to the pett...
Send us a Text Message.The first movie was a double shit pizza with a stuffed crust. The crust stuffed with shit. And if you think nothing in the 2003 House of the Dead made any sense at all, despite it being a very simple premise, and losing all of the Uwe Boll insanity of the first, this the 2005 sequel is better, but it's still not great.We lose the cheesy race music, fighting action stolen from the Matrix, terrible editing where the characters were use one gun, then a different one, then ...
Send us a Text Message.It could have been so good. Take a movie director, give them a computer game franchise movie and say go for it. The problem is they chose Uwe Boll a man who has spent his career making utter crap. Bloodrayne, Alone in the Dark and this House of the Dead (2003), three games turned into movies that really didn't work. Sure, computer game movies don't work, certainly not with him at the helm. He also gave us zombie movies Apocalypse Z, the diabolical Anger of the Dead...
Send us a Text Message.Where were you when you first saw the poster of Dawn 2004? Did you have the 1978 poster on your walls at college? What's your favourite Shaun quote? You got red on you? Do you have a local Winchester where you can hold up until it all blows over? In this episode Michael and I talk Shaun of the Dead and Snyder's Dawn of the Dead 2004 and the original Romero. We talk favourite scenes, zombies, legacy, game changers, how we would change 2004 to better suit our taste,...
Send us a Text Message.A real mess of a movie from Joe Chien who brought us Zombie 108 (another real mess of a movie). Taipei, and in a high rise building reminiscent of every other high rise building from every other zombie movie criminals and the locals live side by side. We have stories running in parallel, kidnappers have kidnapped a businessman for ransom, a drug dealer gets his new stash as he is visited by a rapper friend, a birthday party for a local teacher is attended by nubil...
Send us a Text Message.Troma movies are just fun. You can't get angry that the effects are bad or the story line doesn't make much sense, just sit back, grab a beer and enjoy. And that is what I did for this, the first Troma movie produced in Portugal.2018. And we follow Maria as she rescues experiment TS-347 from the labs of a cruel military cell that has been trying to create a super soldier. Enter Pedro, a bit of a loser, who's birthday party ended with a zombie attack and losing all his f...
Send us a Text Message.If I said to you that Shed of the Dead is a British zombie comedy movie in the ilk of Shaun of the Dead, co-starring Michael (The Hills have Eyes) Berryman, Kane (Friday 13th) Hodder and Bill (Texas Chainsaw Massacre) Moseley in which Trevor spends all his time in the shed at his allotment fantasizing about being a wizard and drinking moonshine before the zombie apocalypse kicks him into action, it would sound alright. And on paper it is alright. The reality ...
Send us a Text Message.This is a bit of a mixed bag of predictability. Take a really bad rip-off of The Walking Dead, make the township's mayor be the doctor, who can banish people by just saying they tested positive for the infection. Throw in a douchey goatee sporting psycho henchman with designs on the pretty girls in the town, a bunch of rednecks, a congregation of cultist loonies, Dee Wallace dying of cancer in a trailer and never leaving her bed for the movie, and Billy Zane in a ...
Send us a Text Message.On paper it should have been good. It had a Hollywood cast of Jeremy Sisto (Clueless), Oz Perkins (Legally Blonde), David Kung Fu Carradine, Harry Dean Morgan... no...Rob Downey Jnr... no... Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Walking Dead) and the trailer was hilarious. A group of young handsome and beautiful friends including Ever Carradine, Jeremy Sisto, Oz Perkins, Gina Philips and Eric Paladino are heading to mutual friend, Portia De Rossi, get lost and end up staying at Dav...
Send us a Text Message.Do you like Korean cinema? We do.Do you like K-Horror? We do.Do you like K-Zombies? We do.Do you like overly brutal bloody violence including numerous mass stabbings, infanticide, feeding bodies of test subjects to pigs, graphic beheadings, super soldiers with no eyes beating rooms of men and women to death with anything it can get is hands on, and killing someone by forcefully face f~cking them whilst receiving a blowjob? Not so much.Still, that is Project Wolf Hunting...
Send us a Text Message.A bit of a mixed meal this week. You know when you are traveling through a foreign country, say somewhere in Asia, and you want to eat but can't read the menu and so you pick a couple of dishes based on the photo next to it on the laminated wipe clean menu? The two courses could be anything. You could have thought the Kaeng Tai Pla looked good but when the bowl of fish entrails soup arrived you gagged and threw up into your napkin. Where the Adobo looked like a soy soak...
Send us a Text Message.Welcome, dear listeners, to Episode 133 of the Undead Symphony where in this episode we dive headfirst into the cinematic masterpiece that is "Zone of the Dead." Yes, you heard that right, we're delving into the deepest, darkest stench filled depths of Serbian horror cinema. (Serbia is country 34 for us). URGH! And I know I know, A Serbian Film is a far far worse movie, I could barely bring myself to read the plot on Wikipedia. This is just a bad movie.Picture this: a g...
Send us a Text Message.Country number 33 for us is Mexico for the 2022 Some Be. This survival story is on Amazon for free (thank God, as I wouldn't pay for it) and the blurb is that Sarah and Esteban will try to survive amid a post apocalyptic society collapsed by the appearance of an unknown virus that overrides human will and consciousness. Ok, sounds familiar. Sarah and Esteban somehow survive long enough to find each other, and then somehow survive numerous scrapes with the undead ho...
Send us a Text Message.And we are back and I genuinely don’t know what to expect with this one. 2001, and starring two Stalwarts of the late Brat pack era Lou Diamond Philips and Lori Petty. I mean, normally I would rattle of 3 movies the stars had been in, and I would be listing Mega Shark v Mecha Shark and Sex School 8 Mr Long Comes Back, or something similar, BTW only one of those movies was made up. But with Lori Petty and Lou Diamond Philips do I need to do that? I mean he was in La Bamb...
Send us a Text Message.An aeronautical themed episode now as I try to recover from the Bottom of the Barrel and the Bottom of the Bottom of the Barrel on Amazon, as I watch two zombie movies with planes as the central location - Flight of the Living Dead (the name annoyed me): Outbreak on a Plane, and Quarantine 2: Terminal.In Flight of the Living Dead (the name annoyed me, like Ridge War Z did) we have a group of scientists including Pet Sematary's Dale Midkiff, bringing his infe...
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