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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Episode 162: The Corey Feldman Double Bill
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Send us a Text Message. Michael and I talk about two films starring 80s superstar Corey Feldman - Zombie Kind and Zombex. Zombie King - He plays a Haitian voodoo demon that is summoned by Edward Furlong's widower to bring Ed's dead wife back from Hell.... for about 3 minutes. Zombex - He plays a scientist in the last 2 scenes along with Sid Haig an…
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Send us a Text Message. Coming in probably the most fabricated DVD box I have ever seen, this British movie came with arguably the worst acting, zero originality and, well, let's read the box again shall we? Can't wait for Zombie Undead! - George A Romero. Either a lie, or they paid him for a quote. Makes zombies terrifying again - NOPE Destined to…
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Episode 160: Zombie Wars and Death Trench aka Trench 11
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Send us a Text Message. Zombie Wars- 2007 – 2.8/10 from IMDB 20% on Rotten Tomatoes And it has a unique selling point – the zombies are organised. They breed and farm the humans for food and it reminded me of Planet of the Apes, the original Charlton Heston version. We have a female voice over, Apparently the zombies came alive 50 years earlier. NO…
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Send us a Text Message. 1973. Spanish. Dubbed with over the top macho American voices despite it being set in England this overly campy voodoo tale looked like it was a script Hammer House of Horror turned down, with the star Paul Naschy playing not one, not two, but three roles, and all of them poorly. The plot: In England heiresses are being murd…
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Send us a Text Message. 2012 and a more than generous 2.6/10 on IMDB this is a three part movie, well, three separate stories and none of them containing as the title of the collection suggests - Nazi zombies. The first story is a weird bag of crap that tells the story of a cowardly British soldier George during WW1 who, after seducing a fan dancer…
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Send us a Text Message. This awfully titled debut by Steven C Miller (Silent Night, Deadly Night, Extraction, Werewolves) was hailed in 2007 by Bloody Disgusting as being one of the best zombie movies in decades. I was skeptical. Why? Well, 28 Days later (2002), Dawn of the Dead and Shaun of the Dead (2004) and 28 Weeks Later that year. According t…
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Send us a Text Message. The DVD box looks like The Walking Dead, it stars Sig Haig, Malcom McDowell, Corey Feldman and Lew Temple who you may remember as one of the prisoners from The Walking Dead season 3, and the subtitle is The Walking of the Dead. I shit you not. They make such a big thing of Temple's casting that there is even a blood splat at…
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Send us a Text Message. Michael and I talk the classics this week; White Zombie, I Walked with a Zombie, and King of the Zombies. And these movies have all had a significant influence on the horror genre. White Zombie, released in 1932, is considered one of the first zombie films and is credited with popularizing the concept of zombies in popular c…
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Episode 154: Tokyo Zombie and Burial Ground
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Send us a Text Message. How to unpick this one? Toyko Zombie first. 2005 Japanese and based on a Manga of the same name that is classed as one of the best. It certainly hit a lot of the zombie movie themes. We have the reluctant hero, the cause, it happening in the background, societal collapse, and then the rich controlling the poor, before maraud…
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Episode 153: Zombie King and King of the Zombies
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Send us a Text Message. A king related episode. No, not THE King (Elvis not Charles), but the zombie king, or the king of the zombies. Same naming, very, very different movies. Zombie King was filmed in 21 days in the UK in 2011. It looked awful in the trailer and it was.. It has a milkman (the writer) and a postman as 2 of the main characters. It …
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Episode 152: I walked with a Zombie and Zombies Zombies Zombies
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Send us a Text Message. After a month hiatus for summer breaks we are back with a new intro from Zombpocalypse, and a new DVD player to play new DVDs. How exciting? Physical media! With a stack of DVDs off eBay we are back on it, and I am starting Season 7 with the 1943 classic I Walked With A Zombie, a film that has had an influence on the horror …
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Send us a Text Message. Ok this one is for Oliver, Oliver Gray, out there on the west cost. He mentioned we didn’t have Zombie with a Shotgun on our list. Well it wasn’t on the list of movies we’d reviewed, but it was on THE list. The Z list. Ollie is making the definitive Z-list and I look forward to him sharing it with the zombie horror community…
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Send us a Text Message. Rampant, South Korean, 2018, one of those top 50 zombie movies that you haven’t necessarily gotten around to seeing. Like I walked with a Zombie for me. And it is set in feudal Korean, which is a rarity. It is a topic I broached with Brian at Zombpocalypse. This is a zombie movie set a long time in the past. Why is a zombie …
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Episode 148: The Walking Dead Season 1 Episode 1
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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 univers…
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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 includ…
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Episode 147: Zombie Massacre aka Apocalypse Z
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Send us a Text Message. He's done it again He's done it again Uwe Boll has done it again We can't believe it You can't conceive it How'd he achieve it? It's the worst show in town Another 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 U…
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Episode 146: Night of the Animated Dead
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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 …
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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 cr…
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Send us a Text Message. The recipe for Gangnam Zombie Cooking time 81 minutes 1 young handsome male debutante with Taekwondo skills and a crush on the female lead 1 difficult female lead who hasn't made a movie in 7 years and wears the noisiest shoes ever A dick of a boss A bigger dick of a building owner A chubby workmate of the male lead 2 useles…
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Episode 143: House of the Dead 2:Dead Aim
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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 lo…
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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, co…
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Episode 141: Shaun of the Dawn or Dawn of the Shauns
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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 D…
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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 businessm…
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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 cel…
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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 an…
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Episode 137: Zombie Killers Elephant's Graveyard
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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 redne…
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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 Carrad…
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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, …
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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 som…
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Send us a Text Message. It is our 30th country from which we have enjoyed zombie, undead and infected entertainment. Aren't we an international bunch of luvvies? And isn't the genre global? I think so. How did this one appear? After back to back episodes of the floating turds of Amazon I needed something that I knew was good. No, not Dead and Break…
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Episode 129: Flight of the Living Dead and Quarantine 2: Terminal
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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 Livin…
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Episode 128: The Bottom of the Bottom of the Barrel
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Send us a Text Message. Finishing off the second part of the shit feast on Amazon with The Bottom of the Bottom of the Barrel. Reel Zombies - a self-referential movie within a movie within a documentary will rarely work, and it definitely won’t work if everything you’ve produced is shit. At one point the producer is wiping blood off his windshield …
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Send us a Text Message. We are scraping the bottom of the shit barrel this week with a two part crap feast of the lowest of the low, the dregs from Amazon, the what's left when you've watched the good movies, the cult movies, the recommended movies. It's not like they didn't have redeeming qualities too. Ridge War Z had the premise of an author doc…
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Episode 126: FEAR Forget Everything and Run
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Send us a Text Message. "The Walking Dead Meets the Revenant." That is how they describe it. Lofty. Delusion of grandeur much? When a virus ravages a mountain community the survivors must flee from the monsters it created into the barren wilderness. Scavenging, freezing and dying one family will fight for their lives against marauders hellbent on r…
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Send us a Text Message. In 1992 the movie genius that is Peter Jackson gave us this cult classic, Braindead, aka Dead Alive. Renamed in the US because of a Bill Pullman movie Brain Dead. It is messy, gory, fun, a classic tale of a Sumatran Rat Monkey (stop motion) infecting humans in 1950s Wellington, New Zealand, with its bite. If you like your bl…
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Send us a Text Message. It was blasted for being misogynistic, basic, unoriginal, stealing from Shaun of the Dead, and a poor competitor when compared to Lesbian Vampire Killers (seriously? with James fucking Corden), but some class this the 2009 Doghouse Danny Dyer, Noel Clarke, Stephen Graham and Lee Ingleby as a guilty pleasure and one of their …
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Send us a Text Message. I don't know where to start. Small mercies? The movie isn't long. Conceptually? It is a funny premise. The Church of Scientology are trying to remove all other religions by creating tailored viruses that turn the believers into unkillable zombies. Their weakness? The things they weren't allowed to do in life due to their fai…
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Send us a Text Message. The second half of the cancelled Netflix Ferris Beuller meets TWD The World Beyond, a young adult post apocalyptic zombie show that is as much Lord of the Flies as it is Dawn of the Dead. Actually scratch all that, it nothing like any of those. It can't compare. It has none of the depth. But what it does have is witty banter…
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Send us a Text Message. Navigating a post-apocalyptic world full of zombies and "Mad Max"-style gangs, a teenage outcast searches for his lost love orrrrr Living his best life in post-apocalyptic LA, a slacker strives to find the girl of his dreams while outwitting mindless ghouls and cliquish gangs. Set in a post-apocalyptic Glendale where a bioch…
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Send us a Text Message. From Wikipedia "Set in Los Angeles in the late 1990s, struggling writer James Bishop grapples with the emotional shrapnel of a recent breakup with his longtime girlfriend, Emily. As James holds up in his Hollywood Hills home with writer's block, his eccentric best friend Bruce shows up with bad news. The city has plunged int…
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Send us a Text Message. "Viral," a 2016 sci-fi thriller directed by Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost, follows the story of two sisters navigating a world consumed by a mysterious outbreak. The film delves into the complexities of sisterhood against the backdrop of a viral epidemic that transforms humans into aggressive creatures. As the infection spr…
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode we are joined by Hannah from over at Hordes of Horror for a fun Japanese live action adaptation of the Kengo Hanazawa manga I am a Hero starring Yo Oizumi as Hideo Suzuki or Hero. The put-upon, down-on-his-luck manga associate producer has a shotgun license, and a girl friend who has had enough of his day dre…
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Send us a Text Message. The Children (also known as The Children of Ravensback) is a 1980 American horror film, directed by Max Kalmanowicz, and starring Martin Shakar from Saturday night fever, and the chuck Norris action movie, like he does anything else, Invasion USA, leave it to beaver’s Gil Rogers, and the multitalented grammy award winning si…
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Send us a Text Message. Hot on the heels of Live Escape is Live Survival that takes place literally after the first movie with all the same elements - cops, head/vest cams, not using weapons, contradiction, slow pace stilted dialog. There are issues with this one. The story does not progress. The slow moving around a maze like location continues. W…
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Send us a Text Message. A new theme on the found footage horror genre, this is supposedly, but clearly not as we get time updates, a real-time footage horror movie. Written by, directed by and starring Joe Lujan as Pete, with Bryant Smith as his partner Jensen, two cops (bad boys bad boys whatcha gonna do?) are called to a homeless shelter after th…
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Episode 114: Return of the Living Dead 2 and 3
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode I watch Return of the Living Dead 2 and 3 for the first time. In, ROTLD2, the comedic horror sequel to the 1985 cult classic starring one of my first crushes Linnea Quigley, we follow Jesse, a headstrong little spitfuck of a kid, bullied by Billy and Johnny, and his sister Lucy, but somehow focused on saving …
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Send us a Text Message. Welcome to this episode of the Undead Symphony in which we unravel cinematic gems . In the 113th episode, Michael and I dissect the 2000 Japanese zombie flick, "Junk." And it's name is very apt. Whilst it was suggested that we immerse ourselves in a thrilling blend of horror and action as we explore the film's unique take on…
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