The Undead Symphony

Send us Fan Mail I zombie Very I Claudius or I Robot And no not the crappy tv show either this a film which was released by Fangoria Films in 1998; it was written, directed, produced and scored by Andrew Parkinson. It tells the story of a young man who gets infected by being bitten by a zombie and gradually starts turning into one himself.  HIS SOUL WAS THE LAST THING TO GO Keith Phipps of The A.V...

Send us Fan Mail You know when the New York Times, Variety and Salon.com say something is hilarious that you have had funnier dental work. You also know that when the New York Times, Variety and Salon.com say a very low budget zombie movie is hilarious the critic didn't write the review, that their intern did. And that their intern has shit for brains. So this movie is 2004 and tells the stor...

Send us Fan Mail We have TUBI and Michael to thank for this episode, as we go to a small island off of Ireland where death row prisoners are injected with all manner of nastiness to try to find a cure for Alzheimers and cancer. However, as Stone, our special forces Sinead O'Connor and Ellen Ripley a la Alien 3 skinhead sporting heroine discovers, the medication turns everyone fast moving blac...

Send us Fan Mail Anton Yelchin (we love him) and Oliver Cooper (we love him)  as half-brothers from the same sack star in this Joe Dante (Gremlins/The Howling) rom zom com and we loved it. It joins Shaun of the Dead and Warm Bodies as an entry level zombie movie you could watch on a date, with grandma or the kids. Here is the chat! With special guest intro from the man we love, Bruce in As as know...

Send us Fan Mail After my scathing review of World Ends at Camp Z Michael tries to defend it, whilst CHATGPT throws up a very obvious top 10 zombie movies and a new worst? We shall have to see.

Send us Fan Mail A change of plan. We had that list of zombie movies on TUBI. Michael was given the reigns and I asked him which one to watch next. He said Transit 17, a French/Belgian/dutch effort. I agreed then saw the trailer and reviews and now he has had his choosing privileges revoked again. That being said TUBI has redeemed itself by offering up this, a rom zom com, and there aren’t many of...

Send us Fan Mail WORLD END AT CAMP Z A campground owner learns of a prospective buyer's evil intentions concerning the land. A zombie uprising might help him stop the sale. 3.3/10 in IMDB urgh No overall score in RT as it doesn’t have 50 people who could be bothered to watch it 1/10 The Mess at Worlds End Whoever rated thus dog over 3 is either high or part of the film crew. It's a wande...

Send us Fan Mail More than a pleasure to chat all things zombie with zombie online horror community member and all around good guy Andy Beglin (beastonthehorrorexpress79 on insta). We talk Dellamorte Dellamore, and his top 10, notable mentions and the dreaded remakes. He has yet to see Pro Wrestlers vs Zombies (how dare you!) but we forgive him enough to invite him back for a movie review episode...

Send us Fan Mail The film was first released under its original title of Last Rites at the Los Angeles Film Festival on June 30, 2006. It was later released direct to video on May 1, 2007 under the new title of Gangs of the Dead . In both Germany and Italy , the film was released under the title of City of the Dead . In the United Kingdom , the film was released under the title of 48 Weeks Later ,...

Send us Fan Mail I know I know I promised Michael I would watch World Ends at Camp Z, but I really don’t want to, so I am sneaking in DEATH SHACK. DEATH SHACK BABY DEATH SHACK DEATH SHACK BABY THAT’S WHERE ITS AT. 2017 from SHUDDER Gets a respectable 5.5/10 on IMDB And 82% on ROTTEN TOMATOES Yup. How do you like them apples? Three teens and a drunken father on a cabin getaway discover their myster...

Send us Fan Mail We do this from time to time, we see a movie that we need to discuss. Despite it being a B-movie set in Brighton, with annoying students, bad CGI helicopters and arguably the worst sound mix of any movie, there is enough there to like. Infected (2021) or Darkest Day (2015). It was no Pro Wrestlers v Zombies. How dare you! 4.5/10

Send us Fan Mail Looked very 28 Days later in the trailer In a country ravaged by a deadly virus that has triggered a zombie apocalypse, the military is on the hunt for the man rumoured to have the cure Well, I am getting a bit of déjà vu here - much like the movie Zombies!f from 2016  Which was repackaged as Zombie Christmas Apocalypse in 2024 this is actually the 2015 movie Darkest Day And, more...

Send us Fan Mail 3.4/10 in IMDB 20% on rotten tomatoes What did people say? A sadistic, immoral film that is utterly contemptible and repulsive. To say this is sick cinema without any redeeming elements at all is an understatement. The beginning sequence is one of the most morally offensive ever filmed. The consumption of a living child by a zombie, dining on the innocent's stomach while the...

Send us Fan Mail Ok, we finally made it through the confusing world of Paul W S Anderson's Resident Evil, an inconsistent bag of cat if ever there was one.

Send us Fan Mail I had been looking forward to this one, to be fair. Handling the Undead (2024) based on a novel by John Linqvist who brought us Let the Right One In, a clever and modern take on the vampire story. Scandi, arty, modern, starring Anders Lie from one of our favourites The Night Eats the World about the dead coming back. It had the right ingredients but this was not a zombie movie. It...

Send us Fan Mail And it is finally here. We have managed to survive 14 years of the T-virus with Alice and a host of heroes and villains that changed more than the weather. Paul W S Anderson flip flopping constantly, we have one villainous doctor in this movie, then a different one the next movie, we have number of computer game heroes this movie, and they aren't even mentioned in the next. I...

Send us Fan Mail Silent Zone,  a 2025 horror movie about a post-apocalyptic world where people have been turned into savage, zombie-like creatures called ferals. A resourceful teenager, Abigail, and her protector, Cassius, fight for survival against the ferals. The film follows their journey as they encounter other survivors and face relentless dangers. 5.9/10 IMDB so not bad at all. or In a zombi...

Send us Fan Mail Festival of the Living Dead is a 2024 American zombie movie made by the Soska Sisters Jen and Sylvia. So the sisters also made American Mary, a remake of Cronenberg’s Rabid, and a few WWE funded movies. None of which I will, and none of which I have intention to see.  Quite bombastically it is labelled as the spiritual successor to the game changing George A Romero 1968 night of t...

Send us Fan Mail In this wide ranging catch-up we talk all the things we have been up to, the movies we have seen, plus 28 Years Later, Festival of the Dead and the main point of the pod, selling each other Zombie Repellent and Zombies Christmas Apocalypse.  A fun chat was had Zombie Repellent 5/10 Festival of the Dead 4/10 Zombies Christmas Apocalypse 3/10 28 Years breaking even at the box office...

Send us Fan Mail A solo episode from Michael this time around, other than me interjecting with a HOW DARE YOU! We split to watch Zombie Repellent (Me and a 5/5 in Amazon) and Zombies Christmas Apocalypse (Michael and a 2/10 on IMDB). Was it fair? Well, no. But hey ho! All is fair in love and zombie warz.  So this bag of shinola was a repackaged 2016 Tony Todd piece of shit zombie movie repackaged...

Send us Fan Mail One of the new zombie movies and shows on Amazon, this and the Zombies Christmas Apocalypse, and Newtopia. Gets a staggering 5/5 but we know that Amazon scoring is a shit show. This one would have been better as a drama than a comedy, as none of the actors really have the comedy chops. However, it was watcheable. A big twist, which again, would have been better if this was a drama...

Send us Fan Mail When a fast food chicken restaurant is built on the site of an ancient Native American burial ground, the displaced spirits unite with the ghosts of exterminated chickens and transform into Native American chicken zombies seeking revenge! Episode 208: Poultrygiest Night of the Chicken Dead oh my… We have the usual suspects appearing including Lloyd as a future Arbie, Arbie is the...

Send us Fan Mail Ollie and I are more than friends, we are a really, really small gang. Technically 2 is the minimum number of people needed for a gang. And so here we are talking all things zombies, including our first, last, worst and best, sleeper hits, we play the expanded Virus or Voodoo or Aliens, and spitball ideas for his Discord writing collective. Give it a listen. Or else... or else we...

Send us Fan Mail And whilst Ollie Eats Brains and Michael are in a holding pattern prior to tomorrows recording I am back on the DVDs and somewhat of a classic in the genre, THE BEYOND, a movie that has terrified audiences across the world, lucio fulci face melting, blood oozing, gory glory. 1981 it was also released as And you will live in terror! The afterlife Set in new orleans Its plot follows...

Send us Fan Mail Well, hot shit, we are back for another episode. Well I am, hi. This is the Undead Symphony with me Darren Smith. And in this episode I am watching Dead Zone, not the Stephen King paranormal movie with Christopher Qalken, or the show with Anthony Michael hall, this is a zombie sci fi tech armour movie starring Michael Jai White, of Spawn Fame, Jeff Fahey of Lawnmower man fame, and...