The Undead Symphony

Send us Fan Mail 2017 and from Hong Kong this movie is a bag of cats. It is all over the place. A supposed comedy movie with two slackers Lone and Yeung, living in a run down Cantonese opera house run by their aunt, thinking they are the Heavenly and Earth dragon, the double dragons. Instead they are an unsuccessful sleazy fit Lothario and a chubby, bespectacled man bun of a loser. Add the cute gi...

Send us Fan Mail Always happy to talk Dead Zero, having followed the project for so long, and in this episode we have the man himself, Lee Donaldson, back now we have seen the first chapter. We talk the future of the project, and funding options for fans and followers alike. Follow the project here https://www.instagram.com/dead_zero_feature/ and watch it here https://whop.com/lee-don-productions-...

Send us Fan Mail In a post-COVID Japan we get four stories that make up the anthology Everyday of the Dead. Pretty dreadful acting, pretty awful writing, pretty awful cinematography. We have Punch of the Dead, where a dumped guy comes out of lockdown to go see his girl, only to be dumped over the phone. He decides to limp over, and fight his way to get, giving every one of the slow moving zombies...

Send us Fan Mail Once the Bone Temple was released we looked at the calendar and the next big ticket item for zombie movie fans wasn't the gender swap NOTLD remake (another one!) or the scene by scene remake of ROTLD, no, sir, it was the next zombie movie by Yeon Sang-ho the write/director of Train to Busan - Colony. Colony tells the story of a bio-terror attack in a building that has office...

Send us Fan Mail The time has come. Our friend Lee Donaldson is now finally showing off the labours of his hard work, Dead Zero. In a windy hotel on Southend seafront Michael and I attended the Horror On Sea movie festival, meeting up with Lee, and watching the first 31 minutes of Dead Zero. What did we think? You will have to listen to find out, but as a little taster, it was a lot better than ma...

Send us Fan Mail Michael has caught up, watching Tyler Posey and Donald Sutherland in Matt Naylor's Alone (Final Days in the UK), the western version of #ALIVE. Will he like it more? He is also tattooed. He also likes rock music. Listen to find out.

Send us Fan Mail As we excitedly prepare ourselves to head to the Horror On Sea movie festival at the weekend and the premier of Dead Zero, Michael and I go wayyyyyyyyyyyyyy back, back into time, to the first episode of The Undead Symphony Pod. Back then I didn't have a Michael, didn't have a format, didn't have the theme tune and didn't have the celebrity intros.  In episode o...

Send us Fan Mail From the people who brought you Deadlocked (2020) comes an upgrade of sorts. Despite the comic undertones of the title, and the comedy lines from douche nozzle Toby as well as the "come to daddy," goading by the lead as he takes on the undead this is not a comedy. This is a zombie drama set in the rest room at a coffee shop, where tall, handsome, but mostly pathetic hunk...

Send us Fan Mail And I have my dog walker and post man disrupting me too.

Send us Fan Mail Somme-bies! Yes, that is actually one of the many Battle of the Somme jokes made by Marcus (played by the patchy bald soldier from 28 Days Later). Somme-bies! Somme-er Holiday. Somme-body get me out of here. I do hate found footage. I really do. I know some people love it but when it is done badly it is so bad. And this was bad. Given we have seen Live! Escape, Live! Survival, God...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode I shall be reviewing a zombie movie that I had seen before I started this podcast. And yet somehow 4 years into it and nearly 400 movies from 42 countries into it I haven’t gone back and reviewed the black and white Japanese movie Miss Zombie.  Directed by Sabu and released in 2013 this multi award winning zombie movie takes it in a different direction, in a post a...

Send us Fan Mail American made with Arab oil money from the UAE. Is that why the Ick, a monstrous alien lifeform that has been around for about 20 years looks like oil? Maybe.  Starring Brandon Routh, poor, poor, Brandon Routh, I do genuinely feel bad for him, this tells the story, kinda, of the Ick, and how it has always there in the town where he loses everything after being the high school star...

Send us Fan Mail Zombie Reddy is a 2021 Indian Telugu-language zombie comedy crime thriller film directed by Prasanth Varma and starring Teja Sajja, Anandhi, and Daksha Nagarkar. The blurb Mario, a game developer, and his friends, get caught up in the rivalry between two families and a mysterious zombie attack in Rayalaseema where they go to attend a friend's wedding. That is the easy bit......

Send us Fan Mail A random DVD find, and a camp as Christmas Asian zombie movie that scores high on IMDB and RT and pays tribute to George A Romero's Dawn 78. Yes, it is set in a shopping mall, yes the zombie makeup is pretty bad and yes there are amusingly memorable kills as well as comic scenes. We join low level criminals Woody Invincible and Crazy Bee who operate out of a bootleg DVD and c...

Send us Fan Mail In our first catch up in 2  month I pose Michael the question, "was the 2007 Spanish found footage movie REC a game change in the zombie genre?"

Send us Fan Mail It is actually surprising how many Australian zombie movies and shows we have seen thus far…  We Bury the Dead | 6.5   Little Monsters | 6.5  Wyrmwood: Apocalypse | 6.5   Cargo | 6   Wyrmwood: Road Of The Dead | 6  Undead | 5.5  Neighbours versus Zombies | 5   Last Hope | 4  Infini | 4  Plague (2014) | 4   Me and My Mates Versus the Zombie Apocalypse | 3.5   Zombie Brigade  | 3  O...

Send us Fan Mail Set during the brokering of a deal in a top end hotel local sleazebag Fu Gui tries to use junior newsreader Cindy to seduce Director Wu, the university headmaster so he can make money on a demolition and relocation real estate deal. Booze is plied, and food, whilst Fu Gui's long suffering driver and handyman Gou Sheng is told to wait down in the underground car park. But the...

Send us Fan Mail A 2011 German effort on YouTube for me now. Extinction: the GMO Chronicles. GMO = Genetically Modified Organism. And we meet hero Tom, a former Spec Ops operative who casually drove around the city on day zero, ignoring pleas for help, before taking up resident in a disused US missile base from the cold war era. He does that annoying and obvious Vlogging thing to a laptop, and say...

Send us Fan Mail With a slightly different take on the zombie apocalypse this monochrome modern Indian American family story tells of three siblings surviving in their own different ways. Older brother Hari and his wife Barbara stay in the large family home drinking cocktails, playing piano and keeping safe. Younger brother Rishi cannot bring himself to kill the biters he sees around town, and Vin...

Send us Fan Mail A 2018 German movie, our second after Rammbock: Siege of the Dead. Set two years after the fall of civilisation, it follows Vivi, a twenty something girl living in Weimar, one of two remaining cities. In Weimar they kill the zombies and anyone infected, in Jena they are trying to find a cure. No one lives outside of the cities, and they are linked by an automated shuttle train. Wi...

Send us Fan Mail A 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 tak...

Send us Fan Mail Woah. 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 kno...

Send us Fan Mail The 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 Hernand...

Send us Fan Mail And 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 demoni...

Send us Fan Mail I 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...