The Undead Symphony

Send us Fan Mail 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 wi...

Send us Fan Mail 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 fav...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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 soldie...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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 Pal...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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 entrai...

Send us Fan Mail 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 mo...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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....

Send us Fan Mail 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 Breakfast. Michael still needs to see that one. And...

Send us Fan Mail 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 hav...

Send us Fan Mail 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 saying “my girlfriend is dead and now I’m wiping zombie...

Send us Fan Mail 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 documenting the experiences of 3 soldier...

Send us Fan Mail "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 revenge. A humanity clings to hope, their only...

Send us Fan Mail 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 blood in tidal waves, and your intestines with a mind of th...

Send us Fan Mail 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 go to horror comedies.  Is it original? No.  Is it miso...

Send us Fan Mail 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 faith? That whole Mormons not swearing, no ca...

Send us Fan Mail 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, great characters, and fun. It isn't 28 Days L...

Send us Fan Mail 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 biochemical attack has turned all adults in blood th...

Send us Fan Mail 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 into chaos by an unusual and hilarious zombie outb...

Send us Fan Mail "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 spreads, the sisters, played by Sofia Black-D&apo...

Send us Fan Mail 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 dreaming. But when the ZQN virus decimates his city, turning...