The Undead Symphony

Send us Fan Mail Oh this one wound me up big time. A South African zombie movie from 2018 where the main character is a blonde blue eyed American (played by a South African). It had a few good scenes but a lot of it is stolen from other sources, for example, main character is in operating theatre during the outbreak and wakes up hospital, is also wearing scrubs for a chunk of it, etc. It is let do...

Send us Fan Mail After the conversation with Michael and Steph on the top 10 Undead Symphony zombie movies I went looking for other people's top rated movies. IndieWire had a good one, but then I found the IMDB top 50. Outside of Re-Animator and White Zombie I had seen most of them, other than Dead & Buried from 1981 and Cemetery Man from 1994. Dead & Buried is a nasty, dark story of...

Send us Fan Mail This week we have been joined by the awesome Steph from Listeners of the Dead podcast as she and Michael get to watch for the first time one of my favourite movies The Girl with all the Gifts starring Paddy Considine, Glen Close, Gemma Arterton and Sennia Nanua as Stephanie, I mean Melanie! I reviewed this back in Episode 13, so didn't include the preamble/summary  plot, you...

Send us Fan Mail All good things come to an end, well, everything comes to an end and I am glad of that fact as the snidey Hong Chul and conniving Din Din, and squealing idiot Tsuki were really starting to grate on my nerves. Conceptually the South Korean Netflix show Zombiverse was brilliant, with an immersive experience for the cast of 10 in this unscripted reality show set within the backdrop o...

Send us Fan Mail For this hit and run of an episode I chanced upon a post on Instagram about an Italian zombie movie. We have not covered Italy yet and so I was intrigued. More so when the poster showed an elevator open a crack (6 inches) and a pile of zombie bodies outside. And so I found the trailer on YouTube and it looked fun, tense, claustrophobic. I was in. And so we follow Claudio, a high f...

Send us Fan Mail What do I always say? The people who you meet in the zombie apocalypse are probably far worse than the zombies themselves. And the gang find themselves prisoners of the evil mayor of the small town. DinDin, Song Young il, Tsuki, Jonathan and Dax are asleep and tied up in a room in the dark, Na-Rae and Dr PeePee are banished to another room without blankets, and asshat Hong Chul an...

Send us Fan Mail This episode we are joined by Arvind who suggested we all watch the first season of Fear the Walking Dead, the spin-off series that came our about 5 seasons into TWD and was like a breath of fresh air. We meet the dysfunctional Clark/Manawa family in LA as the zombie apocalypse hits, and hits hard. We are there at day zero, without really seeing the origins, but we see the fall of...

Send us Fan Mail This week was a real treat. I hope I didn't gush too much, but we were joined by the wildly hairy New Zealand comedic actor and all around nice guy Harley Neville (not Harvey!) to talk about his movie I Survived a Zombie Holocaust (not Apocalypse) aka Cinema Never Dies. A film we scored with a solid 7/10. We talk the choice not to remove the H word, movie inspiration, body ha...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Michael and I spar with the Listeners of the Dead's Stephanie, learning all about her zombie movie fixation, her podcast and her thoughts on the genre that we all love. We then take a sideways look at her movie choice, the 2008 Nazi ghost/zombie story Outpost  starring the late, great Ray Stevenson and Richard Brake, and directed by Steve Barker who would go o...

Send us Fan Mail Continuing with the South Korean reality-variety show the gang still need to escape the supermarket and then in the car park find transport by trying to match keys with the parked verhicles. Hong Chul's true colours come out when he is willing to sacrifice anyone to save his skin, as well as lie, cheat and the bad mouth anyone behind their backs. He is a real piece of work an...

Send us Fan Mail A quite ingenious combination of reality TV and unscripted adventure from South Korea sees reality TV stars, YouTubers, singers and celebrities attempt to survive the zombie apocalypse.  With everyone else you see in the cast as zombies or survivors, the group must complete tasks to move from one location to the next. Starting in the green room of a dating show, the first 5 surviv...

Send us Fan Mail Bullied by his boss, Akira worked around the clock, he's nothing more than a corporate drone. All it takes is a zombie outbreak for him to finally feel alive! This is based on  the Manga by the Alice in Borderland creator (also on Netflix) and I have to say I didn't like it. The long 2 hour and 9 minute movie had zero character progression, and the characters were not li...

Send us Fan Mail Starting the new season we are doing things differently. Most, if not all, of the episodes will involve watching and discussing all things zeke with a member of the zombie movie online community, or industry professionals, before reviewing a zombie movie of their choice. For this, the first episode we watched the 2006 Canadian comedy zombie movie FIDO starring Blly Connelly as Fid...

Send us Fan Mail There are good zombie movies, the top notch, high end, often mainstream, big studio efforts such as World War Z, Army of the Dead, the Zombielands, the Shaun's, the 28 Days and Weeks. Then you have the classics, modern and otherwise, the Romero's, the 70's and 80's Italian efforts. You have sleeper hits, the Blood Quantum and It Stains the Sands Red, the Europe...

Send us Fan Mail Here we have two movies we didn't hate. And that is hard with the flotsam floating in the cesspool of the genre. Both were not on the radar and were found thanks to a dumpster dive into Amazon Prime. We have State of Emergency starring Station 19s Jay Hayden from 2011. A nice and simple infection story with some good survival bits and Jim tries to find shelter from the runnin...

Send us Fan Mail The battle of the overly long titled and very dated 1970s zombie films this week as we watch, review and discuss Let the Sleeping Corpses Lie In Manchester Morgue (1974) and Children Should Not Play With Dead Things (1972) from the makers of Porky's. Where to start? These two very dated movies are on the Z List. One had a cult status, the other lesser known, and but (interest...

Send us Fan Mail Utter shash. Gangsters, Guns and Zombies didn't know if it was a drama or a comedy. If it was a drama it wasn't very dramatic. if it was a comedy it wasn't funny at all. Using the zombie apocalypse as a smokescreen to rob a bank (clever) the idiot gangsters (Q, Tony, Danny, Paul, Muscles and Crazy Steve) screw up, one get shot in the stomach and now they are on the...

Send us Fan Mail A switcheroo here. I was planning to publish our episode on the battle of the 1970s long titled movies, with Let The Sleeping Corpses Lie at Manchester Morgue from 1974 and Children Should Not Play With Dead Things from 1972. However, Michael is playing catch-up and do we will publish that one next week. And so it gives me, more of a fan of survival horror, to give my slant on the...

Send us Fan Mail We aren't cheap by any stretch of the imagination and are more than willing to pay for our zombie entertainment. This week though we looked at freebies on our collective steaming services and discovered Ibiza Undead, a British movie that touts itself as being "Shaun the Dead meets The Inbetweeners and riotously entertaining". Their words, not ours. Both being Britis...

Send us Fan Mail Wazzup! Woah, I haven't said that in years. But yes we are back for the second part of the Netflix series All of Us are Dead. We have loved this show, as we have other Korean zombie movies (#Alive, Train to Busan, Peninsula, Zombie for Sale) as they get it. They really get it. We have loved this show, with Gwi Nam the villain, and So Ju the fearless firefighter desperate to s...

Send us Fan Mail Two movies I hadn't seen before and probably should have done. Given I have seen most of the George A. Romero movies, including the remakes, including the awful remakes - the remake of Day (oh that is bad). I love the original Dawn and the Snyder remake. I love Land.  Day was always weak, despite the cult status of Bub. And so it is wildly strange to me that I never watched t...

Send us Fan Mail I had watched Zombie Warz (with a z) ages ago, long before Michael and I started on the journey that is All of Us are Dead but due to life getting in the way I hadn't watched a second movie to create a twofer episode.  So this morning I skipped the gym and watched The Battery, an indie flick that cost $6000 to make, and reminded me a lot of the UK Among the Living, just with...

Send us Fan Mail This week and we next we will be bringing you are review and commentary on the South Korean Netflix series All of us as Dead. My second viewing and Michael's first. How will our opinions differ on everything from hiding and surviving to trying to live you life, from whether  Lee-Cheong San 's mother was stupid or just being a mother, and whether the girl in the pink swea...

Send us Fan Mail It was an odd one this week. Something I tend to do is trawl YouTube or the web for the next month of zombie watching, or I read something, get a recommendation, ask Michael what he wants to watch but I ordinarily know roughly what I am going to watch. You know what it's like? It is like you have done the weeks grocery shop. You eat the most exciting meals first and then a fe...

Send us Fan Mail Trying something new this episode as I watch the steampunk Nazi craziness of Frankenstein's Army with Karel Roden, before Michael and I watch The Walking Deceased. A movie he recommended that takes us away from my path. Am really glad Michael has joined this adventure, shouldering the burden of Twitter, whilst I handle instaface and the technical aspects of the recording. He...