The Undead Symphony

Send us Fan Mail What in the Uwe Boll have I just seen? As I wade through the cesspool of TUBI trying to find something decent I, for my sins and completeness, need to tick this one off. Not to be confused with Narnia Dark Island, 1962 BBC series or the Dark Island in the Thousand Islands, or the  prominent feature of the Saint Lawrence Seaway, is located in the lower (eastern) Thousand Islands re...

Send us Fan Mail I am sewer surfing on the stinky crest of a TUBI wave this weekend, with Dark Island tomorrow and this the 2010 Defiled. OK, let me give you the premise and we shall take it from there. It is a 100 minute long silent movie inasmuch as the characters do not speak. The humans do not speak at all and the zombies each have a single noise, be it a yar, a grunt, or a high pitched eee. Y...

Send us Fan Mail I was dubious, and rightly so. I have been burned of late by movies that were not zombie movies, like The Bay. And that has a lot more in common with Itch! (2026) than any of the movies we have covered. However, there is an actual zombie element to this too. A proper, back from the dead and attacking the living element. So, as a  lay person, I can say this is indeed a zombie movie...

Send us Fan Mail With the upcoming gender swap Vivica Fox version of Night of the Living Dead coming up in November, I thought I would have the NOTLD league table in place before then, but with the title and story now in the public domain it means any twonk with a camcorder can make a version. This version from 2015 is the CGI animated version aka Night of the Living Dead:Origins and Night of the...

Send us Fan Mail Based on Courtney Summer's award winning YA novel of the same name from 2012 we are in a small Canadian town as the zombie apocalypse starts. Annoying teen Sloane is considering committing suicide because of her drunkard violent father, absent mother and now vacant sister.  But then after a bang on the door, we get the noises of the apocalypse and well, darn, it is the zombie...

Send us Fan Mail I should have known better. When a fellow movie reviewer lists their worst zombie movie of all time, I should have thought, well, if I listed our worst zombie movies (Attack of the Flatulating Dead, Oasis of the Zombies and Hsien of the Dead) I wouldn't then expect them to go out and buy them on DVD before watching them. But guess what I did? Yes, this was bottom 3, on par wi...

Send us Fan Mail In Wellington, New Zealand the only known survivors, out of work actor and Lothario Morgan, computer game nerdy accountant Ash and wannabe rock star Jonny enjoy the apocalypse the right way; by living in mansions, drinking beer and playing computer games. But when they run into Stef, a rather delightful scientist who is working on a cure and needs to get to Stewart Island, they ha...

Send us Fan Mail Finally! I had been waiting for this one since pre-ordering it a month or two ago. COLD STORAGE with Joe Keery Georgina Campbell and Liam Neeson. A comedy horror movie that looked great in the trailer. And the thing about that cast is Georgina Campbell if anything has the horror chops of the three – Barbarian, the Watchers, Bird box, Influencers, Psycho Killer and has The Shepherd...

Send us Fan Mail PLAY THIS MOVIE LOUD!  The soundtrack is by Pungent Stench, Evit 13, Dead World, Brutality, Disrupt, Mortician, Pyogenesis, Candiru, Winter, and Dismember. If you don’t know who they are, just check grandma's record collection, and it follows a group of bad acting metal heads Brad, Tony, Johnny, Kathy and Angel as Brad wins a contest to get the latest album by his favourite b...

Send us Fan Mail The elation of finding a movie from our 42nd country was short lived within the first ten seconds of Hsien of the Dead, Singapore's Shaun of the Dead from 2012 and a supposed comedy. Although it was as funny as a road accident. This was awful, just plain awful. The 5.4/10 on IMDB is a reflection of a few idiots giving it 10 and then plenty of people giving it 1/10, and that w...

Send us Fan Mail A little chat-ette to start the week, as Michael appears in the rear view mirror to discuss the short-lived Netflix Resident Evil series and the first season of Black Summer amongst other things.

Send us Fan Mail I am going to be lazy here. These two reviews summed this movie up for me. A review 5/10 Some decent elements, but felt like it would never end Once you get past the cheesy low budget acting, there are some good parts to this movie. Some creepy scenes and the guy who played Chris was great and genuinely creepy. Chad's mum was also a good character/ actor.    But the last 30 m...

Send us Fan Mail Two movies from Pakistan in this episode, all prompted by Ollie Eats Brains who had just discovered Altered Skin but hadn't seen it. Taking a look into it further Pakistan doesn't have too many horror movies and the list of zombie movies is even thinner on the ground. They do have their own webseries version of The Walking Dead called Zombistan but I am here for the movi...

Send us Fan Mail Despite the sneaky rebranding of this movie, from changing the title from Chrysalis to The Living Dead, to making the DVD box look very The Walking Dead including the font and the colour scheme, and including the tag line about day of the ghouls making us think of both Day and Night of the Living Dead, this 2014 low budget post-apocalyptic zombie effort is actually ok. It was refe...

Send us Fan Mail I hated this one. It wasn't that the writer/director/producer thought he was suited to play the vulnerable, although not really, overly macho nihilistic lead. It wasn't the 5 minute cameo of Eric Roberts in a setting wholly out of character with the rest of the movie, remembering this is a post apocalyptic zombie movie where 99% of people are dead and those that are stil...

Send us Fan Mail Following on from a mention on a review of the far superior Savageland, this fake documentary/found footage horror was helmed by Barry Levinson. Yup, Oscar winner Barry Levinson. Good Morning, Vietnam, Rainman, Bugsy... etc etc and the list goes on. It tells the story of 2009, 4th July weekend in Claridge, Maryland, and a horrific outbreak of something that causes lot of nasty sid...

Send us Fan Mail A rarity for me, as this is a found footage documentary with a difference. An acted docu-drama where a town of 57 people are massacred and a man, Francisco Salazar, an illegal immigrant from Mexico is the only survivor and therefore the only suspect for the heinous crime. In true crime documentary style this movie follows the case, taking perspectives from a glory hunting writer,...

Send us Fan Mail The first Tamil zombie movie sees mustachioed tough guy traffic cop Karthic take on the zombie hordes after a chemical spill. In true Bollywood style you will need to see past the bright red blood, cartoon sound effects, and at one point a full on pop video complete with backing dancers in a garden centre, as well as a sea of mustaches, to enjoy this zombie movie.  In a nutshell i...

Send us Fan Mail This is one of those movies, like Outbreak with Billy Burke, like Herd, that appeared on the Amazon feed from nowhere.  Made in 2025, and doesn't mention the z word at all, instead describing itself as a socially charged horror story about the lingering effects of environmental contamination and corporate denial. So basically it tells the story of a family, lawyer dad, heavil...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Michael and I chat Daisy Ridley's We Bury the Dead, a movie we have been looking forward to for such a long while. Both huge fans of not only Ridley but also Brenton Thwaites (Teen Titans, Office Uprising, Ghosts of War). Ava and Mitch are having marital issues, that they plan to address when Mitch returns from a work conference on Tasmania. But the US militar...

Send us Fan Mail We have had zombie outbreaks whilst on international flights, we have had zombie outbreaks at a wedding, at a school trip to a petting zoo, and here, we have a bad daytime TV soap opera affair story, set in LA, at Christmas during the zombie apocalypse. The menage-a-trois, complete with daytime TV soap piano, and awful dialog is between overly macho and difficult asshole cop Frank...

Send us Fan Mail "For a horror movie " The Curse of Hobbes House " was just unfathomably devoid of anything remotely scary." Hm. 2020 British, only 3.4/10 on IMDB. Hm. The blurb is that “two estranged sisters visit their ancestral home and are confronted by an ancient curse of the undead following a storm.” The Horror Society, who I rate. wrote about this one that... " thi...

Send us Fan Mail And so we are back at it. As I mentally prepare myself to watch the potentially abysmal The Curse of Hobbes House, Michael and I catch up to talk about the zombie entertainment we have seen recently, and what we plan to see in the coming weeks. Michael needs to finish the Netflix Resident Evil series, Daisy Ridley's We Bury the Dead and then move onto the first season of Blac...

Send us Fan Mail So just to make sure, this isn’t Red Planet, with Carrie Anne Moss, Val Kilmer, Terrence Stamp, Simon Baker, Tom Sizemore and Benjamin Bratt. That is very different. Robot dog going nuts. As is the Ghosts of Mars the Ice Cube, Jason Statham, Pam Grier effort. That was demonic possession by, I wanna say, the previous inhabitants. This is Liev Schreiber, Elias Koteas and Olivia Will...

Send us Fan Mail There were moments in this show where I really loved it. I thought Lance Reddick as Wesker was inspired. Paola Núñez's unhinged Evelyn Marcus too grew on me. It has tension, and the dual story lines of the teens learning more about Umbrella in New Raccoon City and the post apocalyptic world would, and I stress that word, WOULD have been great IF we had seen the end of the wor...