The Undead Symphony

Send us Fan Mail Sorry but after a Scooby doo episode in the basement, another fucking boat being the base, World War Z and Shockwaves being ripped off, future Billie becoming Chinese, and Wesker turning out to be a clone, I am a bit done with this one... but here you go... enjoy

Send us Fan Mail In 2022 Constantin the production company behind the Paul WS Anderson and Milla Jovovic movies worked with the asshats at Netflix to create this show that has literally nothing to do with the movies, or Welcome to Racoon City, the movie reboot of the year before. It follows Jade and Billie Wesker as teens as the outbreak is about to happen after their dad, Albert Wesker (brilliant...

Send us Fan Mail And we come together to talk two movies high on our watch list for the year, Tina Romero's Queens of the Dead, and 28 Years Later The Bone Temple. What did we think of them? You will just have to listen to find out.

Send us Fan Mail So I saw 28 Years Later The Bone Temple and, unlike it's prequel, I loved it. This is the movie we all wanted 28 Years Later to be from Jim to the old theme tune, to villains getting their comeuppance, to the virus not only being the red eyed blood spewed rage virus we loved, but also some progress in its study and cure. I would question how a bicycle courier has somehow beco...

Send us Fan Mail Michael has gone rogue, going to not only watch 28 Years Later The Bone Temple but also he recorded an episode of the podcast whilst Darren writes and appears in The Fallen Diaries episode 1. Questions will be answered, including but not limited to: Does Michael like the look and feel of prosthetic penises?  Has he ever joined a cult? Did Jimmy Savile fix it for him? What other BB...

Send us Fan Mail The things I do for you fucking people. Where am I going with this? Well, since We Bury the Dead and Uncontained, both decent movies, with the Daisy Ridley effort immediately cementing itself in my top 50 zombie movies, we are back on the slippery downward slope with this one – Bong of the Living Dead, not to be confused with Bong of the Dead, although, yes, for you dear listeners...

Send us Fan Mail Winter. A fly over of near black trees. The wilderness in winter seen from above and below. From under the show a shirtless man appears. It is Morley Nelsons Dan. Long hair. Blade. Ominous music. Morley Nelson writes, directs and stars as Dan a bit of a cliché, former spec ops soldier who found the woman of his dreams, and then lost her and their baby, kinda thing. And Dan is conf...

Send us Fan Mail I have been waiting for this one for a year. Or so it seems. It has certainly taken its sweet ass time in coming but finally I get to cross off Daisy Ridley's We Bury The Dead. The story follows American Ava (Ridley) as she heads to Tasmania after a US weapon of mass destruction accidentally wipes out the entire population of half a million people. Ridley's husband Mitch...

Send us Fan Mail There are sub-genres within the horror sub-genre of zombie horror, oh yes there is. Other then the obvious, the apartment survival horror, the South Korean zombie horror there is this, the romantic comedy set in the zombie apocalypse. And if you think that Shaun of the Dead was probably the first, and Warm Bodies is likely the best example, it is a good segue into the genre if you...

Send us Fan Mail It is battle of the shit biscuits tonight as I pit Amazon against TUBI, the slop bucket of cinema versus the cesspool of slime with Night of the Living Dead Resurrection and Deadlocked. What can I say about Night of the Living Dead Resurrection on Amazon, a Welsh movie that tries to steal as much from Romero's 1969 classic as possible whilst retaining nothing? A movie that en...

Send us Fan Mail After a destructive asteroid ushers in the apocalypse and Trump invades Venezuela, the dead begin to rise and Satan's army is unleashed onto the world. Meanwhile, seven archangels attempt to save mankind from evil....  And Michael has gone Han Solo for this one. As Darren talks to Captain Magenta about all things pirate zombie, Michael went off-piste and watched the 2018 Fren...

Send us Fan Mail Recording in Progress... Kirk, Birdseye, Scarlet and Stabbin, we know a few captains, but in this episode I finally get to talk to friend of the pod Captain Magenta, the only Captain that matters.  We talk his first, last, best and worst zombie movies. He tells us what he really thinks of the 28 Years Later ending and Jimmy Savile, and why he loves South Korean zombies the most. W...

Send us Fan Mail The film follows a group of drag queens , club kids , and frenemies who must put aside their personal dramas and use their unique skills to fight the flesh-thirsty undead when a zombie apocalypse breaks out on the night of a giant warehouse party. That is the premise and we start with a spectacular drag queen Yum heading to church to light a candle for Nana before heading out… how...

Send us Fan Mail We do love our Zom Rom Coms. Shaun of the Dead, Warm Bodies, Life after Beth, Burying the Ex, all good. All funny in their own way. All with their unique charm. And then there is this... 2014, Night of the Living Deb. It stars Maria Thayer as the incredibly awkward, infuriatingly so at times, Deb, and Michael Cassidy (Jimmy Olsen in Batman v Superman and Sgt Kelly in Army of the D...

Send us Fan Mail After I cover the best (MadS) and worst (Oasis of Zombies) in the intro, giving you the top 5 to watch and bottom 5 to avoid, we watch the New Zealand animated web series Bloke of the Apocalypse by Charlie Faulks. It was quirky in an early Adult Swim way, and I enjoyed it so much I wish there was more. 5/10 watchable for sure

Send us Fan Mail There is a comedy zombie boxed set, you may have seen it, you may know it. On it you will find three zombie comedies, the Christmas themed Stalled from the UK, we liked that one, I survived a zombie holocaust from New Zealand starring friend of the podcast Harley Neville, and this… Me and My Mates versus the Zombie Apocalypse from Australia. The premise? During the Australian zomb...

Send us Fan Mail Ho ho ho dear listeners… and we are santa deep in the festive season here… and as everyone sits down with their loved ones to enjoy a rom com after a hefty Christmas dinner, I am doing the same… well not a rom com you understand, this is a rom zom com, a zom rom com, a romantic zomedy… a subgenre of the subgenre we have time for having seen.  | Shaun Of The Dead | 7.5  | I Survive...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, the 300th anniversary we go off-topic again. After Dog Soldiers and werewolves in episode 100, Hellraiser in space aka Event Horizon for 200 we are covering The Thing universe.  We read, or listen to, Cambell's 1938 source material Who Goes There? before watching the 1951 cold war classic The Thing from Another World, the seminal 1982 John Carpenter The Thing...

Send us Fan Mail After a surprise effort from North Macedonia we are returning to our favourite source of zombie entertainment – South Korea. A country that has delighted us for many years and 2 entries in our top 10 with train to busan and all of us are dead, if we are including tv shows.  And they really get it with period shows like Kingdom, and the movie version Rampant, modern series such as...

Send us Fan Mail The blurb Marko, shielded by his father's iron grip, must face a shattered world shrouded in silence and peril along with a boy with Down Syndrome. Or Beyond the Wasteland follows two kids who form an unbreakable bond in a post-apocalyptic world overrun by zombies. Or The world has been ravaged by a pandemic. Alone and outside the safety of the forest, Marko faces a shattered...

Send us Fan Mail Take a really good actor, like James Remar, give him a bad script, awful CGI, terrible co-stars and some of the worst green screen I have ever seen, and you end up with a sub-par Remar. And that is what we get in Glowzies, yes, glowing zombies. And it is the sort of glowstick/predator blood glowing too. After an alien goo related incident 30 years earlier a bunch of pointless infl...

Send us Fan Mail One of three DVDs in the Christmas box this year, along with Eat Brains Love and Zombie School, and all three nowhere on any list I have ever created. They were all very randomly found. After watching the Thai Zomvivor (still an awful title despite the show being awesome), I tried to find any South Korean zombie movies I hadn't seen that had good ratings and discovered Zombie...

Send us Fan Mail More Thai chaos at the university as the zombies run amok. We have too many characters still and now we learn more about the evil Patron and his evil son Joe. Shall we call them Donald and Don Jnr? Lots of lying from the central family, we learn all the mom in a coma's back story and we also have the most unique element of a zombie story I have seen in a long, long ass time -...

Send us Fan Mail I am loving this show. It may not be at the height of some zombie cinema, it isn't better than All of Us Are Dead, but it ain't far from it. I was skeptical after seeing over 30 pretty Thai boys and girls on the poster. And there a lot of characters. A lot of red shirts. A lot of extras to be eaten. Although, that being said, the deaths are getting more and more from the...

Send us Fan Mail There are over 30 characters on the poster for this Thai Netflix effort, and none of them are zombies. That's right, it is a Bangkok university based zombie outbreak story with effectively half a dozen boy bands all vying for the attention of 3 girls - the bright top of the class Ning, the arrogant actress Lily and the morbid goth Prau. The guys all have slightly different ou...