The Undead Symphony

Send us Fan Mail 3.4/10 in IMDB 20% on rotten tomatoes What did people say? A sadistic, immoral film that is utterly contemptible and repulsive. To say this is sick cinema without any redeeming elements at all is an understatement. The beginning sequence is one of the most morally offensive ever filmed. The consumption of a living child by a zombie, dining on the innocent's stomach while the...

Send us Fan Mail Ok, we finally made it through the confusing world of Paul W S Anderson's Resident Evil, an inconsistent bag of cat if ever there was one.

Send us Fan Mail I had been looking forward to this one, to be fair. Handling the Undead (2024) based on a novel by John Linqvist who brought us Let the Right One In, a clever and modern take on the vampire story. Scandi, arty, modern, starring Anders Lie from one of our favourites The Night Eats the World about the dead coming back. It had the right ingredients but this was not a zombie movie. It...

Send us Fan Mail And it is finally here. We have managed to survive 14 years of the T-virus with Alice and a host of heroes and villains that changed more than the weather. Paul W S Anderson flip flopping constantly, we have one villainous doctor in this movie, then a different one the next movie, we have number of computer game heroes this movie, and they aren't even mentioned in the next. I...

Send us Fan Mail Silent Zone,  a 2025 horror movie about a post-apocalyptic world where people have been turned into savage, zombie-like creatures called ferals. A resourceful teenager, Abigail, and her protector, Cassius, fight for survival against the ferals. The film follows their journey as they encounter other survivors and face relentless dangers. 5.9/10 IMDB so not bad at all. or In a zombi...

Send us Fan Mail Festival of the Living Dead is a 2024 American zombie movie made by the Soska Sisters Jen and Sylvia. So the sisters also made American Mary, a remake of Cronenberg’s Rabid, and a few WWE funded movies. None of which I will, and none of which I have intention to see.  Quite bombastically it is labelled as the spiritual successor to the game changing George A Romero 1968 night of t...

Send us Fan Mail In this wide ranging catch-up we talk all the things we have been up to, the movies we have seen, plus 28 Years Later, Festival of the Dead and the main point of the pod, selling each other Zombie Repellent and Zombies Christmas Apocalypse.  A fun chat was had Zombie Repellent 5/10 Festival of the Dead 4/10 Zombies Christmas Apocalypse 3/10 28 Years breaking even at the box office...

Send us Fan Mail A solo episode from Michael this time around, other than me interjecting with a HOW DARE YOU! We split to watch Zombie Repellent (Me and a 5/5 in Amazon) and Zombies Christmas Apocalypse (Michael and a 2/10 on IMDB). Was it fair? Well, no. But hey ho! All is fair in love and zombie warz.  So this bag of shinola was a repackaged 2016 Tony Todd piece of shit zombie movie repackaged...

Send us Fan Mail One of the new zombie movies and shows on Amazon, this and the Zombies Christmas Apocalypse, and Newtopia. Gets a staggering 5/5 but we know that Amazon scoring is a shit show. This one would have been better as a drama than a comedy, as none of the actors really have the comedy chops. However, it was watcheable. A big twist, which again, would have been better if this was a drama...

Send us Fan Mail When a fast food chicken restaurant is built on the site of an ancient Native American burial ground, the displaced spirits unite with the ghosts of exterminated chickens and transform into Native American chicken zombies seeking revenge! Episode 208: Poultrygiest Night of the Chicken Dead oh my… We have the usual suspects appearing including Lloyd as a future Arbie, Arbie is the...

Send us Fan Mail Ollie and I are more than friends, we are a really, really small gang. Technically 2 is the minimum number of people needed for a gang. And so here we are talking all things zombies, including our first, last, worst and best, sleeper hits, we play the expanded Virus or Voodoo or Aliens, and spitball ideas for his Discord writing collective. Give it a listen. Or else... or else we...

Send us Fan Mail And whilst Ollie Eats Brains and Michael are in a holding pattern prior to tomorrows recording I am back on the DVDs and somewhat of a classic in the genre, THE BEYOND, a movie that has terrified audiences across the world, lucio fulci face melting, blood oozing, gory glory. 1981 it was also released as And you will live in terror! The afterlife Set in new orleans Its plot follows...

Send us Fan Mail Well, hot shit, we are back for another episode. Well I am, hi. This is the Undead Symphony with me Darren Smith. And in this episode I am watching Dead Zone, not the Stephen King paranormal movie with Christopher Qalken, or the show with Anthony Michael hall, this is a zombie sci fi tech armour movie starring Michael Jai White, of Spawn Fame, Jeff Fahey of Lawnmower man fame, and...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we welcome back the wonderful Stephanie Grant from the Listeners of the Dead Podcast for a chat. No real agenda, more a chat about what we have seen and liked, what we have seen and didn't like, what we are looking forward to, and what we've been up to and future plans. We also take the top 25 or so most recognizable TV and movie zombies to get to a conse...

Send us Fan Mail Die Alone is a 2024 Canadian horror thriller film written and directed by Lowell Dean . The film stars Carrie-Anne Moss , Douglas Smith , and Frank Grillo . It tells the story of a young man with amnesia who joins forces with a hardened survivalist during a zombie like outbreak, as they set out to find his missing girlfriend.  And fortunately for us, it is on AMAZON at the moment,...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to RACCOON CITY It is reboot time Johannes Roberts of 47 metres down and The Strangers: prey at night wrote and directed this 2021 reboot  set in 1998. We have a new cast and a lot of familiar characters, with most of them coming from the games including Clare, Chris, Wesker, Jill, Dr Birkin and his family, Richard, Leon, Vickers, Irons, Ben Bertolucci and Lisa.  However,...

Send us Fan Mail Ok we are here and back after the 200th episode extravaganza, back on the zombies, and the DVDs too. Now this is THE DEAD NEXT DOOR 1989 written, produced and directed by JR Bookwalter. His debut too. And he did the soundtrack… another one of those Steph described this as another from the bargain bin 2/10… which is a really bad sign… The blurb is that In the near future, the world...

Send us Fan Mail Our 200th episode and the end of season 6 of the podcast. It is a like a gender reveal party, but rather than blue or pink powder it is just blood and guts in pletiful supply.  Before the Resident Evil series Paul WS Anderson actually made decent movies, starting with Shopping starring Jude Law he went onto making the popular first Mortal Kombat, the one with Christopher Lambert a...

Send us Fan Mail The film uses color footage to show the action from the zombies' point of view in which they see themselves as normal humans and occasionally switches to black-and-white footage to show the zombies from the point of view of normal humans 55% on RT and 5.7/10 in IMDB th DVD box suggests it could become an instant cult classic. We shall see about that. It stars Matt Davis from...

Send us Fan Mail 2006 something is rotten in the state of denmark Codename: Yin/Yang is a fan-made movie. 6.2/10 on IMDB Some say it has great plot ideas and characters, but poor editing and low-budget effects.  One reviewer says the movie is "horrible" but that the fun they had making it shines through.  Another reviewer says it's "beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema&quo...

Send us Fan Mail After a mmm, and urgh and a "brain candy" in the first three the movies the last three are categorically dog shit with credits. We hated apocalypse, retribution and final chapter for a reason. As Lurch in the Addams family says "Urrrrrrrrrrrr." 3.5/10 dont bother unless you need closure

Send us Fan Mail Now I know what you are going to say – Darren you are hopping all over the place man…. Stay on track… But no, I saw REC4 Apocalypse back in Episode 62, and in Episode 139 we saw the second of the US Quarantine movies. REC and Quarantine are virtually the same film. But yeah, I get it, I am all over the place, but what are you going to do about it? I just watched 6 resident evil mo...

Send us Fan Mail Cannibal Apocalypse… 1980 so right in my wheelhouse when it comes to the classics. John Saxon, a man with a stalwart wig that managed to endure movies with Bruce Lee and Freddy Kreuger. Came from nowhere really. I don’t know what prompted me to find it. But find it I did. I think it was referenced in another movie I saw recently, the write up for it anyway. And I got this on DVD....

Send us Fan Mail After the joy of rewatching Overlord last night, I am back on the dog shit trail. Or am I? Daylights End, 2016, After a plague turns a huge section of humanity into bloodthirsty creatures, a drifter finds few survivors and reluctantly decides to help them. And this is one of those movies pushed by Amazon. It is there in the list when looking at Romero or Zombieland. Daylights End....

Send us Fan Mail JJ Abrams' Bad Robot brings us this underrated WW2 super soldier zombie movie from 2018. And I had been putting off watching it for the pod as I had until I appeared on BPs Let's Talk Horror Channel the other night. BP is watching and reviewing movies this year that he believes aren't getting the credit they deserve. He and I talked Cooties, but he also talked Overl...