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The Undead Symphony

Darren Smith, Michael Avery and Guests

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An undead podcast discussing all things zombie. Movie reviews and TV shows, franchises and chats with fans and the ghouls and boils who bring us this much loved genre.
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Send us a text My issue with this movie was not the plot. It was basic, but it was fair. Zombie outbreak, I am guessing the zombie outbreak from the original 2006 movie that cost £8100 to make and made £2M at the box office, and soldiers holed up at a camp. The country is going to be fire bombed scorched earth style, and they are told on the radio …
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Send us a text Netflix 2024, this Filipino effort joins Block Z and Day Zero as modern zombie movies from the Philippines. Following a family Francis (dad), Iris (mom), Josh (teen) and Lucus (younger tween) escaping the zombie apocalypse and going back to Francis' childhood home, a huge plantation house surrounded by sugar cane fields. The issue, a…
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Send us a text Scottish 2008 and set in a desolate farmhouse in the middle of nowhere during a global pandemic where the infected are violent, jabbering crazies. We meet Daniel, who has lost his wife and child to the infected version of his mother but didn't have the courage to kill his own mother. His car runs out of fuel and he seeks shelter in t…
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Send us a text Celebrating the 20th anniversary, Michael and I are joined by Brian from Zombpocalypse for a wide-ranging and rambling talk about all things Simon Pegg, UK-US translations, finding and then annoying a friend named Pete, Spaced, Channel 4 vs BBC comedies, and the legacy of the 2004 game changer that was Shaun of the Dead. Have you run…
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Send us a text I loved this movie from the moment I saw it. 2019. First Nation characters being downtrodden by the white man finally getting their chance for a better life when mother nature infects mankind with a zombie virus that they are immune to. Beautifully shot, with some scenes reminiscent of art house cinema, and a growing tension that put…
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Send us a text It is zombified tortoise meets trailer trash hare in this 2016 indie zombie horror. As the zombie apocalypse rages in the background trailer trash lovers Nick and Molly head out of Las Vegas to catch a plane with Nick's associates. The plan is to fly to Mexico. Do they get there? Do they f*ck! After their Porsche gets stuck on a dese…
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Send us a text We are both back and Micheal is playing catchup. He is watching the DVDs of movies we have covered in previous episodes. Here we talk the Canadian 2017 Canadian Death Trench aka Trench 11, a particularly dull WW1 parasites themed zombie movie. It should have been good, it could have been good. It was wasn't. It was dull. The parasite…
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Send us a text This was awful. What drew me to it? The name? Zombie Town. Tick. It was made in 2023. Tick. It starred Dan Ackroyd, Chevy Chase and Henry Czerny. Tick, tick and tick. But... It was a 12. A 12! Not even a PG. A 12! Which meant no gore at all, no violence even, no blood, no swearing, no nudity, none of the good stuff. But then what did…
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Send us a text Heading away for a few weeks but wanted to get all my DVDs seen. This will just leave me with the Negan and Maggie show to watch when I am back. But onto this: 1966 and made by Hammer House of Horror, we have Plague of Zombies, starring Quatermass himself Andre Morrell as Sir James, a professor of medicine who head with his daughter …
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Send us a text Belgian 2019 and even though it is the first Belgian zombie movie this was done superbly well. I watched this back in Episode 46 BM (before Michael) and since then it has been a firm favourite. It is one of those movies I have seen over the last couple of years that are not on other people's radar. Joining It Stains the Sands Red and…
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Send us a text Now he is catching up with the DVDs Michael and I are discussing them. In this episode we cover Automaton Confusion, a movie that cost $30,000 to make and yet, up until the stupid its a giant experiment nonsense, was thoroughly enjoyable, punching way above its budget. It had fast paced zombies, genuine scares, and 80% of the story w…
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Send us a text From the producers of [REC], Annabel and The Conjuring comes a bit of an anomaly. 2015. It is called Summer Camp, which is why it was never on my zombie radar, as that suggests it will be a slasher movie where perfect American teens and young adults are chopped up by some mask wearing former student or camp counselor using a [insert …
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Send us a text A double bill from the DVD bargain bucket here. I will try not to let the disappointment come through but I had high (ish) hopes about these two. We had, for starters SNL alumnus Chris Kattan, a profoundly average member of the cast, and James Denton from Desperate Housewives and the Good Witch as unlikely partners in this Cowboys v …
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Send us a text Michael and I talk about two films starring 80s superstar Corey Feldman - Zombie King and Zombex. Zombie King - He plays a Haitian voodoo demon that is summoned by Edward Furlong's widower to bring Ed's dead wife back from Hell.... for about 3 minutes. Zombex - He plays a scientist in the last 2 scenes along with Sid Haig and Malcolm…
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Send us a text Coming in probably the most fabricated DVD box I have ever seen, this British movie came with arguably the worst acting, zero originality and, well, let's read the box again shall we? Can't wait for Zombie Undead! - George A Romero. Either a lie, or they paid him for a quote. Makes zombies terrifying again - NOPE Destined to become a…
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Send us a text Zombie Wars- 2007 – 2.8/10 from IMDB 20% on Rotten Tomatoes And it has a unique selling point – the zombies are organised. They breed and farm the humans for food and it reminded me of Planet of the Apes, the original Charlton Heston version. We have a female voice over, Apparently the zombies came alive 50 years earlier. NO one know…
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Send us a text 1973. Spanish. Dubbed with over the top macho American voices despite it being set in England this overly campy voodoo tale looked like it was a script Hammer House of Horror turned down, with the star Paul Naschy playing not one, not two, but three roles, and all of them poorly. The plot: In England heiresses are being murdered by a…
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Send us a text 2012 and a more than generous 2.6/10 on IMDB this is a three part movie, well, three separate stories and none of them containing as the title of the collection suggests - Nazi zombies. The first story is a weird bag of crap that tells the story of a cowardly British soldier George during WW1 who, after seducing a fan dancer, writes …
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Send us a text This awfully titled debut by Steven C Miller (Silent Night, Deadly Night, Extraction, Werewolves) was hailed in 2007 by Bloody Disgusting as being one of the best zombie movies in decades. I was skeptical. Why? Well, 28 Days later (2002), Dawn of the Dead and Shaun of the Dead (2004) and 28 Weeks Later that year. According to BD this…
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Send us a text The DVD box looks like The Walking Dead, it stars Sig Haig, Malcom McDowell, Corey Feldman and Lew Temple who you may remember as one of the prisoners from The Walking Dead season 3, and the subtitle is The Walking of the Dead. I shit you not. They make such a big thing of Temple's casting that there is even a blood splat at the bott…
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Send us a text Michael and I talk the classics this week; White Zombie, I Walked with a Zombie, and King of the Zombies. And these movies have all had a significant influence on the horror genre. White Zombie, released in 1932, is considered one of the first zombie films and is credited with popularizing the concept of zombies in popular culture. I…
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Send us a text How to unpick this one? Toyko Zombie first. 2005 Japanese and based on a Manga of the same name that is classed as one of the best. It certainly hit a lot of the zombie movie themes. We have the reluctant hero, the cause, it happening in the background, societal collapse, and then the rich controlling the poor, before marauders take …
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Send us a text A king related episode. No, not THE King (Elvis not Charles), but the zombie king, or the king of the zombies. Same naming, very, very different movies. Zombie King was filmed in 21 days in the UK in 2011. It looked awful in the trailer and it was.. It has a milkman (the writer) and a postman as 2 of the main characters. It also and …
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Send us a text After a month hiatus for summer breaks we are back with a new intro from Zombpocalypse, and a new DVD player to play new DVDs. How exciting? Physical media! With a stack of DVDs off eBay we are back on it, and I am starting Season 7 with the 1943 classic I Walked With A Zombie, a film that has had an influence on the horror genre tha…
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Send us a text Ok this one is for Oliver, Oliver Gray, out there on the west cost. He mentioned we didn’t have Zombie with a Shotgun on our list. Well it wasn’t on the list of movies we’d reviewed, but it was on THE list. The Z list. Ollie is making the definitive Z-list and I look forward to him sharing it with the zombie horror community. SO we c…
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Send us a text Rampant, South Korean, 2018, one of those top 50 zombie movies that you haven’t necessarily gotten around to seeing. Like I walked with a Zombie for me. And it is set in feudal Korean, which is a rarity. It is a topic I broached with Brian at Zombpocalypse. This is a zombie movie set a long time in the past. Why is a zombie apocalyps…
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Send us a text "Little girl?" Has there been a more iconic pilot episode? Maybe Lost, but they are few and far between. The Walking Dead, 177 episodes, plus 5 spin-off shows, plus numerous computer games, and not to mention the tomes upon which the show is based. It took over people's lives, it made zombies mainstream by creating a universe on TV. …
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Send us a text I went into this expecting to get progressively more and more angry about a 2022 French remake of the 2017 Japanese hit One Cut of the Dead. I was ready. Fists and teeth clenched. But then I watched it. And it was brilliant. Sure, it was almost a scene by scene remake of the original, but 1. it looked better and 2. it included refere…
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Send us a text He's done it again He's done it again Uwe Boll has done it again We can't believe it You can't conceive it How'd he achieve it? It's the worst show in town Another Boll movie (bad) and includes the guys responsible for Anger of the Dead (bad) and Beautiful People (bad). Boll appears as the least convincing President of the US without…
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Send us a text In this episode we watch, review and try to justify the existence of the 2021 Night of the Animated Dead Starring Battelstar Galactica's Katie Sackhoff and Transformers Josh Duhamel along with the West Wing's Dulé Hill as Ben and Canadian Scream Queen Katharine Isabelle as Barbara. It is a pretty poorly drawn scene by scene remake of…
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Send us a text My weekend plans seemed so simple. I would enjoy the sun, chill out with the dog, do a few chores with the impending arrival of the parental unit coming up - they will find something in which to find fault and so I try to preempt it with some target tidying. I had loosely planned to watch the next Uwe Boll produced bag of crap Zombie…
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Send us a text The recipe for Gangnam Zombie Cooking time 81 minutes 1 young handsome male debutante with Taekwondo skills and a crush on the female lead 1 difficult female lead who hasn't made a movie in 7 years and wears the noisiest shoes ever A dick of a boss A bigger dick of a building owner A chubby workmate of the male lead 2 useless securit…
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Send us a text The first movie was a double shit pizza with a stuffed crust. The crust stuffed with shit. And if you think nothing in the 2003 House of the Dead made any sense at all, despite it being a very simple premise, and losing all of the Uwe Boll insanity of the first, this the 2005 sequel is better, but it's still not great. We lose the ch…
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Send us a text 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 ga…
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Send us a text 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 …
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Send us a text 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 ra…
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Send us a text 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 ha…
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Send us a text 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 drinkin…
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Send us a text 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 co…
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Send us a text 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, Jere…
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Send us a text 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 ge…
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Send us a text 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 l…
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Send us a text 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 S…
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Send us a text 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 fa…
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Send us a text 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 si…
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Send us a text 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. Mic…
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Send us a text 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 (t…
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Send us a text 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 “m…
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Send us a text 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 …
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Send us a text "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…
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