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Send us a text Now I do have the TUBI list of movies to work through… the detritus of the channel… Transit 17 and Age of the Dead and 5 years after the fall and the like… utter horse dung and I do have DVDs coming Better of Zed starring Graham Sibley from Zombie Honeymoon Messiah of Evil, that we are going to be watching then reviewing with Andy Be…
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Send us a text I zombie Very I Claudius or I Robot And no not the crappy tv show either this a film which was released by Fangoria Films in 1998; it was written, directed, produced and scored by Andrew Parkinson. It tells the story of a young man who gets infected by being bitten by a zombie and gradually starts turning into one himself. HIS SOUL W…
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Send us a text You know when the New York Times, Variety and Salon.com say something is hilarious that you have had funnier dental work. You also know that when the New York Times, Variety and Salon.com say a very low budget zombie movie is hilarious the critic didn't write the review, that their intern did. And that their intern has shit for brain…
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Episode 227: Inmate Zero aka Patients of a Saint (Stupid title)
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Send us a text We have TUBI and Michael to thank for this episode, as we go to a small island off of Ireland where death row prisoners are injected with all manner of nastiness to try to find a cure for Alzheimers and cancer. However, as Stone, our special forces Sinead O'Connor and Ellen Ripley a la Alien 3 skinhead sporting heroine discovers, the…
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Episode 226: Burying the Ex (2014) chat with Michael and Darren
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Send us a text Anton Yelchin (we love him) and Oliver Cooper (we love him) as half-brothers from the same sack star in this Joe Dante (Gremlins/The Howling) rom zom com and we loved it. It joins Shaun of the Dead and Warm Bodies as an entry level zombie movie you could watch on a date, with grandma or the kids. Here is the chat! With special guest …
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Episode 225: Michael and Darren talk World Ends at Camp Z and the ChatGPT Top 10
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Send us a text After my scathing review of World Ends at Camp Z Michael tries to defend it, whilst CHATGPT throws up a very obvious top 10 zombie movies and a new worst? We shall have to see.By Darren Smith, Michael Avery and Guests
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Send us a text A change of plan. We had that list of zombie movies on TUBI. Michael was given the reigns and I asked him which one to watch next. He said Transit 17, a French/Belgian/dutch effort. I agreed then saw the trailer and reviews and now he has had his choosing privileges revoked again. That being said TUBI has redeemed itself by offering …
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Send us a text WORLD END AT CAMP Z A campground owner learns of a prospective buyer's evil intentions concerning the land. A zombie uprising might help him stop the sale. 3.3/10 in IMDB urgh No overall score in RT as it doesn’t have 50 people who could be bothered to watch it 1/10 The Mess at Worlds End Whoever rated thus dog over 3 is either high …
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Episode 223: The Andy Beglin Z-Chat Hour
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Send us a text More than a pleasure to chat all things zombie with zombie online horror community member and all around good guy Andy Beglin (beastonthehorrorexpress79 on insta). We talk Dellamorte Dellamore, and his top 10, notable mentions and the dreaded remakes. He has yet to see Pro Wrestlers vs Zombies (how dare you!) but we forgive him enoug…
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Episode 221: Gangs of the Dead aka 48 Weeks Later
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Send us a text The film was first released under its original title of Last Rites at the Los Angeles Film Festival on June 30, 2006. It was later released direct to video on May 1, 2007 under the new title of Gangs of the Dead. In both Germany and Italy, the film was released under the title of City of the Dead. In the United Kingdom, the film was …
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Send us a text I know I know I promised Michael I would watch World Ends at Camp Z, but I really don’t want to, so I am sneaking in DEATH SHACK. DEATH SHACK BABY DEATH SHACK DEATH SHACK BABY THAT’S WHERE ITS AT. 2017 from SHUDDER Gets a respectable 5.5/10 on IMDB And 82% on ROTTEN TOMATOES Yup. How do you like them apples? Three teens and a drunken…
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Episode 219: Micheal and Darren Infected Recap
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Send us a text We do this from time to time, we see a movie that we need to discuss. Despite it being a B-movie set in Brighton, with annoying students, bad CGI helicopters and arguably the worst sound mix of any movie, there is enough there to like. Infected (2021) or Darkest Day (2015). It was no Pro Wrestlers v Zombies. How dare you! 4.5/10…
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Episode 218: Infected (2021) or Darkest Days (2015)
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Send us a text Looked very 28 Days later in the trailer In a country ravaged by a deadly virus that has triggered a zombie apocalypse, the military is on the hunt for the man rumoured to have the cure Well, I am getting a bit of déjà vu here - much like the movie Zombies!f from 2016 Which was repackaged as Zombie Christmas Apocalypse in 2024 this i…
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Send us a text 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, …
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Episode 215: Darren and Michael's Resident Evil Movie recap
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Send us a text 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.By Darren Smith, Michael Avery and Guests
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Send us a text 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…
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Episode 214: Resident Evil Retribution and The Final Chapter
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Send us a text 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, an…
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Send us a text 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 danger…
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Send us a text 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 th…
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Episode 211: Darren and Michael Catch-up Episode
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Send us a text 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 Apocalyps…
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Episode 210: Zombie Christmas Apocalypse (2024) but actually Zombies! (2016)
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Send us a text 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 T…
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Send us a text 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 a…
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Episode 208: Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead
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Send us a text 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 …
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Send us a text 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 coll…
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Send us a text 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! T…
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Send us a text 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 S…
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Episode 204: Return of the Living Steph
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Send us a text 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 …
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Send us a text 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 fortuna…
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Episode 202: Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City
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Send us a text 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, Vick…
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Send us a text 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……
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Send us a text 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 Mo…
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Send us a text 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 shal…
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Send us a text 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, interest…
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Episode 197: Resident Evil Afterlife
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Send us a text 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…
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Send us a text 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 t…
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Send us a text 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…
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Send us a text 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…
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Send us a text 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 …
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Send us a text And onto resident evil extinction, part 3 of the franchise that we are working our way through. We will watch the movies, then Welcome to Racoon City the reboot and the Netflix show. But before that, this is the 3rd movie on the bounce and it admittedly my favourite, and think that is because it is no longer hamstrung by being tied t…
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Send us a text 2004 and a bit of a mess Resident Evil Apocalypse seems to be the last of the Paul W Anderson Res Evil movies that pays back what it is to the computer games. With movie character Alice joined by Jill Valentine, Oded Fehr's Carlos and The Nemesis we get some cheesy one liners, and the plot of Escape from NY embedded in the events hap…
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Send us a text SEOUL STATION – 2016 written and directed by Yeon Sang-ho. who wrote and directed all three Busan movies. It is the second released installment in the Train to Busan film series, and a prequel of its eponymous film, the aeni (South Korean animation) explores how the zombie epidemic began in South Korea before the latter's events,and …
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Send us a text A man takes extreme steps to protect Maggie, his daughter, who is slowly turning into a cannibal after a zombie attack. He spends time with her, reminiscing about her childhood, dreading the future. It stars Arnold scharzenegger, joely Richardson and Abigail Breslin in the title role as Maggie. Although I have time for all three – es…
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Send us a text Harold's Going Stiff 2011 British Lonely pensioner, Harold Gimble, has become the first man to suffer from a new neurological disease that is slowly turning him into a zombie-like state. Harold s hermit-like existence is shaken up when a vivacious nurse, Penny Rudge, is sent along to alleviate his stiffness. Her special massage techn…
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Send us a text Rememeber Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter? Ben Walker, Anthony Mackie, May Elizabeth Winstead, Dominic Cooper, Rufus Sewell, Jimmi SImpsom…. 2012 5.9 on IMDB 34% on RT? Well, this isn't that. Abraham Lincoln Vs Zombie also 2012 but that is the only thing in common, starring…. Well nobody. Horror movie stalwart Bill Oberst from circus …
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Send us a text Not a lot is written about this 2004 movie for a reason. The cast and crew appear nowhere online in headshot form for a reason. Conceptually it is an ok premise. The hadron collider has an unexpected dump of radiation. A team led by the chief scientist is heading down into it and 4 twenty something junior scientists volunteer to moni…
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Episode 185: Zompocalypse Therapy Sessions (2022)
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Send us a text Zompocalypse Therapy Sessions Follows Erica, an agoraphobic therapist, and her anxious clients who must fight to overcome their personal problems and the zompocalypse. Erica is a therapist with problems. In particular, the walking dead. She doesn't know what to advise clients in zombie situations. Between the zombie-virus lockdown an…
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Send us a text During Thailand's WWII involvement, a Japan-engineered chemical weapon creates a voracious superhuman horde of Thai soldiers leaving a blood-soaked path of ultra-violence and destruction. Yet the greatest victims are the abject undead themselves. Friendships, dreams, and lives devoured... nothing remains. The trailer looked good for …
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Send us a text You remember those meals where you didn't really have everything you needed? Maybe it was a few days before payday and you need to make something with what you have? So you have kosher chicken hot dog wieners, Marinara sauce and 2 minute noodles for dinner? Well this movie from 2015 is that meal. In a town where Dennis Leary's factor…
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Send us a text 1983/4 and a Troma effort back when a Troma effort looked on par with the likes of Zombie Flesh Eaters, Zombie Creeping Flesh and Zombie 4: After Death. In this movie a group of American tourists unwittingly fall foul of unseen forces on a small island after witnessing a voodoo ritual. Some gore, a couple of jumps, but a lot of nonse…
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Episode 181: The 28 Years Later trailer discussion
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Send us a text In this festive time Michael and I talk gifts, and the gift that is the 28 Years Later trailer that dropped this week and made the online horror community wet themselves. In short, we are both excited, but not convinced. After all, it is no Pro Wrestlers vs Zombies. How dare you!By Darren Smith, Michael Avery and Guests
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