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Send us a text The latest in a line of hit or miss Netflix zombie movie and shows that included #Alive, Kingdom, Valley of the Dead, Black Summer, Army of the Dead, Outside, Betaal, Zombieverse, All of Us are Dead, Cargo and Zom100: Bucket list of the Dead, comes this Indonesian effort. Now, you may think that Indonesia would become country #40 for…
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Send us a text The better half of the series if you ask me and we are back with Young-Joo and a chainsaw working her way through subterranean Seoul, as Jae-Yoon and his squad mates descend the tower. I actually really liked how she was out and about and then trying to get across the city, juxtaposed with him just trying to get out of his building f…
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Episode 279: The Harris Avery Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse
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Send us a text In the first of many (hopefully) we are joined by Michael's oldest son, Harris, fresh off of watching Scouts Guide and World War Z. We talk the movies he has seen and those he will now be subjected to as part of his indoctrination into the sub-genre. Pray for Harris.By Darren Smith, Michael Avery and Guests
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Send us a text We do love Korean zombies. Train to Busan should be in everyone's top 10, All of Us Are Dead is probably per minute the most intense zombie TV show ever made. Then we get Peninsula, Kingdom, Zombieverse and Happiness and this, Newtopia. 2025, on Amazon, telling the story of a young couple Young-Joo and Jae-Yoon, an office girl and a …
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Send us a text Simple premise. A cursed TV that shows only one movie, the very 1970s style Romero-eque Zombie Blood Nightmare is in fact a portal. A very 1980s plot device. the zombies from the movie come out of it and rampage a rural community, including TEMU Eric Stoltz Rocky Duvall as Jeff, his sister Zoe and their neighbour April. The acting is…
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Send us a text Despite Richard Roxburgh, Lily Sullivan and Callan Mulvany, the beautiful New Zealand landscape and, at times, very Lord of the Rings, music, this was annoying… slow, obvious and ultimately unoriginal and disappointing… I have seen all the elements of this movie before in one form or another. An antipodean western, I guessed how peop…
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Send us a text Contracted has always been on the Z list, but I have been avoiding it as body horror isn’t really my thing. But given we are ploughing through 2025 at a rate of knots I thought I would watch both contracted and the sequel. Looking on amazon I could only find the sequel and part one was no longer on TUBI so, SOL I decided to watch the…
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Episode 274: Raiders of the Damned (2025)
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Send us a text In a post-apocalyptic wasteland a group of scientists are rescued by a military ops team so they can fight zombies for control of the planet. Sounds shit. I'm in. 1.9/10 on IMDB now that is something, this could be a challenger to bottom of the barrel. From an IMDB review - Everything is poor in this movie: story, screenplay, dialogs…
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Episode 273: Please Don't Feed The Children
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Send us a text Please don’t feed the children 2024 starring Michelle Dockery of Downton and The Gentlemen Fame and Giancarlo Esposito from Breaking Bad and directed by Directed by Destry Allyn Spielberg… hm… joining the NEPO BABY horror gang with Brandon Cronenberg and Ishana Night Shyamalan Seriously don’t feed the children 1) don't expose them to…
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Episode 272: Neighbours vs Zombies, Zombiecon and the Crazies
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Send us a text An hour with Michael in which we catch up about: Neighbours vs Zombies 5/10 Zombiecon Vol 1 5.5/10 The Crazies (1973) 4/10 The Crazies (2010) 6/10 A wide ranging chat about our zombie viewing of the last week or two.By Darren Smith, Michael Avery and Guests
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Episode 271: Neighbours versus Zombies and ZombieCon Vol 1
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Send us a text 2007 3.7/10 on IMDB and 12% on Rotten Tomatoes A microscopic alien form is secretly used by the army to resurrect dead soldiers. After an experiment gone wrong, a scientist steals the last specimen and hides out in a residential building hoping to reverse the damage. One fateful night the alien lifeform is set loose and turns the res…
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Send us a text A 4 part, 2 and a bit hour What If? where lesser Marvel characters run about trying to defeat the Red Witch and her zombie hordes. If you liked What If? it is ok. If you hated everything since End Game then you will hate this. It is Ironheart, and Ms Marvel and the girl from Hawkeye, plus a few comedy characters, a confusing Moon Kni…
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Episode 268: In conversation with Paul from Yammityville Horror Podcast
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Send us a text A lovely evening chatting with Paul from the Black Country about all things zombie, from Michael Jackson's thriller to being not so thrilled with Brad Pitt's World War Z, crying over his Virus versus Voodoo score and Michael going to a parents-teacher evening for one of his brood.By Darren Smith, Michael Avery and Guests
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Send us a text Good morning dear listeners, Shana Tova and happy new year to my Jewish listeners. In this catch up Michael and I discuss our movie of the year so far MadS, as well as Neighbours versus Zombies, strewth! And lots of other stuff as we prepare to talk to Paul from Yammityville Horror Podcast and Andy Beglin. Grab a half-espresso soy mi…
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Send us a text Ollie mentioned this one, BLOOD BROTHERS LIFE HARVEST and I said I would watch it. Much like the Dexter Fletcher Dead Man Walking aka Autumn is it based on a novel by novelists in my zombie community. 93 minutes. 2025. Looks shit. He is now saying that he recommended we skip it, he did not recommend that we watch it. The trailer is a…
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Send us a text Hello there and welcome to this, the 265th episode of the US with ME DS in which I will review WE ARE ZOMBIES a 2023 Canadian French zombie horror comedy film based on the comic series The Zombies That Ate the World and there is a tale with this one. It is officially the last physical media of the year and you know what that means? Y…
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Episode 264: Dead Men Walking (2005) and Dead Men Walking (2009)
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Send us a text DEAD MEN WALKING. Pfff! Where to start with this one? I went into it with high hopes for the 2009 Canadian movie starring Dexter Fletcher and David Carridine, and zero hopes for the 2005 maximum security prison lockdown story. How wrong can a man be? Ok, so neither was great. The 2005 movie tells the story of a guy who kills 4 friend…
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Episode 263: Lee Donaldson and Dead Zero
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Send us a text Taking a break between the Zombie Night double bill, Re-Animator and MadS in this episode of the podcast we are delighted to share airtime with writer/producer/actor and all round nice guy Lee Donaldson. We talk his zombie history, his top (I think it was 8 or 9) zombie movies and the inspiration for his zombie not-so-short DEAD ZERO…
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Send us a text Re-Animator (1985), directed by Stuart Gordon, is a cult-classic horror-comedy that blends gore, dark humor, and science fiction. Loosely based on H.P. Lovecraft’s serialized story Herbert West: Reanimator, the film follows medical student Herbert West, played by Jeffrey Combs, whose obsession with conquering death drives him to deve…
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Episode 261: Zombie Night (2003) and Zombie Night 2: Awakening
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Send us a text Oh this one is on you, Stephanie Grant. This one is all on you. Zombie Night and Zombie Night 2. No, not the zombie night with Daryl Hannah, Alan Ruck and Anthony Michael Hall written and directed by Murphy from Z Nation. Nope. That scored a flat tire of a 3.5/10. This, the 2003 Canadian movie, its Sequel and then that mockumentary a…
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Send us a text In a genre that can go from the ludicrous to the sublime to the horrific, from farting zombie versions of the founding fathers to our daughters slow decline into zombification to your face being ripped off and eaten in front of you, there is room for a bit of everything. We have seen Attack of the Flatulating Dead, The Sadness, Maggi…
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Send us a text And I am back from a few nights in a cabin in the woods to work on the book and today I was at Frightfest 2025 down in Leicester Square were slasher 213 Bones was showing as I turned up for my merch, and now I am home and onto something different, French, 2024, MadS on Shudder. August 4th 2023 Party night. One single shot, (although …
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Send us a text Title card – the more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and likewise pain – rolls eyes at Dante quote HI def black and white we open with a radio, piano music and spoken word recording about the end of the earth, we see a knife and a bottle of booze is on the table. Then we cut cut grainy colour home movie of a woman wal…
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Episode 257: ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction
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Send us a text An inconsistent bag of cats from 2010. Cast wise we have the Iranian-American director's dad, who cannot act for toffee, Sydney Sweeney's debut aged 12 and Doc from Z Nation. Is it a comedy? Kinda. Is it a drama? Kinda. We have a lot of political discourse from both sides of the house, the tiny island of Port Gamble has the right win…
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Send us a text In this episode Michael and I talk Zom Rom Coms, the zombie romantic comedy sub sub-genre of this sub-genre of horror. Avoiding the obvious Shaun of the Dead, we discuss those we have seen and scored well. Burying the Ex, As We Know it, Warm Bodies and the most recent Life After Beth all scoring in the 6s and 6.5s. So high scoring fo…
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Send us a text I am still waiting for FORGIVE US ALL, Z MOM and QUEENS OF THE DEAD but in this episode, a spin of the wheel, a roll of the dice, a shake of the magic 8 ball brought me here to Rotten Tomatoes list of the top 100 zombies movies… which is… … so we haven’t covered… Reanimator at #4 Autopsy of Jane doe at 16 Corpse bride at 18 We are zo…
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Send us a text Life After Beth is a 2014 American zombie comedy film and it has a great cast of Aubrey Plaza, Dane DeHaan, Molly Shannon, Cheryl Hines, Paul Reiser, Matthew Gray Gubler, John C. Reilly, and Anna Kendrick. A young man is shocked to find his deceased girlfriend Beth alive, who is no longer an adorable woman but a walking zombie. 5.7/ …
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Send us a text This one was dumb. Trailer park mullet sporting, C-word over-utilising Dutch thugs from opposing villages face off at the soccer games, drag races and facials over the local alcoholic pregnant prostitute. Until they have to join forces after an alien meteor crashes into farming country, causing the cows to overproduce zombie making m…
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Episode 252: In the Flesh Darren and Michael recap
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Send us a text After two seasons and 9 hours of dare I call it entertainment? Michael and I recap our time in Roarton. Did we love it? We certainly enjoyed season 1. Season 2 less so, but it is certainly worth a watch. There are precious few zombie shows out there, and even fewer that re worth your time. Our recommendation? Watch season 1. Maybe se…
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Episode 251: In The Flesh (Season 2)
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Send us a text We are back in Rourton for Season 2, and a sneak peek of what Season 3 would have become thanks to writer Dominic Mitchell as well as a possibly inebriated Ricky Tomlinson (Ken Burton from both seasons) telling us he never turns down a role. Bless him. But at least he responded to us, eh? Eh? Luke? Onto the show. 6 hour long episodes…
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Send us a text Steph over at the Listeners of the Dead podcast said this 2014 running infected Australian effort would cause smoke to come out of my ears. It almost did. It was just a very basic story of a bunch of one-dimensional survivors living in a bad location in my opinion, a farmhouse (no windows!). They are either pathetic whimpering women …
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Send us a text This is not the first Argentine zombie movie we have watched here on the Undead Symphony. Soy Toxico, I am toxic ambled in with a 4.5 a long while ago back in episode 61 over 2 years ago. This is episode 249 over 3 years in and this is El Ultimo Zombi which means, the last zombie and I found it on amazon amongst all the other shit in…
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Send us a text To quote Ewan McGregor's Obi Wan "Hello there." Yes, and I am back and this is the 248th episode of the US with me DS in which I watch Inifini from 2015. In infini, not quite infinity, tells the story of an elite search and rescue team transporting onto an off-world mining facility to rescue whit Carmichael, the lone survivor of a bi…
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Send us a text Ok this his one genuinely appeared from nowhere. And whilst I wait for Daisy Ridleys We Bury the Dead, and Richard Roxburghs Forgive us All, and the Cambodian Z-Mom, and plough through In the Flesh, I was looking at the other streaming services. Netflix – nothing Amazon – nothing Apple – nothing Tubi… well a lot of shit, but also thi…
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Episode 246: Barbie and Kendra Meet the Corona Zombies
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Send us a text This is all on Professor Kyle Bishop. Remember in the episode 245 when he said this… And yes this is me repurposed material with is very apropos "I've got to say the worst one I've seen that I recall with any sense of vividly is Corona Zombies. which of course was produced during the initial lockdown, and so they were severely limite…
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Episode 245: Dr Kyle Bishop aka Dr Walking Dead
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Send us a text RECORDING IN PROGRESS! In this special episode we get to talk with zombie scholar Dr Kyle Bishop about all things zeke. We talk his studies, we talk first, last, best, and worst, we talk top 10s and so much more. And, apologies to Michael and Curtis, he scored a winning 18/20 on Virus or Voodoo. The bar has been set high. Will that s…
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Send us a text This is a special episode in which I look at the two seasons of the BBC zombie Drama IN THE FLESH as recommended by Kieren from Eerie Earth podcast, writer and narrator of The Fallen. Now, I never saw this, didn’t even know it existed to be fair, it ran for two season over two years in 2013-14 and has 9 episodes that I think add up t…
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Send us a text Oasis of Zombies aka Grave of the Living Dead aka Bloodsucking Nazi Zombies. When a student Robert at university in England hears his father has died he gets ready to go back to Africa. While going through his fathers diaries he finds out a secret stash of gold is hidden in the Sahara. Taking he friends along they search for the trea…
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Send us a text A terror you wont want to remember! In a film you wont be able to forget! From the makers of American Graffiti, we have… Messiah of Evil from 1974 recommended to use by Andy Beglin. Film Comment called it "one of the top 10 classic, overlooked horror films of all time." LA Times dismissed the film as a "thoroughly dismal horror pictu…
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Send us a text Shatter Dead (1994) is a low-budget, independent horror film directed by Scooter McCrae. Set in a post-apocalyptic world where the dead no longer die, the film explores themes of mortality, religion, and gender through a gritty, surreal lens. The story follows Susan, a gun-toting survivor trying to make her way home through a world w…
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Send us a text In this episode of the undead symphony in which I will be watching the Netflix Thailand movie ZIAM. Siam being the original colonial name of Thailand. Now, this isn’t our first zombie movie from Thailand, it will actually be the fourth after Operation Undead, that WW2 movie, Paradise Z, with the two hot models living in a swanky hote…
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Episode 239: 28 Years Later with Brian from Zombpocalypse
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Send us a text After having Steph from Listeners of the Dead on last week to explain the thinking behind her 4/10 for the much anticipated 28 Years Later, we have Brian from Zombpocalypse to discuss the rationale behind his 10/10. Michael really liked the movie but only gave it 7/10. Darren thought it wasn't as bad as some people have made it out t…
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Send us a text Outbreak is a 2024 zombie mystery thriller film by the screenplay of Lance Ochsner and Jeff Wolfe and directed by Jeff Wolfe in his directorial debut.[1] It stars Billy Burke, Alyshia Ochse, Taylor Handley and Jessica Frances Dukes and the incredible Raoul Trujillo. Grappling with the disappearance of their teenage son, Ben, a park r…
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Episode 237: The Fallen with Kieran from the Eerie Earth Podcast
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Send us a text In this special episode of the Undead Symphony we are joined by Kieran Begg the writer, director, narrator, host and driving force behind the Eerie Earth Podcast. We will talk all things podcasting, and a lot of things zombie, including his first, last, best and worst, his top 10 zombie movies and TV shows. We will also be discussing…
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Send us a text ZOMBIES OF WAR AKA "War of the Dead" from 2010 although it is actually Horrors of War from 2006 OH MY Hitlers desperation to win World War II at all costs, combined with his obsession with science and the paranormal give rise to a deadly type of warfare. Hitler unleashes his secret weapons Unstoppable Nazi super soldiers onto the adv…
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Episode 235: 28 Years Later with Steph Grant
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Send us a text And so here we are, a week after seeing a movie we have waited 18 years for (or 23 year for some), a movie so eagerly anticipated we bought the themed beer and drank the kool aid. But the reality was very different to the trailer. So what did Stephanie from Listeners of the Dead, Michael and I think about the Danny Boyle and Alex Gar…
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Send us a text A married couple are confined to only their small property during a zombie invasion and they must make do with what they got. Or A lazy 30-something is happy to sit out the zombie apocalypse in his living room until his wife puts pressure on him to become a zombie killer. It gets 4.5/10 on IMDB and 25% on RT and even has a soundtrack…
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Send us a text There will be a nice balanced conversation about the franchise to date with Brian over at Zombpocalypse and Michael. There will also be a Michael and Darren catch up that will cover Transit 17 (now equal worst scoring with Night of the Flatulating Dead) and ChatGPT's worst zombie movie of all time Zombie Nightmare with Adam West and …
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Send us a text When I asked the mouthpiece of our future AI overlords CHATGPT for a list of the top 10 zombie movies of all time, it was that. It was spot on. I asked it for the best zombie movie and it gave me 28 days later. Fair. And so we agreed. The best and the top 10. So I then went there an asked it for the worst zombie movie of all time. It…
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