Best Darren Smith Michael Avery And Guests Podcasts (2025)

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Episode 265: We are Zombies (2023) 38:27

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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) 1:14:05

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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 1:10:28

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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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Episode 262: Re-Animator 36:44

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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 1:00:00

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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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Episode 260: Planet Terror (2007) 34:20

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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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Episode 259: MadS (2024) 47:44

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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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Episode 258: Friend of the World 26:20

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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 44:22

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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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Episode 256: The Zom Rom Com Chat 42:50

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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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Episode 255: Versus 43:21

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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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Episode 254: Life After Beth 41:09

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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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Episode 253: New Kids Nitro 30:42

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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 46:12

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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) 1:06:23

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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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Episode 250: Plague (2014) 29:29

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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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Episode 249: El Ultimo Zombi (2022) 26:33

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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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Episode 248: Infini (2015) 51:00

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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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Episode 247: Aporia (2019) 42:01

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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 23:27

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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 1:43:08

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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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Episode 244: In The Flesh (Season 1) 53:52

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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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Episode 243: Oasis of Zombies (1982) 27:57

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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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Episode 242: Messiah of Evil 36:46

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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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Episode 241: Shatter Dead (1994) 26:58

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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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Episode 240: Ziam (2025) 41:25

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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 1:21:22

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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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Episode 238: Outbreak (2024) 37:08

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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 1:21:32

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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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Episode 236: Zombies of War 36:27

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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 1:12:54

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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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Episode 234: Better off Zed (2018) 29:30

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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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Episode 233: 28 Years Later 40:38

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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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Episode 232: Zombie Nightmare (1986) 28:37

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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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Episode 231: Transit 17 (2019) 41:33

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Send us a text TRANSIT 17 Before I even start I know this movie is going to be bag of horse dicks. It is going to be so bad my apartment will need fumigating. After a virus infected France, Belgium and the Netherlands a team of resistance soldiers trying to safe a young girl who seems to be their last hope for a cure. 3/10 on IMDB A terrible movie,…

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Episode 230: Zeder (1983) 35:22

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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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Episode 229: I Zombie (1998) 22:48

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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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Episode 228: Zombie Honeymoon (2004) 33:11

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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) 45:13

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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 41:53

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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 44:59

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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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Episode 224: Burying the Ex 26:11

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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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Episode 222: World Ends at Camp Z 31:51

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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 1:02:18

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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 36:25

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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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Episode 220: Death Shack 33:50

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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 40:06

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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) 40:53

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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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Episode 217: Dead Genesis (2010) 48:43

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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 1:07:16

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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