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The Undead Symphony

Darren Smith, Michael Avery and Guests

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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77:26

Episode 172: You've got red on you - the Shaun of the...

The Undead Symphony ·

2024/10/19

Send us a textCelebrating 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 it under a cold tap yet? We hope so. So come join us at the Winchester for some hog lumps, a pint and a game of darts so we can wait til this ...

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Episode 171: Blood Quantum

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2024/10/17

Send us a textI 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 puts it up there as a mashup of True Detective and Fear the Walking Dead, and an excellent First Nation cast this stood out to me so much it was in my t...

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Episode 170: It Stains the Sands Red

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2024/10/15

Send us a textIt 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 desert freeway Nick is killed my a shuffler and Molly has to head out on foot across the sands.This movie is great. Brittany Allen from The Boys, Jigsaw...

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51:44

Episode 169: Death Trench (aka Trench 11) and Zombie...

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2024/10/07

Send us a textWe 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 parasites were good practical effects, the acting, cinematography and story was ok. But the claustrophobia just wasn't there in the tunnels, the zombies wer...

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Episode 168: Zombie Town

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2024/10/07

Send us a textThis 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 we expect from RL Stine the creator of Goosebumps.In this overly convoluted nonsense of a movie zombie movie director Carver (Ackroyd) lives in a to...

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Episode 167: Plague of Zombies

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2024/09/14

Send us a textHeading 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 to investigate a dozen unexplained death in a small Cornish village.Add a pretty daughter, a former star pupil, Servalan from Blake's 7, and a dodgy ...

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Episode 166: Yummy with Michael

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2024/09/10

Send us a textBelgian 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 Blood Quantum in my top list of movies most haven't seen, we meet Michael, Alison and her mother Sylvia from Belgium as they head into Eastern Europ...

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Episode 165: Automaton Transfusion and Summer Camp...

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2024/09/05

Send us a textNow 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 was basic but decent. And we have Summer Camp, a movie from the producers of Annabel, The Conjuring and REC. So Spanish. It starts as a pretty g...

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Episode 164: Summer Camp

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2024/09/01

Send us a textFrom 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 random weapon here]. It is not that kind of movie, although the first 20 mins of getting to know the Lothario Antonio, the other Lothari...

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Episode 163: Undead and Alive and Zombie 4: After Death

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2024/08/27

Send us a Text Message.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 Zombies western.Was it funny? No. Did it have any recommendable moments? I saw this about a week ago and I am struggling to remember ...

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Episode 162: The Corey Feldman Double Bill

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2024/08/20

Send us a Text Message.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 MacDowell and Lew Temple. MacDowell is in about 5 scenes. Haig is in 1. So we know we have been conned when the big names are not in th...

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Episode 161: Zombie Undead

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2024/08/19

Send us a Text Message.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 - NOPEDestined to become a cult classic - NOPEFantastic - NOPEA brain munching classic - NOPEThe Purest British Gore you can find - NOPEAnd there are no zombie zombies,...

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Episode 160: Zombie Wars and Death Trench aka Trench 11

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2024/08/18

Send us a Text Message.Zombie Wars- 2007 – 2.8/10 from IMDB 20% on Rotten TomatoesAnd 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 knows why. Awful awful credits with a warped camera and bad music. Written directed and edited by David Prior. The guy already has a ...

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Episode 159: Vengeance of the Zombies

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2024/08/07

Send us a Text Message.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 mysterious man in a mask, cowboy hat, cape, before being brought back as a zombie to kill their families. Why? Well, it is a revenge ...

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Episode 158: Nazi Zombie Death Tales

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2024/08/04

Send us a Text Message.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 a condolence letter from the army saying he had died. For some bizarre reason her father is an American army major, who tells him his daught...

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Episode 157: Automaton Transfusion

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2024/08/02

Send us a Text Message.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 was the holy grail of true independent horror films featuring the leanest, meanest, fastest zombies ever filmed in a non-stop horror maste...

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Episode 156: Zombex

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2024/07/29

Send us a Text Message.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 bottom of the cover containing the phrase Starring Lew Temple from The Walking Dead. Is this The Walking Dead? Is it fuck?This is an 80 minute ...

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Episode 155: The Classics

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2024/07/23

Send us a Text Message.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. It introduced audiences to the idea of the undead being controlled by a master, a theme that has been revisited in countless zombie films si...

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Episode 154: Tokyo Zombie and Burial Ground

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2024/07/20

Send us a Text Message.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 it for themselves.But I found it quite slow, a little dull in places. Maybe, like Zom100 Bucket List of the Dead, the manga/anime is better ...

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Episode 153: Zombie King and King of the Zombies

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2024/07/10

Send us a Text Message.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 this was the draw stars former child stars Edward Terminator 2 Furlong and Corey Lost Boys/Goonies/Stand by Me Feldman as the Zombie King an...

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