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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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Episode 263: Lee Donaldson and Dead Zero

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2025/09/01

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. As well as his plans for the full feature. We share movie suggestions (he has to see Girl with all the Gifts) that we think Lee will enjoy,...

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Episode 262: Re-Animator

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2025/09/01

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 develop a glowing green serum that can reanimate the dead. His experiments, conducted with fellow student Dan Cain (Bruce Abbott), spiral into grotesqu...

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Episode 261: Zombie Night (2003) and Zombie Night 2:...

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2025/08/31

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 about the making of it were all written and directed by David J Francis, and it’s sequel may be something else entirely. Reel Zombies, the moc...

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Episode 260: Planet Terror (2007)

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2025/08/28

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, Maggie, and we have seen those out there over the top productions, I am thinking Wild Zero and Tokyo Zombie and New Kids Nitro. Never to be outdone, we ...

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47:44

Episode 259: MadS (2024)

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2025/08/25

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 like the show Adolescence, it took several takes, 5 in this case to get it 100% right). Is it a bad trip? Or is it something else? One thing for su...

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Episode 258: Friend of the World

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2025/08/21

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 walking and smiling at the camera to awful fiddle Ode to Joy... This 50 minute movie is listed as the 31st best zombie movie of all time by Rotten Tom...

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Episode 257: ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction

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2025/08/20

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 wing, church going gun toting ass hats as well as the lefty dems who won't even hold a gun. Pro and anti gay, pro and anti abortion, pro and ant...

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Episode 256: The Zom Rom Com Chat

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2025/08/20

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 for us. Come listen to us chat about why this much maligned sub-genre should be bringing all the hardcore zombie movie fans, and the romcom fan base ...

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Episode 255: Versus

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2025/08/18

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 zombies at 27 Friend of the world at 31 Dead dream at 44 Last man at earth at 45 Planet terror at 48 And this at 49 VERSUS 2002 Japanese A rele...

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Episode 254: Life After Beth

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2025/08/15

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/ 10 on IMDB On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes the film has a 46% "In spite of Aubrey Plaza's committed performance, Life After Beth remains...

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Episode 253: New Kids Nitro

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2025/08/12

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 milk. It is dumber than is sounds. Best not watch if you are offended by gratuitous sex, violence, swearing, making fun of the disabled, or running ...

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Episode 252: In the Flesh Darren and Michael recap

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2025/08/11

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 season 2 if you have the ability to filter out dozens of pointless and incomplete plot lines and inane unnecessary characters.

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Episode 251: In The Flesh (Season 2)

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2025/08/10

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 with Kieren being less of a character in a far busier season. We gain Sinners and Loki's Wunmi Mosaku as Victus MP Maxine Martin, a nasty pie...

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Episode 250: Plague (2014)

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2025/08/10

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 (Marge says nothing, Sammy says 2 words, Evie just whines and whimpers) and dickish men (Charlie is a thug, Bob is a thug, John is a whiny asshole)...

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Episode 249: El Ultimo Zombi (2022)

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2025/08/04

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 the bottom of the barrel. It gets a respectable 5.4/10 on IMDB 2022 and it was a short, or there was a short of the same name a decade earlier. Th...

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Episode 248: Infini (2015)

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2025/08/02

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 biological outbreak. Supposed to have space zombies. I am hopeful. I am hoping for Aliens meets Pandorum meets Event Horizon, but maybe I should lowe...

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Episode 247: Aporia (2019)

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2025/08/01

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 this… APORIA 2019 from Azerbijan, so a new country. Goodness knows what it will be like but here we go What was it like? It was one of the worst acted...

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Episode 246: Barbie and Kendra Meet the Corona Zombies

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2025/07/28

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 limited in their abilities to produce what they produced. But it is really bottom-of-the-barrel filmmaking. Now, the only reason it has any redempt...

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Episode 245: Dr Kyle Bishop aka Dr Walking Dead

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2025/07/24

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 score be beaten? Check out his work on Contributions to Zombie Studies here https://mcfarlandbooks.com/imprint/contributions-to-zombie-studies/?srsl...

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Episode 244: In The Flesh (Season 1)

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2025/07/24

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 to an hour each. The premise. Set after "The Rising", which is the show's take on a zombie apocalypse, the drama focuses on a reanimated young man, ...

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