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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 243: Oasis of Zombies (1982)

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2025/07/20

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 treasure only to discover its guarded by the undead. Widely considered two of the worst zombie movies of all time with: awful awful cinematograph...

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36:46

Episode 242: Messiah of Evil

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2025/07/19

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 picture that is sleep-inducing rather than hair-raising" and it gets 6.3/10 on IMDB and 100% on RT. A young woman goes to look for her missing father. H...

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Episode 241: Shatter Dead (1994)

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2025/07/15

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 where the dead have not only returned but are evolving—no longer mindless zombies, but conscious, organized, and increasingly militant. The film is ...

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Episode 240: Ziam (2025)

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2025/07/14

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 hotel during the zombie apocalypse, and zombie fighters, which I get mixed up with zombie fight club, but then remember it was the one with the very lo...

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Episode 239: 28 Years Later with Brian from...

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2025/07/13

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 have it 7/10 going into it. Darren thought it wasn't as bad as some people have made it out to be, but it wasn't the movie he wanted. There was just much wrong with it, pointing at Alex Garland dialing it in as he was too focu...

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Episode 238: Outbreak (2024)

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2025/07/08

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 ranger and his wife face a mysterious outbreak that threatens not only their relationship, but their grip on reality. 4.4/10 on IMDb and 72% on RT A...

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81:32

Episode 237: The Fallen with Kieran from the Eerie...

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2025/07/06

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 the three seasons of his wonderful dramatised audio play The Fallen, as it follows Dani and Cal Cunningham as they try to survive the zombie apoca...

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Episode 236: Zombies of War

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2025/07/06

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 advancing Allied army. After suffering great losses the American army reassigns soldiers to a mission to destroy Hitlers weapons labs. After they are ...

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Episode 235: 28 Years Later with Steph Grant

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2025/07/05

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 Garland blockbuster 28 Years Later? Well, you will need to listen to find out. SPOILER WARNING: We didn't agree. Michael 7/10 Darren 6.5/10 but he was...

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Episode 234: Better off Zed (2018)

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2025/07/03

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 on Spotify. An OST. And it stars Christine Woods and Paige and Graham Sibley as Guy. Now the whole reason we are watching this, or I am watching t...

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Episode 233: 28 Years Later

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2025/06/27

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 Shawn Levy. But that is not this episode. In sunny Corfu I went to see the much anticipated 28 Years Later, the sequel we have been waiting 18 year...

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Episode 232: Zombie Nightmare (1986)

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2025/06/22

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’s answer was the 1986 ZOMBIE NIGHTMARE starring Adam West. It was directed by porno movie director Jack Bravman, which explains a lot. “Widely pan...

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Episode 231: Transit 17 (2019)

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2025/06/19

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, absolutely mindbogglingly bad. The plot is muddled at best, although I shouldn't say that since to be honest, there is really no plotl. It is just...

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Episode 230: Zeder (1983)

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2025/06/18

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 HoneymoonMessiah of Evil, that we are going to be watching then reviewing with Andy Beglin next monthAnd what ChatGPT listed as the worst zombie movie ever made Zombie Nightmare with Adam West from 1987But whilst I am waiting for them...

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Episode 229: I Zombie (1998)

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2025/06/16

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 WAS THE LAST THING TO GO Keith Phipps of The A.V. Club wrote that the film is too dull to appeal even to Fangoria subscribers.[3] Writing in Z...

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Episode 228: Zombie Honeymoon (2004)

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2025/06/15

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 brains. So this movie is 2004 and tells the story of newly wedded couple Danny and Denise. First day of honeymoon down at a beach house Danny is clamber...

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Episode 227: Inmate Zero aka Patients of a Saint...

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2025/06/14

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 medication turns everyone fast moving black blood spewing zeke. With decent practical effect and some good cinematography, a few good tense moment...

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Episode 226: Burying the Ex (2014) chat with Michael...

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2025/06/12

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 intro from the man we love, Bruce in As as know it and Travis in this... the wonderful Oliver Cooper

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44:59

Episode 225: Michael and Darren talk World Ends at...

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2025/06/10

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.

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Episode 224: Burying the Ex

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2025/06/10

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 up this, a rom zom com, and there aren’t many of this… Burying the Ex 2014 Directed by Joe Danto who gave Gremlins and Small Soldiers, both good fi...

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