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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 342: Dark Island (2010)

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2026/04/26

Send us Fan Mail What in the Uwe Boll have I just seen? As I wade through the cesspool of TUBI trying to find something decent I, for my sins and completeness, need to tick this one off. Not to be confused with Narnia Dark Island, 1962 BBC series or the Dark Island in the Thousand Islands, or the prominent feature of the Saint Lawrence Seaway, is located in the lower (eastern) Thousand Islands region, near Chippewa Bay in St Lawrence County NY. It is another shitty movie on TUBI from 20...

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Episode 341: Defiled (2010)

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2026/04/25

Send us Fan Mail I am sewer surfing on the stinky crest of a TUBI wave this weekend, with Dark Island tomorrow and this the 2010 Defiled. OK, let me give you the premise and we shall take it from there. It is a 100 minute long silent movie inasmuch as the characters do not speak. The humans do not speak at all and the zombies each have a single noise, be it a yar, a grunt, or a high pitched eee. Yar, his name is the sound he makes, much like Gnar from Delamorte Delamore, (1994) has gotten one...

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44:54

Episode 340: ITCH! (2026)

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2026/04/21

Send us Fan Mail I was dubious, and rightly so. I have been burned of late by movies that were not zombie movies, like The Bay. And that has a lot more in common with Itch! (2026) than any of the movies we have covered. However, there is an actual zombie element to this too. A proper, back from the dead and attacking the living element. So, as a lay person, I can say this is indeed a zombie movie. Written by, direct by and starring Bari Kang this tells the story of a NYC hardware store ...

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45:26

Episode 339: Night of the Living Dead: Darkest Dawn...

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2026/04/20

Send us Fan Mail With the upcoming gender swap Vivica Fox version of Night of the Living Dead coming up in November, I thought I would have the NOTLD league table in place before then, but with the title and story now in the public domain it means any twonk with a camcorder can make a version. This version from 2015 is the CGI animated version aka Night of the Living Dead:Origins and Night of the Living Dead:Origins 3D and stars Tony Todd reprising his role of Ben from the Tom Savini 1990 ver...

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Episode 338: This is not a Test (2026)

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2026/04/18

Send us Fan Mail Based on Courtney Summer's award winning YA novel of the same name from 2012 we are in a small Canadian town as the zombie apocalypse starts. Annoying teen Sloane is considering committing suicide because of her drunkard violent father, absent mother and now vacant sister. But then after a bang on the door, we get the noises of the apocalypse and well, darn, it is the zombie apocalypse. After losing her dad after ignoring his advice on staying alive not once, not twice,...

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Episode 337: Zombinator (2012)

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2026/04/11

Send us Fan Mail I should have known better. When a fellow movie reviewer lists their worst zombie movie of all time, I should have thought, well, if I listed our worst zombie movies (Attack of the Flatulating Dead, Oasis of the Zombies and Hsien of the Dead) I wouldn't then expect them to go out and buy them on DVD before watching them. But guess what I did? Yes, this was bottom 3, on par with the aforementioned bags of steaming horse dung. Zombinator! A documentary style movie where the cam...

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Episode 336: Last of the Living (2009)

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2026/04/10

Send us Fan Mail In Wellington, New Zealand the only known survivors, out of work actor and Lothario Morgan, computer game nerdy accountant Ash and wannabe rock star Jonny enjoy the apocalypse the right way; by living in mansions, drinking beer and playing computer games. But when they run into Stef, a rather delightful scientist who is working on a cure and needs to get to Stewart Island, they have to finally get serious. Okay, so it wasn't Proust, but it wasn't the bottom of the barrel eith...

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Episode 335: Cold Storage (2026)

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2026/04/07

Send us Fan Mail Finally! I had been waiting for this one since pre-ordering it a month or two ago. COLD STORAGE with Joe Keery Georgina Campbell and Liam Neeson. A comedy horror movie that looked great in the trailer. And the thing about that cast is Georgina Campbell if anything has the horror chops of the three – Barbarian, the Watchers, Bird box, Influencers, Psycho Killer and has The Shepherd coming out too. We also have Ellora Torchia from Midsommar as Abigail So to the plot, when a hig...

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Episode 334: Death Metal Zombies (1995)

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2026/03/29

Send us Fan Mail PLAY THIS MOVIE LOUD! The soundtrack is by Pungent Stench, Evit 13, Dead World, Brutality, Disrupt, Mortician, Pyogenesis, Candiru, Winter, and Dismember. If you don’t know who they are, just check grandma's record collection, and it follows a group of bad acting metal heads Brad, Tony, Johnny, Kathy and Angel as Brad wins a contest to get the latest album by his favourite band Living Corpse. The cassette includes a unique song that is not available anywhere else in the...

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Episode 333: Hsien of the Dead (2012)

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2026/03/29

Send us Fan Mail The elation of finding a movie from our 42nd country was short lived within the first ten seconds of Hsien of the Dead, Singapore's Shaun of the Dead from 2012 and a supposed comedy. Although it was as funny as a road accident. This was awful, just plain awful. The 5.4/10 on IMDB is a reflection of a few idiots giving it 10 and then plenty of people giving it 1/10, and that was only because you can't give 0. With the worst level of amateur acting, bad shot choices, poor camer...

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Episode 332: Michael Catchup about Res Evil Series...

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2026/03/16

Send a text A little chat-ette to start the week, as Michael appears in the rear view mirror to discuss the short-lived Netflix Resident Evil series and the first season of Black Summer amongst other things.

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Episode 331: Godforsaken (2022)

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2026/03/15

Send a text I am going to be lazy here. These two reviews summed this movie up for me. A review 5/10 Some decent elements, but felt like it would never end Once you get past the cheesy low budget acting, there are some good parts to this movie. Some creepy scenes and the guy who played Chris was great and genuinely creepy. Chad's mum was also a good character/ actor. But the last 30 minutes felt like 4 hours, I thought it was never going to end. Just non stop running and screamin...

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Episode 330: Hell's Ground and Altered Skin

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2026/03/15

Send a text Two movies from Pakistan in this episode, all prompted by Ollie Eats Brains who had just discovered Altered Skin but hadn't seen it. Taking a look into it further Pakistan doesn't have too many horror movies and the list of zombie movies is even thinner on the ground. They do have their own webseries version of The Walking Dead called Zombistan but I am here for the movies. After a bit of research, i.e. I googles Pakistani zombie movies, I got two, these two so decided to watch th...

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Episode 329: Chrysalis aka The Living Dead (2014)

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2026/03/06

Send a text Despite the sneaky rebranding of this movie, from changing the title from Chrysalis to The Living Dead, to making the DVD box look very The Walking Dead including the font and the colour scheme, and including the tag line about day of the ghouls making us think of both Day and Night of the Living Dead, this 2014 low budget post-apocalyptic zombie effort is actually ok. It was referenced in one of the reviews of The Cove aka Escape to the Cove as being so much better and that revie...

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Episode 328: The Cove aka Escape to the Cove

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2026/03/04

Send a text I hated this one. It wasn't that the writer/director/producer thought he was suited to play the vulnerable, although not really, overly macho nihilistic lead. It wasn't the 5 minute cameo of Eric Roberts in a setting wholly out of character with the rest of the movie, remembering this is a post apocalyptic zombie movie where 99% of people are dead and those that are still alive are scavenging for food and eating cold beans out of a can and Eric in a suit is taking phone calls in a...

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Episode 327: The Bay (2012)

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2026/03/02

Send a text Following on from a mention on a review of the far superior Savageland, this fake documentary/found footage horror was helmed by Barry Levinson. Yup, Oscar winner Barry Levinson. Good Morning, Vietnam, Rainman, Bugsy... etc etc and the list goes on. It tells the story of 2009, 4th July weekend in Claridge, Maryland, and a horrific outbreak of something that causes lot of nasty side effects, not least having your tongue and liver eaten from the inside. But is it a zombie movie? I a...

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Episode 326: Savageland (2015)

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2026/02/27

Send a text A rarity for me, as this is a found footage documentary with a difference. An acted docu-drama where a town of 57 people are massacred and a man, Francisco Salazar, an illegal immigrant from Mexico is the only survivor and therefore the only suspect for the heinous crime. In true crime documentary style this movie follows the case, taking perspectives from a glory hunting writer, corrupt local law enforcement and the family and loved ones of the victims whilst we see Salazar being...

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Episode 325: Miruthan (2016)

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2026/02/24

Send a text The first Tamil zombie movie sees mustachioed tough guy traffic cop Karthic take on the zombie hordes after a chemical spill. In true Bollywood style you will need to see past the bright red blood, cartoon sound effects, and at one point a full on pop video complete with backing dancers in a garden centre, as well as a sea of mustaches, to enjoy this zombie movie. In a nutshell it is very obvious, chemical spill, spread, response, then a cure, with a shopping mall, some scen...

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Episode 324: Dead Bloom (2025)

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2026/02/21

Send a text This is one of those movies, like Outbreak with Billy Burke, like Herd, that appeared on the Amazon feed from nowhere. Made in 2025, and doesn't mention the z word at all, instead describing itself as a socially charged horror story about the lingering effects of environmental contamination and corporate denial. So basically it tells the story of a family, lawyer dad, heavily pregnant artist mom, and MS suffering teen daughter who inherit a farm. Although we see the previous...

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Episode 323: We Bury the Dead (2025)

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2026/02/17

Send a text In this episode Michael and I chat Daisy Ridley's We Bury the Dead, a movie we have been looking forward to for such a long while. Both huge fans of not only Ridley but also Brenton Thwaites (Teen Titans, Office Uprising, Ghosts of War). Ava and Mitch are having marital issues, that they plan to address when Mitch returns from a work conference on Tasmania. But the US military accidentally drops a weapon of mass destruction off the coast wiping out the entire population of the isl...

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