The Undead Symphony

I had been looking forward to this one, to be fair. Handling the Undead (2024) based on a novel by John Linqvist who brought us Let the Right One In, a clever and modern take on the vampire story. Scandi, arty, modern, starring Anders Lie from one of our favourites The Night Eats the World about the dead coming back. It had the right ingredients but this was not a zombie movie. It was a treatise on grief, told through three depressing, slow stories all linked to an unexplained event when the dead return in a small Scandinavian town. Pace-wise, it makes Maggie look like Snyder's Dawn 2004.

We have an old woman who is mourning her recently deceased lover, a family who's mother just died in a car crash, and an old man and his daughter mourning a grandson and son. So three different scenarios, with three different stages of grief, about dead of different ages, mourned by different groups.

Slow. Depressing. A zombie movie inasmuch as they are dead and they come back from the dead. That is about it.

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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.

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And it is finally here. We have managed to survive 14 years of the T-virus with Alice and a host of heroes and villains that changed more than the weather. Paul W S Anderson flip flopping constantly, we have one villainous doctor in this movie, then a different one the next movie, we have number of computer game heroes this movie, and they aren't even mentioned in the next. It was all a big mess and if anything, it shows that one person should have total control of a franchise, with no one pushing back on his insanity.

Am glad it is over. The Netflix show was good, but then those a-holes cancelled it. The new movie was ok but they just used the computer game characters' names and nothing else.

Next up Michael and I will talk about the experience. But until then, here is me ranting about how much I hated the last two movies.

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Silent Zone,  a 2025 horror movie about a post-apocalyptic world where people have been turned into savage, zombie-like creatures called ferals. A resourceful teenager, Abigail, and her protector, Cassius, fight for survival against the ferals. The film follows their journey as they encounter other survivors and face relentless dangers. 5.9/10 IMDB so not bad at all.

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In a zombie-ravaged world, a resourceful teen and her protector fight for survival, facing relentless dangers and testing the limits of hope and loyalty.

Sound familiar Joel and Ellie?

And it is Hungarian, making this our 38th country from which have enjoyed, is that the right word, zombie movies, and stars Matt Devere from the martians, extinction and robin hood, lords of chaos he plays Ccassius, a toxically macho neanderthal who wears a tactical vest the whole movie and Luca Papp as Abigail ,nice choice the daughters name in the Undead Symphony book, available on Kindle and paper back from Amazon.

Not awful, but the electronic gadgetry of a character that was a pure comic book super villain/mad scientist almost ruined the whole movie. I have seen much much worse. So I would say give this a try.

5.5.10

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Festival of the Living Dead is a 2024 American zombie movie made by the Soska Sisters Jen and Sylvia. So the sisters also made American Mary, a remake of Cronenberg’s Rabid, and a few WWE funded movies. None of which I will, and none of which I have intention to see. 

Quite bombastically it is labelled as the spiritual successor to the game changing George A Romero 1968 night of the living dead. No one in their right mind would really link any movie, no matter how great they think it is with the early Romero’s surely? Well, by creating a character in Ash, played by Ashley Moore as Ben’s from the original’s granddaughter, that is what they have done. I may well mark you down because of that fact alone.

I HATED THIS MOVIE!

4/10 for the bits that were good, but it felt like it was written by, starring and was for illiterate teens… 

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In this wide ranging catch-up we talk all the things we have been up to, the movies we have seen, plus 28 Years Later, Festival of the Dead and the main point of the pod, selling each other Zombie Repellent and Zombies Christmas Apocalypse. 

A fun chat was had

Zombie Repellent 5/10

Festival of the Dead 4/10

Zombies Christmas Apocalypse 3/10

28 Years breaking even at the box office? Unlikely

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A solo episode from Michael this time around, other than me interjecting with a HOW DARE YOU! We split to watch Zombie Repellent (Me and a 5/5 in Amazon) and Zombies Christmas Apocalypse (Michael and a 2/10 on IMDB). Was it fair? Well, no. But hey ho! All is fair in love and zombie warz. 

So this bag of shinola was a repackaged 2016 Tony Todd piece of shit zombie movie repackaged in 2024 with a Christmas theme and credits.

I shall let Michael give you the rest.

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One of the new zombie movies and shows on Amazon, this and the Zombies Christmas Apocalypse, and Newtopia. Gets a staggering 5/5 but we know that Amazon scoring is a shit show.

This one would have been better as a drama than a comedy, as none of the actors really have the comedy chops. However, it was watcheable. A big twist, which again, would have been better if this was a drama than a comedy.

The story? I kinda hate to say I liked it. It wasn't a 5/5, it was a 5/10 but that is alright, right? A couple, Chad and Liz are eloping to Vegas to get married when their car breaks down in bumblefuck nowhere. As their car gets repaired they but a difficult Rosie the Riveter style mechanic and the sheriff has taken their stuff they are sent to a local boarding house where things go wrong. The town has zombies. And the locals are trying to keep it quiet, whilst using zombie repellent on them.

5/10... I would think it would work better as a drama, but it was entertaining enough to be watching in 3 sittings.

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When a fast food chicken restaurant is built on the site of an ancient Native American burial ground, the displaced spirits unite with the ghosts of exterminated chickens and transform into Native American chicken zombies seeking revenge!

Episode 208: Poultrygiest Night of the Chicken Dead

oh my…

We have the usual suspects appearing including Lloyd as a future Arbie, Arbie is the main character played by Jason Yachinen, Wendy played by Kate Graham, and Mega Hertz as Jared

Awful song after awful song… from the General Lee Roy about big business, chicken bunker is more popular than Jesus, a toilet explosion, topless lesbian members of C.L.A.M. and a terrorist cook. 

And holy fuck I just saw this movie is an hour 43…

Right let’s skip ahead

And another song as the workers blend the left over chicken bits into slop, before the Mexican employee Paco jerks off in it. Arbie from the future comes back to see Arbie. We find this out that as he has the same ass tattoo.

A POV poultry pushes the guy into the mincer and blood and guts spray everywhere. Denny and the General come in and blame Hamas.

Another song from the two arbies in tutus, lots of showing their arses.

This movie is awful, and the songs make it worse… if that is possible to a point when I can no longer watch the rest… it is just terrible

I cant finish it ... so read the rest on Wiki

3.5/10 and it is a no from me

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Ollie and I are more than friends, we are a really, really small gang. Technically 2 is the minimum number of people needed for a gang. And so here we are talking all things zombies, including our first, last, worst and best, sleeper hits, we play the expanded Virus or Voodoo or Aliens, and spitball ideas for his Discord writing collective. Give it a listen. Or else... or else we will tape you down on a chair and force you to watch Zombie with a Shotgun on loop. A movie so bad I would rather sit on my tv and watch my couch.

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