The Undead Symphony
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.
Episodes
175 episodes
Episode 175: Zombies Diaries 2 World of the Dead
My issue with this movie was not the plot. It was basic, but it was fair. Zombie outbreak, I am guessing the zombie outbreak from the original 2006 movie that cost £8100 to make and made £2M at the box office, and soldiers holed up at a camp. T...
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Season 7
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Episode 175
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Episode 174: Outside (2024)
Netflix 2024, this Filipino effort joins Block Z and Day Zero as modern zombie movies from the Philippines. Following a family Francis (dad), Iris (mom), Josh (teen) and Lucus (younger tween) escaping the zombie apocalypse and going back to Fra...
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Season 7
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Episode 174
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46:06
Episode 173: The Dead Outside
Scottish 2008 and set in a desolate farmhouse in the middle of nowhere during a global pandemic where the infected are violent, jabbering crazies. We meet Daniel, who has lost his wife and child to the infected version of his mother but didn't ...
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Season 7
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Episode 173
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44:16
Episode 172: You've got red on you - the Shaun of the Dead 20th Anniversary Recap
Celebrating 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...
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Season 7
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Episode 172
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1:17:26
Episode 171: Blood Quantum
I 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....
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Season 7
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Episode 171
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40:03
Episode 170: It Stains the Sands Red
It 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 ...
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Season 7
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Episode 170
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Episode 169: Death Trench (aka Trench 11) and Zombie Wars
We 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. ...
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Season 7
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Episode 169
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51:44
Episode 168: Zombie Town
This 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 ...
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Season 7
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Episode 168
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30:28
Episode 167: Plague of Zombies
Heading 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 ...
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Season 6
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Episode 167
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34:14
Episode 166: Yummy with Michael
Belgian 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 las...
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Season 6
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Episode 166
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30:31
Episode 165: Automaton Transfusion and Summer Camp with Micheal
Now 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, punch...
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Season 6
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Episode 165
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1:09:15
Episode 164: Summer Camp
From 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 y...
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Season 6
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Episode 164
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42:45
Episode 163: Undead and Alive and Zombie 4: After Death
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 ...
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Season 6
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Episode 163
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1:02:20
Episode 162: The Corey Feldman Double Bill
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 a...
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Season 6
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Episode 162
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1:06:18
Episode 161: Zombie Undead
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. Eith...
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Season 6
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Episode 161
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47:04
Episode 160: Zombie Wars and Death Trench aka Trench 11
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 Hesto...
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Season 6
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Episode 160
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57:41
Episode 159: Vengeance of the Zombies
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 ...
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Season 7
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Episode 159
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49:39
Episode 158: Nazi Zombie Death Tales
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 t...
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Season 7
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Episode 158
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43:39
Episode 157: Automaton Transfusion
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 ...
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Season 7
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Episode 157
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43:17
Episode 156: Zombex
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. ...
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Season 7
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Episode 156
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Episode 155: The Classics
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 ...
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Season 7
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Episode 155
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Episode 154: Tokyo Zombie and Burial Ground
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...
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Season 7
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Episode 154
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Episode 153: Zombie King and King of the Zombies
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 ...
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Season 7
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Episode 153
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40:26
Episode 152: I walked with a Zombie and Zombies Zombies Zombies
After a month hiatus for summer breaks we are back with a new intro from Zombpocalypse, and a new DVD player to play new DVDs. How exciting? Physical media!With a stack of DVDs off eBay we are back on it, and I am starting Season 7 with...
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Season 7
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Episode 152
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54:43
Episode 151: Zombie with a Shotgun
Ok this one is for Oliver, Oliver Gray, out there on the west cost. He mentioned we didn’t have Zombie with a Shotgun on our list. Well it wasn’t on the list of movies we’d reviewed, but it was on THE list. The Z list. Ollie is making th...
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Season 6
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Episode 151
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1:27:36