Episode 357: Miss Zombie (2013)

Episode 361: Episode 1 Revival part 1 and South Korean Zombies

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2023354/fan_mail/new] As we excitedly prepare ourselves to head to the Horror On Sea movie festival at the weekend and the premier of Dead Zero, Michael and I go wayyyyyyyyyyyyyy back, back into time, to the first episode of The Undead Symphony Pod. Back then I didn't have a Michael, didn't have a format, didn't have the theme tune and didn't have the celebrity intros.  In episode one I watched the #Alive and Final Days, both based on the same script Alone by Matt Naylor, who worked on both movies. It was that whole Let Me In, Let the Right One In, kinda scenario where two movies came out at the same time based on the same script, one American and one not, and both very good. After discussing #Alive today, we shall reconvene for Final Days tomorrow,  but in this lunchtime chinwag, we ended up expanding our chat to South Korean horror as a whole and it's place in the world of zombie entertainment. Check it out here.

Episode 360: Deadlocked: Dad of the Dead

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2023354/fan_mail/new] From the people who brought you Deadlocked (2020) comes an upgrade of sorts. Despite the comic undertones of the title, and the comedy lines from douche nozzle Toby as well as the "come to daddy," goading by the lead as he takes on the undead this is not a comedy. This is a zombie drama set in the rest room at a coffee shop, where tall, handsome, but mostly pathetic hunk Iverson and his newborn baby hold out with madman Harry, sarcastic barista Brie, fitness freak Annabel and absolute ass piece Toby as zombies pen them in. There are precious view zombies, it is mostly the people who you are trapped with turning on you. And the baby crying puts them all on edge, turning one against the other whilst Iversen, who is a clear foot and easily 50 pounds bigger than all the others and could kill them all, is just too much of the wimpy kid. The CGI veins also sucked. 5/10 When I saw Deadlocked, which is set in an elevator, I was rather watch The End? from Italy, which is much better. This is a toilet zombie movie, so I would rather watch Stalled, again much better.

Episode 359: Michael talks REC and REC2 versus Quarantine

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2023354/fan_mail/new] And I have my dog walker and post man disrupting me too.

Episode 358: World War Dead: Rise of the Fallen or Rise of the Fallen. You decide.

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2023354/fan_mail/new] Somme-bies! Yes, that is actually one of the many Battle of the Somme jokes made by Marcus (played by the patchy bald soldier from 28 Days Later). Somme-bies! Somme-er Holiday. Somme-body get me out of here. I do hate found footage. I really do. I know some people love it but when it is done badly it is so bad. And this was bad. Given we have seen Live! Escape, Live! Survival, Godforsaken, The Bay, Zombie Diaries, Diary of the Dead, Savageland was more documentary style, but then the REC and Quarantine movies, I can easily spot the mistakes made. In this the mistakes are many. If you like camera glitches, camera glitches that somehow make you jump to past footage as filler, lots of people running about and screaming, but actual action and deaths off camera, if you like an annoying condescending director making unfunny Somme jokes and actually easy to kill zombies that for some reason are from the allies as well as the German ranks, and zombies obsessed with a van, then this is for you. It was the locations of Trench 11 meets Nazi Zombie Death Tales with the poor footage skills of Zombie Diaries and Goforsaken. It may not be the worst found footage zombie movie I have seen, but it is Somme-where around there. World War Dull! 3.5/10

Episode 357: Miss Zombie (2013)

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2023354/fan_mail/new] In this episode I shall be reviewing a zombie movie that I had seen before I started this podcast. And yet somehow 4 years into it and nearly 400 movies from 42 countries into it I haven’t gone back and reviewed the black and white Japanese movie Miss Zombie.  Directed by Sabu and released in 2013 this multi award winning zombie movie takes it in a different direction, in a post apocalyptic Japan zombies exist and are caught and domesticated as either slaves or pets by the humans. I am getting FIDO vibes here. Just tragic FIDO vibes. The blurb is simple, A wealthy Japanese family hires a female zombie to do their household chores. However, soon they realise that her presence is affecting everyone around. Hires? No she is bought as a slave, as all zombies are in this movie. So whoever wrote that is an idiot. She is a slave. She is abused by the locals, stabbed everyday, raped, attacked. But yet the doctor who bought her is now falling for her slow moving, scarred wiles, and the mother is now getting more and more jealous of her after her son dies and is brought back as a zombie, by the zombie. Filmed in black and white, with no music, and a repetitive style, each day Miss Zombie remembers more of her life before, and the tragedy of how it ended, as everyone else becomes more and more obsessed with her as we reach a violent climax. Definitely unique in the genre, true, it is a little slow, but haunting.  6/10