Episode 365: Everyday of the Dead (2023)

Episode 366: Lee Donaldson returns with more Dead Zero

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2023354/fan_mail/new] Always happy to talk Dead Zero, having followed the project for so long, and in this episode we have the man himself, Lee Donaldson, back now we have seen the first chapter. We talk the future of the project, and funding options for fans and followers alike. Follow the project here https://www.instagram.com/dead_zero_feature/ and watch it here https://whop.com/lee-don-productions-ltd/dead-zero-chapter-1/

Episode 365: Everyday of the Dead (2023)

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2023354/fan_mail/new] In a post-COVID Japan we get four stories that make up the anthology Everyday of the Dead. Pretty dreadful acting, pretty awful writing, pretty awful cinematography. We have Punch of the Dead, where a dumped guy comes out of lockdown to go see his girl, only to be dumped over the phone. He decides to limp over, and fight his way to get, giving every one of the slow moving zombies a punch, before discovering that she has been cheating on him. She does get her comeuppance, and our guy limps off. In Chain of the Dead a couple who are having an office affair find themselves chained to each other a la Saw. Although the reason is much more simple and no one has to go delving into baskets of dirty syringes or have their head ripped off. The wife of the man wants a divorce. But she also has left poisoned water in the room, so when the man drinks it he turns zeke and goes after the office girl. In actor of the dead, a poor man's Still, an unemployable actor inadvertently walks into a couple of zombies and, so stop them killing him, he copies their behaviour and acts like one of them until, that is, a sniper hunting zombies gets them in his sights. And then we have the last story, as a man thinks he is immune, but isn't really, a TV crew follow a vigilante around who is killing zombies. The two will collide. But what will happen? It was poorly acted, poorly filmed, the animation was terrible, the writing, the makeup, well, everything was terrible. 2/10

Episode 364: Colony (2026)

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2023354/fan_mail/new] Once the Bone Temple was released we looked at the calendar and the next big ticket item for zombie movie fans wasn't the gender swap NOTLD remake (another one!) or the scene by scene remake of ROTLD, no, sir, it was the next zombie movie by Yeon Sang-ho [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeon_Sang-ho] the write/director of Train to Busan - Colony. Colony tells the story of a bio-terror attack in a building that has office and conference spaces in the top floors and a shopping mall on the lower levels. Disgraced awkward professor Kwon and her ex-husband Han are invited to a presentation by Chain Bio, who are using natural design in their technology, most notably, using the idea of Mycelium to allow electronic components to communicate instead of using wires, carbon, optical cabling. An overly villainous villain played by Peninsula's Koo Kyo-hwan [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koo_Kyo-hwan] injects the CEO with the virus and with some classic South Korean bone cracking, body morphing, goo spewing changes he is patient #1. Or is he? The infection spreads through the building and we have the normal rag tag group of survivors including a cop on a mission, a business suit, a teen and her bullies, and a security guard and his disabled sister, joining Kwon and Han as they try to escape. Fast paced, with a lot of excellent new hive mind elements, I found I didn't need the villain to be so villainous, and I didn't need the Jason opening his eyes at the bottom of the lake ending, but the rest is superb. Is it better than Train to Busan? Not in my eyes, but it is very good. Certainly better than the other movies we have seen this year. 7/10 and def worth a watch when you can, despite it's shortcomings.

Episode 363: Dead Zero (2026)

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2023354/fan_mail/new] The time has come. Our friend Lee Donaldson is now finally showing off the labours of his hard work, Dead Zero. In a windy hotel on Southend seafront Michael and I attended the Horror On Sea movie festival, meeting up with Lee, and watching the first 31 minutes of Dead Zero. What did we think? You will have to listen to find out, but as a little taster, it was a lot better than many of the movies we have seen in the genre. It needs work, and it needs the backstories of the characters, but it was still thoroughly entertaining.

Episode 362: Episode 1 Revival part 2 and Talking American Zombies

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2023354/fan_mail/new] Michael has caught up, watching Tyler Posey and Donald Sutherland in Matt Naylor's Alone (Final Days in the UK), the western version of #ALIVE. Will he like it more? He is also tattooed. He also likes rock music. Listen to find out.