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.
The Undead Symphony
Episode 354: Bio-Zombie aka Hong Kong Zombie
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A random DVD find, and a camp as Christmas Asian zombie movie that scores high on IMDB and RT and pays tribute to George A Romero's Dawn 78. Yes, it is set in a shopping mall, yes the zombie makeup is pretty bad and yes there are amusingly memorable kills as well as comic scenes.
We join low level criminals Woody Invincible and Crazy Bee who operate out of a bootleg DVD and computer game store in the mall, alongside Kui the stolen phone salesman and his long suffering wife, the salon with Jelly, Rolls and Cindy, and the sushi restaurant. Throw in some cops, some mall cops, and a boi-weapon in a bottle of Lucozade and it's about to get crazy, as this isn't a huge American style Monroeville mall here, this is the small glass units in a rat maze like rundown Asian mall.
What did I think? It was fun, unexpectedly so for a movie made in 1998. I could see the exact movie made now in the exact same way. The characters were all fine, and the two leads Woody and Crazy Bee were absolutely fine, cheeky criminals.
If you are a fan of all Asian zombie movies then this is on par with Tokyo Zombie rather than Train to Busan, but it is an absolutely fun, camp as Christmas, decapitation and petty crime kinda story with an unforgettable ending.
5/10 from me
