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Episode 367: Zombiology - Enjoy yourself tonight!

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2017 and from Hong Kong this movie is a bag of cats. It is all over the place. A supposed comedy movie with two slackers Lone and Yeung, living in a run down Cantonese opera house run by their aunt, thinking they are the Heavenly and Earth dragon, the double dragons. Instead they are an unsuccessful sleazy fit Lothario and a chubby, bespectacled man bun of a loser.

Add the cute girl Yit who is part of a paranormal investigation agency, supposedly, Lone's dad returning from 15 years in prison and wanting Lone's aunty Shen who runs the opera house to slice him with a machete, and the villain, a square supernatural chicken that fires souls into people turning them into zombies, and can send human-seeking eggs into the city that kill you instantly, and this makes absolutely no sense.

We have a manga start and ending, and it just doesn't know if it should be funny, or not, or serious, or not. It was too comedic to be serious, too serious to be a comedy, and too stupid to be anything else.

Other than Lone shouting FUCK! and the subtitles saying he said "quickly!" this was a wash out for me.

4.5/10 if you want to watch a Hong Kong zombie movie, instead watch the 1998 Bio-Zombie or Hong Kong Zombie.

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Oh my dear listeners, I am back. It is hot and sweaty tonight. Thirty-two degrees in London. Humid. Oh my goodness me. You feel like I don't know. You feel like a bead of sweat in the buttocks of Shakira. And she's doing a half-time when she's doing a half-time show and shaking her hips. Because her hips don't lie. Um sweaty ban, sweaty in. Talking about sweaty, I was looking for uh movies to watch, zombie movies to watch. There is a strange selection of movies currently available on Tubi uh that inv uh basically they're I they are predominantly, as I say, a hundred percent African American cast crew, writer, director, the works. Um interesting takes on it. There are a few of them. Um I don't know when when I'm gonna get to them, but uh there were three that came up, and it was just like, well, one of them looks okay, one of them looks really poor, that's kind of set in a um an apartment building. Uh yeah. And there was another one. Um I can't know what it's called now. Um, however, I will have to cover them sooner or later because, as you know, I am a completionist, and therefore I'm seeing as many goddamn zombie movies as is humanly goddamn possible. In the meantime, I've been filming, that's not filming today, I've been um I did pickup shots yesterday. Um I did pigeon pickup shots, which is something I thought I'd never say. Um, because I've been filming um the Drader of the Dead, uh, my 30-minute uh animated zombie horror survival comedy story. Um a tabletop movie, if you like. Because it was filmed on a tabletop, my dining table, my coffee table, my uh desk in my office, and in the cabin at the bottom of the garden that is kind of an office stroke gym, uh, on trestle tables there for the messier shots, where it was fake snow and blood all over the place. Um yeah, so edited a version of it from scratch this morning. Uh and by the end of the day, there was a 29 and a half minute version that included the end credits. So it's just that I need to play with. However, I I do have scenes to shoot. Um, I'm waiting for some concrete paper uh to make the stairwell they escape down. Again, it's only like a minute escape uh before then a black cut black and then uh some voiceover as they uh escape and out onto the street, and then one final shot of them on the street. Um with all of the location stuff that I created. So it's got the Mawley building in the background and the bus in the foot in the mid ground, mid, you know, sort of mid-shot, and and them in the foreground, you know, as as all the fake snow comes blowing past, and it's like the guys have made it kind of thing. Um yeah, it's coming along really well. Uh I I it still needs a lot of work. I I plan to have it finished, certainly out and done with the actors by the end of next month, end of July. It's the 27th of June today. So um, hopefully by the end of July, I would have edited it to a point of perfection. Added it all, add all the music, add all the special effects, add all of the sound effects, uh, edit it frame by frame till it is perfect, and then I will go out and trying to find an animator um on Fiverr, which is where I find all of my um uh my professionals, all of my contractor professionals, freelancers. Uh Fiverr is a freelancer website, uh and application, and I'm gonna find my freelancers there. Who do my book covers, you motherfuckers? Uh and uh we'll you know, I actually I I have one, uh Iri Awiney, Irita Riney, uh Irini, um, who uh just recorded violin music for me, so I use it for violin music as well. And I'm trying to find an animator on there who will be able to animate blinking uh of the characters and mouth movement. Now there's not a ton of blinking and mouth movement, but there is some. Um predominantly uh Eli, obviously, uh, and um and Ruthie Frankel uh and a little bit of uh Morty and maybe a little bit of um Mrs. Goldfarb at the end, and maybe a little bit of uh Daniel Bloom growling. That's my character. Actually, I'll play two characters. I also play the vacuum cleaner. Anyway, that aside, um I will be editing that tomorrow, and uh it'll be one step closer to go to be to heading out, and me, the ultimate critic, will actually be creating something to go to movie festivals. So, in the meantime, I'll be looking to find a movie to watch this weekend uh because the World Cup has kind of bored me. Um I've watched some of it, kind of watch a game every two or three days. Um the that this the the it's just a shit World Cup where you know it's not just the top two in each group go through, eight of the twelve third place people go through. What is the fucking point? Infantino is killing the sport, as is the as is the the hydration break that just happened to coincide at every quarter of a game, just so the fucking Americans can have their fucking commercial breaks. Fucking people. That aside, I've been dumpster diving. After watching Colony, a moody version of Colony the other day, um and waiting until um probably have to wait until the Return of the Living Dead to get anything good, it is back to Shitzville, Tennessee. I am holding my nose as I jump into the sewage of Tubi. In this episode, after rejecting several awful looking pieces of shit, I decided to go for Zombiology. Enjoy yourself tonight, which is a very interestingly titled movie from Hong Kong-based director Alan Lowe. Now we actually have seen a uh a Hong Kong movie before, so it's not a new country for us. The Chinese will probably deny it's a country in the first place. Um, but it is the second, the first we saw not long ago actually, BioZombie, which was the 1998 homage to Giorge Romero set in a shopping mall. That was actually quite fun and got five out of ten. This movie, Zombiology, enjoy yourself tonight. Uh scores six out of sixty percent on Watt and Tomatoes, 4.5 on IMDB, come out in 2017 or 2018, depending on what you way you read, and basically 100 well, one hour and 45 minutes long. So 100 105 minutes long. Uh 4.5% on IMDb isn't terrible. Um, and like I said, it is our second zombie movie from Hong Kong after BioZombie uh or Hong Kong zombie, it was also known as. That was a cheesy nostalgia flick that we got for gave five out of ten. In this movie, when a monster from a popular animated show appears and starts a zombie outbreak, it's up to eccentric duo Lone and Jung to stand up and fight the horde. So here we are again. It is me, it is I, Darren Smith, reporting from the for the Undead Symphony, and this is episode 367 and the inexplicably titled Zombiology. Enjoy yourself tonight.

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Greetings from Tromerville. I'm Lloyd Kaufman, president of Troma Entertainment and creator of the Toxic uh Avenger. But Toxie, what you look like you're playing some kind of a symphony. Oh, I'm preparing for the Undead Symphony, Uncle Lloyd. The Undead Symphony. That's well, that's our favorite podcast. You know, folks, you're you're listening to the Undead Symphony and uh all the other symphonies that are around. So Toxie and I, we're gonna go listen to it and uh and also uh get some sympathy, perhaps, from the undead symphony. Come on, Toxie!

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Now, there isn't a lot written about this movie. I have read a review where it basically says, well, you know, it's kind of harks back to 1990s cheesy movies, and if it was made in the US, we'd have Brendan Fraser and um and uh Paulie Shaw in it. I I don't necessarily think that's the case. Um however, you know, the and the main it I think this movie doesn't really know what it is. Um I will say that before we start. It's supposed to be a comedy, it's supposed to be a slacker comedy, it's not a stoner comedy because no one in this movie is a stoner, however, it is a very strange, eccentric character filled. I don't know what it is. It's not a comedy, but it has comic comic elements. It's not a drama because it has comic elements, it's not a horror because it has comic elements, is it an adventure? There's parts in this movie that are like done really well, but then it will be followed by something inexplicably bla bad. So we open with a security guard walking down a corridor, a hallway, an alleyway. There are posters of Shuen, who is a hot local martial artist lady. Um he then stops, he sees someone in the dark. What is it? Who is it? It's a giant cubed chicken person, or person in a chicken costume, which spits what looks like a CGI soul at him, causing him to drop down dead and start growing the classic black zombie veins in his neck. We then, and now we get this at the end, at the beginning of this movie, we get a very long manga animated section where we have two characters. This is Lone's character and uh his best friend Jung, um, who are both um uh martial arts superheroes fighting evil um in the manga. Uh they are the double dragons, um, and one of them, uh Lone is the Heavenly Dragon, and uh and Jung is the Earth Dragon who turns into the earth dragon and is fighting all of these bad guys, but uh for some reason when confronted by a giant city-sized version of the chicken, Lone cannot turn into the heavenly dragon. Did you follow that? Right, so we are now onto um onto the real movie. We meet Lone, who is a chubby slacker. Uh he's a dreamer dressed up as a panda because the only work that he can get is as a mascot for a local, I don't know, it's sort of like a children's play area with arcades there and things like that. His father, Wing, is a mean or want wannabe mean mobster who is looking for revenge after being in prison for 15 years for taking the fall for a fatal car crash he organized that killed his cousin and crippled his cousin's wife. That is Sheng. Uh, and Lone is his son. Uh Lone and his best buddy Jung, who are probably both in their mid to late twenties, are watching Yit, who is uh again their cousin and uh Auntie Shen's niece is practicing some sort of sword play, but she's not allowed to do it properly um because the auntie Shan, Auntie Shan, uh the crippled, crippled from the uh the crash 16 years ago, um 15 years ago, um doesn't want her learning the sword cater. Um they all live and hang out at this Cantonese opera house that is completely run down. Um and then Wing turns up. Wing turns up and gives uh Auntie Shan a machete and says, Stab me, stab me, I need to repay my debt, and all I can ask you to do is to slice me and kill me. And of course, she doesn't want to do that. Um again, uh the article that I read said there are precious little zombies in this movie and a lot of unnecessary drama. And I am ten minutes in at this point, and I can concur. There is also a narration that is incredibly dull uh and is killing me as well. And the narration is probably needed to make sense of this bag of arse. After throwing his dad out, Lone then heads out in his panda suit. Uh for no reason. Uh now we actually have Yit filming a documentary style documentary uh about the two boys, and all of them are planning on moving out. In fact, everyone's planning on moving out and moving on. Jung, uh who basically basically Lone is a bit chubby and has got a top knot and round glasses, and his best pal Jung uh has a six-pack and works out every day, and they keep making this joke where I've got a six-pack, he's got a one-pack. Um, I do hundreds of thousands of uh a thousand sit-ups every day, and he does one kind of thing. Jung is constantly hitting on Yit, who is to be fair, quite cute. We then meet the Gam brothers, and they're basically a bunch of scumbags who are minor criminals. Uh they want to buy the Cantonese opera house from Shen and turn it or Shan and turn it into a supermarket. Just as they're doing that, uh Egg turns up, and Egg is a local delivery guy who delivers food to Shan every day because he loves her. Shan um has a demon fighting dagger, and we saw that there is a kid uh tries to steal or tries to use it. Uh basically there's a school party there, and she's teaching the school party about the Cantonese offer when the kid basically is none of the kids are paying attention, and the kid goes and takes the dagger and then starts swinging it around before it's taken off of him. Uh, and then he the little kid attacks alone. And we're 20 minutes in at this point, and we've still had no zombies. The guys then meet a bunch of cheerleaders at a bowling alley, they're storming all of their stuff in the lockers there for some reason. Um they also keep talking to the talking about themselves as being the Earth and Heavenly Dragon, uh, which is weird. Now we're back at the place where it started, and we're actually at the alleyway next to a gym where the kickbox's picture was on the wall, uh, and then there's a another like a kickboxer there. This guy is really fit, clearly a really good fighter. As he's walking along, the security guard, who's actually a zombie now, gets up and attacks him, and the guy knocks the zombie out with one punch. That was it, zombie fired. Um, Yit uh is obsessed with the supernatural and says that she is part of SAAS, which is not South African Airlines or anything like that. Um, it is a supernatural army battalion that I've have been trained to deal with the occult and anything weird and supernatural that happens, and they just don't believe her, they just think she's a slacker. She then gets a message on her phone saying that something is going on. Back at the Opera, Dad fixes the lock because he wants to be useful, but he isn't given a chance to um you know repay his debt. Um Lone uh Oh yeah, Lone then meets this girl that he he used to date. She's got a kid. He's like, Oh my god, is that kid mine? She goes, dude, we stopped dating six years ago, and this kid is two. And at this point, we are half an hour in and we've seen one zombie that was knocked out with one punch. And we haven't seen the chicken since the opening scene. We have more drama then as the light go out. Lights go out. Ooh. No, no, no, before that, actually. Uh, we have more drama back at the opera house when Dad tries to make amends by taking out his machete and cutting his own hair off with it because Shan won't give him what he wants, and there is just too much drama in this supposed comedy. We are 31 minutes in, and the boys are still in their panda costumes at this children's entertainment stroke arcade when the lights go out. Ooh, we're keeping our fingers crossed that something exciting's gonna happen, but it's just two parents who are like, come on, come on, come on meet our son, it's his birthday. They've got a birthday cake, by the way. And um the two the two parents then run to the son who's got his back to us sitting on this little table, uh, when uh he then kills them both, turns round, and it's the shitty kid who grabbed the dagger from the opera house, who is now a zombie and has just killed his parents. He then attacks the boys uh but can't bite them through their panda costume, so they bag him and start kicking and stamping on him and throwing him into fences and the like, and it was quite good before they see Yit and the three of them run off. Dad, meanwhile, has decided to take Shen out because she's a cripple and doesn't leave the opera house and hasn't done for 15 years. He basically picks her up on his back and takes her out of the opera house and puts her on a bus, saying that staying there is like being in prison. Trust me, I've just spent fifteen years there. And they go down to the coast. They see what they think is a couple humping in a uh in a car because it's rocking, you know, don't come a knocking if the car is a rocking. Uh but it's actually a zombie uh eating a victim. The guys uh are the are running away um uh from the zombie, uh, and then they as they're running away from the zombie child uh uh after beating the zombie child up, they cross paths with the cheerleaders from the um from the bowling alley who are being chased by an actual zombie horde, including the teacher of the kid who was ch who was with him in the opera house earlier. That woman, that the teacher, then chases the boys before they then sort of loop and cross again, and the zombie teacher ends up joining the other horde to chase after the um the cheerleaders. Auntie Shan and Dad are on the coast and absolutely lost. Whilst they they call Lone to say we're in we're by the coast, we're at this place, but we're absolutely lost. Uh they call loan, but then the phone signal dies. Now they've got no way of getting them, no way of finding out anything more, and they're like, We're how are we even gonna get across town to save them? And then a pickup truck conveniently reverses slowly into shot. The driver has been bitten and is dead. They then get in the car and they dick around too much, they spend a lot of time in this movie doing papers, scissors, stone, and the loser gets a slap, which is ridiculous, and it is always loan getting the slap. It even happens at the end of the movie. Um, but as they're dicking around for too long, the zombie gets up and scares the shit out of them, so the two of them step on it and drive off, driving through the zombie-filled streets, which and it is a shame that this movie is so inconsistent and stupid because the zombie makeup is good, the gore is okay, and the tension would be good if it wasn't comic. Dad and Auntie Shen manage to find a tunnel which they head down and they meet the boys who are in the same tunnel. The guys explain them to the elders that the elders that the streets are overwhelmed with zombies, and they have no idea what they're talking about. And the pet the elders are going, shut up. Shen and Dad do not believe them, but. But then they'd leave the confines of the tunnel, get in the pickup trunk, and the entire fucking town is turned into a zombie, so they get chased down the streets by running zombies. These are running zombies, bloody running zombies at that. We see loads of people being attacked, loads of people being turned. We see the loads of these giant, sort of like softball-sized chicken eggs as well. The fighter from earlier, the one who knocked the zombie out uh in the first place, um, is chased uh by some zombies. He sort of gets away from some, punches a few. Before too long, he is surrounded by hundreds of zombies, no CGI here, and he just goes down under the horde. The chicken eggs will find a regular human, and there's a girl who's hiding, and it fires the chicken chicken's egg, fires itself at her, hits her in the head, and her head comes off. It's like, what? The family head back to the Opel House where they meet the Gam brothers who say, We haven't been bitten, please let us in as well. So Dad Shaw's up the place, and the boys realize they've actually left Yit out there. We haven't seen Yit for a while. Uh we actually lost Yit uh when the guys were being well, they sort of crossed paths with the um with the cheerleaders. Uh they also have these rampaging gangs of real estate agents who aren't actually zombies, they're just assholes. And for some reason the horse racing is still on because it's Hong Kong after all, and everyone needs to be betting. The guys have a tooling up montage because they want to go and find Yit and they sort of make these things out of spinning saw blades before they get in the truck and head out to try to find her. Where are you gonna find her? How? There's no cell phone signaling she could be anywhere. The guys then come across a bride who's laying by the side of the road and they're is she a zombie? Is she a ghost? No, it is Shuen, uh a uh famous martial artist, the one who's on the posters around the house, and everyone loves her and thinks she's amazing. Jung then spots uh Yit's ghost hunting device uh on a uh zombie and assumes the worst, so basically, because he loves her, kills it. Dad, who's back at the opera house, uh, asks the uh Gam brothers to show him how to use the video camera, and he watches the footage from earlier where Yit was filming a documentary about the boys, and Lone talked about how my mother died when I was six, my father went to prison, blah blah blah blah blah. And it turns out one of the Gam brothers has been bitten on his arse and is slowly turning into a zombie. And at this point, I was only halfway through, and I was praying for an early death. Uh the boys uh return with Shuen the bride, uh, and uh they lie to Shen, saying that Yit is not with us because she's out there doing important work for the government, uh, which is actually what Yit said she was doing to them and they didn't believe her. Shuen is angry, she kicks Loan in the nuts and demands food, and she's sad because she was jilted at the altar by her fiancee. And when Loan explains that no one really cares anymore about your wedding because everyone's turned into a zombie, she decides she wants to die and go out and sacrifice herself fighting the zombies. Uh as she tries to get out, she kicks Jung in the nuts as well, which I thought was funny. The bitten gang brother is clearly dying, and he wants to talk to his mother before he dies, uh, and so his brother fakes being on the phone to her, uh, which I thought was really sad. Uh egg then comes in, having climbed the fence uh to bring um Shen her five thousandth meal. He writes the number of the meal he's delivering on the top, um, and he's bleeding profusely from his mouth, and he looks like a zombie, and they're like, Have you been bitten? He goes, No, but I was attacked by a gang of real estate agents and they were trying to bite me, but I bit them back. So he is clearly infected after biting zombies. Whilst Lone and Dad bond over a beer, uh Lone finds out that dad is being bitten on the neck, although we didn't see it happen. Dad is cheery though about it. He says the only thing I ever wanted to see was him happy, as in Lone, and with someone who loves him and maybe start a family. Enter Shuen, who's listening, and pretending she pretends that the wedding dress she is wearing is from a fitting, and the two of them, her and Lone, are getting married soon. So Dad needs to hold on just that bit longer. So we have Dad and Egg and a Gam brother who are all infected and dying and turning into zombies within the confines of the Cantonese opera house. And this is a comedy, right? It's supposed to be a comedy as Egg tries to hand Shen her lunch as he does every day, and this is the 5000th day. The zombie gam brother then charges at Zen because Shen because he has turned into a zombie, but Egg saves her and then bites the zombie's throat out. The other brother then stops Jung from killing his zombie brother, but the zombie brother then attacks his own brother before Shuen kicks it with a roundhouse and breaks its neck. The other brother then goes to attack her and then she knocks him out too. Zombie Egg is now crawling to try to I mean, he think he's gonna attack Shen, but what he's trying to do is just give her the lunch, her five thousandth lunch. And when she opens it, it is full of love heart-shaped pancakes and carrots and the like. And she's like, Oh my god, she's crying because it was so sweet, and then he puts a pen on the ground and headbutts it, killing himself. Not that sweet. Shen gives Jung uh the demon weapon and says, Give this to Yit, she will know what to do with it. Um as Dad is being helped along, um, he says, I still want to repay my debt to Shen. Just as he's she's about to explain something to them, though, one of those exploding eggs burst through the window. The egg hits Shen square on the face, blowing her head off, and she just falls down dead. So the others have to fucking escape now, don't they? Well, the eggs start firing through the barricades, pinging around the room. Um the uh the other Gam brother gets killed, um these because these are the chicken eggs that instantly kill you. So we got Shuen, Lone, Young, and a bitten dad who are being chased by humans seeking zombie chicken eggs and zombies. They go through this warehouse that's next door to the um uh opera house, uh, and we can see the zombie chicken creature is on the ceiling. But as they're trying to escape, Dad lets them all go first and then closes the door behind them, but stays in himself to escape to help their escape and sacrifices himself. He does this by picking up a gas canister, walking towards all of walking towards the chicken who is firing tons of eggs at him. One of the eggs hit him on the head and blows his head off, but then he waves and the gas canister explodes. The chicken lands on the ground and sees that all of his eggs, her eggs, have been turned into fried eggs, which is weird. Very, very weird. The guys are then found by Yit, who is wearing a military uniform and has a milit a sort of futuristic gun. Uh when she sees the dagger, she wonders where her aunt is. So sadness and uh military stuff. So now we've got two couples, Yit and Jung and Lone and uh Shuen, in the bowling alley where they are chased again by the horde. Yit, however, has got this futuristic gun that's made out of the device she was using to find supernatural stuff earlier, and it fires these lightning bolts uh at the horde of zombies. She tells the guys to go, go, I'll hold these off. Which makes no sense. The other three run down a tunnel and zombies appear from everywhere. Lone this is my favourite bit of the movie, by the way. By far my favourite bit of the movie. Lone shouts fuck really, really loudly. But the subtitle was Quickly exclamation mark, uh, which is my favourite bit of the movie. Um they are surrounded, so I have to have a huge fight to rock music, and the guys actually do kick ass, um, which I thought was um quite well done. But as the guys are then trying to escape fire this uh fence or gate in the tunnel, uh, much like his dad, Lone lets the other two go through first and then locks the gate behind them because he has been stabbed through the mid drift during the fight. So now he is going to sacrifice himself so that the others the other two can escape. He then heads back down the tunnel and then runs into Chicken Cube for the first time. Um he throws his weapons at it and they don't do anything. Uh a hoard of zombies a horde of zombies then appear from behind him, including zombie Schuen and Zombie Jung, who somehow got immediately turned after going the other direction. He asks Chicken Cube what could I have done to save them? And then the chicken cube basically gets lifted up, and inside it it's just a guy, it's actually Lone. Lone himself is in the chicken cube, and we are questioning what is real and what is not. Uh the guys play Paper, Scissors, Stone, and Chicken Cube Lone keeps saying, you know, slapping him as because he keeps winning, slapping him and saying, Does this hurt? Does this hurt? Does this hurt? And the real Lone has a huge flashback to all the things that have happened in the movie. Um, and the auto-ego keeps goading him and slapping him, and then um Lone then gets up, picks up a weapon, and stabs himself in the stomach, which then prompts a giant anime action ending. And his character that couldn't turn into Heavenly Dragon at the beginning of the movie in the anime section, turns into Heavenly Dragon, something he couldn't do earlier, and eviscerates the giant anime chicken in a huge battle before coming back to the tunnel, and Lone is laying down dead, but then his fingers start twitching, and then he sits up and starts smiling. Oh my god, what have I just watched? Um before I start, I'm gonna give it four and a half. Okay, it's not as good as BioZombie from 1998. It is all over the place. Okay, it's all over the place this movie, as you can probably guess from my my confusing vant. It is supposed to be a story of two slackers who end up saving their people. In the end, if we exclude the weird manga bits, Lone ends up dying, um, and the other two are zombies. So we really don't know what's real and what's not. It's funny when it shouldn't be, it's awkward when it shouldn't be. Some of the characters are just over-the-top comedic where others are not. Um it didn't know what it wanted to be. It really didn't. It had no idea what this was supposed to be. Um, it had a few elements that were good. I mean, if conceptually, you know, okay. I like the idea that they all, you know, the dad committed a crime, he went to jail, the mum was already dead, so loan, and the others all end up sort of living with Auntie Shen in um in the Cantonese opera house that people were always trying to take over and sell for real estate. Um I don't know. Um very cute. Um it just didn't make any sense. The organization that she was part of, the the thing that she had that she said was for finding bad energy, that was kind of like the um spectrometer from Ghostbusters, and it was just messy, it was just really, really messy and awkward, and you had to read the subtitles too, and so you're reading them thinking this is just odd. It's just odd. So um could I I wouldn't recommend people necessarily watch this one unless you're a completionist like me. If I was to recommend a Hong Kong zombie movie, given that I've now seen two of them, I would watch the other one. I would watch BioZombie from 1998, that is a shopping mall-based comedic um uh love letter to George A. Romero, where this zombiology, uh, enjoy yourself tonight. I did not enjoy myself at all.