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
368 episodes
Episode 368: The Silence After (2025) aka Lost in Darkness ((2022)
Our first (and potentially second) zombie movie from Barbados. It is really a post COVID, post vaccine, anti-vaxxer load of tosh in which we barely see anything from the government or the mysterious military chemical facility in the description...
Episode 367: Zombiology - Enjoy yourself tonight!
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 drag...
Episode 366: Lee Donaldson returns with more Dead Zero
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 fo...
Episode 365: Everyday of the Dead (2023)
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 ...
Episode 364: Colony (2026)
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
Episode 363: Dead Zero (2026)
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...
Episode 362: Episode 1 Revival part 2 and Talking American Zombies
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.
Episode 361: Episode 1 Revival part 1 and South Korean Zombies
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...
Episode 360: Deadlocked: Dad of the Dead
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 t...
Episode 359: Michael talks REC and REC2 versus Quarantine
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.
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....
Episode 357: Miss Zombie (2013)
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 mov...
Episode 356: Ick (2024)
American made with Arab oil money from the UAE. Is that why the Ick, a monstrous alien lifeform that has been around for about 20 years looks like oil? Maybe. Starring Brandon Routh, poor, poor, Brandon Routh, I do genuinely feel ba...
Episode 355: Zombie Reddy
Zombie Reddy is a 2021 Indian Telugu-language zombie comedy crime thriller film directed by Prasanth Varma and starring Teja Sajja, Anandhi, and Daksha Nagarkar.The blurbMario, a game developer, and his friends, get caught up in the ...
Episode 354: Bio-Zombie aka Hong Kong Zombie
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 memo...
Episode 353: Is REC a gamechanger in the zombie genre?
In our first catch up in 2 month I pose Michael the question, "was the 2007 Spanish found footage movie REC a game change in the zombie genre?"
Episode 352: Residence (2026)
It is actually surprising how many Australian zombie movies and shows we have seen thus far… We Bury the Dead | 6.5 Little Monsters | 6.5 Wyrmwood: Apocalypse | 6.5 Cargo | 6 Wyr...
Episode 351: Lost in Apocalypse (2018) aka Mo Shi Ren Jian Dao
Set during the brokering of a deal in a top end hotel local sleazebag Fu Gui tries to use junior newsreader Cindy to seduce Director Wu, the university headmaster so he can make money on a demolition and relocation real estate deal. Booze is pl...
Episode 350: Extinction: The GMO Chronicles (2011)
A 2011 German effort on YouTube for me now. Extinction: the GMO Chronicles. GMO = Genetically Modified Organism. And we meet hero Tom, a former Spec Ops operative who casually drove around the city on day zero, ignoring pleas for help, before t...
Episode 349: Didn't Die (2025)
With a slightly different take on the zombie apocalypse this monochrome modern Indian American family story tells of three siblings surviving in their own different ways. Older brother Hari and his wife Barbara stay in the large family home dri...
Episode 348: Ever After aka Endzeit
A 2018 German movie, our second after Rammbock: Siege of the Dead. Set two years after the fall of civilisation, it follows Vivi, a twenty something girl living in Weimar, one of two remaining cities. In Weimar they kill the zombies and anyone ...
Episode 347: Severed: Forest of the Dead
A Canadian effort to save me from Daniel Baldwin on TUBI. An eco-warrior group are demonstrating the logging of an island, but the company doing the logging, or raping the land as the hippies say, are doing far, far worse. They are pumping the ...
Episode 346: Stink of Flesh (2005)
Woah. Where to start with this one? Unpick this at your leisure; Matool is surviving the zombie apocalypse in Southern Colorado by killing the slow moving, blue faced undead with a hammer and long nails. Okay so far? I was. Then aft...