
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
265 episodes
Episode 265: We are Zombies (2023)
Hello there and welcome to this, the 265th episode of the US with ME DS in which I will review WE ARE ZOMBIES a 2023 Canadian French zombie horror comedy film based on the comic series The Zombies That Ate the World and there is a tale with thi...
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Episode 264: Dead Men Walking (2005) and Dead Men Walking (2009)
DEAD MEN WALKING. Pfff! Where to start with this one? I went into it with high hopes for the 2009 Canadian movie starring Dexter Fletcher and David Carridine, and zero hopes for the 2005 maximum security prison lockdown story. How wrong can a m...
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Episode 263: Lee Donaldson and Dead Zero
Taking a break between the Zombie Night double bill, Re-Animator and MadS in this episode of the podcast we are delighted to share airtime with writer/producer/actor and all round nice guy Lee Donaldson. We talk his zombie history, his top (I t...
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Episode 262: Re-Animator
Re-Animator (1985), directed by Stuart Gordon, is a cult-classic horror-comedy that blends gore, dark humor, and science fiction. Loosely based on H.P. Lovecraft’s serialized story Herbert West: Reanimator, the film follows medical student Herb...
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Episode 261: Zombie Night (2003) and Zombie Night 2: Awakening
Oh this one is on you, Stephanie Grant. This one is all on you. Zombie Night and Zombie Night 2. No, not the zombie night with Daryl Hannah, Alan Ruck and Anthony Michael Hall written and directed by Murphy from Z Nation. Nope. That scored a fl...
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Episode 260: Planet Terror (2007)
In a genre that can go from the ludicrous to the sublime to the horrific, from farting zombie versions of the founding fathers to our daughters slow decline into zombification to your face being ripped off and eaten in front of you, there is ro...
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Episode 259: MadS (2024)
And I am back from a few nights in a cabin in the woods to work on the book and today I was at Frightfest 2025 down in Leicester Square were slasher 213 Bones was showing as I turned up for my merch, and now I am home and onto something differe...
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Episode 258: Friend of the World
Title card – the more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and likewise pain – rolls eyes at Dante quoteHI def black and white we open with a radio, piano music and spoken word recording about the end of the earth, we see a kni...
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Episode 257: ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction
An inconsistent bag of cats from 2010. Cast wise we have the Iranian-American director's dad, who cannot act for toffee, Sydney Sweeney's debut aged 12 and Doc from Z Nation. Is it a comedy? Kinda. Is it a drama? Kinda. We have a lo...
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Episode 256: The Zom Rom Com Chat
In this episode Michael and I talk Zom Rom Coms, the zombie romantic comedy sub sub-genre of this sub-genre of horror. Avoiding the obvious Shaun of the Dead, we discuss those we have seen and scored well. Burying the Ex, As We Know it, Warm Bo...
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Episode 255: Versus
I am still waiting for FORGIVE US ALL, Z MOM and QUEENS OF THE DEAD but in this episode, a spin of the wheel, a roll of the dice, a shake of the magic 8 ball brought me here to Rotten Tomatoes list of the top 100 zombies movies… which is…
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Episode 254: Life After Beth
Life After Beth is a 2014 American zombie comedy film and it has a great cast of Aubrey Plaza,
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Episode 253: New Kids Nitro
This one was dumb. Trailer park mullet sporting, C-word over-utilising Dutch thugs from opposing villages face off at the soccer games, drag races and facials over the local alcoholic pregnant prostitute. Until they have to join forces after an...
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Episode 252: In the Flesh Darren and Michael recap
After two seasons and 9 hours of dare I call it entertainment? Michael and I recap our time in Roarton. Did we love it? We certainly enjoyed season 1. Season 2 less so, but it is certainly worth a watch. There are precious few zombie shows out ...
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Episode 251: In The Flesh (Season 2)
We are back in Rourton for Season 2, and a sneak peek of what Season 3 would have become thanks to writer Dominic Mitchell as well as a possibly inebriated Ricky Tomlinson (Ken Burton from both seasons) telling us he never turns down a role. Bl...
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Episode 250: Plague (2014)
Steph over at the Listeners of the Dead podcast said this 2014 running infected Australian effort would cause smoke to come out of my ears. It almost did. It was just a very basic story of a bunch of one-dimensional survivors living in a bad lo...
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Episode 249: El Ultimo Zombi (2022)
This is not the first Argentine zombie movie we have watched here on the Undead Symphony. Soy Toxico, I am toxic ambled in with a 4.5 a long while ago back in episode 61 over 2 years ago. This is episode 249 over 3 years in and this is El Ultim...
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Episode 248: Infini (2015)
To quote Ewan McGregor's Obi Wan"Hello there."Yes, and I am back and this is the 248th episode of the US with me DS in which I watch Inifini from 2015.In infini, not quite infinity, tells the story of an elite search and re...
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Episode 247: Aporia (2019)
Ok this his one genuinely appeared from nowhere. And whilst I wait for Daisy Ridleys We Bury the Dead, and Richard Roxburghs Forgive us All, and the Cambodian Z-Mom, and plough through In the Flesh, I was looking at the other streaming services...
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Episode 246: Barbie and Kendra Meet the Corona Zombies
This is all on Professor Kyle Bishop. Remember in the episode 245 when he said this… And yes this is me repurposed material with is very apropos "I've got to say the worst one I've seen that I recall with any sense of vividly is Cor...
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Episode 245: Dr Kyle Bishop aka Dr Walking Dead
RECORDING IN PROGRESS!In this special episode we get to talk with zombie scholar Dr Kyle Bishop about all things zeke. We talk his studies, we talk first, last, best, and worst, we talk top 10s and so much more. And, apologies to Michael...
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Episode 244: In The Flesh (Season 1)
This is a special episode in which I look at the two seasons of the BBC zombie Drama IN THE FLESH as recommended by Kieren from Eerie Earth podcast, writer and narrator of The Fallen. Now, I never saw this, didn’t even know it existed to be fai...
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Episode 243: Oasis of Zombies (1982)
Oasis of Zombies aka Grave of the Living Dead aka Bloodsucking Nazi Zombies. When a student Robert at university in England hears his father has died he gets ready to go back to Africa. While going through his fathers diaries he fin...
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