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
359 episodes
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...
Episode 345: Quarantine (2008)
The Spanish team behind REC would have us hate the Americanized version of their movie, but that dog won't hunt, Monsignor. Much like #Alive and Final Days and Let the Right one In and Let me In, I feel the 2008 US remake of the Spanish game ch...
Episode 344: REC2 (2009)
And we are back with the sequel, taking place 2 hours after the end of the first as a SWAT team of four including an idiot cameraman played by the same actor as the idiot cameraman in the first movie go in with a doctor to assess the situation ...
Episode 343: REC (2007)
I am going to say something controversial. The gamechangers that have shaped the zombie genre are well known to us all (White Zombie the first, Night of the Living Dead making it about survival, Dawn of the Dead making it large, 28 Days Later m...
Episode 342: Dark Island (2010)
What in the Uwe Boll have I just seen? As I wade through the cesspool of TUBI trying to find something decent I, for my sins and completeness, need to tick this one off.Not to be confused with Narnia Dark Island, 1962 BBC series or t...
Episode 341: Defiled (2010)
I am sewer surfing on the stinky crest of a TUBI wave this weekend, with Dark Island tomorrow and this the 2010 Defiled.OK, let me give you the premise and we shall take it from there. It is a 100 minute long silent movie inasmuch as the...
Episode 340: ITCH! (2026)
I was dubious, and rightly so. I have been burned of late by movies that were not zombie movies, like The Bay. And that has a lot more in common with Itch! (2026) than any of the movies we have covered. However, there is an actual zombie elemen...
Episode 339: Night of the Living Dead: Darkest Dawn (2015)
With the upcoming gender swap Vivica Fox version of Night of the Living Dead coming up in November, I thought I would have the NOTLD league table in place before then, but with the title and story now in the public domain it means any twonk wit...
Episode 338: This is not a Test (2026)
Based on Courtney Summer's award winning YA novel of the same name from 2012 we are in a small Canadian town as the zombie apocalypse starts. Annoying teen Sloane is considering committing suicide because of her drunkard violent father, absent ...
Episode 337: Zombinator (2012)
I should have known better. When a fellow movie reviewer lists their worst zombie movie of all time, I should have thought, well, if I listed our worst zombie movies (Attack of the Flatulating Dead, Oasis of the Zombies and Hsien of the Dead) I...