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2007 3.7/10 on IMDB and 12% on Rotten Tomatoes

A microscopic alien form is secretly used by the army to resurrect dead soldiers. After an experiment gone wrong, a scientist steals the last specimen and hides out in a residential building hoping to reverse the damage. One fateful night the alien lifeform is set loose and turns the residence into the walking dead. He must find a way to destroy the alien possessed before the end of the human race.

When an alien life form resurrects the dead and turns them on the human race, a young scientist must fight to contain the catastrophe and eradicate the alien menace.

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EVILUTION is another vague military zombie movie with little plot and pedestrian execution. Nothing that happens in this film is original and everything will have been seen before, many times. It's a typical zombie straight-to-DVD flick with little to distinguish it in an already overcrowded sub-genre.

Sounds shit! I’m in.

It stars Eric Peter Kaiser as Darren, cool name, I like him already, the door gunner from Full Metal Jacket, GET SOME! And most recognisable star is type cast as a hispanic gang banger all the time it is Noel Albert Gugliemi who has quite the zombie movie having appeared in one episode Dawn of the Zombie apocalypse, a show I haven’t heard of.

Didn't make a lot of sense. 3/10

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A 4 part, 2 and a bit hour What If? where lesser Marvel characters run about trying to defeat the Red Witch and her zombie hordes. If you liked What If? it is ok. If you hated everything since End Game then you will hate this. It is Ironheart, and Ms Marvel and the girl from Hawkeye, plus a few comedy characters, a confusing Moon Knight/Blade combination, Valkyrie, although she looked more like Lady Sif. Namor, Zemo, FBI agent Jimmy Woo. Worth it? Probably not.

5.5/10 from us at the Undead Symphony.

Next up The Crazies and The Crazies. Two for the price of one.

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A lovely evening chatting with Paul from the Black Country about all things zombie, from Michael Jackson's thriller to being not so thrilled with Brad Pitt's World War Z, crying over his Virus versus Voodoo score and Michael going to a parents-teacher evening for one of his brood.

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Good morning dear listeners, Shana Tova and happy new year to my Jewish listeners. In this catch up Michael and I discuss our movie of the year so far MadS, as well as Neighbours versus Zombies, strewth! And lots of other stuff as we prepare to talk to Paul from Yammityville Horror Podcast and Andy Beglin. Grab a half-espresso soy milk mochaccino and come listen.

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Ollie mentioned this one, BLOOD BROTHERS LIFE HARVEST and I said I would watch it. Much like the Dexter Fletcher Dead Man Walking aka Autumn is it based on a novel by novelists in my zombie community. 93 minutes. 2025. Looks shit. He is now saying that he recommended we skip it, he did not recommend that we watch it.

The trailer is a scene where two floppy hair teens with pistols fail to fight off a basic zombie. One is blond one has brown hair and I put this off for over a week, rather reading in-flight magazines that watching it.

Here is a excerpt:

Aaron - there's a swarm coming. (Swarm in this movie means about 10. Max.)

(They talk about staying out. Again what happened to the little sister?)

We can camp

Are you crazy?

Maybe a bank with a vault

(What? So the options are staying outside… or a bank vault…and how are you going to get into said bank vault. Also how about this? go home! Or stay in your car. Also how is your car still running?)

The idiots get to a gate. Get out of the car, don’t notice a dozen zombies including screaming zombies approaching, then when raising the shotgun Aaron cant shoot as he needs to keep brushing his annoying teen floppy hair out of the way. As Enoch, who pledged to look after his family, inc little sister we haven’t seen for 2/3 of the movie, and his brother, just stands there until someone throws a grenade into the horde. Awful CGI explosion as a zombie tries to eat it and the boys wake up tied up. I mean a grenade would have shredded them all not just conveniently knocked them out.

This was awful. Two awful teens with floppy hair, unarmed in the apocalypse, with the whole solitary premise of Enoch looking after his family when he can't fight, and spends the movie putting his brother in harms way, getting his teenage girlfriend pregnant and ignoring his little sister. Dakota was the worse character I have seen in a movie for a while and I have seen Zombie Night 1 and 2.

Not sure what the life harvest was…but it was shit

3/10 at best. I have seen better poop bags run over in the street.

It is shit like this and Autumn/Dead Men Walking that make me fearful of ever selling the rights to my books, or letting someone make them. As this shit is embarrassingly bad.

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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 this one. It is officially the last physical media of the year and you know what that means? Yes, after reviewing it we box up the entire years physical media collection and send it to Steph from Listeners of the dead who will get to expand her library and hopefully enjoy them more than last years box…

Canada is a mixed bag when it comes to zombie movies. We have seen a few. This will be the 15th. And they range from well done, superb movies like Blood Quantum, one of my sleepers, The Revenant, love that one and the incredible Pontypool. Also Fido, great cast and concept. But they also gave us the two Zombie Nights and Dead Men Walking, that we covered last time out. Three of the worst zombie movies have covered.

Do I have high hopes? 5.3/10 on IMDB isn’t bad, 100% on RT is misleading and 2.8/5 on letterboxed equating to 56% kinda means it is watcheable and above average.

Freaks of nature meets Death Shack meets Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse but not as good as freaks or scouts…

Freaks of Nature was a 6, scouts guide 7, death shack was 5.5, so I kinda think it is better than Death Shack but am going to score it the same 5.5

I liked the idea of living in harmony with the dead, and them being like talking road kill. And I liked anyone that died came back almost immediately so we get two chances for each character. I did laugh out loud at least three times, which could have been when Rocco killed himself and the later grandma, but this was completely watchable. I would say it didn’t step up, it could have. It wasn’t as polished as office uprising, that also had the three leads running about. It had some sort of feeling like that though. I don’t think Hannity was a strong enough character, or Coleman. But hey it is a zombie movie, it isn’t perfect…

So WE ARE ZOMBIES is 5.5/10 of Canadian fun. Check it out where you can.

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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 man be?

Ok, so neither was great. The 2005 movie tells the story of a guy who kills 4 friends with a shotgun because they are clearly infected with a biotoxin. He is sent to maximum security prison where this becomes a prison movie. Asshole guards, a nice guard, the overworked warden and his son, the dubious doctor, and prison inmates thinking the killer Travis is fresh meat. The issue being Travis was smeared in infected blood and is now highly contagious. Enter squeaky voiced CDC agent Beckett and her inability to be taken seriously. The gore is well done, the practical effects and the locations are all fine. The Lieutenant in charge of the guards had some great lines. All in all I was surprised.

4.5/10

Our second DEAD MEN WALKING is also known as AUTUMN 2009 Canadian horror film directed by Steven Rumbelow, written by David Moody and Rumbelow, and starring Dexter Fletcher. It was based on Moody's self-published novel Autumn. Fletcher plays a schoolteacher who must survive in a post-apocalyptic world inhabited by evolving zombies. This was the final film of David Carradine before his death. I think seeing this movie may have killed him.

Inconsistent. Awful music. Poor shot choices. Repetitive elements. Outside of Dexter Fletcher this was a bag of shit. The mostly negative reception of Autumn led him to direct his own films from then on, which were better received.

2/10

If this movie had been made based on something I had written I would change my name and move to a different country

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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 think it was 8 or 9) zombie movies and the inspiration for his zombie not-so-short DEAD ZERO. As well as his plans for the full feature.

We share movie suggestions (he has to see Girl with all the Gifts) that we think Lee will enjoy, reference Michael's short lived OnlyFans account, and get excited after being invited to come along as extras for the BIG scene of the movie.

A great chat with a creator that wants to create something new.

Give it a listen! And follow Lee and the Dead Zero movie on Instagram and TikTok for BTS and all other DZ news.