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Kirk, Birdseye, Scarlet and Stabbin, we know a few captains, but in this episode I finally get to talk to friend of the pod Captain Magenta, the only Captain that matters.

We talk his first, last, best and worst zombie movies. He tells us what he really thinks of the 28 Years Later ending and Jimmy Savile, and why he loves South Korean zombies the most. We give him a shortlist of new movies to watch, and new TV shows and we have just come off the recording and are already planning a follow up. It was that good.

So give the man a listen, hook hand, parrot on the shoulder and skull and cross bones flapping in the wind, this is the one and one Captain Magenta...

And you can listen to the Captain's podcast here on Spotify...Spilling Brains and Gossip, go check it out. You won't be sorry.

https://open.spotify.com/show/0Z3oo1X6h4el0459Mc6yXG?si=IL-yZG5PTlud2AWqmaLPmA

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After a destructive asteroid ushers in the apocalypse and Trump invades Venezuela, the dead begin to rise and Satan's army is unleashed onto the world. Meanwhile, seven archangels attempt to save mankind from evil....

And Michael has gone Han Solo for this one. As Darren talks to Captain Magenta about all things pirate zombie, Michael went off-piste and watched the 2018 French biblical zombie movie ANGELS VERSUS ZOMBIES. Is it PRO-WRESTLERS VERSUS ZOMBIES. Not quite! How dare you!

Darren saw the trailer and that was enough, but Michael decided to throw himself onto the grenade and embraces the suck that is Angels versus Zombies.

4/10 and it doesn't even have any Baldwins.

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The film follows a group of drag queens, club kids, and frenemies who must put aside their personal dramas and use their unique skills to fight the flesh-thirsty undead when a zombie apocalypse breaks out on the night of a giant warehouse party.

That is the premise and we start with a spectacular drag queen Yum heading to church to light a candle for Nana before heading out… however she gets a ping on her hookup app and holy moly it is a ripped chunk of Jesus lookalike who bites Yum on the neck, turning her into the Zombie Queen.

Oh before we continue just to say we can play ROMERO bingo here with the old school legends…

• GAYLEN ROSS was the stern doctor who had words with Sam at the start.
• TOM SAVINI is the mayor personally and references George A Romero on the TV.
• Lizzys car is called BARBARA and it looks like a Pontiac LeMans 1967 which is the car johnny and Barbara drive in 1969.

And this is a fun one. Katy O'Brian is Dre, nightclub owner, who is let down by both spectacular diva Yasmine, and once reliable friend Sam (Sameonce) as Kelsey, Ginsey Tonic and backup dancers Jax and Nico practice for a big Glitter Ball event. As Dre's brother in law Barry, a down to earth New Yorker has trouble with everyone's pronouns the glittery green makeup wearing zombies start to cause havoc, and her wife Lizzy and a drug addict Jane Doe try to make it across town.

It is fun, it is light-hearted. The music is great, the characters are all fun and OTT. I had been waiting for 6 months to watch this one and was glad I did.

Tina Romero has done her father proud with this one.

Make a cocktail, get your favourite wig down from its velveteen box, pull on your highest sequined platform shoes and enjoy Queens of the Dead

6/10 watchable and recommendable for sure

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We do love our Zom Rom Coms. Shaun of the Dead, Warm Bodies, Life after Beth, Burying the Ex, all good. All funny in their own way. All with their unique charm. And then there is this... 2014, Night of the Living Deb.

It stars Maria Thayer as the incredibly awkward, infuriatingly so at times, Deb, and Michael Cassidy (Jimmy Olsen in Batman v Superman and Sgt Kelly in Army of the Dead) as organic produce eating, bike riding, eco-friendly traditionally handsome Ryan.

After a 4th July party hookup Deb wakes in Ryan's bed (fully clothed thankfully), and after some very awkward behaviour (too awkward, what she says and what she does, smashing things by accident) they head out to find their are in the middle of a zombie outbreak.

Despite her character being over the top in all ways, the movie is quite funny in places, look out for the graffiti gag, and mom's phone call. Reading the reviews it is polarising, people loved it, or people hated it, and the reason they hated it was Deb's character. People were 7/10 or 2/10, and I am going for 5.5 as I think it was watchable, once you got used to her forced awkwardness, and he was great. Nice little new take on the outbreak too at the end. Decent cast. I'd recommend it if you like ZOM ROM COMS.

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After I cover the best (MadS) and worst (Oasis of Zombies) in the intro, giving you the top 5 to watch and bottom 5 to avoid, we watch the New Zealand animated web series Bloke of the Apocalypse by Charlie Faulks. It was quirky in an early Adult Swim way, and I enjoyed it so much I wish there was more.

5/10 watchable for sure

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There is a comedy zombie boxed set, you may have seen it, you may know it. On it you will find three zombie comedies, the Christmas themed Stalled from the UK, we liked that one, I survived a zombie holocaust from New Zealand starring friend of the podcast Harley Neville, and this… Me and My Mates versus the Zombie Apocalypse from Australia.

The premise?

During the Australian zombie apocalypse, Darryl (played by Alex Williamson) - a mid-twenties telecom tradesman - and several of his co-workers get trapped in a telephone exchange. It is a comedy. But, what do we say, dear listeners, about comedy? That for a comedy to be funny the jokes have to land. And they do not always land.

The trailer looks pretty low end. I am thinking Danny Dyer’s Dog House meets New Kids Nitro from the Netherlands. But lets find a review and see if we agree with it.

It was shit. Not funny

The constant running gag of Daryl wanting to be on roys cricket team – not funny

The constant running gag of Daryl having thrush – not funny

The running gag of Daryl’s tiny cricket bat – not funny

Hitting women zombies and apologising, not funny

The toolmaster multitool, not funny

Daryl confusing vampires and zombies, not funny

Script was poor, the acting was poor, Jim Jeffries, the main draw, just disappeared, it was like he thought, fuck it, let me die.

Remember New Kids Nitro?

3.5/10 by far the weakest of the 3 movies on that DVD. No way near as funny as I survived a zombie holocaust, and not as good or original as stalled, and that is set in a womens toilet. But it isn't the worst Australian zombie movie, that award goes to Zombie Brigade from 1988, which looked like it was made in 1978. This was just shit. No wonder Jim Jeffries got out of it half way through.

Avoid. This sucked diarrhea through a bum's sweat sock.

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Ho ho ho dear listeners… and we are santa deep in the festive season here… and as everyone sits down with their loved ones to enjoy a rom com after a hefty Christmas dinner, I am doing the same… well not a rom com you understand, this is a rom zom com, a zom rom com, a romantic zomedy… a subgenre of the subgenre we have time for having seen.

| Shaun Of The Dead | 7.5
| I Survived a Zombie Holocaust | 7
| Newtopia | 6.5
| Warm bodies | 6.5
| Life After Beth | 6
| The Last Marriage | 6
| Dead Heads | 6
| Burying the Ex | 6

And so to this weeks offering, EAT BRAINS LOVE… I like the title, a play on eat pray love, that everyone in the world owned, it is directed by Timothee Chalomet's uncle Rodman Flender, Based on the 2013 book of the same name by Jeff Hart and is one of the DVDs that will to Michael with my spare region free dvd player… merry Christmas, mate.

Two high school opposites, stoner Jake Stephens and popular cheerleader Amanda Blake, become infected with a virus that turns them into zombie-like cannibals. They travel across the country looking for a cure. Cass, a teenage telepath, and her partner Tom work for a government agency charged with hunting and killing the infected. Cass develops feelings for Jake as they track the high schoolers. Tom dies in an attack, Cass turns against her agency and joins Jake and Amanda, forming a contentious love triangle as they journey forward, still searching for a cure.

5.2/10 on IMDB which isn’t bad

It is a 5/10 for me.

An annoying ending. It had moments but it was poor. The acting, the story, the obvious plot, I mean why have Jake and Cass have voice over but not Amanda? Why not at least take it to the conclusion? Wouldn't watch it again. It would be ok for some.

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In this episode, the 300th anniversary we go off-topic again. After Dog Soldiers and werewolves in episode 100, Hellraiser in space aka Event Horizon for 200 we are covering The Thing universe.

We read, or listen to, Cambell's 1938 source material Who Goes There? before watching the 1951 cold war classic The Thing from Another World, the seminal 1982 John Carpenter The Thing and the 2011 Mary Elizabeth Winstead prequel The Thing.

Was MacCready infected? Was Child's? Did the prequel suffer from the CGI comparison to the 1982 effort? Was The Thing in the ice the pilot of had The Thing assimilated it? And will we ever know it's true form?

Join Michael and me as we discuss all things Thing, the claustrophobia, the snow, the long johns.