Episode 324: Dead Bloom (2025)

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This is one of those movies, like Outbreak with Billy Burke, like Herd, that appeared on the Amazon feed from nowhere.

Made in 2025, and doesn't mention the z word at all, instead describing itself as a socially charged horror story about the lingering effects of environmental contamination and corporate denial.

So basically it tells the story of a family, lawyer dad, heavily pregnant artist mom, and MS suffering teen daughter who inherit a farm. Although we see the previous family go bat shit and kill each other, very The Crazies but more gross, after a couple of guys dump drums of a chemical into the ground. And it is this chemical, via the water and the fruit that turns everyone white goop drooling, and homicidal.

Where in most zombie movies I want everyone to die, the family are ok, other than the trailer trash sister of the lawyer and her pointless son after they turn up.

Whilst some of the script and the cinematography is great, we get terrible scenes from time to time, and awful plot devices and design decisions. The green plant penis was straight out of a Troma comedy, or Night of Something Strange. The hit men for the chemical company were comically bad from their car, their outfits, their choice of weapon and cliched deaths.

That being said, it was ok. A bit daytime TV drama, a bit of The Crazies, with the family dynamic of the Griswalds and Cousin Eddie, and some Troma goop.

5/10