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Not to be confused with Zombie For Sale, this is a comedy for the most part. It stars Merry from Lord of the Rings and the Beast from the 1980s Beauty and the Beast.

Not really a zombie movie. There are 4 1/2 zombies in it, a vampire, and an alien. And it tells the story of Willy and Arthur, two Victorian era grave robbers who are about to be executed. After Willy gets the chop, Dominic Monaghan's Arthur is visited by Rob Perlman's Father Duffy to take his confession.

With the confession in the cell being the only scenes in the movie without constant bloody music, and an obvious plot twist you can see from a mile away this movie is NOT as suggested by the DVD box, "a horror comedy that surpasses Shaun of the Dead." Get in the sea! Go on! Get in the sea!

Also there is a woman called Fanny. (Stop laughing at the back)

For what it was I gave it 5/10 as it is on par with the Australian The Undead, whilst having a few annoying gimmicks such as the freeze frame and illustration of the scene to look like a comic book we have seen in loads of other movies.

I can see why it cost $450,000, I can also see why it only made $8,000 at the box office. It was quite forgettable, despite the two jokes I have already forgotten, and a woman called Fanny. (lol)

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It is described on the DVD box as one of the greatest zombie movies of all time. This is a huge exaggeration. There are 2 zombies. 2 and a half really come the end. It tells the story of 3 survivors, Ana, perky and inconsistent, dull engineer Jonathan and creepy weirdo Axel. Axel is tattooing dead flies on his entire body, with the idea that he will leave once covered. That level of weirdo.

Apartment survival horror at it's worst. The picked a one bedroom shack with a fly problem and no real security as a home. They surrounded it with microphones that play the noises of outside to them via huge Tannoy speakers.

They live by rules. No one leaves alone. Someone must always stay behind. All votes must be unanimous. And I can get on board with some rule making the apocalypse to survive.

But we soon lose focus, as Jonathan wants to leave, and therefore wants Ana to be with Axel, the creepy weirdo tattooed with dead flies.

Not a lot happens. They capture a zombie. They sneak into their Big Brother style video confession booth to watch each other's videos. And they play Risk. That's about it.

I was more interested in seeing the US 20 minute long short with the same name but can't find it anyway. This one? Avoid. All 3 Argentine zombie movies we have seen are not great, despite what is written on the DVD cover.

4/10 a long ass slog

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Mirror Life Modern zombies

With the tag line FIND CURE ESCAPE LAB TELL EVERYONE…

Doesn’t always work out that way

I got it on DVD from the US rather than waiting. I thought Id throw some cash to the guys,

Not much has been written about it. So I hope to change that.

From HorrorDNA: Jordan opts to enroll in a medical study for a promising new drug called Dumitor, reputed to cure virtually any disease. When his cousin Tracy doesn't hear from him for several weeks, she brings in a documentary filmmaker to track down the doctors, find Jordan and bring him home. Meanwhile, the test subjects are exposed to this new drug, but something goes wrong and there are unexpected side effects. Jordan manages to escape the facility, but soon an outbreak spreads to pandemic levels and his city is quarantined. Is there a cure on the horizon or is society doomed by the “evils” of science?

Courtney Cavanagh as Tracy she was in Chicago fire
Kazy Tauginas as Jordan former boxer and restauranteur – is there anything the cant do?

Tauginas co-wrote, co-directed, co-produced, stars in, sings the theme tune, etc etc and some of the reviews pick up on this, saying it is a vanity project and his acting is the weak link. I don't subscribe to that.

I also don't subscribe to 75% of all reviewers on IMDB giving it 10/10. The Godfather doesn't get 10. Empire Strikes Back doesn't get 10. Citizen Kane doesn't get 10. Come on now.

The plot is relatively simple. A group of people volunteer to be part of human trials of a ground breaking new drug that cures all ills. Great. However, they need the cash of a dubious businessman who wants it all run like a black op. At some point it all goes wrong and the virus cures what was wrong with them but causes surges in adrenaline and epinephrine meaning they become, effectively, one of George A Romero's Crazies. The business then decides to shut all down. Everyone gets killed. But then one gets out. And the virus goes airborne and starts a pandemic. No one pays attention to the stay at home, don't go out, as it's airborne warnings. And a lot of people go mad. And whilst all this is going on Jordan's cousin Tracy investigates his disappearance.

However, although all of these elements are fine in isolation, the edit is a mess. It is a bag of cats. Although each cat is very nice, pretty to look at, enjoys a saucer of milk and a nap on your grandma's lap, together, they are a big old mess that makes little to no sense.

We needed more about how this went bad. We needed more to explain about the cure. We needed more about how it went viral and became a pandemic. But we didn't get it. And so we ended up with a big old mess that needs an edit.

In it's current form, like it was edited by someone with ADHD for the TikTok generation goldfish attention spans, it is just a 4.5/10

If the transitions between the story are handled better, as above, and it is re-edited to make some sort of sense then it would score higher.

Shame as I was looking forward to this one.

And for a final note, this episode where I try to explain where it goes what and what it gets right, is 1 minute shorter than the movie itself.

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Finally the planets aligned and Michael and I managed to catch up, talk what we have seen, what we plan to see, but mostly we talk Newtopia, man.

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OK so to recap – DEAD SEASON 2012, we had Elvis and TWEETER meeting up during the zombie apocalypse and arriving on the small Caribbean island of DE SANTOS or something along those lines, getting a boat from florida. Now the write ups said there was a murderous cult, WRONG! And the pair had to fight for their lives daily. WRONG! It was 16 people, 13 guys led by Call of Duty silver fox Curt, 2 prostitutes and Curts daughter rachel. The guys were all generic thug types who don’t deserve to have names in the credits, just thug 1 through 13. Despite being on the island for 10 months they haven’t cleared it at all. And they eventually get overrun when the zombies the zombies are now runners and not just walkers. But the good guys get away on a boat, a la dawn 2004, however, there is no end credits nonsense to ruin the whole movie for me. So, Elvis, Tweeter and Rachel all made it…

Fast forward 11 years to 2023 and what comes out… DECADE of the DEAD… the sequel…

Ten years into the apocalypse, a group arrives on an island ruled by a deranges cult leader and must fight for their lives…

Hold on a minute… surely that is the exact description of the first movie…

Moving on…

It stars Shaun Patrick Thomas from save the last dance, cruel intentions and the barbershop movies as Ben… as we appreciate a Ben in a zombie movie. Corsica Wilson and Marissa Merrill are back as rachel and tweeter respectively but we gain Jenna leigh green as stacy, dean geyer as remy, Renegades Branscome Richmond as wyatt and most importantly Shane Johnson from ghost, the power movies and others as a genuine cult leader and loony tune Grinner… so they made a sequel so they could reuse the description of the first movie… same running time I think too, under the hour and a half…

The cinematophraphy is so much better but this movie fell into the trap that the zombies are no longer the problem, people are the problem. Zombies are a tool the people use, or a catalyst to make the people change their plans. However, the zombies are almost always forgettable. If this was a vampire we would be focused on the vampire not killing us. A werewolf the same. Aliens the same. A flood even. A shark movie. A tornado movie. A fire. You don’t want X getting you. Here through an over convoluted plot its one group of people trying to use one person from another group of people to exert pressure on another group of people. And that doesn’t feel like a zombie movie at all.

In many ways, despite the much bigger budget, the far better fight and chase scene choreography this movie is inferior to the low budget original.

4/10

#apocalypserules

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And so… onto this, a zombie movie, another new offering from Amazon, Dead Season… well when I say new it is 2012, but I haven’t see it on offer before. And it has a sequel Decade of the Dead which has a very similar plot and Tweeter. appears in both

4.6/10 on IMDB which isn’t awful.

On Amazon the description is… during a zombie outbreak, two strangers find themselves stranded on a remote island with an aggressive cult.

or

Elvis and Tweeter escape a zombie catastrophe and land on an island. They meet a group of fellow survivors, but soon find themselves fighting a daily battle for survival against their own kind.

After a zombie outbreak, a group of survivors retreat to an island, only to discover a blood-thirsty cult planning to rule what’s left of civilization.

Ok...first up, there is no cult... there isn't a cult. It is just a military dad type, a few obvious henchmen (fat one, bearded balding one, long haired one, one who bases his look on Fidel Castro), 2 prostitutes and the leader's daughter, a 17 year old shut in who thinks bringing her sketch pad is more important that provisions.

It wasn't all that bad. The only really bad element was the piss poor fight choreography and chase scenes. The zombies were fine, the practical gore was ok, the cult-free plot was ok. Island survival. A few practical things.. Made no sense that they hadn't cleared the island in 10 months of being there. And the boat guy and cannibal story line wasn't explored. There was a sense of dread, especially when the shambling slow zombies turned into fast moving runners...

I am actually looking forward to the sequel, Decade of the Dead next up, as the trailer suggests that they fixed the fight choreography.

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The latest in a line of hit or miss Netflix zombie movie and shows that included #Alive, Kingdom, Valley of the Dead, Black Summer, Army of the Dead, Outside, Betaal, Zombieverse, All of Us are Dead, Cargo and Zom100: Bucket list of the Dead, comes this Indonesian effort. Now, you may think that Indonesia would become country #40 for us, but no, we have seen an Indonesian zombie movie already in Zeta, The Dead Awaken which was okay to be fair. We still have Zombiepura from Singapore and Z-Mom from Cambodia for that mantle.

In this, Elixir, a patriarch businessman who owns a wellness drink company creates a new elixir of youth that hasn't been FDA approved. He takes it and, after a short time with dark hair and supple skin, he turns zeke and starts ripping out throats. These are fast moving, fast turning, bloody, throat ripping, grey eyed, black veined Asian zombies, with all the cracking bones and slathering and howling to go with it.

From there the action is limited to the house he shared with his lounge-about son Bang, his very young second wife Kar and an army of staff, and as his daughter, spoiled shit and former classmate of Kar, Nes, yes he is diddling someone his daughter's age, her young son Han and her soon to be divorced if he lives husband Rudi joins the mess to argue about inheritances.

There is a lot of good gore, quite a few nice overhead drone shots, and a great scene where three of the protagonists in riot gear hide behind riot shields in the middle of a horde, but ultimately there isn't anything new here. I gave it 6/10 because it was watchable. Nes was horrible, and when she wasn't being a spoiled brat she was whining and squealing. The cops were dumb. And no one seems to have an ounce of sense when it comes to survival. Too much shouting! Not enough shhhh!

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The better half of the series if you ask me and we are back with Young-Joo and a chainsaw working her way through subterranean Seoul, as Jae-Yoon and his squad mates descend the tower.

I actually really liked how she was out and about and then trying to get across the city, juxtaposed with him just trying to get out of his building from the roof to the street.

There are some great kills, a lot of dramatic sequences and scenes that would fit in any Korean zombie drama, and it almost feels a little wasted in a comedy, not that it is a pure comedy, it is more of a comedy-drama, that very few people in the community will watch.

I think the effects and story were great, loved the elements where they worked out how quickly people turn, and how you delay it, and all the characters, outside of Young-Joo and In Ho's whining and whimpering were great.

A solid 6.5/10 from me, putting it equal 4th in the table of South Korean zombie entertainment

| All of Us are Dead | 7.5
| TRAIN TO BUSAN | 7.5
| Zombiverse | 7
| Newtopia | 6.5
| Happiness | 6.5
| #Alive | 6
| Rampant | 6
| Train To Busan Presents: Peninsula | 6
| Seoul Station | 6
| Project Wolf Hunting | 5.5
| Zombie For Sale | 5.5
| Gangnam Zombie | 2.5