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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.

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After a surprise effort from North Macedonia we are returning to our favourite source of zombie entertainment – South Korea. A country that has delighted us for many years and 2 entries in our top 10 with train to busan and all of us are dead, if we are including tv shows. And they really get it with period shows like Kingdom, and the movie version Rampant, modern series such as Newtopia and Happiness, and mock reality shows like Zombieverse.

The blurb for this one - Arriving at a reformatory school, a group of students sent there to work on their attitude issues try to stand up to the teachers trying to control, but when a diseased pig from an undisclosed pandemic awakes and turns the faculty into zombies the students are forced to find a way out of the school.

We follow three kids, a fighter, a thief and a spoiled brat party girl, as they are taken by boat to a reform school on an island. It is run by a bully boy principal, who kicks down, bully his VP, who in turns bullies Mr Park a teacher, who in turn bullies the pupils. No one bullies the kids like the gym teacher though, he is a violent piece of work.

After a slow start where it's all about the thief being bullied by Chicken Hair, and the party girl bullied by Red Hanky, in the space of a few minutes the Principals cat is killed, then he is bitten by a rabid pig that turns him into a zombie. He kills the nurse, who kills the canteen lady, who then combine to kill the gym teacher and before long we just have the cowardly VP and the kids left.

We get carnage. And it does have poor man's Battle Royale vibes. It wasn't the worst zombie movie I have seen. And it is encouraging that a bad South Korean zombie movie is still better than a bad US or UK zombie movie.

Oh, and we get a cover of Cranberries zombie as the final theme song.. oh my

It was better than the Japanese Junk and much better than the lowest scoring South Korean Gangnam Zombie. I wouldn't watch it again.

Probably a 4/10 for me

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The blurb

Marko, shielded by his father's iron grip, must face a shattered world shrouded in silence and peril along with a boy with Down Syndrome.

Or

Beyond the Wasteland follows two kids who form an unbreakable bond in a post-apocalyptic world overrun by zombies.

Or

The world has been ravaged by a pandemic. Alone and outside the safety of the forest, Marko faces a shattered world shrouded in silence and danger.

5.8/10 on IMDB which is very good and 3/5 from the UK Film Review

And it is from Macedonia and you know what that means dear listener it makes it the 40th country we have covered movies from.

Set in the woods after a global pandemic turned virtually everyone zeke a 8-10 year old Marko lives with his dad in the woods. It had a lot of surviving with dad in the woods. Practical survival stuff. Hunting. Traps. Silence. It felt a little at times like the movie Here Alone, but then with the whole Huckleberry Finn meets The Peanut Butter Falcon but, you know, with zombies and in Northern Macedonia.

Innocent and endearing. I felt like the sections of JoJo Rabbit when JoJo and Elsa are hiding together after JoJo's mother was hung. But with plenty of menace from the overbearing and quite frightening father, the infected, the marauders, and the soldiers. The hunt for mom, and going to the hospital felt like Apocalypse Z: The Beginning and the end was very tense for me, as you just didn't know what they were going to do.

In the end this was a very watchable 6/10. I liked it!

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Take a really good actor, like James Remar, give him a bad script, awful CGI, terrible co-stars and some of the worst green screen I have ever seen, and you end up with a sub-par Remar. And that is what we get in Glowzies, yes, glowing zombies. And it is the sort of glowstick/predator blood glowing too.

After an alien goo related incident 30 years earlier a bunch of pointless influencers come to investigate an old steel mill in a Colorado valley. They go to the local diner where a huge chef plies old men Remar, Tech and Smelly with food. The guys have no memory of the day before, their lives, or anything and don't think it is weird at all. But they agree to go with the kids to the mill.

There their memories start to come back and it turns out they were there when the incident happened, alien goo etc, and since then have been used as canaries by the Department of Defense. They have been drugged every single day for 30 years? Yes, makes no sense.

Anyway, the zombies are part of a glowing alien hive mind, and we have about 5 episodes of plot elements from Rick and Morty crammed in.

A glowing gooey zombie episode of Goosebumps. Below average. I liked the drugging idea, but the rest was pish.

3.5/10

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One of three DVDs in the Christmas box this year, along with Eat Brains Love and Zombie School, and all three nowhere on any list I have ever created. They were all very randomly found. After watching the Thai Zomvivor (still an awful title despite the show being awesome), I tried to find any South Korean zombie movies I hadn't seen that had good ratings and discovered Zombie School. Unavailable to download in the UK so I got a DVD from Korea. Eat Brains Love based on a novel of the same name next. Again, unavailable so a DVD came from the US. And then this... All You Need is Love... sung to the theme of All you need is love? by the Beatles?

It is written and directed by Bucky Le Boeuf and is one of those lower budget awkward movies that have cringe elements, cheese but ultimately appeal to some... like Gentlemen Broncos, or Evil Alien Conquerors. And if you loved those you may well like this.

16 year old Bucky lives with his alcoholic pest control officer widower dad, and the talking urn holding his mums ashes. He is a filmmaker, making overly arty pieces with his mute Indian friend Nish.

But when Walter Herzog-esque Franz von Franz comes to town to judge the local horror cinema contest, Bucky must swallow his pride and get gorey to win the $2000 first prize. What to do? Well, the meteor crashing into the garden and giving dad space AIDS and turning him zombie helps.

Add Menu Suvari as a coke head trailer trash diva, Eddie Griffin as a detective , and Emma Chasse as a stage fright suffering wannabe actress, and we soon have a zombie movie within a movie... not original I know, see Reel Zombies, Diary of the Dead, Zombies are Coming to Town, and the list goes on... Is it any different? Yes, it doesn't take itself seriously at all, and is amusing rather than laugh out loud funny, with running gags throughout...

A 4.5/10 for me. I wouldn't hurry to watch it again, but I would recommend those who like awkward indie movies like Gentlemen Broncos give it a go.