BRAIN BITES

 DANCE OF THE DEAD (2008) USA 1hr 27mins Dir: Gregg Bishop "Ah Hell!" - Gravedigger "But I don't know how to shoot a machete"- Gwen The students of Cosa-Rosa High are preparing for their Prom night but things are going to get messy as the nuclear power plant right next to the cemetery is chucking out some weird fumes. The graveyard comes alive and a group of dateless nerds, losers, cheerleaders and a bully band together to save the day! Main loser Jimmy Dunn (Jared Kusnitz) almost loses his girlfriend Lindsey (Grayson Chadwick) after getting detention from the truly obnoxious science teacher Mr. Hammond (Johnathan Spencer) purely for the fact that he cannot take anything seriously, he soon proves him wrong. Lindsey goes to the prom with someone else but doesn't quite make it there as a jaunt with her horny date takes her to the cemetery just as the dead rise and what a glorious sight to behold it is. The group of unlikely heroes team up at a funeral home and

 PLANET TERROR (2007) USA/Mexico 1hr 45mins Dir: Robert Rodriguez "I'm gonna eat your brains and gain your knowledge" Tony Block "I was gonna be a stand up comedian... who's gonna laugh now?!" Cherry Darling A bio chemical outbreak and test subjects are unleashed at a military base in a remote part of Texas. Chemical engineer and allround dodgy guy with a penchant for collecting his enemies testicles, Abby (Naveen Andrews) was working with a team of corrupt soldiers led by Lt. Muldoon (Bruce Willis)  and had made a transaction to create a bio chemical agent known as DC2 but Muldoon soon found out Abby had a secret stash and was looking to sell it on the black market. So they take him hostage, in the ensuing carnage the deadly gas and test subjects are released on the unsuspecting townsfolk. Meanwhile, Cherry Darling (Rose McGowan) quits her job as a go-go dancer and grabs a ride out of town with her ex, El Wray (Freddy Rodriguez). Swerving to avoid something

 Over the next few months I will be doing reviews of SEND MORE PARAMEDICS three (soon to be four) main albums with a brief overview of their other EPs and musical career. Ending with a bite by bite account of their reunion shows celebrating 20 years since their reanimation happening in Leeds and London on the run up to Halloween this year. This is incredibly exciting for me, being zombie obsessed since childhood the discovery of this band as a young adult made my life complete. Even after they crawled back into their graves in 2007 (returning briefly in 2014), we the fans have never forgotten them. So before I really start to choke up with nostalgia... for those of you that do not know about this band let me introduce you to... SEND MORE PARAMEDICS B'Hellmouth - Vocals Medico - Guitar X. Undead - Bass El Diablo - Drums Formed in Leeds, England as a side project from members of the band AND NONE OF THEM KNEW THEY WERE ROBOTS these 80's zombie B movie fanatics named themselves SE

 Hello to all you beautiful rotting corpses! Welcome to the August installments of BRAIN BITES! I hope you enjoyed July's Romero month reviews of the later trio in the DEAD franchise. These and the more popular earlier movies will always hold a special place in my unbeating heart and I had loads of fun revisiting them. If you missed them then please take a quick look back and see if you agree with my thoughts on these fun and inventive later offerings. The zombie movie rumour mill has been rife these last few weeks with some interesting news flying around like the eyeballs and entrails in a feeding frenzy. The juiciest of all being the new series coming to the SyFy channel in October entitled DAY OF THE DEAD. A ten episode series which seems to have nothing to do with Romero's original tells the tale of 6 strangers surviving the first 24 hours of a zombie apocalypse and is written by Jed Elinof and Scott Thomas writers of The Banana Splits Movie (2019). Understandably on the fi