BRAIN BITES

If you had asked about six months ago I would never have thought I'd be reviewing something like this but it totally fits the BRAIN BITES criteria so let's do this... NIGHT OF THE ANIMATED DEAD (2021) USA 1 hr 11mins  Director: Jason Axinn "Alright Vince, hit him in the head... right between the eyes." - Sheriff McClelland NIGHT OF THE ANIMATED DEAD is almost a word for word, scene by scene carbon copy of George A. Romeros NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968)  except that it is animated. So setting the scene... Barbara (Katherine Isabella) and Johnny (Jimmi Simpson) arrive at the cemetery to lay flowers on their fathers grave. A ghoul attacks, killing Johnny and causing Barbara to flee to a nearby farmhouse. Ben (Dule Hill) soon arrives in a truck that is running out of fuel to get the key to the pump down the road. He finds a catatonic Barbara and decides to stay and fortify the house so they have a safe place. More people emerge from the basement, young couple Tom (James

 THE NIGHT EATS THE WORLD (2018) France 1hr 33mins Director: Dominique Rocher "Dead is the norm now. I'm the one that's not normal" - Sam Sam (Anders Danielsen Lie) goes to his ex girlfriends to collect his last box of possessions from her apartment whilst she is in the middle of a house party. Brushing him off several times he eventually locates his stuff in a back room. After experiencing a blow to the face he has a nose bleed and promptly passes out. He wakes the following morning to an empty apartment completely trashed and covered in blood. He soon discovers that he slept through the zombie apocalypse as he is accosted by his ex in zombie form. He realises whilst watching others meet a grisly end trying to flee their building that he is best off where he is. So he starts off by securing the apartment building. He then has to find food, weapons, medical supplies and try to deal with life alone. He is not completely alone though... he has Alfred (Denis Lavant). Alf

 On a similar note from the last installment and continuing the subject of zombies and music, particularly of the punk variety. One ghoul has recently come to my attention and I figured it was only polite to spread the virus as far as I can. So we here at BRAIN BITES feel it is only fair to infect you with... ROT! This undead abomination is proof of the global scale of the zombie plague as he hails from Mexico and has been working on his one man horror punk project since 2004 but chose not to unearth it until recent times. Due to commitments in other horror punk and punk rock bands the time never seemed right for his solo project until the world was sent into panic mode with the recent pandemic. Then he knew it was time to unleash his first demo. ROT 1. Deceso (2:27) 2. Marque "Z" para Zombie (2:18) 3. Braineaters (MISFITS cover) (0:48) 4. Los Muertos (1:16) 5. El dolor de estar podrido (1:36) 6. Los Muertos (podrida) (1:18) This self titled demo was recorded in July 2020 by

 Welcome walking corpses to my third visit into the fetid remains of zombiecore overlords SEND MORE PARAMEDICS! Their brief but ferocious career is nearing an end but we still have much to digest, starting with... THE AWAKENING (2006) 1. Everything Is Not Under Control (2:57) 2. Follow Your Programming (1:38) 3. Sever (3:16) 4. Blood Fever (2:29) 5. Twilight Of The Flies (2:29) 6. Disaster Song (1:47) 7. This Crowd Is Crushing Me (2:53) 8. Flail Of God (3:38) 9. Virulence (2:48) 10. Scapegoat (2:57)  11. The Unclean (2:02) 12. Anthropophagi (2:33) 13. Vital Signs (2:17) 14. I Am Every Dead Thing (3:23) 15. Transmission (3:16) THE AWAKENING came out in September 2006 again through IN AT THE DEEP END Records and is their most ambitious offering to date with not one but two discs to this album. The first disc contains 15 tracks of their epically awesome thrash metal sounds assaulting our ear holes. The crossover part of their sound becoming even more prominent on this record than previous