BRAIN BITES

  DEADSIGHT (2018) Canada 1hr 21mins Director: Jesse Thomas Cook "I woke up in the middle of nowhere in the back of an ambulance. Everyone was gone." - Ben "I won't survive with you." - Mara (to Ben). "We thought we were ready for this." - Gator. Ben Neilson (Adam Seybold) wakes up in the back of an ambulance, partially sighted due to a previous and unknown accident, he awakes with his eyes bandaged and is handcuffed to a stretcher. He manages to free himself but still has the stretchers handrail attached to his handcuff which actually comes in handy as he tries to figure out what is going on and starts to make his way around. Making it outside the ambulance, which has been abandoned in front of a cemetery, Ben gets attacked by a zombie paramedic. He manages to get away but has no idea what is going on. After realising the ambulance still works he considers driving away but due to the fact that he really cant see he chickens out. Finding some eye drop

 MALNAZIDOS (VALLEY OF THE DEAD)  (2020) Spain 1hr 41mins  Directors: Alberto de Toro and Javier Ruiz Caldera "You're telling me that puff pastries got you in this war?!" - Lazano "The dead are walking. Their blood is dry." - Brodsky Based on the novel Noche De Difuntos Del 38 by Manuel Martin Ferreras, MALNAZIDOS which translates as "bastards" in English is also known as VALLEY OF THE DEAD and is set during the Spanish Civil War 1938. Republican and Nationalists are forced to work together as a faction of Spanish and German soldiers create a biological weapon that turns people into zombies. Ex-Lawyer turned  Captain, Jan Lozano (Miki Esparbe) and Private Decruz (Manel Llundi) are entrusted on a special mission but fall foul to a group of rebels who hold them hostage just as the dead arise. Between Lozano, the rebel leader Sargento (Luis Callejo) and his group they begrudgingly work together to find the source of the infection and destroy it.  VALLEY O

  JUAN OF THE DEAD (JUAN DE LOS MUERTOS) (2011) Spain/Cuba 1hr 32mins Director: Alejandro Brugués "Juan of the dead, we kill your loved ones. How can I help you?" Vladi "Man, I won't say it twice. This side of town is kind of weird." Lázaro "I have the feeling that this situation requires a plan of some kind, which I don't have right now." Juan I was holding off putting up my review of JUAN OF THE DEAD (2011) as I originally had plans to put it up the same month as I did SHAUN OF THE DEAD (2004) because I had a great idea to do a kind of comparison thing between the two and maybe a couple of others but the recent news of Alexis Díaz de Villegas passing has caused me to rethink this plan. I have decided to post my review now as a tribute to the great actor he was. News of Alexis' death only reached me a few weeks ago but it was reported that he passed on June 24th 2022 from lung cancer aged 55, he will be sorely missed. The Cuban actor had a lon