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Film Review: BRAIN FREEZE (2021)

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 BRAIN FREEZE (2021) Canada 1hr 31mins Director: Julien Knafo "Winter is here... but not for the rich who want golf all year round!" - Patrick Nault "We're the victims here... not the bad guys" - Dan The rich, gated community peninsula of Peacock Island, is home to wealthy business men who love to play golf, their families and normal working class people who work for the golf clubs. In order to provide year round golfing a chemical is engineered to melt the snow in the winter season making sure that the grass will grow all year round. This chemical gets into the islands water system turning all the residents who drink the water into frenzied, green eyed zombies with a craving for human flesh. Andrè (Iani Bèdard), a young teenager who seems to only drink coke saves his baby sister from their mum when she turns and ends up teaming up with a security guard called Dan (Roy Dupuis) who is a closet survivalist and super protective of his twenty-something daughter Patr

Film Review: UNDEAD (2003)

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  UNDEAD (2003) Australia 1hr 44mins Directors: Michael and Peter Spierig "Aunt Aggie has the keys (to the truck) but she doesn't have a brain." - Wayne. "When I was a kid we respected our parents...we didn't fuckin' eat them!" - Harrison. "Jesus Christ...can I get a cup of tea with this fruit cake??!!!" - Wayne. Before the sibling directorial duo brought us movies like DAYBREAKERS (2009), JIGSAW (2017) and WINCHESTER (2018), the Spierig brothers gave us supernatural, splattery zombiness with UNDEAD (2003). The quaint fishing town of Berkley, Australia gets hit by a meteor shower, all those exposed to the space rocks turn into flesh eating zombies. Only a few survivors make it and take refuge in the local town crazies farm house to make a stand. Town beauty queen (known as the Fish Queen) Rènè Chaplin (Felicity Mason), Wayne (Rob Jenkins), his pregnant girlfriend Sallyanne (Lisa Cunningham) and two of the town cops, Harrison (Dirk Hunter) and M