BRAIN BITES

  WORLD WAR Z (2013)  US/UK/Malta 1hr 56mins Director: Marc Forster "Mother nature is a serial killer. No one's better. Or more creative" - Dr. Andrew Fassbach. "You all read the same email I did, it said zombies" - Official on the aircraft carrier. "If you can fight... fight. Help each other, be prepared for anything" - Gerry Lane. Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt) is a former employee for the UN who gets recruited again when a zombie plague becomes a global pandemic. After his hometown becomes overrun with infected, he and his family barely escape with their lives but are rescued by his old employer. Thierry (Fana Mokoena) reluctantly blackmails Gerry into escorting their best hope for a cure, the young doctor Andrew Fassbach (Elyes Gabel), to South Korea in an attempt to track down patient zero. Once landed at an army base in South Korea it becomes apparent that all is not well as they and the remaining soldiers are attacked. After a major fatality Gerry finds...

 28 WEEKS LATER (2007) UK/Spain 1hr 40mins Director: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo "28 days later: Mainland Britain has been destroyed by the Rage virus... 5 weeks later: The infected have died of starvation... 11 weeks later: American led NATO forces enter London... 18 weeks later: Mainland Britain is declared free of infection... 24 weeks later: Reconstruction begins... 28 weeks later..."  - opening news report. The sequel to Danny Boyles 28 DAYS LATER (2002), we pick up in London during the outbreak in which we first followed Jim on his journey only this time we follow a couple. Donald Harris (Robert Carlyle) and his wife Alice (Catherine McCormack) are hiding in a cottage outside of the city with a handful of other survivors. We learn that the Harris' children are out of the country on a school trip and are safe from the virus. All they have to do is lay low until rescue. Unfortunately for them a frightened child comes banging on the door bringing the infected with him. In...

  28 DAYS LATER (2002) UK 1hr 53mins Director: Danny Boyle "HELLO!!!" - Jim "Repent, The end is extremely fucking nigh!" - writing on the church wall. Activists break into a lab to free some chimpanzees that are being experimented on. They find them strapped down being shown violent videos and it comes to light that they have been infected with the rage virus. Just as the activists set them free...they attack and the virus is past onto humans. Fast forward 28 days later and bicycle courier Jim (Cillian Murphy) wakes up in a hospital bed, naked and wired to a machine after suffering a head injury knowing nothing about the outbreak. Finding the hospital deserted he wonders into a desolate city with nothing but a wall of missing persons and ominous headlines of a mass exodus to go on. Heading to a nearby church he soon discovers the horrific effects of the disaster as he uncovers a mass grave and encounters his first infected. From then on Jim finds out that the world...

 Our fourth and final installment of our coverage on SEND MORE PARAMEDICS career starts off posthumously as the last piece ended as for a time all was quiet. After their 2014 shows they had returned to their graves to rot in peace but as is the way with zombies, they can't stay underground for too long... their hunger for brains will not let them rest. The first murmurings of their awakening hit the socials back in 2020, midway through this pandemic that the mortals were so worried about. I mean to me, it's just the perfect way to make a come back if you are a member of the undead. A teaser poster appeared merely stating that Halloween 2021 was a date to remember. This peaked the fans interest and soon things started to happen, beginning with... UNDEAD AT THE BBC (2020) 1. Necromancer (2:33) 2. Blood Fever (2:26) 3. This Is The Place Of Wailing And The Gnashing Of Teeth (2:15) 4. Anthropophagi (2:32) 5. Zombie Crew (3:38) 6. Sever (3:14) 7. Burning The Body (3:35) 8. The Unclea...

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 ...