BRAIN BITES

  ANNA AND THE APOCALYPSE (2017) UK 1hr 33mins Director: John McPhail "Please remember that hand sanitizer is your friend. Kissing on the mouth is not your friend" - Arthur Savage "What do I do???!!" - John "It's like the movies... destroy the brain!" - Chris "I've been calling you all zombies for years ... now fuck off!" - Arthur Savage It is nearly Christmas in the village of Little Haven but festive cheer is not high up on Anna Shepherds (Ella Hunt) agenda. After her mum died Anna is struggling to convince her dad Tony (Mark Benton), who is also the schools caretaker, to let her travel when she leaves school as he would rather keep her close and see her go to university. It's not just Anna that is having a tough time though. Her best friend John (Malcolm Cumming) is still getting bullied, Steph (Sarah Swire) is lonely, Chris (Christopher Leveaux) is failing school and his girlfriend Lisa (Marli Siu) just wants to be taken seriousl...

  STALLED (2013) UK 1hr 24mins Director: Christian James "I didn't mean to smash your head in with the toilet seat or stab you in the mouth with a screwdriver but you tried to eat me ... and you stole my trousers." - W.C "You shouldn't have bothered to try to save me." - Heather "Brrrraaaiiiinnnnssss!!" - Zombies It is Christmas Eve night and the office party is in full swing... but not for some. A disgruntled maintenance operative is still on the clock and makes his way into the ladies toilet to fix some faulty wiring. Not wanting to be caught loitering in the ladies he ducks into a cubicle when he hears two drunken female employees enter. One complains of a delivery driver getting overly fruity under the mistletoe and reveals a bite mark on her chest. This, for some reason makes her colleague horny and they start to get it on. Our guy in the cubicle can't believe his luck as he peeps through the door but gets the shock of his life when the gi...

 THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS (2016) UK 1hr 51mins Director: Colm McCarthy  "I'll come back because I said I would. I don't tell lies." - Melanie "Then we're alive? So why should we die for you?" - Melanie to Dr. Caldwell.  In a dystopian future most of the population has been infected by a fungal pathogen turning them into raging, mindless, flesh eating zombies. The pandemic has been rife for many years and on a base 30 miles away from the city of London a crew of Army soldiers and doctors have a fortified stronghold and are trying to find answers to create a cure for the virus. The "hungries" as they have been named are not safe to experiment on but they have a captive group of children that were infected in the womb and appear to be partially immune. They walk, talk and function as normal humans but they are dangerous and will react and attempt to eat the soldiers when they become hungry or if the soldiers protective "blocker gel" w...

  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...