BRAIN BITES

  SHED OF THE DEAD (2019) UK 1hr 22mins Director: Drew Cullingham "To be honest gardenings not really my thing." - Trevor "Online gamers... heathens!!!" - Graham "Ain't no ice cream in your future." - Doc This totally bonkers British zombie comedy sees the "between jobs" Trevor (Spencer Brown) spend his days locked in his shed on his allotment, not doing gardening mind... he hates gardening! He goes there more to avoid his over bearing wife Bobbi (Lauren Socha), spending his time brewing his own vodka called Trevoff and painting his D&D figures which he plays with round his friend Grahams (Ewen MacIntosh) as often as possible. One of the other allotment tenants Mr. Parsons (Kane Hodder) interrupts Trevor in his shed with a petition signed by the other tenants to remove Trevor and an argument ensues. The quarrel ends in an unfortunate accident and Trevor is left with a rather large Mr. Parsons sized problem to dispose of. Luckily for Trev...

  BEFORE DAWN (2013) UK 1hr 22mins Director: Dominic Brunt "Nice Parking." - Meg (when they come across an abandoned car.) "Yeah, welcome to the countryside"- Alex "I'm telling you it's the end of times. The fucking rapture!" - Peter Estranged couple Alex (Dominic Brunt) and Meg (Joanne Mitchell) go on a couples retreat to the countryside to try and rekindle what they once had. Leaving their kids with Megs mum Eileen (Eileen O'Brien) they get in the car and drive, just as they leave though they hear a strange blood curdling scream coming from somewhere near by. After falling back into their old ways and arguing most of the night, morning comes and Meg goes out for a run to clear her head. When she is out she gets attacked and bitten by a really angry guy in a suit covered in blood. She loses her way back to the cottage and when she finally makes it back she is completely distraught. Without really knowing what's going on Alex tries to comfo...

  HAROLD'S GOING STIFF (2011) UK 1hr 17mins Director: Keith Wright "I don't know a lot about zombies but I do know they are the living dead and that's not very nice!" - Harold Gimble "He's my best friend" - Penny Rudge Widowed pensioner Harold Gimble (Stan Rowe) is the first to contract a new disease called Onset Rigors Disease (ORD). Stage one causes the afflicted to stiffen up, stage two is the loss of all their faculties and stage three turns them violent and puts them in a zombie like state. When they reach this phase there is no going back. So far ORD has only been discovered in men. Harold is slightly different to the other cases though as he is not turning as quickly as the others. Because Harold lives alone he is assigned a home nurse, Penny (Sarah Spencer) who comes around everyday to help him. Using a combination of stretches and massage Penny helps Harold to stave off ORD and they become the best of friends. The disease is rife around Haro...

  COOTIES (2014) USA 1hr 28mins Directors: Jonathan Milott and Cary Murnion "Oh look... CARNAGE!!!" - Doug "A line has been crossed. You can't eat the teachers man!!" - Wade "Water won't hold them off!"- Clint "It ain't water... nap time motherfuckers!!"- Wade In the small town of Fort Chicken, Illinois the Happy Poultry Co makes a dodgy batch of chicken nuggets. The nuggets in question are cooked up in the cafeteria of Fort Chickens elementary school where one unfortunate child tucks into it. In the meantime, Clint Hadson (Elijah Wood) returns to his parents house at Fort Chicken, as he struggles to finish his novel he takes on a substitute teacher role at Fort Chicken elementary, his old school. He meets up with Lucy (Alison Pill) also a former student (and crush of Clints) who is now teaching at the school. The student that ate the infected nugget is in Clints first class and not looking great and it's not long before she atta...

  BLACK FRIDAY! (2021) USA 1hr 24mins Director: Casey Tebo "This is the biggest night of the year!" - Jonathan Wexler "What was wrong with that lady?? Am I going to be okay????" - Emmett "I got your discount right here." - Ken Bates Employees of the We Love Toys store are all gearing up for their big Black Friday event. Foregoing family thanksgiving meals to work this sale hoping for the big bonuses they were promised. Staff hit the stores early but hungry shoppers have been camping out since before they arrive. A freak meteor shower rains down on the store and strange fleshy, pink blobs make their way on to the shops shelves. The first casualties are shop employees who are attacked and infected via a floppy proboscis type thing that turns them into flesh craving zombies. The infection soon spreads to the shoppers, who after being hell bent on turning others start to work together to build something bigger than anything humanity has ever seen before. Leav...

 DAWN OF THE DEAD (2004)  USA/Canada/Japan/France 1hr 41mins Director: Zack Snyder "What are they?" - Michael "I dunno... why are they coming here?"- Anna "Memory, maybe ... instinct? Maybe they're coming for us." - Kenneth Taking on the remake of a movie that has been revered for many decades by zombie fans and classic horror fans alike is not something just anyone can pull off. George A. Romeros DAWN OF THE DEAD (1978) has three main versions that fans are familiar with; the theatrical cut, the extended Cannes film festival cut and Dario Argentos cut ZOMBI. The ideas and values that Romero brought to the genre have been copied a million times over but no one directly made a remake of DAWN OF THE DEAD until 2004. Producers Eric Newman and Marc Abraham are the people responsible for "re-evisioning" DAWN for a modern audience. Between them they put together a team which included James Gunn to write the screenplay and Zack Snyder to direct. At ...

 Film Review: DAWN OF THE DEAD (1978) - The Argento Cut (ZOMBI) Daniel Phillips  “When there’s no more room in Hell, the dead will walk the Earth.” A cut specifically for the European market (apart from the UK) handled expertly – by ‘Maestro’ Dario Argento, famed for his direct but oftentimes over-complicated tracking shots, plus a plethora of fantastic Giallo, horror and thriller movies throughout the 1970’s to the present day! This cut of the movie can be described in this brief summation – near unbearable tension throughout, a work of zombie film-making genius. With its blend of horror, tension, and action DAWN OF THE DEAD stands on its own as the only true Zombie epic of all time.  “It was a beautiful relationship built on mutual respect and the final film is a classic.”  George A. Romero and Argento spent some time in Rome working together on the screenplay after an initial meeting in New York, as Argento had expressed great interest in seeing this sequel to a m...