BRAIN BITES

  THE SADNESS (2021) Taiwan 1hr 39mins  Director: Rob Jabbaz "Did I beat the record?" - Attacker on the train. The eagerly anticipated and much talked about Taiwanese horror/disaster movie THE SADNESS brings something way more brutal to the infection/viral genre than anything Danny Boyle could potentially think up. It follows young couple Jim (Berant Zhu) and Kat (Regina Lei) as they go about their "normal" lives; talking to neighbours, going to work etc. Whilst waiting for Kat, Jim watches a news podcast talking about the recent reports on the current flu pandemic called the Alvin Virus sweeping their region. There are rumours and warnings of possible mutations causing serious symptoms but a lot of these reports were described as fictional by the host due to it being an election year. As Jim takes Kat to the tube station they pass a police crime scene with several bodies covered in bloody sheets. After the couple have left to go about their days, strange things sta...

  OVERLORD (2018) USA/Canada 1hr 50mins Director: Julius Avery "I know nothing of what the Doctor does." - Wafner "What do you do to the people taken to the Church?" - Ford "They have been given a purpose."- Wafner I feel like I may get some stick for this movie but I don't care too much as I really do rate this half war, half zombie/monster movie. Set in June 1944, a group of soldiers are dropped into France to find a small village and destroy a radio tower at a church that is blocking the radio signal. This all sounds fairly straight forward and non zombie right? So it's just as well that this church also houses an underground laboratory that the Nazis are using to experiment on the villagers. Test subjects have been seen being burned en masse or if they do make it out they are deformed beyond recognition, barely human. Once the remaining soldiers in the team make the perilous trip from the landing site to the village; Ford (Wyatt Russell), Boyc...

 Salutations Ghouls! It’s May, which means it’s once again Zombie Awareness Month! We trust and hope you have a fun packed zombie shuffling time this month. It is not only that but May also marks the one year anniversary of BRAIN BITES BLOG!! I just wanted to take a moment to say a massive thank you to everyone that has visited this blog (even if it was by mistake 😅) or have liked, shared or commented on any of our content on the socials over the year. We may be undead but it still means a lot to us behind the scenes and only fuels our hunger for more braiiiiinnnsss … erm, and zombie movies!  Over the course of this past year we've not only covered a varied collection of modern zombie movies but featured a couple of zombie related musical retrospectives and also called in some friends for their input on some classic zombie movies. You can expect more of the same this coming year really,  and maybe a couple of other interesting things if they tickle our fancy! Got anythin...

  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...