BRAIN BITES

  SUMMER CAMP (2015) Spain/Mexico 1hr 21mins Director: Alberto Marini "It didn't have rabies ok? I don't know what it was but it was not rabies."- Will "I was bitten by an infected dog...and Christy. So it's not transmitted by blood or saliva." - Will Four American counsellors go to an English speaking summer camp in Spain to spend the holidays teaching kids. They get there before the children arrive to set up as the place still needs some work doing plus the water well on site does not seem to be running at all. Whilst waiting for the water to be fixed the group do a bit of a team building exercise in the woods. Antonio (Andres Velencoso), Will (Diego Boneta), Michelle (Maiara Walsh) and Christy (Jocelin Donahue) try a trust exercise in the woods which didn't quite go to plan as Christy and Michelle don't exactly gel. Plus they discover a family of gypsies have made camp in the woods nearby. On return from their disastrous exercise they find ou...

  CARGO (2017) Australia 1hr 45mins Directors: Ben Howling and Yolanda Ramke "They're poisoning the land you know... we all get sick." - Cleverman "We can't set foot on shore unless it's our last and only option." - Andy "You're the first people I've seen. The first people who are still people." - Lorraine Australia is in the midst of a viral pandemic. Andy (Martin Freeman), his wife Kay (Susie Porter) and their infant daughter Rosie have managed to escape the "virals" by sailing down the river in an old house boat. It is only when Kay gets bitten on an excursion to an abandoned yacht to get supplies that Andy has to bring his family back onto land to get Kay to the hospital. After a series of unfortunate events the trip ends up becoming a frantic search for a safe place for Rosie as both parents are infected. Andy, knowing he only has 48 hours after infection before he turns, wanders the bush with Rosie on his back trying to...

  DEADSIGHT (2018) Canada 1hr 21mins Director: Jesse Thomas Cook "I woke up in the middle of nowhere in the back of an ambulance. Everyone was gone." - Ben "I won't survive with you." - Mara (to Ben). "We thought we were ready for this." - Gator. Ben Neilson (Adam Seybold) wakes up in the back of an ambulance, partially sighted due to a previous and unknown accident, he awakes with his eyes bandaged and is handcuffed to a stretcher. He manages to free himself but still has the stretchers handrail attached to his handcuff which actually comes in handy as he tries to figure out what is going on and starts to make his way around. Making it outside the ambulance, which has been abandoned in front of a cemetery, Ben gets attacked by a zombie paramedic. He manages to get away but has no idea what is going on. After realising the ambulance still works he considers driving away but due to the fact that he really cant see he chickens out. Finding some eye drop...

 MALNAZIDOS (VALLEY OF THE DEAD)  (2020) Spain 1hr 41mins  Directors: Alberto de Toro and Javier Ruiz Caldera "You're telling me that puff pastries got you in this war?!" - Lazano "The dead are walking. Their blood is dry." - Brodsky Based on the novel Noche De Difuntos Del 38 by Manuel Martin Ferreras, MALNAZIDOS which translates as "bastards" in English is also known as VALLEY OF THE DEAD and is set during the Spanish Civil War 1938. Republican and Nationalists are forced to work together as a faction of Spanish and German soldiers create a biological weapon that turns people into zombies. Ex-Lawyer turned  Captain, Jan Lozano (Miki Esparbe) and Private Decruz (Manel Llundi) are entrusted on a special mission but fall foul to a group of rebels who hold them hostage just as the dead arise. Between Lozano, the rebel leader Sargento (Luis Callejo) and his group they begrudgingly work together to find the source of the infection and destroy it.  VALLEY O...

  JUAN OF THE DEAD (JUAN DE LOS MUERTOS) (2011) Spain/Cuba 1hr 32mins Director: Alejandro Brugués "Juan of the dead, we kill your loved ones. How can I help you?" Vladi "Man, I won't say it twice. This side of town is kind of weird." Lázaro "I have the feeling that this situation requires a plan of some kind, which I don't have right now." Juan I was holding off putting up my review of JUAN OF THE DEAD (2011) as I originally had plans to put it up the same month as I did SHAUN OF THE DEAD (2004) because I had a great idea to do a kind of comparison thing between the two and maybe a couple of others but the recent news of Alexis Díaz de Villegas passing has caused me to rethink this plan. I have decided to post my review now as a tribute to the great actor he was. News of Alexis' death only reached me a few weeks ago but it was reported that he passed on June 24th 2022 from lung cancer aged 55, he will be sorely missed. The Cuban actor had a lon...

  WYRMWOOD: APOCALYPSE (2021) Australia 1hr 28mins Director: Kiah Roache-Turner "You're all monsters, you're all the fucking same." - Grace "Jesus Christ you're a hybrid!!" - Rhys "You know what I can smell Rhys?? BRAINS!!!"- Surgeon General Rhys (Luke McKenzie) is a soldier working for the Australian army in the wasteland of the on going zombie virus from the previous movie WYRMWOOD: ROAD OF THE DEAD (2014). He spends his time finding survivors to hand over to the Colonel (Jake Ryan) and the Surgeon General (Nicholas Boshier)  to experiment on in the hope they find a cure. Or at least that is what Rhys believes anyway. Rhys is the twin brother of the Captain from ROAD OF THE DEAD who met a grisly death at the hands of Barry (Jay Gallagher) and his sister Brooke (Bianca Bradey), who coincidently is now a hybrid (half human half zombie) due to the experimentation she endured in ROAD. Barry and Brooke are currently on the run and are wanted as te...

 WYRMWOOD: ROAD OF THE DEAD (2014) Australia  1hr 38mins Director: Kiah Roache-Turner "This morning I shot my wife and child with a nail gun." - Barry "This truck runs on zombies... no zombies, no truck." - Benny "Never, EVER grab a mans balls in a fist fight. It shows low character" - The Captain Family man Barry (Jay Gallagher) has not only had to eliminate his wife and child in a horrible way when a sudden zombie virus hits his town but he then has to find his sister, his only surviving relative. As Barry and his family try to escape the initial outbreak his sister, Brooke (Bianca Bradey) is taken by armed soldiers and forced into participating in experiments by a psychotic doctor in a mobile laboratory. The movie jumps between both stories as Barry teams up with fellow survivors Benny (Leon Burchill), Frank (Keith Agius) and Kelly (Cain Thompson) in an attempt to find Brooke and escape the outbreak. Along the way both Barry and Brooke make discoveries...