BRAIN BITES

 BRAIN FREEZE (2021) Canada 1hr 31mins Director: Julien Knafo "Winter is here... but not for the rich who want golf all year round!" - Patrick Nault "We're the victims here... not the bad guys" - Dan The rich, gated community peninsula of Peacock Island, is home to wealthy business men who love to play golf, their families and normal working class people who work for the golf clubs. In order to provide year round golfing a chemical is engineered to melt the snow in the winter season making sure that the grass will grow all year round. This chemical gets into the islands water system turning all the residents who drink the water into frenzied, green eyed zombies with a craving for human flesh. Andrè (Iani Bèdard), a young teenager who seems to only drink coke saves his baby sister from their mum when she turns and ends up teaming up with a security guard called Dan (Roy Dupuis) who is a closet survivalist and super protective of his twenty-something daughter Patr...

  UNDEAD (2003) Australia 1hr 44mins Directors: Michael and Peter Spierig "Aunt Aggie has the keys (to the truck) but she doesn't have a brain." - Wayne. "When I was a kid we respected our parents...we didn't fuckin' eat them!" - Harrison. "Jesus Christ...can I get a cup of tea with this fruit cake??!!!" - Wayne. Before the sibling directorial duo brought us movies like DAYBREAKERS (2009), JIGSAW (2017) and WINCHESTER (2018), the Spierig brothers gave us supernatural, splattery zombiness with UNDEAD (2003). The quaint fishing town of Berkley, Australia gets hit by a meteor shower, all those exposed to the space rocks turn into flesh eating zombies. Only a few survivors make it and take refuge in the local town crazies farm house to make a stand. Town beauty queen (known as the Fish Queen) Rènè Chaplin (Felicity Mason), Wayne (Rob Jenkins), his pregnant girlfriend Sallyanne (Lisa Cunningham) and two of the town cops, Harrison (Dirk Hunter) and M...

  ZOMBEAVERS (2014) USA 1hr 17mins Director: Jordan Rubin "Hey man... you see that deer there?"-Luke (passenger) "Yeah, I see it..."-Joseph (driver) whilst on his phone, "I don't think you do"-Luke after Joseph hits the deer. "Those things out there, they're not beavers" - Jenn Three girlfriends; Jenn (Lexi Atkins), Zoe (Cortney Palm) and Mary (Rachel Melvin) go on a weekend getaway to Marys cousins cabin to get a break away from their boyfriends and civilisation. Little do they know that their goof ball boyfriends have followed them anyway. It's looking like the weekend could be a great party if it wasn't for the fact that earlier two bumbling employees from Mamaroneck Medical Facility lose a barrel of toxic chemicals off their truck which goes bobbing down the river stopping and springing a leak right in front of a beaver dam in Ashwood at the cabin the girls are staying at. The beavers get covered in toxic chemicals, die and r...

  STILL ALIVE (book series 1-9) Author: Javan Bonds Book One: ZOMBIE LAKE (2016) Book Two: ZOMBIE ISLAND (2017) Book Three: ZOMBIES ON A PLANE (2017) Book Four: ZOMBIE OASIS (2017) Book Five: ZOMBIE RIVER RUN (2018) Book Six: ZOMBIE PARADISE LOST (2019) ) Book Seven: ZOMBIE PERDITION (2020) Book Eight: ZOMBIE CRUSADE (2021) Book Nine: ZOMBIE UPHEAVAL (2022) "You is always in the place you is always post to be!!" - Smokes (The Oracle) The STILL ALIVE series follows a small group of survivors during a particularly gross zombie apocalypse as they find other survivors and secure a place as their permanent stronghold. As the series progresses you are introduced to the characters almost one by one. It is written mainly from the point of view of one of the main protagonists or "Hero" if you will, Elmo "Mo" Collins in the form of his journal entries. Mo is a reluctant hero and during the beginning of the outbreak is holed up at his place of work which just happens...

  BRIDGE OF THE DOOMED (2022) USA 1hr 22mins Director: Michael Su "This just in...all citizens are to remain indoors. The military are on the streets but initial reports say they are unable to maintain control." - News reporter. "I'm not leaving my post lieutenant!" - Vasquez "It wasn't an animal... and it wasn't one of those things either." - Sanders During a zombie apocalypse US army General Vasquez (Robert LaSardo) sends a crack team of soldiers led by Sgt. Hernandez (Kate Watson) to secure and hold a bridge with a view to destroying it if it is compromised. Hernandez and her team not only have to battle hordes of the undead but contend with sub standard explosives, unfriendly locals and something sinister that has made the bridge its home. This independent low budget zombie movie sets itself up as a contender to take on the big action Hollywood flicks and to be totally honest it actually does make a great effort. It really is quite fun, so...

  DOG OF THE DEAD: A ZOMBIE VALE NOVELLA. Author: Nic Roads "A dogs love is unconditional... but can a dog love a monster?" There are many zombie stories out there from all manner of different human perspectives; soldiers, survivors, sometimes even kids but this is the first zombie story I have heard told from a dogs point of view.  Quigley is a Hungarian Sheepdog and he lives with his human Gavin in the remote mountain village of Sparrowdale, Colorado. Out on their daily walk together everything is as it should be and Quigley is enjoying the fresh air, scent marking his favourite places and looking forward to pizza scraps from Gavin's girlfriend Jenna on their return home when Gavin is suddenly struck down mid-walk by a mysterious virus. Quigley is so confused and has no idea what to do about his striken owner lying unconscious in the street. When Gavin wakes up he has changed, he is no longer the happy, friendly guy he once was. Now he is a milky eyed, vacant, slavering...

  YUMMY (2019) Belgium 1hr 28mins Director: Lars Damoiseaux "Teen pregnancy... we give them free abortions." -Janja "Ooooh that's really nice!"-Alison "God is punishing us for interfering with his creation."- Yonah Alison (Maaike Neuville) is unhappy with her appearance. She wants a breast reduction and has roped her nervous yet doting boyfriend Michael (Bart Hollanders) into coming with her to the hospital/retreat to have the procedure. Alisons mother Sylvia (Annick Christiaens) has come along for a few procedures herself. On arrival everything seems normal until Michael gets nervous about Alisons impending procedure. After having a panic attack Michael is given a tour of the hospital from porter Daniel (Benjamin Ramon). They discover and unleash the reanimated corpse of a former patient who Dr. K (Eric Godon) and his assistant Janja (Clara Cleymans) have been experimenting on. As most of the hospitals staff and patients turn into blood thirsty, cann...