BRAIN BITES

 PONTYPOOL (2008) Canada 1hr 33mins Director: Bruce McDonald  "It's not the end of the world folks... it's just the end of the day." - Grant Mazzy "Oh God, you're gonna eat me soon aren't you?? It's ok... you be the killer. I don't wanna be the killer." - a very drunk Sydney Briar. "I've seen things today that are going to ruin the rest of my natural life!"- Ken Loney Canadian born director Bruce McDonald and author, screenplay writer and fellow Canadian Tony Burgess have teamed up to bring us PONTYPOOL. Adapted from Burgess' novel "PONTYPOOL CHANGES EVERYTHING" (1998), it is a movie creation that brings the viewer a totally new zombie concept. This quiet and eerie movie takes place almost entirely in the basement of a radio station and is an all out attack on your senses. Incorporating very little on screen violence, with a claustrophobic setting and evidence that the world is on the brink of destruction, going c...

  THE BATTERY (2012) USA 1hr 41mins Director: Jeremy Gardner "I always have to be present and aware coz you don't wanna deal with shit! You're always hiding behind headphones Mickey." - Ben "But we just go and go man ... where are we going?" - Mickey "If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck it's probably a fucking zombie!" - Ben Two former baseball players are wandering the rural back roads of New England during a zombie apocalypse. They have been surviving for months but it has not been easy and tempers are wearing thin. Mickey (Adam Cronheim) misses the way things were and really isn't equipped for the survival game (he cant even bring himself to say the "Z" word!). He spends most of his time moping about with his headphones on listening to music and using up all the batteries. Whereas, Ben (Jeremy Gardner) has taken to life on the road like a duck to water. He is practical and takes a hands on approach to coping with the und...

 SILENT NIGHT, ZOMBIE NIGHT (2009) USA 1hr 23mins Director: Sean Cain "I hate to break it to you but I don't think Santa is coming this year." - Frank Talbot "That's what we do now right? ... take care of each other" - Jeffrey Hannigan A week before Christmas the zombie apocalypse has struck Los Angeles. Frank Talbot (Jack Forcinito) and his partner Nash Jackson (Andy Hopper) have worked together on the force for years. They're like family but things have gone awry as marital issues are causing Frank strife and it doesn't help that Nash has a thing for Franks wife, Sarah (Nadine Stenovitch). Frank is aware of this but before he can do anything about it an undead uprising starts to tear the city apart. Nash is injured early on and Frank takes him back to his apartment where they find Sarah. The three of them barricade themselves in as the undead close in but supplies are running low. When he can Frank heads out amongst the hordes where he notices two...

  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...