BRAIN BITES

  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...

  DEAD AIR (2009) USA 1hr 30mins Director: Corbin Bernsen "America...why are you so paranoid?" - Logan "They're bleeding out of their eyes!" - Gil "We need to do something that will stop him for good." - Burt An organised gang of terrorists set off biological weapons simultaneously across major cities in America at big sporting events. Those affected by the gas turn into violent, rabid crazies attacking, killing and turning those that cross their path. Over in Los Angeles and as this attack is unfolding, radio show host Logan Burnhardt (Bill Moseley), co host Gil (David Moscow), sound man Burt (Joshua Feinman) and producer Lucy (Patricia Tallman) are mid-way through their show, ironically about paranoia when calls start coming in about riots and violence. Their radio station is just down the road from where one of the biological weapons went off and the building is soon under siege but the team keep broadcasting whilst other news stations flee their p...

  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...