Sneaking in before Michael and I discuss the craziness that is the Japanese Stacy and the Thai SARS Wars - Bangkok Zombie Crisis, and our 400th episode on which we cover vampires, and more so the Josh Hartnett bloody and brutal 30 Days of Night, I have this, Evil in the Time of Heroes (2009), the sequel to Evil (2005).

Not as well received as its predecessor, with a confusing ancient Greek plot, some very weird special effects, meaningless plotlines, and Billy Zane in a hooded cloak talking Greek.

We do pick up where we left off from the first movie, with soldier Kleamtis, teen Jenny, cute neighbour Marina and father figure Meletis being chased to the football stadium after leaving the creepy taxi driver Agrylis to hang dead from the pipe in the wall. The stadium is surrounded by zombies who get in in their thousands. Is it the end of our heroes?

Well no, as we get a total cop out we get a 10 minutes later card and all four just walking out of the stadium covered in blood.

And from there it goes downhill. We have rival factions with no real agenda other than pointless violence, flashbacks to ancient Greeks fighting zombies, Billy Zane walking around killing whole hordes and spouting nonsense, and bringing back the dead, including those we had wished stayed dead.

Despite a budget 10 times the original, better acting, better cinematography, and Billy Zane this is a much inferior movie to the original. The creepy Agrylis and his creepier sleazy dad, the pointless deaths, awful effects and bag of frogs storyline make it a 3/10 at best. Definitely avoid.

I'd love to hear from my dear listeners. Recommend a zombie movie or show I haven't covered, or some on and chat all things zeke. Or just like and share.

I'd love to hear from my dear listeners. Recommend a zombie movie or show I haven't covered, or some on and chat all things zeke. Or just like and share.

A Greek zombie movie that splits it's reviews between tasty kebabs and rotting tzatziki. Set in Athens it tells the story of a zombie outbreak caused by builders digging into a cavern that houses some sort of evil. The three builders who go in come out weird and the start attacking others. Bloody, messy, fast turning, fast spreading and fast running zombies just done cheaply.

A teen, her neighbour, a father figure, a soldier with no tactical awareness, a moaning yuppie, a football fan and a slimy taxi driver come together to escape the city. Do they lock doors? No. Do we therefore lose people we didn't need to? Yes.

It was cheaply done, the acting wasn't great at times, the camera work and sound wasn't great at times. But, I found it watchable, despite all that.

4/10 given it was from 2005, post Land of the Dead and 28 Days Later, and before World War Z and Walking Dead.

There is a sequel, Evil: In the Time of Heroes that came out in 2009, happens 3 days later and somehow stars Billy Zane, although Jenny, her hot neighbour Marina, Argyris and Meletis are back again. I will have to go look for that.

I'd love to hear from my dear listeners. Recommend a zombie movie or show I haven't covered, or some on and chat all things zeke. Or just like and share.

Advertised Plot: After losing everything to a personal mistake, a suicidal man discovers a portal to a parallel world where a family is trapped by zombies. He must communicate across dimensions to save a dying girl and fight for his own redemption.

Reality: 16 moon shots! 16!!! That nearly doubles the record of dumbass moon shots in a zombie movie we have seen. Conceptually fine, the two dimensions thing with a guy going from one to the other. But it is just done so badly. Awful acting. Awful music choices including Jaws and Psycho rip-offs. Awful shouty kids and mom, who just shout their names the whole movie. The strobe light was terrible and off-putting. And we didn't get enough of what we are tuning in for, namely zombies being killed in a multiverse kinda ting. No, we have 15 mins of the main guy crying in a barn and a 3 minute dance routine.

A bit of a shambles at the best of times, our 5th and least favourite Indian movie, not even our favourite Telugu movie.

3/10

I'd love to hear from my dear listeners. Recommend a zombie movie or show I haven't covered, or some on and chat all things zeke. Or just like and share.

It is one of those rare occasions, recently only seen when the 28 Years Later and Colony came out that Michael and I are right up to date with a new movie in the genre, so we have to record a chat.

TBH when it was announced that Zac Cregger (Weapons, Barbarian) was taking on Res Evil I was skeptical, and even when the trailers and teasers started to appear, I was skeptical. So what did I think? And would Michael regret taking his eldest son to go and see it?

Is it as bad or good as Super Mario Brothers, Max Payne, or Doom? You will have to find out.

I'd love to hear from my dear listeners. Recommend a zombie movie or show I haven't covered, or some on and chat all things zeke. Or just like and share.

Where to start? There is probably a reason why this C Thomas Howell effort was renamed, and as reason he isn't on the cover, or mentioned in the description. I wonder what it is? The title? Mutant Vampire Zombies from the Hood! Not great is it? No wonder it was repackaged as The Undead, one of the tamest and most obvious titles going.

I needed 4 sittings to watch this atrocity. There have been UN War Crime trials at the Hague for less than this. Basically bad acting, bad writing, bad zombies, bad makeup, awful music, terrible gun effects including an M16 firing over 100 bullets from a single 20 bullet magazine, and nothing that really stood out other than C Thomas Howell lowering himself to be in a movie called Mutant Vampire Zombies from the Hood!

3/10

I'd love to hear from my dear listeners. Recommend a zombie movie or show I haven't covered, or some on and chat all things zeke. Or just like and share.

I have been waiting for something decent for such a long time that I went to the movie theater to see Zac Cregger's attempt at Resident Evil. I can see what he was trying to do, there are definitely computer game-like setups, the woods, the road tunnel, the hospital parking garage and elevator shaft, not to mention the barn puzzle to lock the dog inside. I can also see why people hated it. Personally if Paul Hauser's infinitely annoying and wholly unnecessary comedic character hadn't said he worked for Umbrella, and if the nurse hadn't said the green bag of something needed to go to Raccoon City General Hospital you would have been hard pressed to think it was Resident anything. And everything that happened in the lab just infuriated me.

As a stand alone movie there was enough to like for me to give it a 7/10 with possible recalibration when Micheal watches it at the weekend. Zombie Family felt like an elongated and poorly received SNL skit, even with genre legends Doug Jones and Tony Todd in it, but the real news is the second Apocalypse Z movie coming out at the end of October. The first movie I also scored 7/10 and would edge it over Cregger's effort if I had to pick one over the other.

I'd love to hear from my dear listeners. Recommend a zombie movie or show I haven't covered, or some on and chat all things zeke. Or just like and share.

Sometimes, rarely, more rarely than you would think, I unintentionally end up watching similar movies back to back. And while the stories of Helldriver and SARS Wars: Bangkok Zombie Crisis are very different, the movies themselves have the same feel. The same this is fucking awful, cheap nasty crap feel.

Whilst Helldriver was not strictly a comedy, SARS Wars is, and it is over the top. The gore in the Japanese and Thai movies are similar, the heroes, the villains, the zombies, the weak stupidity of the writing, the FX, everything. What sets this apart from the others? And Helldriver? Looney Tunes sound effects. Seriously we have boings and bongos in this zombie movie that do not add to it. In fact, nothing could really add to it, other than someone involved taking it seriously.

The plot had potential, a millionaire's daughter is kidnapped for ransom and held in a high rise. The same high rise becomes ground zero for a zombie outbreak. Our heroes need to go in and save the girl, fighting gangsters and zombies along the way. Simple? Right? Just watch them fuck it all up. Although if you made The Raid a zombie movie, how good would that be?

As far as this goes, it is a 3.5/10 for me. The best bit of the movie was when the DVD broke and I couldn't watch the last 4 chapters. The worst bit of the movie was when I fixed it.

I'd love to hear from my dear listeners. Recommend a zombie movie or show I haven't covered, or some on and chat all things zeke. Or just like and share.

Let me put it this way...

"In a scene that really epitomises this movie the starfish shaped alien attached to the zombie queen's head since the alien asteroid blew a whole through her chest, forcing her to rip out Kika's heart and stick it in her missing chest cavity, grows batons out of two of its arms and starts conducting an orchestra of zombies, making a Voltron style giant zombie made up of hundreds of regular zombies catch the next two missiles that had been fired by the Hitler moustached huma General from his bunker in the city, and uses them to fly into the sky making a zombie jet plane aimed towards the city, as Kika, the robot hearted chain-sword wielding schoolgirl climbs on board to do battle with the zombie version of the thugs that ate her birthday pudding and then her disabled dad."

Yeah, it was that level of Japanese nonsense. In short, if you liked Robo Geisha and Tokyo Gore Police this is for you. If not, the you will do as I did, spend a lot of the time confused, before scoring it 3.5/10 at best.