The Horror Returns - THR Quick Reviews: Festival of the Living Dead (2024)

Episode Date: April 26, 2024

This episode Brian and Nez rock out with a group of friends at a sold out music festival out in the wooded countryside. Music and death for all in the 2024 Tubi Original horror film FESTIVAL OF THE LIVING DEAD. While attending a festival to commemorate the original zombie attack, Ash and her friends encounter the living dead and must fight back or be devoured. The Horror Returns Website: https://thehorrorreturns.com THR YouTube Channel: https://youtube.com/@thehorrorreturnspodcast3277 THR Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thehorrorreturns THR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thehorrorreturns/ Join THR Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1056143707851246 THR X: https://twitter.com/horror_returns?s=21&t=XKcrrOBZ7mzjwJY0ZJWrGA THR Instagram: https://instagram.com/thehorrorreturns?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= THR TeePublic: https://www.teepublic.com/user/the-horror-returns SK8ER Nez Podcast Network: https://www.podbean.com/pu/pbblog-p3n57-c4166 E Society Spotify For Podcasters: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/esoc E Society YouTube Channel: https://youtube.com/channel/UCliC6x_a7p3kTV_0LC4S10A  

Yo, yo, what's everybody? The Horror Returns, quick reviews. Or THR Quick Reviews, whatever I called it the last time. I don't remember everyone. Do so many reviews here on the Horror Returns Network. But you can't do this alone anymore. Do you guys know who's got to be here? Brother Brian, man.

He's in the house. What's up, man? What's up, man? Here to talk about this. I'm doing air quotes, spiritual sequel. okay well yes tonight we're coming at you

with the to be original came out and was it a couple weeks ago um April 5th okay earlier this month yeah April 5th uh

again toby uh shout out to Bid Marcy I've told them before I was on the 2B Tuesday's episode of uh what did we do oh Saturn 3rd

Go over and listen to that. If you guys haven't heard that yet, the Super Network. They got me into Tooby. And dude, that's all I've been watching lately is Tooby. I mean, the ads, though, I don't, they don't bother me anymore. When I ad pops up, give me time to sit around and poke around on my phone. Then the movie starts up or get up and get a snack and run to the bathroom.

So I'm on board of the 2B train, boys and girls. So there's a lot a lot of movies on there and I assume they pay for them by these ads So but the ads aren't very long. So we're we're ready but tonight We're coming at you a festival of the living dead Okay, well there goes the rest of our day. I know back entrance no lines no hassle We do it every year Hmm Watch out

There was a guy literally right in the middle of the row he We can't just stay here. We need to get help. Hello, is anyone there? What the hell happened here? Oh my gosh. Hey, hey, hey, are you okay? They're everywhere. What is with everyone? Looks like we missed one hell of a party.

Come on, we just almost died. It's just live a little. A thousand people are dead. Did you see anybody come to save us? Guys! How many bullets do you have? He tried to kill me. We're all going to die here.

While attending a festival to commemorate the original zombie. attack. Ash and her friends again, the living dead and must fight back or be devoured. This is directed by the Saskas sisters. The beautiful Jen, she has my heart.

I love you if you're listening to this. And her sister Sylvie or Sylvia. Written by Miriam Leopin and Helen Marsh and this stars nobody that I recognized in this whole thing.

whoever to be had yeah Ashley Moore Andre Anthony Carmen Bicandova I think that's however you say her last name a Christian Rose a Shiloh O'Reilly a Gage Marsh Keenan La Bastidas I think that's how you say it a Mia J. Bastidas

okay they were sisters oh though I don't Troy James Ryan Ewing McKenzie Gray Sophie Chakara Sylvia Saska and of course Jan Saska and a bunch of other people in this

Of course the Saska sisters I love them Do I love all their movies I didn't really care for rabid But shout out to see him punk What was the other one? No American Mary was awesome

I loved to see no evil too I love that they did that one. I thought that was pretty good. And whatever else they did. But this one, I remember when they announced it, they were going to do this. They were saying, oh, we're doing a Night of Living Dead remake. That's what I first read.

And then as it went on before they started filming there, I said, no, it's just going to be a part of the Living Dead series, I assume. I'm like, okay. I mean, Night of Living Dead, if you guys remember, It was back in the day where the copyright things, they didn't have one. So anyone could pretty much title of a film. That's why you always see people watching it in movies because you don't have to pay nobody.

You can show it. Well, I guess we'll have to do that if we ever make a movie or anything. I don't have to worry about it. Just have it playing randomly in the background. Yeah, we'll have somebody come pounding on our door wanting money that we don't have. But anyway, Brian, what did you think of the festival of the Living Dead? It's fine. It's fine.

It's where it should be on 2B. And that's not a bad thing because I found some parts of it entertaining. But it's kind of low budget in terms of what I'm used to from the Saskas sisters. and there's nobody in the cast that I recognized so nobody really stood out to me some of the practical effects were okay the main thing though I did like the concept of the story because I

the festivals commemorating the events of the original Night of the Living Dead I feel like something like that would actually happen if a zombie apocalypse happened and we got through I feel like there were people would be celebrating that event and I don't know how I felt about

the Is it a spoiler Who the main girls related to? Was she related to someone in this? Did I miss something? Okay Spoiler warning Skip ahead of five minutes. Yeah one spoiler

She was supposed to be related to Ben Oh, okay. It was like her grandfather or great-grandfather or something like that probably be great I don't think she's yeah but um I don't know if you necessarily had to do that

you could have just had the whole festival thing to link it I guess if I guess if you're going to tie it in to that one but so in that rationale that this is so did it happen to kill all the zombies and then nothing happened and then this happened again

according to the movie because this seemed like just its own movie so I mean we actually don't know what started and George Romero's Night of Living did they hint to

the satellite blew up in orbit and whatever came down radiation is what would cause it all that was just it wasn't a for sure thing that they said but unless I miss forgetting something but from what I remember in the film they didn't they just they they kind of mention it in a news in a news brief on in the movie so we don't

really know what happened and as the other films went on we they never really explained i was like can foray's explanation don't know the dead the hell just got too full yeah when what they say when there's no more room in hell the dead will walk the earth speaking of george a romeo's 1978 classic don the dead i went to alamo draft house in san francisco california and i got to see don of the dead on the big screen again nice it was awesome was there anybody there uh guess wise no no it was just the bay area's best yeah that took uh took my daughter last year when it was uh doing the uh the movie theater run, so we got to see it last year.

Did you see it in 3D or just the regular way? I don't remember getting cold. I was hoping they were going to do it in 3D, but it wasn't. And it was just the theatrical cut. It wasn't the extended or the Argento or whatever, however many different cuts of this film. It was Dawn of the Dead. It wasn't zombie or whatever they called it

when it came out over the pond. but it was cool to see on the big screen again and a lot of OGs in there was people older than me when this movie came out and they were there and everybody was representing the Dawn of the Dead shirt I had mine on and it was cool shout out to the two guys that sat next to me it was an older father bringing his son probably maybe almost in his 30s to see Donna the Dead on the big screen because he goes I remember seeing this when it came out when it was brand new And I was like, wow. And I said, I remember it too back in those days. And he was like, oh, cool. So, but to see it on the big screen, it was awesome. And yeah, it was, I'm not the one to go to a lot of these Alamo draft house. It's cool that they bring you your food and your drinks and everything.

But don't stand in front of me. One shout out to one guy. Every time he was bringing stuff. was ducking down and handing everyone their drinks and food. So shout out to that dude. I bet his knees and back were killing him by the end the night. Was he a young dude?

Yeah, he was a young guy. He can handle it. He could do it. I had some loaded fries and oh my God, my mouth was burning. I didn't really read on what they put on it. I just, once the movie was going when they brought me my fries and I just started eating them and I was like, oh my God, what's on this?

It's hot. But it's all right. one beer and one soda took care of that but anyway festival of the living dead um yeah i i enjoyed it it was it was all right it wasn't nothing to write home about i would if you wanted me to rate the saska sisters movies this would be definitely uh last on the list but i still enjoyed what was going on in it i mean this one they they kind of it's right in the very beginning of the film so it's not a spoiler um they alluded to a meteor falling out of the sky and just did i guess it didn't hit hard enough to dig a big hole but a little it reminded me of uh the meteor in a creep show in the the stephen king story one they reminded me of that because it was shit yeah it was glowing and it was a

small little crater and i just assumed that was what kicked off the zombie apocalypse in this in this little town that they're in but it's a bunch the story is there's a bunch of friends a girl older older girl and her brother they're uh and they just hanging out with their friends and there's this music festival called festival of the living dead going on uh tickets were sold out apparently and but they finally got they got some tickets so well hey let's go but the main girl Ash she was like well I can't go my brother's here and

her friend Iris was like you know what why don't you just go ahead and go and I'll hang out with your brother and everything you go have a good time because Ash's boyfriend was going along with his buddy

I don't remember who her boyfriend is but both of those guys were assholes the type of good her two friends were kind of shitty too would not the main one the two sisters yeah the one girl that was like her old old friend iris she reminded me of uh what's the character in deadpool teenage negasonic warhead oh yeah she was in the last movie speaking of that dude who i'm hyped yeah that trailer wolverine yeah take take my money yes it's gonna be coming it's gonna be out and we're gonna be at comic con um san diego

there's so much going on at a Comic-Con I don't want to spend time to go watch a movie that I can watch when I get home but I don't know Theo's I want to see it I want to see someone's going to spoil it for me I'm like oh I agree with him somebody's going to spoil that shit the first showing on the first day that shit's spoiled yes I said you know what I don't know we'll see

but anyway but yeah so they are they're going to they want to go to the festival Ash is like, well, my brother, I can't bring him to this. And Iris, you know what? Me and Blaze will hang out. I think that's a guy's name. We'll hang out and take care of him. I believe Blaze was the guy in the wheelchair.

If I can, if I'm looking at the right actor, because he doesn't look like the pretty boys. But anyway, I liked him, though. He was cool. But I felt sorry for him a few times when they're on the run and he's in a wheelchair. But so, yeah, so they're like, you know what? we'll watch him you go have fun so ash and her two friends um destiny and lindsay uh ticto snapchat girls type of thing because they're just all constantly on their phone making videos and shit like that and then the two assholes uh boyfriends and his friend so they're like all right so they're

on their way to the festival uh they somebody was some of we see it as a zombie in the road and they hit it and kind of swerve off and crash. Not too bad. It looks like they just rolled off the road. And I'm like, why don't you just put it in reverse and roll back out? But I don't know. I guess it's striking the zombie. Did something to the engine.

So they're like, you know what? The practical effect here was cool because one of the girls that was filming herself. She broke her leg. And she was, ah. And the bone was sticking out. It's like, how'd you do all that? That's what I was saying. Because everyone else seemed to be all right.

They just kind of like maybe bumped the steering wheel or hit the airbag. She must have. Think of that one scene from Tales from the Hood with the kid. Twisted it up. The one guy was like, boy, must have weak bones. So first thing I popped in my head. So one of them, I don't know remember which one is bleeding and their legs broken. And so the two boys and Ash are like, well, come on, let's, we'll just go try to get help.

So they're like, well, what about that? We can't just leave him here. He goes, well, we'll go get help and then come back. So they, all right, but the girls, I don't leave us. But they're kind of like, all right, whatever. They're just going to hang out at the car. So as, of course, the zombie they hit comes back to the light and chases those two girls that are the car but the other people they get to the festival and they're trying to figure out how they're

going to get some help back to their friends in the car and then this is as they're kind of walking through the crowd the zombie you see the people they're not zombies yet but you could see who's going to turn so that's why i think it's it was just from that meteor because that's that's the only I got from that. And then they're at the festival and then they're like, well, you know what? It's kind of pointless to go back to the car.

If the ambulance and fire trucks are going to go there, let's just stay here and park. Oh, before they even left the car, they took or before they had the accident, I don't know, acid or something, whatever the new thing is. They took some of that.

And then they got to the accident. And then when they got to the festival, is that one well I'm starting I'm gonna want to start feeling it yet but we need to get help so they're like all right well let's just stay here and party so then they stay there and start party and like nothing happened like your friend's leg was bones wasn't sticking out of her leg back few miles back and and every then it then it goes from there and then as they're going this festival of living dead it's kind of like um like a burning man like they have this big huge would sculpture somebody holding a guitar and I guess at the end of the festival they set it on fire.

So it's that type of thing and all these bands that they want to go see, I never even heard of them. For it being a sellout, it didn't look like there was a lot of people there, but... Didn't have much in the budget for extras. Yeah. But that's when we see Jen and Sylvie in the crowd. Sylvia is Georgie and Jen is Rami. So they don't, we see them if you know what they look like, but they didn't like, did they need to name them?

No, but okay. I think it's more of shout out to George Romero, Georgie, Rami. So yeah, all right, cool. Good idea. I love you, Jen. I don't care. Who, I met her once. She stole me.

No, I met her twice. She stole my heart. Anyway, so So that's how the rest of the movie goes And then a typical zombie movie Chaos ensues Everyone's trying to stay alive Practical effect

There was CGI Lance wouldn't like the CGI fire But it don't take it never bothers me I thought the practical Effects that they did do in this film I thought were pretty decent I enjoyed it I mean, especially the girl that broke her leg in the beginning.

Of course, you could clearly see it looks fake, but it looked legit with the bone sticking out and everything. Yeah, I agree. The practical effects looked. I think it was more so that just kind of looked cheap to me was the production, not the effects. Well, the practical effects look pretty good. that I think it was just a production just kind of low budget to me. Well, I don't know. I just jumped on the 2B train and I don't know how much money they're pulling in.

I mean, obviously they're pulling in tons. It's perfect for 2B. Yeah, so I mean, I don't know what, yeah, I don't see anything as far as a budget for this film. But, yeah, nothing that I can find on Wikipedia or anything. It is confirmed She is the granddaughter of Dwayne Jones's character from the original movie and this movie takes place 55 years after that Okay Let me see

I'm trying to find a budget see I know it was in the millions, but I don't know I'm not gonna search for all these sites. It just didn't even pop up, but anyway So that's where the movie goes They once they realize that things the living dead are coming back to life. Well, I guess they weren't dead. Well, whatever was in that meteor is what I'm getting out of it.

You guys may have got something else. But I guess whatever radiation or whatever just made them in the zombies and then all hell breaks loose. So, and it's just them trying to survive to the end. We won't spoil the ending, but that's how the rest of the movie goes. But overall, I did enjoy the film. I thought it was cool for what it was. I mean, after meeting the Saskas, I'm going to watch everything they put out.

But I wasn't, I didn't like, oh, man, that was like the worst zombie movie I've ever seen. Now, guarantee you there is a ton out there. But I like this one. I thought this was more entertaining than, what was the remake they did with George Romero's Day of the Dead? Not the one with Nick Cannon. The Ninja Zomber.

one? Yeah, the stealthy ninja zombie? Yeah. It was a bloodline The Dead Bloodline or something? I don't know. That one was terrible. Yeah, Bloodline came out in 2017. Yeah, this was way

more entertaining than that one. That one, I didn't I didn't like it at all. But this one, I mean, yeah, they weren't trying to take it too serious. I mean, they give you a little backstory on the friends, and that's about it. But then once they're in survival mode, where they're at this big outdoor festival,

and there isn't a lot of places to run and hide from however many hundreds of the living dead coming at you. So I thought they did pretty good. Of course, you find a place you held up and try to board it up and everything while they're all pounding on the door trying to get you. But it was cool. I liked what was happening. Um, musically, as far as, like, just the score, I did, like, I did, I enjoyed the music that they did. Not so much the bands when those bands are playing, because I don't know if they were real bands or maybe just friends of theirs. They put in the movie, but it wasn't my kind of music. But overall, I did enjoy the film. Um, that right now, it's definitely, if you listen to East Society's, uh, best of reviews, I always give my best horror films. Right now, I threw the, um, I threw the film. Um, um, that right now, I threw the show. on the list will stay there I don't know I mean we still got a few more months of the year and there is some new horror films that I haven't seen yet so obviously maybe this is on the list and it'll get bumped off as I was I've been I have not

but I see go go check it out okay so I see it in the theater and yeah all right so yeah festival of the living dead and I enjoyed it I mean it's worth to watch. Everybody can get to be if you're streaming somewhere. It's free. Just join up and have at it. But there is other to be original

stuff on there. This is the first to be original I've watched. But there is a ton of TV shows. There is a ton of movies on there. Definitely giving to be a plug right now. But I think so. I mean, but as far as this being on a

streaming service, it's perfect for TV. So you can enjoy it. Like you said, you can go down that horror list and there's a lot of crappy zombie movies on there. So, but festival of Living Dead, check it out. And go check out the Super Network. They got many podcasts, including Tooby-Tuesdays. That was the one I was on. We did Saturn 3 and it was awesome.

I had so much fun with them. I haven't laughed that hard in a long time. yeah we read one of their comments on the the latest episode of the horror returns and marcy said they may have broke you a couple times oh man

it was everybody and I think it was a guy was it the guy I know the guy from Canada and I can't remember where the other guy was from Mike and I think damn I'm spacing on it yeah the other guy he was somewhere

here in America in the state I don't know. I can't remember where. But man, all four of them, all four of them were hell of funny through the whole episode. Yeah, shout out to Marcy and B. It's an amazing show. 2B Tuesdays go over to Super Network and listen to all the stuff they got there. And yeah, I had a blast. Go back and listen to my episode, Saturn 3. I don't know what episode it was, but it was like maybe one or two ago.

But anyway, Festival of Living Dead streaming on 2B. So definitely check it out. We didn't give you a spoiler ending, so go watch it and enjoy for what it is. But all right, everyone, that is it, this episode. I don't know. We'll come back later with something else. We don't know what yet. We're just finding random movies.

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