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Screw it, let's Nuke Tasmania - We Bury the Dead (2026)
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A sweeping journey with Rey Skywalker and Dick Grayson from the Titans tv show no one watched. Also 500,000 Taswegians died... but that's kind of inconsequential.
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Transcript
Introduction and Film Reveal
00:00:06
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You're terrible Muriel. Talk to me. You're gonna do that bugger bugger? You've been talking to the cops. Today is a brand new day. No, that's it. It's the vibe.
Podcast Routine & Mood
00:00:17
Speaker
G'day, fellow Aussie film lovers, and welcome to another episode of Under Southern Screens, the most brain-dead Australian cinema podcast. I'm Mitch. And I'm Matthew. And yeah, brain-dead is absolutely right, not only in terms of the content for what going to talk about today, but just in general. I mean, how are you feeling today, Mitch? I'm feeling pretty brain-dead, brother. Yeah. For context, we record this podcast after each of our respective works. So yeah if it sounds like at any point the mindless ramblings of a zombie, ah it's it's not just this episode. it's it's It's the whole time. We're in character for this episode today. We're going method. You're welcome, audience.
Spoiler Warning & Plot Setup
00:00:55
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that's that's the That's the key here. I mean, Mitch, what an interesting movie that we're going to talk about today for Under Southern Screens. Interesting is a choice word.
00:01:04
Speaker
um We could call it that. I mean, not not in terms of subject matter, but I think it's a cool shake up because we're reviewing something. Well, I don't know if it's still in theaters by the time this comes out, but I mean, there's something that's that's new and something that is an Australian film that is in the the contemporary zeitgeist, as it were. Well, the movie we're watching today as well. Yeah. If you just come for our beautiful voices, firstly, thank you. yeah yes, we are watching this week, the 2026 survival horror thriller, We Bury the Dead.
00:01:36
Speaker
Spoiler warning for that bad boy. Yeah, yes so but if you if you want to go see it, go see it. If not, we're going to spoil this plot crazy. Should we get into the summary for this exciting new film? Absolutely. I reckon a summary would go down a treat. Beautiful. Okay, well, let's get into
Film Summary: 'We Bury the Dead'
00:01:54
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it.
00:01:54
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Our film this week for Under Southern Screens is the recently released survival horror thriller, We Bury the Dead. Firstly, that's not true. Cremation is also a viable option of disposition, but I guess that wouldn't make for a snappier title. We cremate the dead.
00:02:09
Speaker
We cremate and or bury the dead depending on the last will and testament of the deceased. This film had its premiere at the Adelaide Film Festival in November of 2024, but was only given theatrical distribution in Australia at the start of February 2026, which is this month or so, when we're recording this. Directed by Zach Hilditch, the film follows the aftermath of an accidental explosion off the coast of Tasmania at the hands of the United States. Honestly viable. Pfft. causing the entire city of Hobart to be destroyed and leaving its residents either dead or turned into zombies. We follow the journey of Ava played by Daisy Ridley, an American physical therapist whose personal mission is to find her spouse, Mitch.
Australian Identity & Viewing Experience
00:02:52
Speaker
And no, not Mitch from this podcast, but Mitch played by some guy that I forgot the name of. The actor, anyway. Who was on the island when the blast went off. As Ava travels south through Tasmania, she meets several crazy characters as well as a few zombies, going on an emotional and action-packed journey that makes you question the whole time, wait, Tasmania isn't that big, is it?
00:03:14
Speaker
Some standout performances include Mark Cole Smith as Riley and Brendan Thwaites as Clay. And while the film was shot in Western Australia as opposed to Tasmania, the inherent Australian-ness of this film is sincerely felt. In direct contrast, in my screening of the film, there was a guy unironically wearing a MAGA hat, which given the geopolitical context of this film's narrative, must have made him feel pretty conflicted morally about We Bury the Dead. What a curious guy. What a choice. What an interesting... Yeah, and to be fair, there was there were only about four or five people in my in my cinema, so I think ah we're getting the broad spectrums of political opinions at Event Cinemas Macquarie.
Mitch's Cinematic Marathon
00:03:53
Speaker
We actually managed to get a few people... This film I watched in a weird way. I I've been a bit lax on going to the cinema recently. So I did a three movie bender at the cinema the Saturday I saw this. Very cool. What else did you see in the span of this ah this triple feature? So before this, I saw Marty Supreme. Oh my gosh. OK. Yeah. Which was good. It's good. It's everyone knows it's good. I agree. And then after this, I saw Send Help, which is the new Sam Raimi. Yes, yes. Reggie McAdams, Dylan O'Brien. Fantastic. Yes, yes, yes. That was pretty good. That's probably my favorite out of all these movies. And so I saw i went to all these movies with a friend because I i sent a message to my friend, you want to go see three movies with me? He said, yes, blah, blah, blah. And he's not talking about me. He's not talking about Matt. not in the same state. If you were here, I would have asked. But you weren't here, so I didn't feel like I wanted to tease the idea of hanging out and then be like, well, it's too bad you're not around.
00:04:46
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That felt more cruel. I'm still crushed either way. But anyway,
Film Criticism Approach
00:04:50
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go on. We both walked out and we said, this movie really missed a beat in being a personal story. We both agreed that this is a movie that would have worked way better if it had delved into the conspiracy of why super weapon went off the east coast of Tasmania. Yeah. yes um yeah it's generally bad film criticism or criticism of a story in general to say it's not this therefore not good but i genuinely feel like taking the personal story approach to this film really did a disservice because i'm i'm gonna be real the whole time i was like please tell me about about what happened actually yeah what's the context actually occurred here for this to occur i kind of don't care about this failed marriage i'm sorry there's bigger fish to fry i will say like from the outset the concept of this is insane like it yeah like the fact that tasmania is nuked they say in the first like like five minutes 500 000 people dead you know like wiped out massive geopolitical like like event that happens here and what would happen in this moment and i think that is an absolutely fantastic concept to to base the movie and i think this is going to be a really interesting episode because i personally really enjoyed the film i thought it was gripping i thought that the subject matter was really intense i love the world building and we'll get into that throughout this episode and then i walk out and i see mitch's letterboxd review By the way, just want to point out before we continue on this podcast, we don't generally rate film. Yes. Yeah. And that's something I want to maintain. Discussion. Discussion.
00:06:32
Speaker
But I don't like boiling down discussion about media into just a arbitrary rating system, which generally means technically nothing. However, I am a huge hypocrite because every single movie I go and see, I watch on Letterboxd and generally I will give it a rating. There's very few things I want. This podcast primarily is for celebrating the triumphs of Australian film and what we love about Australian film. Or at least pushing discourse about Absolutely. And I think that's different from providing our own personal critical opinions. But I think it's really fascinating in this instance where we have such divisive opinions on this movie. And I'm just really interested to break it down in this
Expectations and First Impressions
00:07:13
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moment. Yeah. Yeah. Mitch, what were your expectations going into Bury the Dead? I didn't know a lot about it. I knew it was zombie movie. knew was Australian. I knew Daisy Ridley was in it. And that's pretty much it. Yeah. That was about the same as me. Yeah. Because you pitched it as like, oh, this movie's coming out. We should probably cover this. Yeah, absolutely. we want to cover both older and newer Australian content. And good way to cover new Australian content is kind of how it comes. out definitely and just spark some discourse around it given that exactly you know lot of these films don't usually get the time of day in this in this media climate and and you know think it should be a high profile release yeah given you know it's star power given it's i think really fantastic log line you know it's an interesting movie and i don't think it deserves to be hidden away there's definitely reckon an audience out there for it i felt watching it though very
Narrative Strengths & Weaknesses
00:08:02
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bored Okay. Yeah, that's fair. And I also think my biggest gripe with the film is actually the inclusion of Mark Colesmith's character. like Mark Colesmith. I saw a movie I didn't like last year at Myth as well that he was in, which was Beast of War, which is the World War II shock film. That's also Australian. We have to watch that. That sounds amazing. I'm happy to rewatch it just to discuss it. But I do like him. I think he's a great performer. I think he himself as the actor in this is great. I think he plays what he's supposed to be doing exceedingly well. I do think, however, the umpteenth time we have an Australian film with just a creepy dude in the middle of it that kind of doesn't make... You're just kind of there. All right. Yeah. Yeah. And it drags the movie down because we just have these extended sequences where, oh, nothing's actually changed. I'm still in the exact same spot. I didn't like the whole bit where he's trying to dress Daisy Ridley up in his wife's get up and the ring. It's like, I get it's creepy and it is creepy, but it's just not necessary for this movie. there's so much more interesting horror that can be derived from this scenario on the flip side i think what's some really good horror in this is i've never seen zombies where they're like clicking their teeth like grinding their teeth yeah i think you as an audience member you know what tooth pain feels like it's a sympathetic like oh no i i think that makes me grin like chomping on my teeth like goosebumps absolutely and i think it's a it's a way to have some fantastic sound design as well so you you enjoyed it a lot more than i did what what did you find gripped you got really did enjoy this film i didn't think it was excellent i think there are definitely elements of it that that can sort of mute it and i guess maybe i didn't come into it expecting like a balls to the wall action or even even even horror type of situation which may be people coming into this especially given a look at the poster you know like it might expect especially in the uh the current climate of 28 years later yeah well i think that's yeah that's immediate comparisons can be drawn to that film which i did immediately yeah which is actually kind of unfair this came out before both
Comparisons to 'The Last of Us'
00:10:11
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28 years later exactly yeah so really you're wrong mitch i am wrong But then two movies that were way better and what I think this was trying to do came out. For me, the biggest comparison that I drew to this was The Last of Us. I mean, I think the major go-to in comparing this is The Last of Us, not only just because it is the trekking across the country narrative, but it's also because of the whole humans the real enemy narrative that I think... gets ported over and now that we have the HBO show I think even more direct comparisons can be made but I don't know the thing that I was really gripped to was Daisy Ridley's character in particular and like why would she come to a radioactive island where her husband is almost certainly dead and that's what drew me into it look I actually really do love the world building of this movie personally I think that
00:11:10
Speaker
the opening like half an hour when we're getting when we're getting dropped into tasmania and we see the the immediate impacts i think that is the strongest part of the film if it was a movie dedicated to door kicking basically and going through and and just discovering where these survivors were and the kind of storytelling you can tell through wordless storytelling because we get we get a decent amount at the start and it's also probably the most tense part of the whole film as well just because you don't You currently don't know how the zombies work at this point in time. So it's just, that would have been really cool. And I think another really fantastic part is seeing how humans react to it. Like the people in the town are super desensitized. They're just bodies to them. And there's a scene that I think is really, really powerful where Daisy Ridley's escaping the the building and then there's just a wild party happening in the hotel. Yeah. And it it's not even brought any attention to in the film itself. I guess later she does join them after she's been caught. But like at that moment, she escapes and it's just happening in the background. And it's like it builds intrigue. And I think that world building was a really, really strong part of the movie for me. And the fact that it happened so early on is what really gripped me into this film.
Zombie Mechanics & Logic
00:12:22
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I will say, though, that one thing that I think wasn't super effective was...
00:12:28
Speaker
We don't actually know what the zombies are capable of. I don't think the film knows what the zombies are capable of. Because we don't really see anyone get killed or As far as I can recall, not a single person dies by a zombie, which is actually fine. Like, yeah I don't mind a zombie movie that tries something a bit different. But I think what my issue is is that there seems to be a kind of random variation of some zombies will rush you.
00:12:57
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as zombies do but other zombies are docile yeah yeah it's it's not super super consistent but and that's the thing because it's like there's a part where they go oh the longer they're zombies the more aggressive they get but that doesn't seem to be the case which does mean like oh someone could have misread that but there's no discussion about we don't get this if the movie had the characters being like i don't get this yeah it's still zero yeah because daisy ridley by this point when she's seeing these this variation of zombies is kind of just accepting it yeah yeah So the movie who just expects you to accept it, but I don't accept it as the issue. I want to know what's going on. I i don't know as an audience member how urgent the situation is. Like, for example, but when they're in like the, is it the diner or something? And there's this zombie that comes shuffling towards them. Like, I don't know like what the rules are. Like if if Daisy Ridley gets bit, does she just die or does she turn into someone or do they bite or do they like attack? Like what's the, what are the rules here? And it's never, yeah. explained unfortunately which is which diminishes the tension extravagantly in my opinion because i think rationally being bitten by one of these zombies is probably pretty fine because it's not a disease that's turned them into zombies it's a little electromagnetism that's messing with the brain electricity yeah which is cool i actually think it's a really interesting idea it obviously doesn't work
00:14:17
Speaker
Brains don't work like that, but like I think it's- Yeah, but he's suspending the disbelief. This is a film where 500,000 people die in an atomic blast. you know Yeah, it's true. I think it's actually a really interesting version of zombies. i yeah I don't think we've seen something similar to this before. It's always a disease or ah a fun fungus is kind of the new one to go to because of the loss of us. But then i just it just feels like there's no... I don't know if I should be scared or not. Yeah, and what I should be scared of. i'm just Exactly. I'm just confused. What I find the most frustrating
Plot Twists & Emotional Beats
00:14:50
Speaker
is... And this is huge spoilers, by the way. Back end, very end of the film, last scene stuff. So, Markle Smith, he's gone insane because his wife died in the explosion. And he's got her body in his house. And what's big as well is her belly because she's pregnant. Yeah.
00:15:07
Speaker
That a very weird way of phrasing that. Yeah, I was like, I'm going to take a go at it. Let's see how this goes. Let's see how this turns out. This reveal is massive, almost like her nine-month-old child.
00:15:21
Speaker
Yeah, pretty much. um And so that's the big thing is he's got a bunch of the zombies chained up because he's been doing tests on when they transform and how it works and all that. the main reveal is that the zombies come alive because of unfinished business was the main thing. which is an insane thing to- how did you realise that?
00:15:42
Speaker
And what counts as unfinished business? I don't know. Anyway. was like, that jumps the shark a little bit, but I'm happy to go along with it. It's the rules of the film. I'll go along with it. And the very end, she and Brendan Thwaites, they're going home and the wife is on the road.
00:15:56
Speaker
But Daisy really is like, oh my goodness, it's the wife, but she's not pregnant anymore. And there's blood around her dress, which suggests she gave birth. yeah um And they get out and then they hear the wife walks away and then they hear crying from an an abandoned sheep shed or something that's been like blown up. And so they run out into a field. most of this is set on rural. So it's like all fields and stuff.
00:16:15
Speaker
And there's a baby. a completely fine baby, just for the record. like completely fine non-zombie baby it's kind of implied that the reason why ah daisy ridley's down here is because she wants to finish off the conversation that they that she never got to have with her husband because her husband and her were fighting over the fact that she couldn't have a child and they wanted to go ivf which is kind of a crazy reason to start cheating on your husband for um yeah yeah yeah it's a whole full circle it's like oh baby now she can look after this baby but her husband's not there sad happy whatever my problem um is that where did this come from Yeah. Have you seen 28 Years Later? I've not, unfortunately. I don't really want to talk about- I don't have a frame of reference. There stuff that's touched on similar in 28 Years Later and its sequel that are really introspective, really interesting, and are really built throughout the course of the film. Yeah, I think it's a pretty stock standard message of hope. Yeah. And also, like, the unfinished business of the guy burying his family was burying the family. Like, he wanted to bury his family. And that makes sense. But then does that mean the unfinished business of the stripper was to just stare at her reflection? There's, like, the unfinished business of the guy who attacked them just to, like, run at them. Like, what does that mean? If they played into the unfinished business thing more, I would like that more. Because, of course, yeah, silly... But could be cool. I think they sort of shoot themselves in the foot because the term like unfinished business is inherently a subjective concept.
00:17:33
Speaker
It's like objective concept is like you get bit, you turn into a zombie. That is an objective rule. Do you know I mean? But when you add this question of unfinished business, this ethereal will of a character that you've never even met yeah especially when you consider a zombie to be brain dead and not and not cognitive in that sense it does fall apart a little bit and i did sort of roll my eyes at that and i agree that that is one of the weaker parts of the film but i think for me what carried me through was that human revelation of why is daisy ridley here and i think For me, at least, that was a really well played out reveal, like through different scenes and segments as we gradually see them fall out of love with each other in these little vignettes and stuff. I personally found that really, really affecting. And then the gut punch that spoilers, guys, spoilers, Mitch, not Mitch from this podcast, but Mitch in the movie, had an affair finally ending the whole thing and that he doesn't have unfinished business and isn't zombie and it's just cold and stark death.
00:18:38
Speaker
I think that yeah personally was a really, really powerful moment. It sort of speaks to the fact that sometimes we don't have answers to when things end. you know what I mean? I thought that was a really cool sort of allegory for that. And you going you can disagree, Mitch. I just found that that was really sort powerful. I actually don't disagree. I think that is an exceedingly brilliant setup and ending. If the film played into that more throughout, i don't think enough was done to c seed that. yeah And my whole issue is that I don't think Daisy Ridley is a particularly good performer. I was going to say, I think, I don't know, I think Clay's character is a bit sort of... Clay being Brendan Thwaites. Brendan Thwaites, yes. so Look, I don't think the main doer is particularly good.
00:19:25
Speaker
And that sucks because it's the main doer. I think that's particularly down to the writing. A lot of it is a little bit sort of edgelord, especially when it comes to Clay's character. The first time we see him, he's sort of a buff, smoking a cig, like Dolly Upwood, you know, to just see his hot bod. And and I think someone in my And it is a hot bod. No, do not get this twisted. It is a flaming hot bod. Two very attractive people who are given not a lot of good writing yeah and maybe aren't the best actors either. Yeah, and it's a shame. yeah I think another thing that maybe took me out of it, and again, this is nitpicking, but I think Daisy Ridley's American accent was another thing. It's garbage, right? It sucks. Yeah, no, definitely. When she said she was American, I went,
Critique of Performances
00:20:09
Speaker
oh, really? And then she had a conversation where I heard, are you sure? yeah i don't I don't think you are, but I'll go back. But I don't know. The narrative sucked me in, man. The narrative really sucked me in. Which is so fair. yeah I can see this working for people. i'm not
00:20:23
Speaker
I'm not watching it and going like there's nothing here for no one. I think for me, i just I found myself questioning a lot of creative choices that the film made. yeah I think there's a lot of potential here. to Pardon the pun. It's missing a lot of the bite that it could have definitely had. Because you describing...
00:20:40
Speaker
the revelation of he has no unfinished business and all that was way more interesting than when i actually watched it yeah like when i watched it i wasn't getting that like you describing now i'm like oh of course yeah like yeah that is exactly what occurred but when i was watching and she was like you got no unfinished business i was like oh i guess he doesn't yeah provided more emotional weight to that moment talking about it just now than when i actually watched the movie And yeah, I think I agree that it should be inherently textual, those types of things. know. I just sort of inferred all that. I don't think the idea of unfinished business being what brings them back was built enough into the rest of the film, especially because the idea of unfinished business being what brings zombie back is brought on by someone who acts insane for pretty much the duration of the time we see them. like i didn't believe that unfinished business was what brought them back just assumed that was what he had attributed and was a part of a cope to hope that his wife would come back to have the child i didn't actually believe that was what brought the zombies back i think that's why like things like the last of work so well is that the the rules are established firstly they're established early on and and they're also set in stone and objective know so i think that's Maybe it's a swing and a miss for me and for you, Mitch. One thing that I will praise the film for, because again, I like this film, guys. actually really did like this film. I'm just a Debbie Downer and I'm dragging him with I think it provides some really great combo. I think this film for the budget, I think it's only a couple of million dollar budget. This film looks really, really great in terms of production value.
Cinematography Praise
00:22:14
Speaker
It is insanely good looking. yeah i there's i think that it utilizes a bird's eye view shot quite a bit and i think every single time it does it it does it pretty well one that stuck out for me was the bus scene when she's getting chased by the zombie and it tracks them through the bus that is good stuff that is good kino right there like i just just yeah dollies down the bus it's just like give me that it's good and you're looking down and you can see it's kind like if I remember correctly the middle is the space between them and she's on the right and the zombies on the left and it's just like this you kind of get like an equal view of both of them scrambling through the bus which is interspersed with you know the bus window segments some real It was good. It was good stuff. And it ends well as well, like where she hits it with the fire extinguisher. And was watching this and I was like, yeah, this is like some... This feels Australian. This is like the grimy Australian aesthetic. Exactly. Boots on the ground. If only the rest of the film bought into this...
00:23:13
Speaker
grimy australian aesthetic zombie i don't want to say action through like i don't need it to be actiony per se i just needed to more like let's take some like that zombie violence like yeah i just i wanted more zombie violence and i wanted to have that australian edge to it that this scene had and it's just i don't think there was a shot that i saw and went that sucked yeah yeah another top down shot i think was the one where you see the bark going out and it's fire and then it comes up the beach And I don't know if they were really lucky or they timed it somehow, but they managed to get it that the wave went as far as it was currently going with the tide and it like matched directly with like the sand line. And now that looked just really good. yeah And I was and i i was well i was like, do you reckon? I wonder if they CGI'd that. Some really well-calculated cinematography.
CGI & Production Value
00:23:57
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And on the topic of CGI, I think... I've seen a lot worse CGI in Australian films. I think the CGI was fantastic, especially when they're like going into that, like the the ground zero sort of explosion zone. yeah i thought it looked really convincingly. They did pretty well. Yeah.
00:24:12
Speaker
If you are younger and you don't really recognize that something is made on a budget, you might be disappointed that you don't see more of Hobart and the aftermath of that. But if you're a bit older and you realize that these things are made with a certain amount of money... yeah you can kind of respect how they represent that section of the film and how they, they don't stay there for very long. And it's just sort of to get you accustomed to the world a bit and where we're currently at in this moment in time. And this is just me being like greedy. I was like, I would have loved them to do more in Hobart, but i know they can't. They can't because it's too expensive and and I'm not holding that against. yeah and And again, the film was shot in West. australia in general so which is not hobart yeah which is for all those who don't live in australia is not in hobart no you or hobart's not in western australia vice versa but yeah so i think maybe that's that's the hindrance of it a little bit i personally didn't notice like until until i looked it up online so i think i think it was pretty convincing for me but i thought it was shot in Tasmania as well so that's crazy yeah um I clearly just didn't clearly i don't know crap I was a bit surprised at how much open space was in Tasmania I thought Tasmania was more foresty I haven't been Tasmania I haven't been to Tasmania since I was about 10 years old and like there was there's a bit of there's a bit of hill there's a bit of forest there's a Cadbury chocolate factory which I'm very mad that the film did not stop in
00:25:31
Speaker
That would have been a great action set piece. Can you imagine a zombie action set piece in a Cadbury chocolate factory? That would be insane. And then the final boss would be zombie Freddo Frog and zombie Caramello Koala. How elite would that be?
00:25:43
Speaker
That'd be so good. Can we make it? We bury the dead too. We have Allens, right? Yes. yeah that' now Imagine like zombie anacondas. i Killer pythons? are that like what That's what they're called? We have a lot of snakes. I'm talking about the jelly snakes. You got me on the topic of all these. Yeah.
00:25:59
Speaker
Oh, it's Killer Python, isn't it? It's not an anaconda. It's Killer Python. Take away my Australian card. That shows how fat I am, guys, ladies and gentlemen. It's Killer Pythons, actually. Literally, you nerd.
00:26:10
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Anyway, what can you do, man? What can you do? I want to give another compliment. Hit me with a compliment. Be nice,
Zombie Makeup & Practical Effects
00:26:16
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man. I think the zombie makeup is really good. Yes. It's really good zombie makeup. So gooey and sort of... It's gooey. The fake... I think I noticed that the teeth was fake, that they were grinding, but it was fake in that way where I was like...
00:26:28
Speaker
I can imagine that being your brain being turned off and back on would do this to your teeth. Like I'm not pulled out by this. Yeah. um I think it was, it just looks good and the zombies look good. Yeah.
00:26:40
Speaker
It's a good looking movie just in general. The gore when it occurs is pretty good too. Yeah. i think. Yeah, I agree. I think it's, it's got a lot of stuff in there. I'm just like, you, you had the makings of a good zombie movie. You just need it to like really go for it. I feel like it always feels a bit like reserved. I will agree that the more high genre aspects of the film are, they do feel constrained a bit, but I was really drawn to the coming of age, sort of more emotive aspects of it, which I think yeah that's what gave the film in the pass for me. i Again, I don't think it's excellent, but I think it is pretty good in my opinion. I just, I love a conspiracy. I wanted a conspiracy. yeah Well, I mean, man, there's a little bit of mispotential, but I think it's, I think it's really good. Anyway, Mitch, do you want to hear what the most Australian thing about We Bury the Dead is in my opinion?
00:27:21
Speaker
There is nothing more I'd love to hear than what you think the most Australian thing about We Buried the Dead is. Well, I think the most Australian thing about this film is that even in this movie, the fact that in the heat of a crisis, the Australian people band together to help and provide relief and support with a little bit of wild partying and adultery on the side just to spice things up.
00:27:42
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That is pretty Aussie of us. It's on brand, yeah. Yeah, I think so. Yeah. Droughts and bushfires. There's just always a little bit of masochistic partying and a little bit of foul play going on. Would you go down to Tasmania if they got nukes like this? you want to know the funniest thing? would probably be the, dude, I'm going to document this whole thing type guy. Yeah. I would be the found footage guy. would bring my little black magic camera. I'd film it all. And then all the footage will be confiscated the minute I touch back in Melbourne or Sydney or wherever I am. That's good though. I like
Conclusion & Recommendations
00:28:18
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that. Yeah. Dude, I've really enjoyed talking about this film with you. I think it's really great. Even though that we have conflicting opinions about this film, I personally will say, even if you're not super interested in zombie movies, I would recommend seeing this in theaters or renting it. Not only to see good movie, my opinion, but to support Australian cinema just in general, because Lord knows we need it. I would say always support Australian cinema. Always great, always good.
00:28:45
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I'd also say check if The Bone Temple is still playing and go see that instead. Yeah. Yeah, if 28 Years Later comes up first in your in your Netflix queue. Watch that one first. yeah yeah Or watch this one and then watch 28 Years Later so you can you get a experience like and you and you don't have like the better version to like compare. Exactly. And it's good it's good that we have both, that we can compare and contrast. Good movie. Everyone, watch 28 years later and watch its sequel. We want that third one. Come on. Let's get going, guys. Thank you so much for listening to this episode of Under Southern Screens. We will be back next week.
00:29:21
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And yes, i don't turn into a zombie, guys. In the meantime. Don't turn into a zombie. And keep an eye on those southern screens. Thanks for listening to another episode of Under Southern Screens. We'll be back next week to talk more films down under.
00:29:35
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We just want to attribute that our opening title is Heavy Duty by Zoo and our closing title is Heavy Weight by Fell Creek. Thanks so much for listening and Mitch and I will see you in the next episode.
00:29:46
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See you next time.
00:29:50
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00:30:03
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