This week the Harold & Maudecast hosted by Sarah Mason and Jake Essoe, celebrates its 290th episode with two new Now Streaming movie reviews, "The Girl with All the Gifts" and "Train to Busan" both zombie films, cause we love zombies.
The Girl with All the Gifts, released September 2016, Directed by Colm McCarthy, written by Mike Carey based on his novel by the same name. Starring, Glenn Close, Gemma Arterton, Paddy Considine and Sennia Nanua.
In a dystopian future a bizarre fungus as infected the population turning it's initial hosts into rabid, zombie-like creatures. When a save-humanity at all costs scientist and a empathetic teacher discover one of their child test subjects may hold the key to saving humanity, they set out on a dangerous quest of survival and redemption. 8.5/10
Train to Busan, released in South Korean and Asia July 2016, Now Streaming on Netflix, written and directed by Sang-ho Yeon, starring Yoo Gong, Dong-seok Ma, Yu-mi Jung and Soo-an Kim.
A overworked father travels with his young daughter by train to visit his estranged ex-wife. Unbeknownst to them and the other passengers, a zombie outbreak is about to take over their train and they must work together to survive. 8.8/10
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