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Bela Lugosi is back on Zombie Strains with his fifth zombie movie, Voodoo Island. But this time, instead of portraying a zombie master, he is a professional skeptic hired to lead an expedition to “Voodoo Island”.
S2:E5- August 6, 2025
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Creature with the Atom Brain is your basic 1950s B-movie. But it has some interesting firsts for the zombie genre. It’s the first zombie film with squib shots, violent deaths, and a true zombie horde that seems unstoppable. It’s also the first zombie film to bring in the military in an attempt to confine the zombie menace.
S2:E4- July 30, 2025
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El Monstruo Resucitado, known in the US as The Revived Monster, is the first Mexican film on Zombie Strains. It combines many elements of classic horror films like Frankenstein, Beauty and the Beast, and The Phantom of the Opera, but finds it’s own unique voice.
S2:E3- July 23, 2025
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Scared Stiff is a remake of the 1941 zombie flick, The Ghost Breakers. This version trades Bob Hope and Willie Best for Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. Carmen Miranda joins the fun as a musical interlude.
S2:E2- July 16, 2025
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Season 2 of Zombie Strains kicks off with the teams first movie serial, 1952's Zombies of the Stratosphere. The “zombies” in this film are really Martians, including Leonard Nimoy in one of his first roles.
S2:E1- July 9, 2025
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John and Andy have been focused on the zombies of the 1930s and 40s, but they have kept an eye on current events. In this episode, they discuss 28 Days Later and season 2 of The Last of Us.
S1:E26- July 2, 2025
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History geeks John and Andy anticipate the themes for season 2 of Zombie Strains. Will the Red Scare, Rock ‘n Roll, and the emergence of teenage culture infect the zombie movies of the 1950s? What other anxieties are in the air that become important? Listen in as John and Andy break it all down.
S1:E25 - June 25, 2025
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Zombie Strains is on a break and will be back in a few short weeks. Until then, enjoy this episode of Producer Brad’s other show, Multiplex Overthruster, where hosts Javier Grillo-Marxuach and Paul Alvardo-Dykstra relive the summer movies of the 80s. Here’s the Multiplex episode on Poltergeist.
S1:E24 - June 18, 2025