You know how it took eleven years for Night of the Living Dead to make it to Someone Else’s Movie? Well, it must have unlocked a gate somewhere because we have another zombie classic for you this week: Zack Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead, which used George A. Romero’s 1978 sequel as a jumping-off point for a hyper-adrenalized take on the apocalypse, as screenwriter James Gunn remixed Romero’s characters and setting to create something new and brutally efficient. Plus, Sarah Polley’s in there!

My guest is writer-director Alex Noyer, a documentarian turned feature filmmaker whose new movie Love Is the Monster — about a couple whose trip to a Finnish retreat threatens more than their intimacy — debuts on VOD today. And he absolutely loves what Gunn and Snyder did in their Dawn, leading to one of the liveliest episodes of the podcast in a while. Which is great, because horror can be fun too!

Wanna listen? Subscribe to the show on Apple, Spotify, YouTube Podcasts or your podcatcher of choice, or download the episode directly from the web and listen to it while you board up those mall doors. It’s fine, you’re not going anywhere.

After that, why not catch up on Shiny Things? Last week I wrote about the new releases of Scream 7 and Undertone, which offer two very different takes on modern horror, and paid subscribers also got my exclusive reviews of Toy Story 5, Leviticus, Maddie’s Secret and Over Your Dead Body because there’s a lot of good stuff out there right now. Didn’t get it? Upgrade your subscription so you don’t miss the next one! Jeez!

Oh, and speaking of Toy Story 5, I was on CBC’s Day 6 over the weekend, talking about where that film fits on the Pixar trauma continuum. (Surprise: It’s actually quite sweet and not at all designed to punch you in the heart!) If you missed it you can listen to the segment right here.