Oct. 18, 2026
Countdown To Halloween! Zombie Horror Pick #3 “The Dead Don’t Die”
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Speaker 1: Hey there, folks.
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Speaker 2: It is Sunday, October 18th. And did you know that Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton, Danny Glover, and Steve Buscemi are all in a horror movie together? And it's a zombie movie. And it's kind of awesome. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. If you're still trying to get your horror movie fix robes as folks are getting closer and closer to Halloween, zombie movies are classics.
00:00:38
Speaker 1: They are.
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Speaker 3: And they run the gamut because sometimes they can be silly. Sometimes they can be horrifying. And sometimes they can be both.
00:00:46
Speaker 4: And look, this one is more on the silly side.
00:00:49
Speaker 1: Intentionally.
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Speaker 3: Intentionally. It's deliberately campy. There's a lot of deadpan humor in it. It's classic Bill Murray. Yes. Classic Bill Murray. And not everybody loves this. I will grant you that. But if you're in a Bill Murray mood... and you are in a Halloween mood and you want a good zombie flick, this is a great confluence of those things.
00:01:11
Speaker 1: You know, that's a.
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Speaker 2: Good way when you say, it is, I didn't realize until you said it, but the movie carries Bill Murray's tone kind of throughout. And one of the funnier people who maybe even is more Bill Murray than Bill Murray is Adam Driver.
00:01:24
Speaker 4: He's like a younger version.
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Speaker 1: He's great, yes.
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Speaker 4: Yes, totally deadpan. He plays deadpan right back to him.
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Speaker 2: He's the most maybe ridiculous character and the most serious one in deadpan the whole movie. He is kind of special in this movie.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so this comes in. We are ranking these three, two, and one. The Dead Don't Die, come in at number three. The release date was June 14th, 2019. We'll give you the synopsis. I even love how it begins. That's probably my favorite part because you're like, what the hell is happening? So synopsis. In the sleepy small town of Centerville, something is not quite right. The moon hangs large and low in the sky. The hours of daylight are becoming unpredictable and animals are beginning to exhibit unusual behaviors.
00:02:06
Speaker 4: News reports are scary.
00:02:08
Speaker 3: And scientists are concerned, but no one foresees the strangest and most deep, dangerous repercussion that will soon start plaguing Centerville. The dead rise from their graves and feast on the living and the citizens must battle to survive.
00:02:23
Speaker 2: It's a classic zombie scenario, right? The town trying to figure out what's going on. Um, Yeah, and the zombies here, and even them coming out of the ground at times.
00:02:34
Speaker 4: It's ridiculous.
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Speaker 2: It is, but it kind of harkens back to the Night of the Living Dead, where some of these are just ridiculous. And we have other zombie movies that have come along, like the I Am Legends and things like that. Right. Zombies are a lot scarier and move a lot faster and whatnot.
00:02:51
Speaker 1: This is old school zombie stuff.
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Speaker 4: Yes, exactly.
00:02:53
Speaker 3: And you mentioned Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton, Steve Buscemi, Danny Glover.
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Speaker 4: Add to that Selena Gomez, Austin Butler, Rosie Perez.
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Speaker 3: I mean, every time I feel like a new scene shows up, I feel like, oh, my God, I can't believe they're in this, too.
00:03:07
Speaker 2: I'm thinking about the Austin and Selena scene right now. You're going to like it, too. She was great and sweet in this movie. He looks like a high school kid.
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Speaker 4: He does, and she's adorable.
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Speaker 3: She looks like a high school kid, too. Now, the runtime, an hour and 43 minutes, so it's a nice little... It's a slow burn, but it doesn't last too long. It's not like it's a long, drawn-out.
00:03:30
Speaker 4: Movie, but it is a bit of a slow burn.
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Speaker 3: I think it is because the humor is so deadpan. Everyone plays deadpan humor, and truly you have to be into deadpan humor to like it.
00:03:39
Speaker 1: You know what?
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Speaker 2: I'm trying to think of any moment where they played for, like anybody on screen was having a good time.
00:03:46
Speaker 1: Nobody on the camera was having fun.
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Speaker 3: Yes, so Rotten Tomatoes didn't like it as much as we did. It got 55%, which is a little surprising. The audience score is even lower. Again, that's why I really think you have to like dead fan humor 38%. What was their problem with it?
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Speaker 4: They thought it was slow and boring.
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Speaker 1: Wow.
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Speaker 4: They didn't get the humor. I mean, I get that's fair. That's fair.
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Speaker 3: And they think it's a zombie movie. The Dead Don't Die, by the way, is a great name. What a great title of a movie.
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Speaker 2: Which also plays into a great theme song of the movie that plays throughout the movie as well, which is also part of a joke, which is also deadpan.
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Speaker 4: Exactly.
00:04:25
Speaker 3: And so it's almost like if you're not in on the joke, you're like, what the hell is going on? This is the dumbest movie ever. And so that is what people who didn't like the movie said.
00:04:33
Speaker 2: Mind you, this is still a zombie movie. This was not a spoiler alert. Zombies are eating people. OK, so this is still has classic zombie horror.
00:04:41
Speaker 4: People die in a diner, you know, like that kind of.
00:04:43
Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
00:04:44
Speaker 4: Right? So here's the critics' consensus.
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Speaker 3: The Dead Don't Die dabbles with tones and themes to varying degrees of success, but sharp wit and strong cast make this a Zomcom with enough brains to consume. I have never heard that genre title before, and that made me laugh.
00:05:03
Speaker 1: A Zomcom. Because most zombie movies aren't funny at all.
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Speaker 2: No. This one is intentionally. They go after the laughs. And you say a slow... A slow burn, but I don't know. There isn't even a lot of energy or excitement or, you know, you don't even have a character that's acting out or doing anything crazy necessarily. There's one crazy local who's with the gun, that guy. He's a little personality. But even Adam Driver and Bill Murray play cops, right? And they're partners, right? And at the beginning, you're just following along with them in their day. They're in the car.
00:05:43
Speaker 1: Yep.
00:05:43
Speaker 2: They're having what you would think is the most boring conversation ever based on how they're interacting.
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Speaker 4: But they're talking about a potential of a zombie apocalypse.
00:05:52
Speaker 2: And what they're saying is hilarious the whole time.
00:05:57
Speaker 3: Oh, my God. I'm going to read some of the bad reviews because you're going to laugh so hard. This movie absolutely sucked. This was the worst movie I've ever seen.
00:06:04
Speaker 4: Bill Murray should be ashamed to take a paycheck for this garbage.
00:06:08
Speaker 2: Bill Murray needs a bigger paycheck for how he pulled this.
00:06:12
Speaker 1: Off, I would argue.
00:06:14
Speaker 3: It's so funny when people get really upset, and this is so funny, but I am laughing at just people who get angry.
00:06:21
Speaker 4: A truly terrible film. I think I've tried to watch it twice.
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Speaker 3: You think with the cast, it's just about to get good, but I never managed to see the movie even get slightly interesting aside from seeing famous people show up.
00:06:34
Speaker 4: Isn't that funny?
00:06:34
Speaker 1: You know what? People have... People have their opinions, and that's okay. We don't.
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Speaker 2: Make our list based on, let's see the Rotten Tomatoes score, make sure everybody agrees with us before we recommend it. We just don't. So I didn't know their scores were so low. People see things differently. Hell, we liked Digger. Let me throw that out there, too.
00:06:56
Speaker 3: This is my favorite bad review, and then I'll read some good ones. This movie don't die, but it should. It's 3.30 in the morning.
00:07:03
Speaker 4: I don't sleep well. This has cured me. Good night. That was mean.
00:07:08
Speaker 1: That's just.
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Speaker 4: Also, they didn't understand it.
00:07:11
Speaker 2: And again, I don't know how much... Maybe folks don't... You know what? If you're into zombie.
00:07:17
Speaker 1: Movies at all, you will certainly.
00:07:20
Speaker 2: appreciate this because it still follows a lot of the rules that zombie movies.
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Speaker 3: Have it's not the classic genre and someone like natalie d she just watched this this summer she went okay the majority of reviews here say it was bad i thought it was great i don't think it's for everyone but if you like dry humor uh slow burn action characters breaking the fourth wall and stupidity then i think you'll really like this movie.
00:07:43
Speaker 2: You know it's a nice escape Yes. You're looking for a horror movie and that's escapism already. But this cast adds to it's just like you're all sitting in on a big joke. Yes.
00:07:54
Speaker 1: Yes.
00:07:54
Speaker 3: And, you know, so that was those were the audience reviews. I do think the critics tend to they were approaching it differently, maybe. And so I liked the way this one and again, some of these reviews, I think it's so interesting now the way we do it. This movie was in 2019. You're getting reviews from 2025, 2026, people who are streaming it and are official movie critics.
00:08:14
Speaker 4: But this one came in just from the summer.
00:08:16
Speaker 3: If you like dry, dark comedies like those done by the Coen brothers, you will likely appreciate this movie. I think it has something for everyone. But if you don't like slower-paced films, then you should probably move on. And I just think that's a good.
00:08:30
Speaker 3: Disclaimer, just in case you're somebody who knows, you're not going to want to watch something like that.
00:08:35
Speaker 1: I hate calling it a slower burn. It's fun.
00:08:38
Speaker 2: If slower burn means you don't immediately see zombies taking people out, then fine.
00:08:46
Speaker 1: But then Jaws was a slow burn.
00:08:48
Speaker 4: Right, exactly. No, that's such a good point, babe. That is such a good point.
00:08:51
Speaker 3: The director, I wasn't familiar with his name, but when I saw the other big movie he did, it made sense when I saw this movie. Jim Jarmusch, he did Sling Blade. And I was like, oh, I kind of get that. There's just the Billy Bob Thornton. I had that same kind of feel to it. it made sense to me that they are both, or he directed both of these films.
00:09:15
Speaker 1: Oscar winning. Yes.
00:09:16
Speaker 3: Oh yes. No, this is every single person associated with this movie has some really spectacular resumes to boot.
00:09:25
Speaker 1: And there's even, think.
00:09:27
Speaker 2: Of how, um, Just the careers that Danny Glover and Steve Buscemi have had and the type of characters that they have played throughout. The lethal weapon, the cop, very serious. Hell, even Steve Buscemi was the head of a crime family. Well, you've seen these guys. These two guys sit across from each other in a diner and have this bordering on racist conversation together.
00:09:49
Speaker 1: That's hilarious.
00:09:50
Speaker 2: And you see these two high-level actors do this low-level thing like a really low-level.
00:09:57
Speaker 1: Stupid conversation between the two of them. What did he have? Make America White Again?
00:10:01
Speaker 4: Make America White Again. And then his dog's name was Rumsfeld.
00:10:06
Speaker 1: It's so good.
00:10:07
Speaker 3: Just little touches like that. I was laughing so hard at how they pulled it off. It really... I thought it was so well done and so misunderstood by a lot of people.
00:10:17
Speaker 1: And we haven't even talked about Tilda Swinton.
00:10:19
Speaker 4: Oh, my goodness.
00:10:21
Speaker 1: Does she crack a smudge? She is a deadpan. And her character is over the top ridiculous.
00:10:27
Speaker 4: Oh, yeah. She's just.
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Speaker 3: And she just reacts so deadpan to decapitating zombies with her massive sword that she just... effortlessly just swooshes and just kills zombies as they're coming towards her.
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Speaker 1: It's awesome.
00:10:41
Speaker 3: All right. When we come back, we're going to tell you where you can watch it. And again, why we believe this is a guaranteed hit. Welcome back everyone to Amy and TJ. We've got a zombie filled Sunday for you. We're counting down our top three deep cut zombie movies. We're not doing the obvious zombie thrillers that we all know and love. I think we even did this last year, train to Busan. Some of the Korean zombie horror is just hard to do better than alive.
00:11:19
Speaker 4: It's just, in fact, there's another one on our list.
00:11:21
Speaker 3: We'll have to check out soon that I saw another zombie Asian horror movie, but look, There are plenty to choose from, but we went and found a couple that we just thought were maybe overlooked or not as talked about. And yes, The Dead Don't Die is number three on our list. You can watch it on Netflix. So who doesn't have Netflix? Just about anybody can turn it on. Again, it's an hour 45, so it's just fun. And it was a blast seeing, as you pointed out, babe, these actors that we're used to seeing in very different roles.
00:11:52
Speaker 4: All become a Bill Murray actor, by the way.
00:11:55
Speaker 3: And it was just so fun. I, I, there was something about Selena Gomez that I just love too, because she's just, you know, bubble gum and cute. And just to see her just play this like deadpan kind of annoyed young adult.
00:12:09
Speaker 4: And it was just fun. I loved, I loved every single performance.
00:12:14
Speaker 2: They were fun, babe. That's just, You just can appreciate the movie. I just don't see, again, we say it's not for everybody, but it's hard to not find something in there to like. There are enough actors who have enough history that everybody watching this movie likes at least one or probably several of these actors and projects that they have done. If you like them, you will like this movie because they are being their talented, awesome selves, and you're seeing a little different side to them.
00:12:45
Speaker 1: You can't take your eyes off the screen.
00:12:48
Speaker 2: Really, Adam Driver and Bill Murray set such a tone in this movie. And I didn't, until we started recording here, I didn't realize. Adam Driver is amazing.
00:12:56
Speaker 4: He commits to his character.
00:12:58
Speaker 1: He's great.
00:12:59
Speaker 4: He is a phenomenal actor.
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Speaker 3: I agree. I think this is a great movie. Someone put it, I did like the way they put it. They said, Jim Jarmusch's zombie comedy, The Dead Don't Die, is a film you grow to love and you don't even know why. It's like it almost becomes nostalgic. You want to watch it because all of your friends are in it and they're hilarious. And it's not so scary. I mean, obviously, this isn't going to keep you up at night. Just full disclosure. This is not going to be one where you're into the jump scares necessarily. You're watching it for the brilliance that's being acted out on screen.
00:13:36
Speaker 1: This is just a fun movie.
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Speaker 3: It's a fun movie. So everybody, please go check out The Dead Don't Die. It's a guaranteed hit. This is actually fun for the whole family. I think everybody can watch this one and love it. You don't have to be a horror movie fan, but it will absolutely get you in the Halloween spirit.
00:13:53
Speaker 4: So enjoy. And we always appreciate you listening to us. Stay tuned.
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Speaker 3: We'll have number two and number three coming up on the feed in just a bit. And with that, everyone, I'm Amy Robach alongside TJ Holmes.
00:14:04
Speaker 4: We'll talk soon.
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Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Hey there, folks.
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Speaker 2: It is Sunday, October 18th. And did you know that Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton, Danny Glover, and Steve Buscemi are all in a horror movie together? And it's a zombie movie. And it's kind of awesome. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. If you're still trying to get your horror movie fix robes as folks are getting closer and closer to Halloween, zombie movies are classics.
00:00:38
Speaker 1: They are.
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Speaker 3: And they run the gamut because sometimes they can be silly. Sometimes they can be horrifying. And sometimes they can be both.
00:00:46
Speaker 4: And look, this one is more on the silly side.
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Speaker 1: Intentionally.
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Speaker 3: Intentionally. It's deliberately campy. There's a lot of deadpan humor in it. It's classic Bill Murray. Yes. Classic Bill Murray. And not everybody loves this. I will grant you that. But if you're in a Bill Murray mood... and you are in a Halloween mood and you want a good zombie flick, this is a great confluence of those things.
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Speaker 1: You know, that's a.
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Speaker 2: Good way when you say, it is, I didn't realize until you said it, but the movie carries Bill Murray's tone kind of throughout. And one of the funnier people who maybe even is more Bill Murray than Bill Murray is Adam Driver.
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Speaker 4: He's like a younger version.
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Speaker 1: He's great, yes.
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Speaker 4: Yes, totally deadpan. He plays deadpan right back to him.
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Speaker 2: He's the most maybe ridiculous character and the most serious one in deadpan the whole movie. He is kind of special in this movie.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so this comes in. We are ranking these three, two, and one. The Dead Don't Die, come in at number three. The release date was June 14th, 2019. We'll give you the synopsis. I even love how it begins. That's probably my favorite part because you're like, what the hell is happening? So synopsis. In the sleepy small town of Centerville, something is not quite right. The moon hangs large and low in the sky. The hours of daylight are becoming unpredictable and animals are beginning to exhibit unusual behaviors.
00:02:06
Speaker 4: News reports are scary.
00:02:08
Speaker 3: And scientists are concerned, but no one foresees the strangest and most deep, dangerous repercussion that will soon start plaguing Centerville. The dead rise from their graves and feast on the living and the citizens must battle to survive.
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Speaker 2: It's a classic zombie scenario, right? The town trying to figure out what's going on. Um, Yeah, and the zombies here, and even them coming out of the ground at times.
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Speaker 4: It's ridiculous.
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Speaker 2: It is, but it kind of harkens back to the Night of the Living Dead, where some of these are just ridiculous. And we have other zombie movies that have come along, like the I Am Legends and things like that. Right. Zombies are a lot scarier and move a lot faster and whatnot.
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Speaker 1: This is old school zombie stuff.
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Speaker 4: Yes, exactly.
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Speaker 3: And you mentioned Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton, Steve Buscemi, Danny Glover.
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Speaker 4: Add to that Selena Gomez, Austin Butler, Rosie Perez.
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Speaker 3: I mean, every time I feel like a new scene shows up, I feel like, oh, my God, I can't believe they're in this, too.
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Speaker 2: I'm thinking about the Austin and Selena scene right now. You're going to like it, too. She was great and sweet in this movie. He looks like a high school kid.
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Speaker 4: He does, and she's adorable.
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Speaker 3: She looks like a high school kid, too. Now, the runtime, an hour and 43 minutes, so it's a nice little... It's a slow burn, but it doesn't last too long. It's not like it's a long, drawn-out.
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Speaker 4: Movie, but it is a bit of a slow burn.
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Speaker 3: I think it is because the humor is so deadpan. Everyone plays deadpan humor, and truly you have to be into deadpan humor to like it.
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Speaker 1: You know what?
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Speaker 2: I'm trying to think of any moment where they played for, like anybody on screen was having a good time.
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Speaker 1: Nobody on the camera was having fun.
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Speaker 3: Yes, so Rotten Tomatoes didn't like it as much as we did. It got 55%, which is a little surprising. The audience score is even lower. Again, that's why I really think you have to like dead fan humor 38%. What was their problem with it?
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Speaker 4: They thought it was slow and boring.
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Speaker 1: Wow.
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Speaker 4: They didn't get the humor. I mean, I get that's fair. That's fair.
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Speaker 3: And they think it's a zombie movie. The Dead Don't Die, by the way, is a great name. What a great title of a movie.
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Speaker 2: Which also plays into a great theme song of the movie that plays throughout the movie as well, which is also part of a joke, which is also deadpan.
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Speaker 4: Exactly.
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Speaker 3: And so it's almost like if you're not in on the joke, you're like, what the hell is going on? This is the dumbest movie ever. And so that is what people who didn't like the movie said.
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Speaker 2: Mind you, this is still a zombie movie. This was not a spoiler alert. Zombies are eating people. OK, so this is still has classic zombie horror.
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Speaker 4: People die in a diner, you know, like that kind of.
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Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 4: Right? So here's the critics' consensus.
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Speaker 3: The Dead Don't Die dabbles with tones and themes to varying degrees of success, but sharp wit and strong cast make this a Zomcom with enough brains to consume. I have never heard that genre title before, and that made me laugh.
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Speaker 1: A Zomcom. Because most zombie movies aren't funny at all.
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Speaker 2: No. This one is intentionally. They go after the laughs. And you say a slow... A slow burn, but I don't know. There isn't even a lot of energy or excitement or, you know, you don't even have a character that's acting out or doing anything crazy necessarily. There's one crazy local who's with the gun, that guy. He's a little personality. But even Adam Driver and Bill Murray play cops, right? And they're partners, right? And at the beginning, you're just following along with them in their day. They're in the car.
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Speaker 1: Yep.
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Speaker 2: They're having what you would think is the most boring conversation ever based on how they're interacting.
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Speaker 4: But they're talking about a potential of a zombie apocalypse.
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Speaker 2: And what they're saying is hilarious the whole time.
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Speaker 3: Oh, my God. I'm going to read some of the bad reviews because you're going to laugh so hard. This movie absolutely sucked. This was the worst movie I've ever seen.
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Speaker 4: Bill Murray should be ashamed to take a paycheck for this garbage.
00:06:08
Speaker 2: Bill Murray needs a bigger paycheck for how he pulled this.
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Speaker 1: Off, I would argue.
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Speaker 3: It's so funny when people get really upset, and this is so funny, but I am laughing at just people who get angry.
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Speaker 4: A truly terrible film. I think I've tried to watch it twice.
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Speaker 3: You think with the cast, it's just about to get good, but I never managed to see the movie even get slightly interesting aside from seeing famous people show up.
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Speaker 4: Isn't that funny?
00:06:34
Speaker 1: You know what? People have... People have their opinions, and that's okay. We don't.
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Speaker 2: Make our list based on, let's see the Rotten Tomatoes score, make sure everybody agrees with us before we recommend it. We just don't. So I didn't know their scores were so low. People see things differently. Hell, we liked Digger. Let me throw that out there, too.
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Speaker 3: This is my favorite bad review, and then I'll read some good ones. This movie don't die, but it should. It's 3.30 in the morning.
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Speaker 4: I don't sleep well. This has cured me. Good night. That was mean.
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Speaker 1: That's just.
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Speaker 4: Also, they didn't understand it.
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Speaker 2: And again, I don't know how much... Maybe folks don't... You know what? If you're into zombie.
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Speaker 1: Movies at all, you will certainly.
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Speaker 2: appreciate this because it still follows a lot of the rules that zombie movies.
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Speaker 3: Have it's not the classic genre and someone like natalie d she just watched this this summer she went okay the majority of reviews here say it was bad i thought it was great i don't think it's for everyone but if you like dry humor uh slow burn action characters breaking the fourth wall and stupidity then i think you'll really like this movie.
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Speaker 2: You know it's a nice escape Yes. You're looking for a horror movie and that's escapism already. But this cast adds to it's just like you're all sitting in on a big joke. Yes.
00:07:54
Speaker 1: Yes.
00:07:54
Speaker 3: And, you know, so that was those were the audience reviews. I do think the critics tend to they were approaching it differently, maybe. And so I liked the way this one and again, some of these reviews, I think it's so interesting now the way we do it. This movie was in 2019. You're getting reviews from 2025, 2026, people who are streaming it and are official movie critics.
00:08:14
Speaker 4: But this one came in just from the summer.
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Speaker 3: If you like dry, dark comedies like those done by the Coen brothers, you will likely appreciate this movie. I think it has something for everyone. But if you don't like slower-paced films, then you should probably move on. And I just think that's a good.
00:08:30
Speaker 3: Disclaimer, just in case you're somebody who knows, you're not going to want to watch something like that.
00:08:35
Speaker 1: I hate calling it a slower burn. It's fun.
00:08:38
Speaker 2: If slower burn means you don't immediately see zombies taking people out, then fine.
00:08:46
Speaker 1: But then Jaws was a slow burn.
00:08:48
Speaker 4: Right, exactly. No, that's such a good point, babe. That is such a good point.
00:08:51
Speaker 3: The director, I wasn't familiar with his name, but when I saw the other big movie he did, it made sense when I saw this movie. Jim Jarmusch, he did Sling Blade. And I was like, oh, I kind of get that. There's just the Billy Bob Thornton. I had that same kind of feel to it. it made sense to me that they are both, or he directed both of these films.
00:09:15
Speaker 1: Oscar winning. Yes.
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Speaker 3: Oh yes. No, this is every single person associated with this movie has some really spectacular resumes to boot.
00:09:25
Speaker 1: And there's even, think.
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Speaker 2: Of how, um, Just the careers that Danny Glover and Steve Buscemi have had and the type of characters that they have played throughout. The lethal weapon, the cop, very serious. Hell, even Steve Buscemi was the head of a crime family. Well, you've seen these guys. These two guys sit across from each other in a diner and have this bordering on racist conversation together.
00:09:49
Speaker 1: That's hilarious.
00:09:50
Speaker 2: And you see these two high-level actors do this low-level thing like a really low-level.
00:09:57
Speaker 1: Stupid conversation between the two of them. What did he have? Make America White Again?
00:10:01
Speaker 4: Make America White Again. And then his dog's name was Rumsfeld.
00:10:06
Speaker 1: It's so good.
00:10:07
Speaker 3: Just little touches like that. I was laughing so hard at how they pulled it off. It really... I thought it was so well done and so misunderstood by a lot of people.
00:10:17
Speaker 1: And we haven't even talked about Tilda Swinton.
00:10:19
Speaker 4: Oh, my goodness.
00:10:21
Speaker 1: Does she crack a smudge? She is a deadpan. And her character is over the top ridiculous.
00:10:27
Speaker 4: Oh, yeah. She's just.
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Speaker 3: And she just reacts so deadpan to decapitating zombies with her massive sword that she just... effortlessly just swooshes and just kills zombies as they're coming towards her.
00:10:40
Speaker 1: It's awesome.
00:10:41
Speaker 3: All right. When we come back, we're going to tell you where you can watch it. And again, why we believe this is a guaranteed hit. Welcome back everyone to Amy and TJ. We've got a zombie filled Sunday for you. We're counting down our top three deep cut zombie movies. We're not doing the obvious zombie thrillers that we all know and love. I think we even did this last year, train to Busan. Some of the Korean zombie horror is just hard to do better than alive.
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Speaker 4: It's just, in fact, there's another one on our list.
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Speaker 3: We'll have to check out soon that I saw another zombie Asian horror movie, but look, There are plenty to choose from, but we went and found a couple that we just thought were maybe overlooked or not as talked about. And yes, The Dead Don't Die is number three on our list. You can watch it on Netflix. So who doesn't have Netflix? Just about anybody can turn it on. Again, it's an hour 45, so it's just fun. And it was a blast seeing, as you pointed out, babe, these actors that we're used to seeing in very different roles.
00:11:52
Speaker 4: All become a Bill Murray actor, by the way.
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Speaker 3: And it was just so fun. I, I, there was something about Selena Gomez that I just love too, because she's just, you know, bubble gum and cute. And just to see her just play this like deadpan kind of annoyed young adult.
00:12:09
Speaker 4: And it was just fun. I loved, I loved every single performance.
00:12:14
Speaker 2: They were fun, babe. That's just, You just can appreciate the movie. I just don't see, again, we say it's not for everybody, but it's hard to not find something in there to like. There are enough actors who have enough history that everybody watching this movie likes at least one or probably several of these actors and projects that they have done. If you like them, you will like this movie because they are being their talented, awesome selves, and you're seeing a little different side to them.
00:12:45
Speaker 1: You can't take your eyes off the screen.
00:12:48
Speaker 2: Really, Adam Driver and Bill Murray set such a tone in this movie. And I didn't, until we started recording here, I didn't realize. Adam Driver is amazing.
00:12:56
Speaker 4: He commits to his character.
00:12:58
Speaker 1: He's great.
00:12:59
Speaker 4: He is a phenomenal actor.
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Speaker 3: I agree. I think this is a great movie. Someone put it, I did like the way they put it. They said, Jim Jarmusch's zombie comedy, The Dead Don't Die, is a film you grow to love and you don't even know why. It's like it almost becomes nostalgic. You want to watch it because all of your friends are in it and they're hilarious. And it's not so scary. I mean, obviously, this isn't going to keep you up at night. Just full disclosure. This is not going to be one where you're into the jump scares necessarily. You're watching it for the brilliance that's being acted out on screen.
00:13:36
Speaker 1: This is just a fun movie.
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Speaker 3: It's a fun movie. So everybody, please go check out The Dead Don't Die. It's a guaranteed hit. This is actually fun for the whole family. I think everybody can watch this one and love it. You don't have to be a horror movie fan, but it will absolutely get you in the Halloween spirit.
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Speaker 4: So enjoy. And we always appreciate you listening to us. Stay tuned.
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Speaker 3: We'll have number two and number three coming up on the feed in just a bit. And with that, everyone, I'm Amy Robach alongside TJ Holmes.
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Speaker 4: We'll talk soon.
00:14:14
Speaker 3: Thank you.