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It’s alive (not dead) but inhabiting a post-apocalyptic western! Jay of the Dead’s New Horror Movies presents another episode of your favorite zombie movie podcast, Dead Man Still Walking — also known as Dr. Kyle Bishop. In this 67th edition, Dr. Bishop heads to post-apocalyptic New Zealand for an examination of Forgive Us All (2025), writer-director Jordana Stott’s low-budget, Western-inflected infection narrative.
Kyle considers the film’s striking landscapes, strong emotional performances, and its central concerns with trauma, survivor’s guilt, redemption, and sacrifice. But does a film with remarkably few zombies still earn its zombie-movie credentials? Dr. Walking Dead examines the feral infected, the story’s human conflict, its uneasy moral choices, and an effectively frightening final act. Saddle up for a somber little frontier tale with horses, shootouts, a desperate race for a cure, and zombies waiting in the woods.
Note: This episode contains spoilers for Forgive Us All (2025), and it was recorded on November 13, 2025.
Also, to view ALL of Dr. Bishop’s Dead Man Still Walking solocast episodes can USE THIS LINK. And to view ALL of Dr. Bishop’s episode-by-episode commentaries on The Last of Us – Seasons 1 and 2, with Jay of the Dead, then USE THIS LINK.
Dead Man Still Walking is a biweekly, short-form solocast hosted by Dr. Walking Dead Kyle Bishop, author of American Zombie Gothic and How Zombies Conquered Popular Culture. Dr. Walking Dead also presents a popular segment called The Dead Zone on regular episodes of this podcast. For his Dead Man Still Walking solocast episodes, Dr. Bishop will focus exclusively on zombie films, with the occasional exploration of zombie-related themes, zombie television, and other zombie media (e.g., comics, literature, etc.).
Dr. Bishop is an academic and professional scholar of zombie films and other zombie narratives. He has been teaching for 26 years. Dr. Bishop serves as an English professor, Film Studies professor, and he’s currently the English Department Chair at Southern Utah University.
You are welcome to reach out to Dr. Bishop with comments or questions via email: bishopk@suu.edu, X: @DrWalkingDead, BlueSky and Instagram (@DrWalkingDead). You can also watch the documentary, Doc of the Dead (2014), which features Dr. Walking Dead. Find more links below for Dr. Bishop.
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Dead Man Still Walking with Dr. Kyle Bishop is brought to you by Jay of the Dead’s New Horror Movies, an audio Horror movie podcast. It features 10 experienced Horror hosts review new Horror movies and deliver specialty Horror segments. Your hosts are Jay of the Dead, Dr. Shock, Gillman Joel, Mister Watson, Dr. Walking Dead, GregaMortis, Mackula, Ron Martin, Dave Zee and Spawn of the Dead! Due to the large number and busy schedule of its nine Horror hosts, Jay of the Dead’s New Horror Movies will be recorded in segments, piecemeal, at various times and recording sessions. Therefore, as you listen to our episodes, you will notice a variety of revolving door hosts and segments, all sewn together and reanimated like the powerful Monster of Dr. Frankenstein!
SHOW NOTES
– Introduction
- Welcome to the 67th edition of Dead Man Still Walking with Dr. Walking Dead
- The “Purple Smurf” episode and its zombie parallels
- Ron Martin mentions the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “Genesis”
Modern Zombie Movie:
Forgive Us All (2025)
Dr. Walking Dead = 7 ( Rental )
A Few Discussion Points:
– A New Zealand zombie film written and directed by Jordana Stott
– Stott’s first feature film as writer and director
– A post-apocalyptic survival story with Western imagery and iconography
– Horses, guns, cowboy hats, frontier settings, and a sparse landscape
– A stranger on the run seeks a cure for his infected son
– The infection can be cured before its victim fully turns
– The infected are living zombies: feral, animalistic, and frightening
– The film’s zombies resemble the rapid infected of World War Z
– Trauma, redemption, trust, and sacrifice drive the human story
– The film asks whether the needs of many outweigh the needs of one
– Dr. Bishop finds its relentless sacrifices somewhat one-note
– The zombies appear sparingly until the final 15 minutes
– Despite their limited screen time, the nighttime forest zombies are genuinely scary
– The film focuses more on dangerous humans than on the undead
– Praise for its New Zealand cinematography, sickly yellow palette, and score
– Dr. Bishop finds some of the editing awkward and distracting
– The story is thin and occasionally predictable but emotionally involving
– A worthwhile, low-budget post-apocalyptic Western with limited zombies
– Currently available to watch on Tubi
Next time on Dead Man Still Walking: A44 (2025) and As We Know It (2023)
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LINKS FOR THIS EPISODE:
Links for Dr. Walking Dead Kyle Bishop:
Follow Dr. Walking Dead on Letterbox’d
Email Dr. Bishop here: bishopk@suu.edu
Dr. Walking Dead’s Bio Page
Book: American Zombie Gothic
Book: How Zombies Conquered Popular Culture
— Kyle’s Amazon Author Profile
— Doc of the Dead zombie culture documentary
— Kyle’s re-animated Twitter: @DrWalkingDead
– Learn more about Dr. Walking Dead
– Faculty Friday: Meet Dr. Kyle Bishop, English
– TEDx SUU Talk on YouTube: Why Zombies Matter
– YouTube: Zombies: An idea worth spreading about how ideas spread
– YouTube: 50+ Shades of Gothic: Zombies, Bodies and Boundaries
– YouTube: Why zombie culture is so popular?
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