S05 | E04: Mars Attacks! (1996)

Send us Fan MailIn this minisode, Katie and Grace lean into a world where remakes are king, one-off movies get sequels, and viewers get tricked into funding more of the same. If original ideas are dead, Katie and Grace get zombified with 28 Days Later (2002), 28 Weeks Later (2007), and 28 Years Later (2025).Find us on Instagram & Threads @theunsolicitedfilmcritics

Send us Fan MailHave you ever found yourself on a speeding train on the way to take your daughter to see the parent she likes best forcing you to confront your general failings as a parent and while you’re on said train, it suddenly get taken over by zombies and you’re forced to fight for your life and become the parent you always needed to be? Yeah, neither have we but those on their way to Busan sure have. Join Katie and Grace for as we speed towards our destinies and confront our fight or flight response in the season 5 finale of The Unsolicited Film Critics with Train to Busan (2016).Find us on Instagram & Threads @theunsolicitedfilmcritics

Send us Fan MailOne short day down deep in The Hive where a laboratory accident turns everyone into zombies and a special military unit run by amnesiac Milla Jovovich must save us all from the end of the world. Join Grace and Katie as we fight our way through flesh-eating monsters in Resident Evil (2002).Find us on Instagram & Threads @theunsolicitedfilmcritics

Send us Fan MailEver wonder what would happen if that sense of impending doom was actually foreshadowing the end of the world? Do you ignore it, do you run from it, do you fight it or do you accept it? Join Katie and Grace as we brace ourselves against a storm of apocalyptic proportions in Take Shelter (2011). Find us on Instagram & Threads @theunsolicitedfilmcritics

Send us Fan MailEver find yourself befriending a giant imagery bunny rabbit who happens to show you visions of the end of the world and you’re just like, yeah that’s cool? Neither have we, but troubled teen, Donnie, sure has. Join Grace and Katie as we time-travel our way through the apocalypse in Donnie Darko (2001). Find us on Instagram & Threads @theunsolicitedfilmcritics

Send us Fan MailIn a fictional world that didn’t feel fictional at all and could have taken place in 2020 instead of 2011, a star-studded cast struggles to overcome a pandemic that’s ravaging the planet and may or may not be a prophetic film for the future. Join Katie and Grace as we are reluctantly exposed to a virally bad time in Contagion (2011).Find us on Instagram & Threads @theunsolicitedfilmcritics

Send us Fan MailYou know that thing where you wake up after a night of “making it” with your coworker (on the same night a comet passes overhead) and you suddenly find yourself in a zombie apocalypse? Well, Regina and Samantha Belmont know this situation all too well. Join Grace and Katie, and special guest Ally, as we traipse through a desolate downtown L.A. trying to escape flesh eating zombies and sinister scientists in Night of the Comet (1984).Find us on Instagram & Threads @theunsolicitedfilmcritics

Send us Fan MailYou’re cordially invited to the welcome ceremony of our new intergalactic friends from Mars! Please join us in Pahrump, Nevada as we come together in celebration of this momentous event. Whats the worst that could happen?Katie and Grace brace themselves for an out of this world time in Mars Attacks! (1996)Find us on Instagram & Threads @theunsolicitedfilmcritics

Send us Fan MailMajor sexual tension between James Bond and Sarah Connor, children risking this lives to save their grandma and the 2nd best town to live in in the Pacific Northwest. Join Grace and Katie for a pyroclastic surge for the ages in Dante’s Peak (1997). Find us on Instagram & Threads @theunsolicitedfilmcritics

Send us Fan MailIt’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Super…oh wait, it’s actually…more birds! Join Katie and Grace for the second episode of our disaster season as nature takes its revenge (in true Hitchcock fashion) in The Birds (1963). Find us on Instagram & Threads @theunsolicitedfilmcritics