In this episode, [REC] squares off with Zombi. Will the nerve-jangling thrill-ride beat the nightmare you can’t wake up from? Luke makes an impassioned argument for the latter.

Kicking off the second round of our tournament are films from the Romero lineage, whether they admit it or not. In Part 1, George’s masterpiece Dawn of the Dead faces the underrated Australian film Cargo (2017).

Let’s decide the last three match-ups in the Crazies bracket: The Sadness vs. The Crazies (1974), Rabid vs. The Serpent and the Rainbow, and Pontypool vs. Fido. Each film has something juicy to offer us zombiphiles… Plus some skull-effing and scrotal mutilation!

Three more match-ups! Virus 32 vs. The Girl With All the Gifts, Pet Sematary vs. Shivers, and 28 Weeks Later vs. The Signal. In most of these films zombies aren’t necessarily diminished by their infection... in fact, they may be liberated by it.

To begin our study of the tournament's "batshit nuts bracket," it’s 28 Days Later vs. Overlord! Things get quite heated in our It Comes at Night discussion (is this really a zombie movie?) as it faces off with The Crazies 2010. Which films will prevail?

Our final two matchups of the bracket are Deathdream vs. The Battery and Train to Busan vs. Savageland. Three American indies, one Korean blockbuster. How greatly is vision limited by budget? As usual, we focus on the eliminated films but highlight what they have to offer.

We've got more zombie movie talk! As the tournament rolls on, the Madmen must vote out either The Beyond or Wyrmwood: Apocalypse. Do we keep Cemetery Man or Deadgirl? Each movie has its merits…

Let’s continue our study of the stranger zombie films in the field! Tonight’s combatants are Contracted, Peninsula, City of the Living Dead and #Alive.