John Sears | October 7, 2011
We’re all for education about the history of Anti-Zombie media here at the ZRC, but it can all too easily cross the line into scaremongering or glorification of Anti-Zombie violence, and I think the folks at SFX have easily vaulted over that line: Like zombies? Then you’ll love our latest one-off special issue! Zombies: The [...]
John Sears | October 7, 2011
Really, I think we all know where Zack Snyder stands on Zombie Rights, given his helming of the incredibly odious, gun-fetishizing ‘Dawn of the Dead’ remake, but apparently that wasn’t enough degradation to pile on the Differently Animated community, and he has more cinematic evil waiting to be inflicted on the public: How will this [...]
John Sears | October 6, 2011
I mentioned this on Twitter, but last week we were taking the art director’s family around town on a totally non-ZRC, non-Zombie Rights related outing (to the extent I can ever stop thinking about it anyway) and saw this: Wow! Zombie-related theatre right here in town for me to review. And yet, of course, it [...]
John Sears | October 6, 2011
Oh how I wish I didn’t have to read about so many Anti-Zombie spectacles: A family dressed all in purple, likely arriving from the football game, parked their car in Aggieville on Friday. They opened the doors to get out, chatting with one another, when suddenly Roger Adams, curator of Special Collections and associate professor, [...]
John Sears | October 5, 2011
Well, I suppose this was inevitable: There’s just something sticky and icky about Lucio Fulci’s 1981 gorefest in Zombie, which is loosely a follow-up to the events in Dawn of the Dead. The gore is outrageous. The zombies are nasty decaying corpses. The women have nice boobs and big bushes, and of course: there’s a [...]
John Sears | October 4, 2011
Naturally we here at the ZRC are in favor of Zombies protesting publicly, and even offer qualified support to the Living who wish to dress up as Zombies and protest in public. However, when Living people slap on makeup and shamble around to intentionally mime the worst and ugliest stereotypes about the Differently Animated, that’s [...]
John Sears | October 3, 2011
I want to put a word of caution here at the start, because there ARE supposedly such things as ‘Zombie drugs’, at least in some interpretations of the Haitian Voodoo Zombification process. The potential existence of ACTUAL drugs involved with turning a person into a Zombie of some form only makes the following abuse of [...]
John Sears | October 3, 2011
Sorry for the long weekend, I cannot divulge much yet but rest assured it was all for one of the ZRC’s ongoing secret projects. Mwa ha ha. Meanwhile later this month the ZRC will be attending The Dark Carnival Film Festival in Bloomington, Indiana from October 21-23rd. This is the fifth year we’ve gone, and [...]
John Sears | September 30, 2011
Not so much because of the people involved, aside from Smirky McGee herself Milla, but because it indicates that this, ahem, ‘film’ is still well on its way to ruining an afternoon of mine sometime in the future. Oh, and spreading lots of Anti-Zombie prejudice of course: Are You Sick Of Resident Evil: Retribution Casting [...]
John Sears | September 30, 2011
In the classic science-fiction spoof ‘Spaceballs’, one of the recurring jokes is the hypercommercialization of the Spaceballs movie itself, and the bewildering variety of (sometimes just plain bewildering) merchandise that, allegedly, one could purchase related the film. (This is pretty obviously a poke in the ribs at ‘Star Wars’ which really did break all sorts [...]