John Sears | October 9, 2015
The Zombie Rights Campaign’s art director has to take a trip to Las Vegas this November for her day job, and so your ZRC President knew he had to acquire two things. The first was a copy of ‘Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas’. The second? A deck of playing cards, naturally. But not just [...]
John Sears | October 9, 2015
George Romero, longtime foe and occasionally sympathetic voice of Zombies both, is at it again with a comic series from Marvel. Entitled ‘Empire of the Dead’, it features, well, Romero Zombies, more or less, in a post-apocalyptic world very similar to Romero’s more recent films like ‘Land of the Dead’ or ‘Diary of the Dead’. [...]
John Sears | October 2, 2015
With somewhat heavy hearts, the Zombie Rights Campaign paid our visit to the last Dark Carnival/Diabolique International Film Festival in Bloomington, Indiana last weekend, to see if the horror film world had made any progress toward greater Undead Acceptance. We were pleasantly surprised by a few of the films on offer, and of course, grossly [...]
John Sears | September 24, 2015
The Zombie Rights Campaign has been attending the Dark Carnival (and, for the last couple of years, Diabolique International) Film Festival since before there was a Zombie Rights Campaign as such. Founded in 2007, Dark Carnival/Diabolique has been bringing horror movies of all varieties, including many Zombie films, to southern Indiana for 8 glorious, messy [...]
John Sears | September 24, 2015
We are now roughly one month from Halloween, the Zombiest time of the year, and the ZRC is noticing the signs everywhere – candy on the shelves, decorations on the walls, and of course, merchandising, merchandising, merchandising. (Yogurt’s not a Zombie, but he is green, work with me here) It’s amazing how much of this [...]
John Sears | August 7, 2015
The ZRC has written before about a Zombie themed burger restaurant in Iowa and how, while the food sounds delicious, the portrayals of the Differently Animated were less than Zombie Correct. It seems that mixing Zombie culture with food has been successful for the proprietors, at least, as they are expanding: The Jordan Creek Town [...]
John Sears | August 7, 2015
This is indeed disturbing news. Taking a vacation with a cruise ship full of zombies sounds like the premise of a blockbuster Hollywood film, but it will be a reality now for those who get aboard the Norwegian Pearl in January of 2016. In a partnership with Norwegian Cruise Line, festivals at sea marketer Sixthman [...]
John Sears | July 23, 2015
Zombies on television. Obviously, the first thought for almost everyone is The Walking Dead, unless you’re talking about some of the progressive, more Zombie Tolerant shows from our friends in the UK. The second thought for many will likely be Walking Dead’s spinoff/prequel, aptly named ‘Fear the Walking Dead’, which debuts this fall. But there [...]
John Sears | July 23, 2015
The Walking Dead, ahh, yes. Cultural phenomenon, to be sure. But, and this almost goes without saying by this point, rabidly, and unredeemably, Living Supremacist. It’s also a show that is more than a little ripe for a satirical skewering, so The Zombie Rights Campaign was interested to learn of ‘The Walking Deceased’, a parody [...]
John Sears | July 13, 2015
Following on the heels of The Walking Dead Season 6 trailer this week was one for its new spinoff series, which purports to (somehow) explain the rapid implosion of Living society as a result of the Undead. Yes, ‘Fear the Walking Dead’, set in sunny California, will attempt to demonstrate how Everything Went Wrong. In [...]