John Sears | September 6, 2011
Sadly, this one doesn’t sound hugely Zombie Friendly: EL PASO- If you happen to be going to Downtown El Paso tonight, don’t get scared if you see a bunch of zombies walking around. They’re not real. They’re taking part in a launch party organized by El Paso Comic Con, which is two weeks away. The [...]
John Sears | September 5, 2011
Confession time: We don’t have cable here at the ZRC. I pathologically hate commercials, and between Netflix, Hulu, Youtube, Crunchyroll and many others, there’s very rarely any need to sit through one. DVDs come out faster and faster, almost on top of a television show, many are sold on iTunes as they air, and if [...]
John Sears | September 5, 2011
The ZRC blog previously looked at ‘A Zombie’s Day Out’, a short film by Travis Betz, and that in turn led us to a previous film by Mr. Betz also relevant to our mission titled ’4 Years’. ’4 Years’ has an interesting premise, whereby a young woman about to be Zombified left her future Zombie [...]
John Sears | September 4, 2011
I think it’s about time for another short film review, don’t you? ‘Zombie’s Day Out’ is a quirky and very inventive little film that you kind of have to see to understand. How else can I get across the idea of a movie whose story is told entirely from ankle-height? Here, it’s only a couple [...]
John Sears | September 4, 2011
I’m beginning to think that we’re going to have to retire, or at least diversity, the ZRC blog’s ‘Don’t Use the Zed Word’ tag, which we apply when journalists or pundits lazily apply the label ‘Zombie’ to something they dislike. In this latest case, we’re talking about big box stores that have cut back on [...]
John Sears | September 3, 2011
Notice: The following post contains details from Max Brooks’ hyperviolent, amoral and sadistic Living Supremacist Magnum Opus ‘World War Z’ to help illustrate the incredible impropriety of using it as the base of a year of introductory academic instruction. Proceed with caution. I’m shocked and appalled by this outrageous misuse and abuse of developing young [...]
John Sears | September 3, 2011
More details are emerging on the bizarre and obviously unhinged new Suda 51 game ‘Lollipop Chainsaw’, with details hearkening back to some unusual ideas of Zombiism, a recent Zombie Friendly anime series, ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ and chainsaw obsessions: Scott Warr, producer on Lollipop Chainsaw at Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, provided a behind-closed-doors sneak peak [...]
John Sears | September 2, 2011
Sometimes a single article ties into so many things we work on here at the ZRC at once it’s hard to parse, and so it was with this piece from The Inkwell about a new Anti-Zombie first novel and the process of independent publication in the age of Kindle: Run for your life! The zombie [...]
John Sears | September 1, 2011
There has been a veritable gold rush into Zombie film lately, and lots of big names have been signing up. Indie zombie movies are attracting top talent these days; Sir Ian McKellen and Dame Judi Dench will appear in ‘The Curse of the Buxom Strumpet’ for example, while Jeff Bridges will star in ‘R.I.P.D.’ and [...]
John Sears | September 1, 2011
One of the big gripes of the Anti-Zombie fanboys who love their ‘Dead Rising 2′ is that, inexplicably for a sandbox game, Capcom never provided them with a true sandbox mode, where they could soak their murderous hands in virtual Zombie blood without a pesky story, or objectives, or any sort of structure forcing them [...]