John Sears | July 15, 2011
We’ve talked about the fuzzy line between Zombies and Demons, at least in the media, here before at the ZRC blog, and of course the ‘Evil Dead’ series of Anti-Zombie films popularized the concept in America at any rate. Still, this story took us a bit by surprise: TORONTO – Half zombie, half demon, Christopher [...]
John Sears | July 14, 2011
I am perhaps in a rather small minority who considers the Argento/Bava picture ‘Demons’ to belong in the Zombie film subgenre, although many of the classic Anti-Zombie tropes are present in ‘Demons’, which is also a highly stylish and atmospheric film (not uncommon in Euro-Zom movies) and relatively coherent (far less common). The series is [...]
John Sears | July 9, 2011
We had a great time at the Convention today! Sold a bunch of merch, our shirt supplies are just devastated, we will reorder this weekend but it should take a couple of weeks to be back at full strength. Wristbands are getting low too! Such fun. Plus we raise money for Lynn Sage that way [...]
John Sears | July 5, 2011
Annalee Newitz, who Wikipedia says is allegedly a journalist (we have our doubts), is the latest to try and tie Zombies to something that she personally finds unpleasant in a pop-science article. Of course, she had to one-up the legion of quasi-writers tying Zombies to dying ants, mental illnesses or communicable diseases, so Ms. Newitz [...]
John Sears | July 5, 2011
I know that it’s one of the most popular shows on television but I really wish that the mainstream media could remember that popularity is based on *hate*. I mean, seriously. Just because it makes money that doesn’t make it right and it shouldn’t make it socially acceptable. TV Guide, for those of you who [...]
John Sears | July 4, 2011
As if you hadn’t been deluged enough already with ‘World War Z’ news, the mega-production of evil is rolling ever onward: Now, having bought the rights in 2007, Brad Pitt has finally began filming his zombie film World War Z And fans have been given their first glimpse of the living dead as filming continued [...]
John Sears | July 4, 2011
I really like it when Zombie events can help raise money for worthy causes, can bring people together in pursuit of some worthy goal. But not all the Zombie-related charity events out there are Zombie Friendly, even if they are working toward one of those worthy goals. Case in point, ‘Zombie Buffet 5k’, a charity [...]
John Sears | July 4, 2011
Another day, another tenuous excuse to bash Zombies when talking about anything unpleasant to the writer. Case in point: in 2005 Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, or to be more precise, it triggered the complete collapse of ridiculously antiquated and defective flood control systems, and the subsequent waters devastated New Orleans. A Six Flags park [...]
John Sears | July 3, 2011
Look, seriously, journalists out there? Stop calling everything Zombie. Just because something is dormant or acts a little differently or in a way you disapprove of, that does not make it a Zombie, with all the challenges that entails and rights that it SHOULD entail. Still, at least this most recent example isn’t as patently [...]
John Sears | July 3, 2011
Mega-huge Living Supremacist adaptation of Max Brooks’ infamous ‘World War Z’ hit more snags recently: World War Z, the would-be epic adaptation of Max Brooks’ oral history of a fictitious zombie pandemic and near-apocalypse, spent so many months in development hell that the project seemed doomed, even with the presence of director Marc Forster and [...]