John Sears | June 26, 2011
We’ve had to talk about, and dispel, the notion that any of a variety of extant diseases or infectious agents could suddenly and spontaneously become the fuel for a Zombie Apocalypse before here on the ZRC. Usually it’s some fungus that infects ants and manipulates their behavior, or Toxoplasma, whose effects on human behavior are [...]
John Sears | June 26, 2011
We’ve talked about this extremely popular ‘Humans vs. Zombies’ phenomenon before here on the ZRC blog; what started out as a sort of ‘fun’ collegiate event has grown into something almost resembling a social movement, all unfortunately dedicated around staging faux Zombie Apocalypse events for ‘fun’. It was only a matter of time, I suppose, [...]
John Sears | June 25, 2011
We talked about Anti-Zombie targets for gun-toting Zombophobes to use in their murder-practice sessions recently, as well as merchants of death for sad, sad roleplaying nerds who want to pay hundreds of dollars for a proper Anti-Zombie sword. What about taking it to the next level (of fear, for the ZRC)? Is there anyone out [...]
John Sears | June 25, 2011
We’ve seen quite a bit of commercial Anti-Zombie depravity here on the ZRC blog; people selling swords allegedly made to fight the Zombie Menace, for example. Not to mention the sick degenerates at Harcos Labs who sell Zombie blood and ‘jerky’ as foodstuffs; monsters. Still, the inventiveness of the Anti-Zombie bigot is breathtaking to behold [...]
John Sears | June 24, 2011
Guess what highly promising potentially Zombie Friendly all-ages film landed a composer and lots of voice talent? If you guessed ‘ParaNorman’, congratulations: you can read the post title! Two-time Grammy Award-nominated composer Jon Brion has signed to create the original score for LAIKA and Focus Features’ animated comedy thriller ParaNorman, currently in production at LAIKA’s [...]
John Sears | June 24, 2011
There are times when without context it is truly hard to determine how the ZRC should feel about a particular image or idea relating to our clients. Case in point? At first I automatically assumed, based on long and unfortunate experience, that this was shaking down customers for protection AGAINST Zombies, and indeed, I would [...]
John Sears | June 24, 2011
BuyZombie brings us news of another retro-style Anti-Zombie game in development, which I think officially constitutes a trend, at least if you count all the flash variants of late: Goners is an online zombie board game of survival and betrayal. The game is played by 4 players who take turns roaming the zombie wasteland, killing [...]
John Sears | June 24, 2011
We had this item passed to us by numerous individuals on Tuesday, but I believe The Horror Society, our long trusted correspondents, got it to us first: Yes, that’s right; a chart that claims to categorize all Zombies by two axes: speed and intelligence. Nevermind that the idea of a single, easily quantifiable measurement of [...]
John Sears | June 24, 2011
We love to review music here on the ZRC blog; if nothing else it’s a nice change of pace. So I wish I had better news to relate about the video for Patent Pending’s song ‘Dance Till We Die’, but.. we don’t. In fact, the video does a great disservice by spreading not just conventional [...]
John Sears | June 23, 2011
This is a random little gem of Undead sympathy in advertising that I came across.. somehow or other… in my internet journeys and wanted to share. I have no information on whether the arthritis treatment it’s hawking is the least bit effective, but their humor and sympathy for a man who’s come back from the [...]