John Sears | May 31, 2011
We talked previously about this bizarre sounding independent Zombie period piece before on the ZRC blog; now more information is available: Sir Ian will play the role of the narrator in The Curse Of The Buxom Strumpet, an 18th-century zombie romp. The film was developed from a short made last year — E’gad Zombies! Like [...]
John Sears | May 31, 2011
There’s been a distinct trend of advertising in the last year or so that’s not Unfriendly to the Differently Animated. Case in point, a Doritos ad from a little while ago that the BuyZombie crew pointed us toward: I don’t know how we missed that. It plays with the stereotypical ‘scary Zombie’ tropes quite well, [...]
John Sears | May 30, 2011
Here’s a contest our readers might well be interested in: With the news of the Centers For Disease Control And Prevention finally arming up in preparation for a zombie attack, it’s a great time for The A.V. Club’s Editor Keith Phipps to join Chicago comedians Dan Telfer and Adam Burke in a night of undead [...]
John Sears | May 30, 2011
The ZRC was linked to this video on Twitter and it provoked mixed reactions. It’s basically catchy pop-culture infused nerd rap-rock and quite easy to listen to, and Zombie Ninjas are at least somewhat novel. However, in spite of these fictional Zombies from the song apparently being stealthy superpowered action heroes, they’re also very stereotypical [...]
John Sears | May 30, 2011
I don’t know how I missed this appalling little picture book but io9, frequent purveyors of Anti-Zombiism, had a small feature on it a while back: Check out some exclusive pages from Z is for Zombie by Adam-Troy Castro, with illustrations by Johnny Atomic, coming next week from Harper Voyager. As John Scalzi says, “It’s [...]
John Sears | May 30, 2011
There are those trailers for a film or game that cleverly explain the premise and entice the viewer with promises of entertainment, thrills, chills, what have you, building a narrative that hopefully leads to the eventual sale of a ticket or copy, all in a very limited timeframe. Then there are puzzling clip-shows that leave [...]
John Sears | May 29, 2011
We’ve condemned the open-air game of simulated Living Supremacist conflict known and played on many campuses as ‘Humans vs. Zombies’ before here at the ZRC. It’s repulsive, divisive and perpetuates harmful stereotypes of the Differently Animated. A ‘game’ like that should have no place at an institution of higher learning. Thus this news story has [...]
John Sears | May 28, 2011
Not much seems to be available about this movie yet, but it definitely seems to be a unique take on the ‘Zombie Apocalypse’: Here’s the trailer for an indie film being shot in Athens, GA. They are making a zombie film where the zombies have no real interest in the living unless they are provoked. [...]
John Sears | May 27, 2011
I don’t mean to be too hard on this shirt, I think it tries hard and the core message is pretty Zombie Friendly: Still I have to ask, why can’t you be a Zombie in *this* life? Is it really that big a distinction that a person dies (briefly and temporarily) then comes back as [...]
John Sears | May 26, 2011
Honestly, is there any undesired phenomenon that people won’t try to tie to Zombies and some sort of apocalypse? Case in point, a new song/video by Rebecca Loebe entitled ‘Bees and Zombies’ that mixes the worrisome global decline in honeybee populations with struggling romance and the Zombie Apocalypse: Just check out some of these lyrics: [...]