The Zombie Rights Campaign Blog

Re-Animator The Musical: Violent, Bloody, Probably Anti-Zombie

| May 23, 2011

Now, I know that we haven’t had the chance to see the Re-Animator musical yet, and I blame an uncaring universe for not supplying me with untold millions in cash for that one. Still, I have read the original story and seen the original film, so I think we’re on safe ground assuming that the [...]

More Marketing of ‘Zombie-Proof’ Homes

| May 23, 2011

Is it just me or is there a serious trend in marketing homes as being somehow ‘Apocalypse’ proof? I suppose part of it could be the recent ‘Rapture’ hullabaloo, but that can’t account for the whole phenomenon, to my mind. We’re just seeing too many cases of previously existing structures with various security features being [...]

Activism Announcement: The ZRC Will Be at ‘III Slices of Life’ DVD Release Party

| May 22, 2011

The Zombie Rights Campaign has had a long and eventful history with the film today known as ‘III Slices of Life’. Even before we had begun formal operations the proto-ZRC saw the first published segment of ‘III Slices of Life’, then called ‘W.O.R.M.’ and now incorporated into the final anthology as ‘Work Life’, at The [...]

First It Was Mattresses, Now Shoes?

| May 21, 2011

Ok, we talked earlier about how the irrational fear and disgust many experience when thinking about the Undead was being used to sell mattresses, and the ZRC even got a conciliatory response on that one. Great. But sometimes the Z-Rights game is like whack-a-mole, and where one scourge falls another shall rise to try and [...]

More Productive Dialogue!

| May 21, 2011

Our piece on the Better Sleep Council’s campaign about ‘Zombieitis’ apparently reached the upper echelons of the Mattress Lobby because we got a relatively conciliatory response on the matter, which you can read here. It’s not perfect and we take issue with a bit of it but still, the door has once again been opened [...]

The Zombie Apocalypse Comes to Older America?

| May 20, 2011

I’m not sure if this is supposed to be sly commentary on the elderly in America, on trendy energy drinks and pharma cocktails, or simply fearmongering about Grandma munching on younger skulls: An energy pill called Kilt turns the elderly into overactive, dangerous zombies. Time for the walking dead to GET KILT. The description is [...]

On Twitter ‘Zombies’ and Actual Zombies on Twitter

| May 20, 2011

We’ve written before here on the ZRC blog about the unfortunate tendency of many commentators to use the word ‘Zombie’, a term designating a group of individuals by their unique cultural and to some degree biological/political status, as a term for ‘anything I object to’. Most frequently, ‘Zombie’ misappropriated in this fashion is an adjective [...]

‘Paul is Undead: The British Zombie Invasion’ Film in the Works

| May 20, 2011

Just what the world needs, right? Another bit of historical fiction infused with Zombies? Well, maybe: Ater being announced last year, Los Angeles-based entertainment venture Sham Productions has acquired the film rights to author Alan Goldsher’s acclaimed Beatles/zombie remix novel, Paul Is Undead: The British Zombie Invasion. Sham President Barry M. Greenberg will produce Goldsher’s [...]

Ian McKellen and Judi Dench to Star in Zombie Movie

| May 19, 2011

Seriously, I cannot make this stuff up: Ian McKellen, Judi Dench, Gillian Anderson, and Mark Williams are attached to star in Matthew Butler’s 18th century zombie romp, The Curse Of The Buxom Strumpet. Butler will direct and has co-written the script with Tori Hart for the feature in which the inhabitants of a small seaside [...]

Anti-Zombie Talking Animal Comic? Oy.

| May 19, 2011

I wonder if this upcoming Anti-Zombie comic will eventually get made into a touching ‘family’ movie where the loveable animals with CG mouth movements have to save the day? Man I hope not; they’d have to take the sharp objects and shoelaces off me at the door to the theatre: In the wake of a [...]