John Sears | May 19, 2011
Oh how long it can be between Zombie Friendly products the ZRC gets to review, and how precious they are to us after a long day defending the Differently Animated from Vitality-Normative ideas, ideas like ‘A person has to have a heartbeat’ or ‘Undead people belong in cemeteries, right?’ Wrong. Just wrong! Fortunately those Zombie [...]
John Sears | May 18, 2011
Seriously, I think the Resident Evil franchise is reaching with this addition to their upcoming ‘Mercenaries’ game: S.T.A.R.S. member and gun enthusiast, Barry Burton, joins playable characters Chris Redfield, Jack Krauser, Hunk, Jill Valentine, Albert Wesker, Rebecca Chambers and Claire Redfield as they face off against the terrifying enemies of Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D [...]
John Sears | May 18, 2011
There really isn’t that much to say about ‘Dead Meat’ yet; it’s free, it updates weekly, and it’s virulently Anti-Zombie. … What, that’s not enough? Ok. It’s been updating for a few weeks now and ‘Dead Meat’ seems to concern a post-apocalyptic world somewhat like Fallout, only due to, what else, the Zombie Apocalypse. If [...]
John Sears | May 18, 2011
You know, every time I think that the ridiculous trend of combining absolutely everything with (hating) Zombies might finally have reached its peak, I see something even more ridiculous. Case in point: the Zombie Apocalypse, or rather its cliche imagery and tropes, are being used to sell mattresses, with sleep deprivation recast as ‘Zombieitis’. I [...]
John Sears | May 18, 2011
This preview from Destructoid is useful for gleaning an insight into the upcoming and obviously Anti-Zombie game ‘Dead Island’, whose haunting trailer has already been revealed to have nothing to do with the game itself per se. Apparently, it focuses heavily on what the designers perceive as realism, but not to the extent that it [...]
John Sears | May 18, 2011
It’s undeniably true: we live in a Youtube age. I mean, just look how much time the ZRC spends on media available on Youtube, or how many trailers we’ve embedded on the site hosted on the mega-behemoth video service. Likewise we have found the service an invaluable resource for hosting our own videos and short [...]
John Sears | May 17, 2011
The Horror Society folks pointed us toward this map of the ‘Dawn of the Dead’ mall, and I have to admit to a bit of puzzlement: First of all, it’s tragic to see the poor Zombies excluded from the mall, as they so often are thanks to George Romero popularizing the segregationist practice. Secondly though, [...]
John Sears | May 17, 2011
Great, just what we need: scorekeeping for Anti-Zombie bigots and their acts of violence: Shirt: Zombie Killer Some people like to keep a tally of the number of things they do. Sometimes its how many women a guy has slept with, sometimes its how many men a woman has slept with, sometimes its how many [...]
John Sears | May 16, 2011
Really, sometimes our adversaries in the Anti-Zombie Movement are just childish. Case in point: equating Undeath with the common boredom and dissatisfaction of adulthood: In his 1982 hit, Jack and Diane, John Mellencamp captures the allure, terror, and truth of the modern zombie in a single line: “Life goes on long after the thrill of [...]
John Sears | May 16, 2011
Or to be more precise, it brings the cinematic ‘Zombie Apocalypse’ there, as the novel on which it is based already did so: Vaca Films, the company behind the previously announced Welcome to Harmony, is now in development on Apocalypse Z, which is being adapted for the screen by Javier Gullon. David Alonso is set [...]