John Sears | May 7, 2011
You might think that the ZRC would be happy that this has apparently been declared ‘Zombie Awareness Month’. After all, Zombies do need more awareness – of their plight in society, their legal disenfranchisement, of the media’s endless campaign of misinformation against them and of the need for reform. Sadly, however, that is precisely the [...]
John Sears | May 6, 2011
Short but bitter and to the point: In an alternate world Romero didn’t just make films based around a vision he saw. He wasn’t that crazy filmmaker that made movies about people who came back to life, he was the premiere zombie killer! Unfortunately when he killed off most of the outbreak he had to [...]
John Sears | May 6, 2011
Could the ‘Zombie Apocalypse’ occur in Wisconsin? Zach Snyder thought so. Would it involve beer? I’m just guessing, yeah: Beer for beer and shot for shot, when all 50 states belly up to the bar, few can hold their own with Wisconsin. Binge drinking – we’re No. 1. Percentage of drinkers in the population – [...]
John Sears | May 6, 2011
It’s coming to the point where I expect to see Zombies splashed into every conceivable project as a plot element, or conversely, every conceivable social ill explored using Zombies as a metaphor. Commercialism? ‘Dawn of the Dead’. Distrust of the military? ‘Day of the Dead’ Rage in the culture? ’28 Days Later’ Corporate Malfeasance? Every [...]
John Sears | May 6, 2011
One of the key strategies we engage in here at the ZRC is to cultivate support and relationships with up-and-coming stars and behind the scenes types in the independent film world. There are really two prongs to this strategy; first, just by talking and socializing with people you can expose them to alternative ways of [...]
John Sears | May 5, 2011
Here at the ZRC we try to use appealing, non-gruesome artwort in what might be called a more ‘cartoon’ like style (from the pen of our very own Art and Technical Director) to help open the mind of the public about the possibilities of Zombie-Living coexistence. We’re also not above employing adorable mascots like Zombie [...]
John Sears | May 5, 2011
I was informed about ‘Zombina and the Skeletones’ on Twitter and then kind of forgot to follow up on it until now, which just shows… err.. how busy I am with many other ZRC projects, yes. Perhaps a tiny bit unfortunately for the ZRC’s mandate, despite the name of the band, we’re not dealing with [...]
John Sears | May 4, 2011
Sometimes we get a bit of gentle ribbing from the various ZRC Friends in the Horror news biz, since we have such a singular mission and focus, and so I had a bit of advance warning about this slightly… satirical take on a new Think Geek Anti-Zombie product coming out: And now a tasty little [...]
John Sears | May 4, 2011
I was all prepared to be unhappy about this story but then got a pleasant surprise, or at least, a potentially pleasant one: Focus Features and LAIKA, the companies that gave us the standout animated feature CORALINE, take another venture into genre territory with the 3D stop-motion movie PARANORMAN. The long-gestating zombie project now has [...]
John Sears | May 4, 2011
Wow. It’s not going to be hard to find a copy of ‘Dead Island’ on the shelves in America now, folks; finding a Japanese game company that isn’t in bed with Anti-Zombie bigots is another matter: Dead Island publisher Deep Silver has joined with industry giant Square Enix to distribute Techland’s upcoming zombie action title [...]