John Sears | October 22, 2010
The Zombie Rights Campaign will be making its annual protest appearance at Freakfest, the official, soulless marketing term for Madison’s enormous annual Halloween costume contest/party spectacular. You can check out the Freakfest lineup here; this year for a musical act they landed OK Go, which is actually pretty awesome. If past years are any indication [...]
John Sears | October 22, 2010
There has recently been some controversy over the upcoming Horror Society Film Festival, which the ZRC will be attending tomorrow starting at 2 pm at the lovely Portage theatre in Chicago. Oddly enough, this controversy has nothing to do with Zombies, which might mean that we need to redouble our efforts a bit. Instead, it [...]
John Sears | October 20, 2010
It’s important to have role models, and in a society biased against your very existence, positive examples and outstanding individuals can go a long way to salve wounds and clear the air of prejudice and misunderstanding. For these reasons, each year the Zombie Rights Campaign tries to highlight a select group of Undead individuals from [...]
John Sears | October 19, 2010
This comic from VG Cats sums up one of the biggest problems we here at the ZRC had with the Dead Rising Case Zero prequel: it just doesn’t work from a dramatic perspective. You’re ostensibly playing as a loving father trying to keep his daughter alive, and yet the game also pushes you to conduct [...]
John Sears | October 19, 2010
These two reviews are a long time coming, and they finish out our reviews for two formerly ongoing Zombie comics series. Let’s get to it. In Marvel Zombies 5 #5, we again return to our dimension-hopping gang as they enter what is the strangest dimension yet: one without any superpowered beings of any kind. So, [...]
John Sears | October 18, 2010
Over the weekend I had a task to complete: after I rearranged the office space and so forth here at ZRC Central, I discovered, to my dismay, that a pile of comics yet to be reviewed had gone missing, and so I quested for them. Lo, eventually, I did locate them, so I can finally, [...]
John Sears | October 15, 2010
When I went looking for more information about Cabine of the Dead, a short film about Zombies trying to use a phone booth (I think – it’s in French and the Youtube teaser seems pretty vague), I learned via advertising about a film festival with lots of zombie movies, along with some terrific shorts, coming [...]
John Sears | October 14, 2010
More shocking news out of Japan today, as video from a Japanese TV show’s Anti-Zombie stunt makes the rounds. Essentially, what seems to have happened here is this: a tv show convinces three small siblings that the Zombie Apocalypse is at hand, and a Zombie is specifically coming to their home to eat them. Now, [...]
John Sears | October 14, 2010
We haven’t seen this film yet, but we shall at the Horror Society Film Festival on October 23rd. I don’t read French, so I’m not sure what is supposed to be going on, but this seems to be a movie about a jerk who hogs a phone booth and won’t let Zombies use it. I [...]
John Sears | October 13, 2010
I’ll admit to killing quite a bit of time today digging through the pages of well-known internet time devouring site TV Tropes, in particular their lists of pop-cultural items relating to Zombies and the Undead. Think of it as crowd-sourcing, if you like; let the internet bring the Zeitgeist here to the ZRC. Of course, [...]