John Sears | November 12, 2010
We’ve written about how Australia censors pornography featuring Zombies, most likely out of a deep-seated and irrational hatred of the Differently Animated, previously here on the ZRC blog. However it looks like the forces of oppression have decided to up the ante considerably: An Australian film festival director’s home was raided Thursday as authorities searched [...]
John Sears | November 11, 2010
Honestly, how many of these are there going to be? As yet the undead have not risen from their graves and stared to devour the living – but there was a time when we said man would never walk on the moon and look what happened there, eh? We must prepare for the inevitable and [...]
John Sears | November 10, 2010
This video is a bit of a paradox for the ZRC. On the one hand, allowing Zombies to renew their vows in public in a peaceful ceremony is a major step forward for Zombie Rights; I mean, even allowing Zombies to HAVE marriage vows is a major step forward. And Bruce Campbell and Ted Raimi, [...]
John Sears | November 9, 2010
When I first heard of the ‘UK Festival of Zombie Culture’ from the Horror Society, there was the usual glimmer of hope… and as per usual, it proved to be a false hope, crushed under the harsh and well polished boot of reality. Because, it seems, this festival of Zombie Culture (also known as the [...]
John Sears | November 8, 2010
The last film we have to review from the Drunken Zombie Film Festival is perhaps the biggest of the indie shorts; it stars John La Zar and Adrienne Barbeau, was obviously shot on a decent budget and has a steady, confident feel throughout. It’s also in many ways the most disturbing, because the central theme [...]
John Sears | November 8, 2010
Cabine of the Dead proved to be a great disappointment to The Zombie Rights Campaign, at least relative to our earlier fond hopes for a stirring realist piece of cinema depicting the struggles of the Differently Animated to gain fair and equal access to public services or the use of facilities normally open to the [...]
John Sears | November 8, 2010
It’s been fun, but this is getting old. Outright obscene comments will be removed at my sole discretion; attempts at intimidation or backhanded violent threats won’t be tolerated either, and may be forwarded to your ISP/college or the relevant authorities, again at my sole discretion. I honestly can’t believe I have to deal with this [...]
John Sears | November 7, 2010
Mayor Cieslewicz, I am writing to you at this time, after having gathered my thoughts on the matter, to express my dismay, as well as the dismay of our group at the rapidly deteriorating experience that has become the annual ‘Freakfest’ event here in Madison. I moved to this city two years ago now, and [...]
John Sears | November 7, 2010
The Zombie Rights Campaign saw this film at the Drunken Zombie Film Festival, and I have to admit, found it extremely disturbing indeed, graphic and unrelenting in the horrors it demonstrates and the complicated moral dilemmas it poses for Zombie Rights. A basic synopsis, obtained from the filmmaker’s website: Chemical 12-D is the latest short [...]
John Sears | November 7, 2010
Geeky rock personalities just can’t seem to stay away from bashing the Undead. Jonathon Coulton famously made his bones with ‘Re: Your Brains’, now Kirby Krackle puts out an animated video to accompany their song ‘Zombie Apocalypse’, featuring many hateful and negative stereotypes about the Differently Animated. From a Zombie Rights perspective this video is [...]