John Sears | December 27, 2010
Just a couple quick items here in their growing list (rapidly growing, always growing) of offenses against good taste and the Differently Animated: 1) This week Resident Evil: Afterlife comes out on DVD. You can see our review for the movie here, or just simulate the experience of watching the flick by shoving your face [...]
John Sears | December 27, 2010
I’m not going to get all high and mighty defending the Michael Jackson video for Thriller, even though it did playfully poke fun at the rampant stereotyping of the Differently Animated, and showcased, for example, some high points in Zombie choreography. It’s funny and unconventional, deserving of some praise to be sure, but it unfortunately [...]
John Sears | December 26, 2010
I don’t have a huge amount to add to this review Locus posted of ‘Feed’, the first in a planned trilogy of pseudo-political dramas set in a Zombie post-Apocalypse, but there are a couple points that seem striking: 1) The Political/Media Culture in 2039 is Basically the Same as Today I mean, seriously? The ‘traditional’ [...]
John Sears | December 26, 2010
I really don’t know why so many people are framing the recent popularity of Zombies at Christmastime in this ‘us vs. them’ mentality: It used to be that zombies were strictly limited to Halloween. Not anymore. Everyone’s favorite flesh-eating ghouls are making a move to take over Christmas, and they’ve got Santa and his reindeer [...]
John Sears | December 26, 2010
I’ve often gently teased some of my Christian friends and acquaintances with a question along those lines, pointing out that, in general, if a person dies, is buried, and subsequently rises from the dead with lethal wounds that seem to cause no pain and no longer bleed, we might well call that person a Zombie, [...]
John Sears | December 26, 2010
We’ve got a quick news update here, suitable for the holiday weekend: Joe R. Lansdale is making a Zombie movie. A Zombie Christmas movie, actually: Author Joe R. Lansdale (Bubba Ho Tep) is about to bring his zombies to the big screen. Lansdale’s latest short story, to be released in early 2011, is ready to [...]
John Sears | December 25, 2010
We decided to keep cracking away at those Masters of Horror episodes up on Hulu, so naturally ZRC-related curiosity led to the third episode from the first season, Dance of the Dead. Dance of the Dead concerns a young woman named Peggy working in a diner sometime in the near future. The United States has [...]
John Sears | December 25, 2010
Now this I have to admit is a wrinkle I wasn’t expecting: ‘Infectonator: Christmas Edition’ pares the original ‘Infectonator’ down to its bare, horrific essentials. Like the original, your goal is to spread a zombie-causing virus amongst an expecting populace. This is done by merely clicking on a screen full of innocent bystanders, spreading infection [...]
John Sears | December 25, 2010
This article about Dead Rising for the iPhone at The Appera isn’t so much a review as it is a eulogy; it sounds like nobody in their right mind should play the blasted thing, for technical and gameplay reasons alone. Keeping in mind, it costs 2 bucks on sale. *snicker* Apparently it lags, it’s extremely [...]
John Sears | December 25, 2010
From your friends at The Zombie Rights Campaign, wherever you are and whatever holidays you celebrate, please enjoy them. And whenever possible, share them with Zombies.