John Sears | December 24, 2010
There’s a question mark in the title because, of course, I haven’t seen it yet, but hopefully it will be one of those series that gets snatched up and near-instantly subtitled on Hulu. The show in question is called ‘Kore wa Zombie Desu ka?‘, and is summarized thusly: Summary: Aikawa Ayumu is a normal high [...]
John Sears | December 24, 2010
Hot on the heels of our last post comes yet another Holiday themed Anti-Zombie video. Well, ok. Matheson actually wanted his undead in I Am Legend to be more like Vampires. Originally, they fear the light, drink blood, etc. Nevertheless, we feel some solidarity with all the Undead here at the ZRC, and the *movies* [...]
John Sears | December 24, 2010
I was shocked to see this extremely offensive video being promoted so close to the holidays (as if Zombies aren’t already persecuted and excluded from seasonal festivities enough), but not all that shocked that it was Cory Doctorow doing the promotion: Worried about juggling your Christmas baking, gift-giving and party-going with the possible zombie apocalypse? [...]
John Sears | December 24, 2010
For once we have some good news to report about Zombie gaming on portable phone type devices, as Elevate Entertainment is putting out what sounds like a quite Zombie Friendly game, ‘Zombies Ala Mode’, for the iPhone and iPod touch: In Zombies Ala Mode by Elevate Entertainment, you’re a young zombie who needs to earn [...]
John Sears | December 24, 2010
Here’s a great story (with the fantastic headline ‘Zombies Have Feelings, Too’) about some apparently Zombie Friendly filmmaking going on in Canada: Jim Turner’s girlfriend is breaking up with him in a bar. Not terribly unusual. But she’s doing it eight or nine times in a row, yelling and screaming and telling him to get [...]
John Sears | December 23, 2010
I know it’s been out quite a while, but when browsing Hulu recently I noticed that they have the whole first two seasons of Masters of Horror up, and Baron Mardi had again reminded us of the famous ‘Homecoming‘ episode of the series from legendary director Joe Dante, so we fired it up on the [...]
John Sears | December 23, 2010
Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net I’ll admit to being amused quite a bit by this particular comic, and additionally pleased to see more sequential artists dealing with the controversial issue of Zombie-Living person romance. (The topic is also touched upon in Dead Eyes Open, a recent ZRC favorite) The Zombie character isn’t the most appealing [...]
John Sears | December 23, 2010
The ZRC was alerted by the great and powerful Googles to this fascinating bit of inside baseball talk on the very roundabout way a new screenplay about a Zombie baby is making the rounds in Hollywood, and just might get made into a film: “There are plenty of movies about killing zombies, but I’ve never [...]
John Sears | December 22, 2010
The ZRC had a brief but productive dialogue with author Jonathan Maberry back in October of 2009 on the topic of Zombie portrayals and the Zombie Apocalypse… or so we thought. His latest book about Zombies, Rot and Ruin, is out now and on the ZRC’s review pile, but I’m not here to talk about [...]
John Sears | December 22, 2010
This story is baffling on a number of levels. Marvel, who we’ve had a few friendly jousts with in the pasts here at the ZRC, has decided to capitalize on the current Zombie-hating mania with yet another of those ‘Insert Zombies into Public Domain Work Here’ titles, this time utilizing Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol [...]