John Sears | December 9, 2010
This relatively recent piece in Foreign Policy serves as a fascinating and outrageous reminder of the ways in which the academic and policy advocacy world at large continues to mistreat the Differently Animated, and also how world goverments, acting upon such misinformation, might unleash large-scale tragedy upon the Undead community. FP starts out with a [...]
John Sears | December 8, 2010
The Littlest Zombie (last reviewed here by the ZRC) has at long last gotten a second full issue of his, err, misadventures. By misadventures, I mean a bizarre mixture of savage Romero-Russo stereotyped violence and adorable antics, but if you’ve been following these reviews to date, you probably already got that. Issue 2 of The [...]
John Sears | December 7, 2010
This is another comic we spotted at The Vintage Phoenix in Bloomington, actually, and purely by chance lying on their sort of last chance table. Needless to say, I had to snatch it up after noting that it features another story of The Littlest Zombie, whose unfortunately anti-social antics we last reviewed here. A Very [...]
John Sears | December 7, 2010
While we were in Bloomington, Indiana for The Dark Carnival Film Festival, the art director and I stopped at landmark Bloomington comic book store The Vintage Phoenix for a bit of window shopping, as we usually do when we’re in the neighborhood. (It really is a fantastic old-school comic book store with an extensive indie [...]
John Sears | December 7, 2010
Just wanted to put up a quick post to show that not all the Zombie-related merchandise out there has to be negative. Both of these items came to our attention via the good people at The Horror Society, btw. First is another entry in the sadly narrow crossover of Zombies and fashion: glow in the [...]
John Sears | December 6, 2010
Another item from the Horror Society twitter-splosion is this piece about some World Cup related advertising run by Deoderant company Rexona (a subsidiary of Unilever, the brand is known here in the United States as Degree) The Horror Society summed it up this way: Here’s a fun little commercial that shows a growing mob of [...]
John Sears | December 6, 2010
I was alerted to this ‘Dead of the Class’ project by our friends at the Horror Society when a plugin went berserk and dumped a ton of older posts onto their twitter feed, so there’s a certain serendipity to the whole affair. At the first, it sounded somewhat promising: Brian Cummings latest series Dead of [...]
John Sears | December 4, 2010
The Prometheus Project, also apparently named The Frankenstein Syndrome, was the big feature length film to deal with the Differently Animated at the Dark carnival this year (or so we thought going in) As the new, second title suggests, the trailer for this movie is a bit misleading, and it’s much closer to a modern [...]
John Sears | December 3, 2010
Rise of the Living Corpse is about forty seconds long and consists of one meanspirited joke at a Zombie’s expense. Not funny, Mr. Walsh. It is therefore rated Anti-Zombie.
John Sears | December 3, 2010
We saw Closure, an Israeli short film, at The 2010 Dark Carnival Film Festival. Closure marks a milestone for the ZRC, as it represents our first chance to review a zombie movie from the Middle East, and a peek at the politics and perception of the Differently Animated in a whole new region of the [...]