John Sears | March 18, 2011
We were recently alerted to the existence of a fairly slick short indie film featuring Zombies entitled ‘Morbid’, and after reading BuyZombie’s take on the film and its production values, I felt that what was really *missing* from this conversation was the Zombie Rights perspective. What does ‘Morbid’ have to say about Zombies? Well, you [...]
John Sears | March 18, 2011
Our good friends at The Horror Society have some details on this fall’s release of the latest in cutting edge Euro-Zom movies, the third installment in the [REC] series: The original [REC] crew are back, ready to submit their ensemble cast to another fight for survival against the zombie infection, this time to the backdrop [...]
John Sears | March 18, 2011
It’s rare that I have no idea what to think about an upcoming Zombie-related project; most of the time the press information alone gives solid hints as to potential Zombie Friendliness or lack thereof. Thus it’s not at all common to read the blurb, watch a trailer, and have no clue what the ZRC reaction [...]
John Sears | March 18, 2011
Man. It has been a much more relaxed week for the ZRC, protest-wise anyway. The news keeps coming in though, so here are some highlights for our readers. 1) A series of lawsuits against the highly irregular and (most likely) illegal tactics used to pass the Anti-Union, Anti-Zombie, Anti-Poor, Anti-Student, Anti-Everybody Really bill have been [...]
John Sears | March 17, 2011
The news is going around the web about a book that the former Editor-in-Chief of Rue Morgue magazine has coming out about Zombies: The zombie phenomenon is unique in Western popular culture. From its origins in the voodoo beliefs of Haiti, it has become a key ingredient in today’s cinema, popular literature and comics. With [...]
John Sears | March 17, 2011
I suppose now that Zombies have become a sort of lazy stock villain to be slapped into every horror concept that’s short a few ideas it’s inevitable that ethno-cultural groups will be pitted against them one by one in an attempt at niche marketing, but it’s still disheartening to see unrest at the expense of [...]
John Sears | March 17, 2011
First of course, Mr. Grahame-Smith got the ball rolling on the entire genre of ‘Mix public domain work with Zombies’, for which literature itself owes him a sound thrashing. Yes, we can lay the lion’s share of the blame for an entire subgenre of lazy, relatively unimaginative Anti-Zombie fiction at his feet, even if, of [...]
John Sears | March 16, 2011
Monitoring BuyZombie as I often do for any news about the usually awful treatment of the Differently Animated in media, I saw this item today: In this case it’s the new web comic that I’ve found called Zomblicity that takes 2 looks at the same cast where the only difference is our main character having [...]
John Sears | March 15, 2011
Often we have to explain our position on a particular item or product here on the ZRC blog, delving into nuance, exploring the perhaps unintentional way in which a particular author, artist or developer may have insulted Zombies or otherwise harmed the Differently Animated. Then we have columns like this: But vampires have held a [...]
John Sears | March 15, 2011
I’m always on the lookout for more Zombie Friendly media, especially to help educate the next generation about Zombie Rights and to counter the hateful propaganda pushed at even our youngest citizens by things like Plants vs. Zombies, which cloak their fearmongering in cutesy graphics. So when I learned about a series of children’s books [...]