John Sears | May 22, 2011
The Zombie Rights Campaign has had a long and eventful history with the film today known as ‘III Slices of Life’. Even before we had begun formal operations the proto-ZRC saw the first published segment of ‘III Slices of Life’, then called ‘W.O.R.M.’ and now incorporated into the final anthology as ‘Work Life’, at The [...]
John Sears | May 21, 2011
At first glance this ‘Zombie Beach Party’ sounds like an amazingly fun time: In celebration of our 2010 Guinness Record achievement as the “Largest Gathering of Zombies in the World” we will be hosting our first ever “Zombie Beach Party” in Asbury Park! On Saturday, May 28th zombies will once again converge on the Asbury [...]
John Sears | May 21, 2011
Ok, we talked earlier about how the irrational fear and disgust many experience when thinking about the Undead was being used to sell mattresses, and the ZRC even got a conciliatory response on that one. Great. But sometimes the Z-Rights game is like whack-a-mole, and where one scourge falls another shall rise to try and [...]
John Sears | May 21, 2011
Our piece on the Better Sleep Council’s campaign about ‘Zombieitis’ apparently reached the upper echelons of the Mattress Lobby because we got a relatively conciliatory response on the matter, which you can read here. It’s not perfect and we take issue with a bit of it but still, the door has once again been opened [...]
John Sears | May 20, 2011
Just wanted to make a very quick update to show that we’re ready in case tomorrow really is the Global Reanimation Block Party, or as some unenlightened individuals have taken to calling it, the ‘Zombie Apocalypse’. We’re all set up for a festive gathering here at the ZRC Compound. As you can see we have [...]
John Sears | May 20, 2011
I’m not sure if this is supposed to be sly commentary on the elderly in America, on trendy energy drinks and pharma cocktails, or simply fearmongering about Grandma munching on younger skulls: An energy pill called Kilt turns the elderly into overactive, dangerous zombies. Time for the walking dead to GET KILT. The description is [...]
John Sears | May 20, 2011
We’ve written before here on the ZRC blog about the unfortunate tendency of many commentators to use the word ‘Zombie’, a term designating a group of individuals by their unique cultural and to some degree biological/political status, as a term for ‘anything I object to’. Most frequently, ‘Zombie’ misappropriated in this fashion is an adjective [...]
John Sears | May 20, 2011
I wanted to deal with this shocking and almost unspeakable offense by an agency of the United States Federal Government sooner, but their blasted original blog page was down.. a lot.. and the ZRC always tries to evaluate primary sources when feasible in the name of journalistic integrity. Still, it’s getting a ton of press: [...]
John Sears | May 20, 2011
Just what the world needs, right? Another bit of historical fiction infused with Zombies? Well, maybe: Ater being announced last year, Los Angeles-based entertainment venture Sham Productions has acquired the film rights to author Alan Goldsher’s acclaimed Beatles/zombie remix novel, Paul Is Undead: The British Zombie Invasion. Sham President Barry M. Greenberg will produce Goldsher’s [...]
John Sears | May 19, 2011
Seriously, I cannot make this stuff up: Ian McKellen, Judi Dench, Gillian Anderson, and Mark Williams are attached to star in Matthew Butler’s 18th century zombie romp, The Curse Of The Buxom Strumpet. Butler will direct and has co-written the script with Tori Hart for the feature in which the inhabitants of a small seaside [...]