The Zombie Rights Campaign Blog

On Yesterday’s ‘Zombie’ Protest of Governor Walker

| June 9, 2011

The ZRC’s twitter feed exploded yesterday with news of a controversial protest of enormously unpopular and markedly Anti-Zombie Governor Scott Walker yesterday. There were a lot of quite frankly hysterical accusations that the protesters, dressed up as Zombies, had ‘shouted down’ the governor at an event for the Special Olympics. Of course, nothing could be [...]

ZRC Reviews: ‘The Confessional’

| June 8, 2011

Youtube is rapidly becoming a revolutionary platform for distributing independent movies; we recently reviewed (and loved) Rigamortis: A Zombie Love Story here on the ZRC blog, and it’s up for free viewing on Youtube for a limited time, for example. That is a finely acted and directed, Zombie Friendly musical experience. Then, however, there are [...]

This Week’s Events in Chicago

| June 8, 2011

A quick reminder to Zombie Rights Enthusiasts everywhere that the ZRC will be making two public appearances at great events this week/weekend. First, at 7 pm tomorrow in Schaumburg, the ZRC will be attending the 3 Slices of Life DVD release event at F.Y.E.: Then this weekend from 3-6 pm on Saturday in Millennium Park [...]

What Fresh Evil is Tom Savini Up to?

| June 7, 2011

It’s always good to keep an eye on Tom Savini and George Romero; they pop up unexpectedly from time to time and when they do it’s rarely good for the Differently Animated, ‘Creepshow’ aside: Tom Savini is a freaking legend, the guy has provided us with some of the greatest gore f/x for years, using [...]

Another Zombie Friendly Indie Film in ‘Ace the Zombie’? Well, Perhaps…

| June 7, 2011

Ignoring the thick layer of scorn heaped on the Differently Animated by the usual suspects at Dread Central, this sounds like it could be a winner: Let’s face it … just because you’re a rotting, shambling, undead thing with a hunger for human flesh doesn’t mean that you don’t need anyone to look out for [...]

Boston Zombie March Suffers From Negative Stereotypes of the Undead, Bad Press

| June 7, 2011

We wanted to highlight yet *another* apparently successful Zombie Public Event here on the ZRC blog, and also to point out how even the most peaceable and outgoing Zombie activities can suffer slander from the Mainstream Media, as well as unfortunate bias from organizers: On Saturday, hundreds gathered in downtown Boston for the seventh annual [...]

Movie Attempts to Harness Zombie Crawl for Purposes of Making Apparently Anti-Zombie Film

| June 6, 2011

We love Zombie Walks, marches, public events of almost all sorts here at the ZRC. In fact, next Saturday we’re attending the big 4th Annual Zombie March in Chicago and we’d love to see you there. However, news of this ‘Zombie Crawl’ in Brooklyn being used to collect footage for a movie about Zombies attacking [...]

ThinkGeek Has to Go and Ruin a Potentially Zombie Friendly Product

| June 6, 2011

Noted internet hate merchant ThinkGeek isn’t satisfied with repeatedly earning the ZRC’s ire selling flagrantly Anti-Zombie products, oh no; sometimes they have to take a product that could be gently subversive of the prevailing negative stereotypes of the Differently Animated and ruin it with their ad copy. Example: It’s What Zombies Crave – Little ice-cubes [...]

A Scottish ‘Shaun of the Dead’ Spreads Fear of the Differently Animated and Herbal Tea?

| June 5, 2011

Europe has gone absolutely nuts with the Zombie bashing! Here’s yet ANOTHER European film that bashes the Differently Animated coming out, this time from Scotland: Attack of the Herbals” is a “Evil Dead”/”Shaun of the Dead” style horror comedy, independently produced and shot in the North East of Scotland. Jackson McGregor returns to the tiny [...]

A Modern Day ‘Plan 9′? Why? Why God, Why?

| June 5, 2011

Sometimes I sincerely wonder if the universe is alive, malignant, and focused on thwarting both good taste and the advance of Zombie Friendly media. When someone essentially reboots the plot of ‘Plan 9 from Outer Space’ as a modern day indie film, you have to wonder if the world is out to get us: A [...]