John Sears | July 27, 2011
We’ve heard this song and dance before from the ZRS and professional Zombie haters like Dr. Scholzman: “I watched some highly inconsistent Anti-Zombie movies and now have deduced *the* best, entirely fictional, all-encompassing, heavily biased ‘explanation’ of what makes Zombies tick!” Sort of like phrenology for the 21st Century: In case you missed it, Wired.com [...]
John Sears | July 27, 2011
Videogame auteur Goichi Suda, widely known as Suda51, has become famous for making edgy, bizarre, sardonic titles aimed at adult gamers and is best known for the ‘No More Heroes franchise. It appears however that he has decided to cash in while the money’s so very good and make an Anti-Zombie videogame of his own: [...]
John Sears | July 27, 2011
Reading pop journalism stuff like this sometimes has me reaching for the Cuervo before noon, but I must resist.. I must! London – Hollywood’s current love affair with zombies is a weak echo of the decades-long romance between videogames and the living dead. In any fantasy game, zombies haul themselves up out of the soil [...]
John Sears | July 26, 2011
We’ve had a few tangles with ‘Plants vs Zombies’ here on the ZRC blog. We feel that their game is a harmful product marketed at children to introduce Anti-Zombie hate to the next generation; they, or at least ‘Plants vs Zombies’ writer Stephen Notely, have harsh words about our clients I lay my prejudice bare. [...]
John Sears | July 26, 2011
‘Mars Needs Moms’ was a beloved children’s book that was adapted into a spectacularly poorly received animated film, released earlier this year in March. You may not have heard of the movie, and odds are you certainly did not see it; no one at the ZRC has either, although our Cultural Historian Andrew Leal was [...]
John Sears | July 26, 2011
We weren’t fans of ‘Zombieland’ here at the ZRC for fairly obvious reasons: it was (and is) a crass, violent, defamatory exercise in the on-screen abuse of Zombie stereotypes for profit. Still, given the (unfortunately) immense level of popularity it achieved, we had also resigned ourselves to sitting through another one. Apparently, that’s not happening, [...]
John Sears | July 25, 2011
Etsy, home of individually made items sold by various artisty types, can be a truly wondrous bazaar of the bizarre, but I wasn’t expecting an Anti-Zombie greeting card: “I’ve got my eyes on you, babe!” is an original ink/watercolor drawing by me, reproduced on this card. The bloodstains around/under the eyeballs are hand-painted on the [...]
John Sears | July 24, 2011
Yes, as previously discussed here on the blog when we covered the Malta shoot for ‘World War Z’, Glasgow is in the sights of these ridiculously ambitious Living Supremacist filmmakers and the apparently very involved shooting process is coming up now: The streets of Glasgow can get a little quieter with the onset of the [...]
John Sears | July 24, 2011
You’re probably familiar with this more-than-a-pet-peeve of ours by now, but let’s review for the less enlightened just joining us here at The Zombie Rights Campaign: ‘Zombie’ is not a synonym for ‘bad’, ‘wrong’, or ‘thing I just don’t like’. Zombies are a class of people (or, in some cases, other Unliving things) that have [...]
John Sears | July 23, 2011
I strongly deny the implication that violence in the media directly leads to violence in real life, whether from videogames, film or books; to say the evidence is weak would be the understatement of the century. Even if there was a correlation, it is obviously arguable that freedom of expression is worth some risk to [...]