John Sears | August 10, 2011
Given the prevalence, not to mention high sales, of Anti-Zombie games lately I suppose it should not have been a surprise that the Kinect, Microsoft’s hot new(ish) peripheral for the Xbox 360 might look to an Anti-Zombie game for some sales: Color me excited. A 360 exclusive where you can use the Kinect as your [...]
John Sears | August 9, 2011
I guess, no joke, that the gaming industry won’t be content until every genre of game has had Anti-Zombiism splashed in to increase sales: Zombie Bowl-o-Rama is a casual, arcade game on the WildTangent games service. In Zombie Bowl-o-Rama, you’ll strike away the attacking zombies on the bowling lanes. Play Zombie Bowl-o-Rama on the WildTangent [...]
John Sears | August 9, 2011
We’ve reported before on ‘Zombie Bohemia’ here on the ZRC blog; it seems to be a movie with both the promise of actual thinking, feeling Zombie characters and, tragically, some Anti-Zombie stereotyping as well. At any rate, the film continues to progress, and there has been a mass release of additional behind-the-scenes material: Director Vince [...]
John Sears | August 8, 2011
Really, people, just stop it: Let’s not turn our kids into fear-filled zombies! By Scott Sager for The Brooklyn Paper Did you hear the one about the boys attacked by a big, brown bear in Alaska? No joke, true story. Just a couple of weeks ago, a group of boys on a wilderness learning trip [...]
John Sears | August 8, 2011
We try to be optimistic about new forms of Zombie Media here at the ZRC after the stellar experience that was ‘Rigamortis: A Zombie Love Story’, but I don’t think we’ll be able to get behind this new rock opera about the Zombie Apocalypse: Actor Samn Wright, like a number of other stage performers in [...]
John Sears | August 8, 2011
We talk a lot on the ZRC blog about the tendency for Anti-Zombie prejudice to lead people to classify anything or anyone they personally dislike as a ‘Zombie’. A lot. We even have a tag for it, ‘Don’t Use the Zed Word‘, here on the blog. However we’ve rarely seen a case this brazen: One [...]
John Sears | August 7, 2011
We like to highlight public events featuring Zombies participating peacefully in civic discourse, or even just the Living dressing as Differently Animated citizens, in some circumstances. The ZRC remains wary and vigilant against exploitation and defamation of the Differently Animated community at these protests, however, and unfortunately we sometimes see just that: Those in Downtown [...]
John Sears | August 7, 2011
I am continually saddened by the level of community support for this awful project: Filming in Cornwall of Brad Pitt’s latest blockbuster was nearly brought to a halt for lack of sustenance – until a local delicacy saved the day. The 47-year-old Hollywood superstar is in Cornwall filming scenes for zombie action film World War [...]
John Sears | August 7, 2011
We’ve had our issues with, well, most of the mainstream press here at the ZRC. That’s why I’ve got searchable tags for Journamalism *and* Mainstream Media, after all. Still, the New York Times seems to want to make a name for itself with narrow-minded Anti-Zombie vision, and this latest take on recent Zombie literature is [...]
John Sears | August 6, 2011
Sigh. The number of Hollywood stars who’ve decided to let their Anti-Zom flag fly and sign on for World War Z is depressing sometimes. Case in point: Bryan Cranston – who has shown his diversity as an actor in AMC’s incredible “Breaking Bad” – is in negotiations to join Paramount’s World War Z, a post-apocalyptic [...]