John Sears | September 15, 2011
We try to lend support whenever and wherever we can for Zombie Friendly public outings, and the ZRC loves Zombie Walks in general. This event to raise awareness of brain-injuries, however, relies on defaming the Differently Animated to do so: Zombies roamed the streets of Casper Saturday morning, shuffling, moaning, frightening children in passing cars [...]
John Sears | September 15, 2011
Well, I guess Sony knows which side their Zombie-hating bread is buttered on, and hopes to buy off their still-seething customer base with some very cheap Anti-Zombie gameplay: In addition, today’s update grants free access to five games: Plants vs. Zombies, Astro Tripper, Altered Beast, Bashi Blocks (Minis), and Jet Moto (PS1). Plus subscribers will [...]
John Sears | September 14, 2011
Even for fans of this evil, Zombie-hating show, developments like this cannot be comfortable, to say the least: Last weekend, the cast of The Walking Dead took the stage at Dragon*Con and fielded questions from the audience — with one big restriction. Dragon*Con attendees were told eight times not to ask about former showrunner Frank [...]
John Sears | September 14, 2011
First they discarded the cerebral and engaging, if still permeated by hatred, narrative structure of ‘World War Z’ in favor of a cut-down Hollywood blockbuster approach. Because thinking is not something you should do while watching a mainstream film? Now news comes that they have discarded pretty much all that was left of Brooks’ unique [...]
John Sears | September 13, 2011
Seriously? Who out there hates the human race this much? Uwe Boll continues to bring little known video games to the screen. This time he’s producing a movie version of Zombie Massacre video game. The film will be directed by Marco Ristori and Luca Boni who made the recent low-budget zombie flick, Eaters, for Boll. [...]
John Sears | September 13, 2011
In the process of writing about Seth Grahame-Smith’s apparent quest to remake every cultural touchstone from human history recently, the ZRC came across this potential gem: Night of the Living, a stop-motion animated film that Grahame-Smith might script, with Burton producing along with KatzSmith. A town of peaceful monsters must learn how to fight when [...]
John Sears | September 12, 2011
We’ve had our differences with Seth Grahame-Smith here at the ZRC; his ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies’ novel kickstarted the truly unfortunate trend of ‘Put Zombies Into Anything, Especially Public Domain Works No One Owns Anymore’ Trend. (Aka: the Zombie Flavored Creativity Substitute). Don’t get us wrong; a thoughtful Zombified remake of a classic work [...]
John Sears | September 12, 2011
(our booth over the weekend, exhibiting a slideshow of past activism) Sorry about getting this post up so late; we were beat and unpacking and all that today. Somehow despite being in town the convention was pretty exhausting! We had three long but festive days of outreach. The ZRC spent Saturday and Sunday all day [...]
John Sears | September 11, 2011
This particular charitable Zombie Walk I’m not sure the ZRC could have gotten *entirely* behind since it doubled as a game launch event for notable Evil Anti-Zombie game ‘Dead Island’: Zombies aren’t usually known for being the most charitable or fun loving monsters, but come this Labor Day, a group of zombies will be just [...]
John Sears | September 11, 2011
This time in Amherst, Ohio, and benefiting a food bank: AMHERST — A zombie walk Sept. 10, where people dress in full zombie makeup and walk like zombies in Amherst, will take place to collect food for the Second Harvest Food Bank. The zombie walk is for zombies of all ages and is family-friendly. See? [...]