John Sears | October 9, 2011
Just to show that the ZRC goes after friends and foes alike with neither fear nor favor when it comes to our core mission, we must again point out that the apparently Anti-Zombie movie ‘As Night Falls’ starring our ZRC pal Deneen Melody amongst other talents is screening at an upcoming film festival in Massachusetts: [...]
John Sears | October 9, 2011
I really don’t know what to say; this development has left me almost speechless: TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas emergency management officials are urging residents to prepare for an invasion of zombies as part of a national disaster readiness campaign. … The Kansas Division of Emergency Management says if people are prepared for zombie attacks, they’re [...]
John Sears | October 8, 2011
Really? This was necessary? Atlanta, Ga – October 1, 2011 – After the smashing success of its first year, the massive Atlanta Zombie Apocalypse attraction has returned for the 2011 Halloween season. Patrons are treated to 100,000 square feet of zombie madness as they navigate through abandoned hotels, office buildings, a post-apocalyptic village and more [...]
John Sears | October 7, 2011
Sometimes I talk about how, increasingly, ZRC work pops up in the course of everyday activities. Part of this is no doubt the current ‘Zombie Apocalypse’ fear/fad being peddled by your Robert Kirkmans and Max Brookses of the world, sure. And in October, surely some of it is just seasonal. At any rate, it really [...]
John Sears | October 7, 2011
For those who do not know, World Zombie Day is an annual event to coordinate Zombie Walks and similar events to collect food for the needy, and this year’s WZD is tomorrow: World Zombie Day, a day when all fans of zombie culture can join together in an international effort to alleviate world hunger. At [...]
John Sears | October 7, 2011
We’re all for education about the history of Anti-Zombie media here at the ZRC, but it can all too easily cross the line into scaremongering or glorification of Anti-Zombie violence, and I think the folks at SFX have easily vaulted over that line: Like zombies? Then you’ll love our latest one-off special issue! Zombies: The [...]
John Sears | October 7, 2011
Really, I think we all know where Zack Snyder stands on Zombie Rights, given his helming of the incredibly odious, gun-fetishizing ‘Dawn of the Dead’ remake, but apparently that wasn’t enough degradation to pile on the Differently Animated community, and he has more cinematic evil waiting to be inflicted on the public: How will this [...]
John Sears | October 6, 2011
I mentioned this on Twitter, but last week we were taking the art director’s family around town on a totally non-ZRC, non-Zombie Rights related outing (to the extent I can ever stop thinking about it anyway) and saw this: Wow! Zombie-related theatre right here in town for me to review. And yet, of course, it [...]
John Sears | October 6, 2011
Oh how I wish I didn’t have to read about so many Anti-Zombie spectacles: A family dressed all in purple, likely arriving from the football game, parked their car in Aggieville on Friday. They opened the doors to get out, chatting with one another, when suddenly Roger Adams, curator of Special Collections and associate professor, [...]
John Sears | October 5, 2011
Well, I suppose this was inevitable: There’s just something sticky and icky about Lucio Fulci’s 1981 gorefest in Zombie, which is loosely a follow-up to the events in Dawn of the Dead. The gore is outrageous. The zombies are nasty decaying corpses. The women have nice boobs and big bushes, and of course: there’s a [...]