John Sears | March 8, 2012
You get this subset of Anti-Zombie fiction a lot, actually: the notion that the Nazis would, naturally, want to create Zombies for nefarious purposes. It has a long history, going back at least to ‘King of the Zombies’ in 1941, a dreary Scooby-Doo grade story about the good White Americans crashing on a Caribbean island, [...]
John Sears | March 8, 2012
The ZRC is not, as an institution, exactly a fan of ‘Night of the Living Dead’, but it’s hard to miss the film’s importance to both the Undead Rights movement and cinematic history. So we recognize the importance of preserving both the film and the institutions and locations that enabled it to be produced (even [...]
John Sears | March 7, 2012
Remember ‘Stag Night of the Dead’? The UK Zombie-Slaughtering-’Comedy’ where a bachelor party goes to a Zombie killing sort of theme park and somehow sets off the Zompocalypse? Well, it’s out on iTunes in America now. The DVD release is apparently May 1st, and in the meantime BuyZombie helpfully provided the world with this trailer [...]
John Sears | March 6, 2012
We talked about the Wisconsin Voter ID law a long while ago now, in blog-time, and how the ZRC opposed it as a measure seemingly designed to put up roadblocks to prevent Zombies from voting (along with the poor, urban, and student populations who traditionally lean Democratic). Well, that law is now on hiatus: A [...]
John Sears | March 6, 2012
Ok, I have to admit, if you must watch ‘The Walking Dead’ season finale (we don’t recommend it) this would be the way to go: THE WALKING DEAD season finale On the big screen admission – FREE! March 18, 2012 Muvico Theaters Rosemont 18 & Bogart’s 7:00PM Location: Muvico Theaters Rosemont 18 9701 Bryn Mawr [...]
John Sears | March 6, 2012
The good folks at The Horror Society have a new film festival, and, almost as if trying to lure us in, have a big Zombie movie announcement for it: they’re holding the Chicago/Upper Midwest premiere for [REC 3}. We’ve talked about that particular upcoming film before here on the ZRC blog. Also screening during the [...]
John Sears | March 4, 2012
The Zombie Research Society folks had a cautionary tale on their blog recently: This news isn’t exactly new, but it’s one of our favorite stories in recent memory. A 22-year-old man in Colorado, Brandon Duke, was convicted of attempted murder after shooting at a local police officer trying to arrest him. At the time of [...]
John Sears | March 2, 2012
Are you satisfied now, PopCap? Do you see what you’ve started? Nothing quite like real life plants vs zombies. In this one they show Matt Nagle telling you exactly which plants you should be looking to invest in to keep your lawn safe from those pesky undead. Yes indeed, he offers advice on which sharp, [...]
John Sears | March 2, 2012
Oh really? After a narrow defeat in NanoWriMo ZRC pal Michelle Hartz has laid down the gauntlet to challenge the Zombie Rights Campaign to another month of writing furiously: Michelle says: March 2, 2012 at 9:17 am (Edit) Yeah, yeah, yeah. I said you’d have a better chance of beating me at Fitocracy than NaNoWriMo. [...]
John Sears | March 2, 2012
Turns out securing a long-term base for the ZRC is a bit more complicated than I had imagined. Light posting for a few days while we work on that, plus I increase my already sizable lead over ZRC pal and Fitocracy nemesis Michelle Hartz.