John Sears | May 11, 2012
We’ve had issues with the short film work of Mad Lab Productions before; witness our review of ‘Rise of the Living Corpse’, for example. We also saw ‘Fitness Class Zombie’ at The Dark Carnival and were less than enthused. So when we were approached by the Mad Lab guys on Twitter about their new film [...]
John Sears | May 11, 2012
I can’t say I approve of either of these movies, but the ZRC would be remiss if we didn’t highlight the opportunity for some outreach at a drive-in theatre: What do you get when you mix classic zombie films and a drive-in double feature? WBEZ’s Off-Air Series gives you a chance to find out next [...]
John Sears | May 11, 2012
A truly harrowing and disturbing story about the real experience of a ‘Run for Your Lives’ race: Race day was cool and overcast. We parked offsite at a nearby greyhound track and lined up for the bus to the course. Our line grew quiet as a bus pulled up and unloaded a round of earlier [...]
John Sears | May 9, 2012
This seems like another case of Don’t Use the Zed Word to me, but it unintentionally makes Zombies sound pretty awesome: FRAMINGHAM — World-traveling author Tim Ward will recount meeting “zombies” while climbing Mount Kilimanjaro with his son, Josh, Thursday evening at REI Framingham. The author of six critically-acclaimed books, he will discuss his new [...]
John Sears | May 9, 2012
An interesting wrinkle. Apparently in the Zombpocalypse your choice will be to get eaten by Survivalists or, allegedly, Zombies: Given the fact that so many survivalists afraid of the ‘Zombie Apocalypse’ hoard food, I’d hope they wouldn’t also resort to cannibalism, but.. well, we’re not talking about a high empathy crowd, are we? Sad. This [...]
John Sears | May 8, 2012
In a writeup about a new ‘Walking Dead’ videogame, the NYT talks about putting ‘guilt’ back in killing Zombies. Sadly, tragically, that might pass for good Zombie press, at least from the mainstream media: But what zombies! Taking an ax to the reanimated corpse of a character’s brother in the streets of Macon, or deciding [...]
John Sears | May 8, 2012
Finally some good news about Zombies in the media: BBC Drama Production has secured four new drama commissions: Frankie, The Musketeers and The Lady Vanishes for BBC One and and In The Flesh for BBC Three. … In The Flesh is a three-part event drama, the first TV commission for Dominic Mitchell. It was developed [...]
John Sears | May 7, 2012
We have another case here, I’m afraid, of the Anti-Zombie media putting a real negative spin on a fun Zombie event: PRAGUE, Czech Republic (CBS) — Prague’s historic city centre was taken over by hundreds of the walking dead in the annual festival the Zombie Walk on Saturday. It’s the fifth year for the event [...]
John Sears | May 7, 2012
I’m not entirely sure how to feel about this one though. (image at link) Sure, the whole ‘biting’ thing is pretty fraught for Zombies, but on the other hand, it is just an apple. The art director’s been known to bite into a few apples in her time, and she’s alive. Snow White the Zombie? [...]
John Sears | May 5, 2012
You can’t say these Living Supremacists don’t know their audience: “Zombies are coming…Where’s your shotgun?” was posted on the official Call of Duty: Black Ops II Facebook page. The announcement comes only days after the launch of the official website and the first revealed trailer for the upcoming sequel that will release for PlayStation 3, [...]