John Sears | October 25, 2011
We had a wild and crazy few days in Bloomington, IN for the annual pilgrimage to The Dark Carnival, and have now arrived safely back at ZRC HQ in Madison. Here is the festival that was: Day 2: The ZRC saw all the films we wanted to evaluate, including ‘A Chance in Hell’, ‘Fitness Class [...]
John Sears | October 22, 2011
We had a long journey but we’re settled into the hotel and ready for a full weekend of film viewing and agitation. We also got to attend the opening party last night here in Bloomington. Some highlights: Doc Calamari has found a new and even more hideous outfit to parade around in. He describes it [...]
John Sears | October 21, 2011
A fascinating Q&A with Patricia Tallman of the Savini ‘Night of the Living Dead’ is up at BuyZombie. Needless to say we read this with great interest here at the ZRC and suggest you do the same. A highlight: 6). As this is a zombie site, tell me about your experiences on “Night Of The [...]
John Sears | October 18, 2011
The ZRC will be a bit busy later this week attending The Dark Carnival. Here are a few highlights! (and we hope to see some Zombie Rights Supporters there) Friday: “Monster’s Ball” Party 8 pm at Jake’s Nightclub Live Music, Monsters and Mayhem, sure to be a Zombie Friendly Outing as well Films We *Need* [...]
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 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 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 [...]
John Sears | October 3, 2011
Sorry for the long weekend, I cannot divulge much yet but rest assured it was all for one of the ZRC’s ongoing secret projects. Mwa ha ha. Meanwhile later this month the ZRC will be attending The Dark Carnival Film Festival in Bloomington, Indiana from October 21-23rd. This is the fifth year we’ve gone, and [...]
John Sears | September 30, 2011
Not so much because of the people involved, aside from Smirky McGee herself Milla, but because it indicates that this, ahem, ‘film’ is still well on its way to ruining an afternoon of mine sometime in the future. Oh, and spreading lots of Anti-Zombie prejudice of course: Are You Sick Of Resident Evil: Retribution Casting [...]
John Sears | September 30, 2011
In the classic science-fiction spoof ‘Spaceballs’, one of the recurring jokes is the hypercommercialization of the Spaceballs movie itself, and the bewildering variety of (sometimes just plain bewildering) merchandise that, allegedly, one could purchase related the film. (This is pretty obviously a poke in the ribs at ‘Star Wars’ which really did break all sorts [...]