John Sears | January 24, 2011
A couple of weeks ago I assessed the first episode of ‘Kore wa Zombie Desu ka?’, which is streaming (legally) over at Crunchyroll, for the ZRC. I’ve been keeping up, and saw the third episode this afternoon. So far.. so good, at least as far as Zombie Rights is concerned. The second episode introduced an [...]
John Sears | January 16, 2011
I know, I know, I’ve talked a lot about these faux historical analyses of Zombie media popularity over time a lot lately. First with i09, then with Flowtv, now with Wired, right? Believe it or not, Wired’s is one of the weakest, since they don’t show, or even explain, their work in any meaningful way. [...]
John Sears | January 16, 2011
It just wouldn’t be a week monitoring the pop-culture/journalism feeds without another piece that combines ivory tower cloud-talking with dubious historical analysis to frame a piece expressing befuddlement with, and general distaste for, the presence and popularity of the Differently Animated in media: What are we to make of AMC’s The Walking Dead? The question [...]
John Sears | January 15, 2011
This is an oldie but a fascinating case study in how an attempt at Zombie Friendliness can go off the rails and become… well, something very different. It’s also necessarily pretty heavy on spoilers, so if you wish to avoid that, just skip to the last paragraph for our rating. Some background: “My Zombie Lover” [...]
John Sears | December 25, 2010
We decided to keep cracking away at those Masters of Horror episodes up on Hulu, so naturally ZRC-related curiosity led to the third episode from the first season, Dance of the Dead. Dance of the Dead concerns a young woman named Peggy working in a diner sometime in the near future. The United States has [...]
John Sears | December 24, 2010
There’s a question mark in the title because, of course, I haven’t seen it yet, but hopefully it will be one of those series that gets snatched up and near-instantly subtitled on Hulu. The show in question is called ‘Kore wa Zombie Desu ka?‘, and is summarized thusly: Summary: Aikawa Ayumu is a normal high [...]
John Sears | December 23, 2010
I know it’s been out quite a while, but when browsing Hulu recently I noticed that they have the whole first two seasons of Masters of Horror up, and Baron Mardi had again reminded us of the famous ‘Homecoming‘ episode of the series from legendary director Joe Dante, so we fired it up on the [...]
John Sears | November 25, 2010
As mentioned on the blog, we here at the ZRC spent the Thankstaking Day holiday relaxing and forcing ourselves to slog through Romero ‘classic’ films. Due to technical issues with Dawn of the Dead, we only got through Night and Dawn, missing the trifecta with Day. Not bad for refreshing the old memory though, plus [...]
John Sears | November 24, 2010
Somehow, though I forget how at the moment, I learned of this Holy Taco article on the 6 ‘Types’, or as I indicated above, Stereotypes, of Zombies that have been found in The Walking Dead tv show to date (apparently). I know, I know, it’s the biggest Zombie media product to hit America in years, [...]
John Sears | November 1, 2010
The Walking Dead’s debut episode had 5.3 million viewers, making it AMC’s highest rated show and the highest rated cable debut of the year: The show, which was originally scheduled to premiere a week earlier but was pushed back to Halloween because of a football game, opened with more than 5.3 million viewers — the [...]