John Sears | September 27, 2011
Oh yes, this sounds classy: Set in the aftermath of a zombie outbreak, the film follows a group of likely lads as they head off to a run down military base with a PVC clad stripper for the ultimate stag party experience. Forget paintball, at Zomball you get to shoot zombies with stun guns. It’s [...]
John Sears | September 27, 2011
Well, the wave of Euro-Zom films that hate the Differently Animated seems to be coming ashore at last: SAN JOSE, Calif., Sep 22, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Global Cinema Distribution ( www.globalcinemadistribution.com ) announces the national theatrical release of the Ford Brothers’ West African–set zombie feature THE DEAD. After its successful U.K. run, THE DEAD [...]
John Sears | September 22, 2011
This story about prejudice and the negative framing of the so-called ‘Zombie Apocalypse’ (instead of the much preferable term ‘Global Reanimation Block Party’) is more than a little bizarre: “Debbie Does End of Days”? San Fernando Valley porn purveyors Pink Visual may be the only adult film company equipped to release such a title, as [...]
John Sears | September 21, 2011
When you hear things like ‘the spirit of the Book’ you should know by now that the final product will bear extremely little similarity to the literary work that you loved (or in our case, hated): Get More: Movie Trailers, Movies Blog You had to guess he’d say things like that. The book doesn’t have [...]
John Sears | September 19, 2011
Honestly, I couldn’t believe this one at first: John Malkovich is in final negotiations to join the cast of Summit Entertainment’s zombie pic “Warm Bodies.” Jonathan Levine (“50/50″) is writing and directing the film, which will star Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer and Rob Corddry. … Malkovich will play General Grigio, who’s obsessed with the destruction [...]
John Sears | September 14, 2011
First they discarded the cerebral and engaging, if still permeated by hatred, narrative structure of ‘World War Z’ in favor of a cut-down Hollywood blockbuster approach. Because thinking is not something you should do while watching a mainstream film? Now news comes that they have discarded pretty much all that was left of Brooks’ unique [...]
John Sears | September 13, 2011
Seriously? Who out there hates the human race this much? Uwe Boll continues to bring little known video games to the screen. This time he’s producing a movie version of Zombie Massacre video game. The film will be directed by Marco Ristori and Luca Boni who made the recent low-budget zombie flick, Eaters, for Boll. [...]
John Sears | September 13, 2011
In the process of writing about Seth Grahame-Smith’s apparent quest to remake every cultural touchstone from human history recently, the ZRC came across this potential gem: Night of the Living, a stop-motion animated film that Grahame-Smith might script, with Burton producing along with KatzSmith. A town of peaceful monsters must learn how to fight when [...]
John Sears | September 12, 2011
We’ve had our differences with Seth Grahame-Smith here at the ZRC; his ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies’ novel kickstarted the truly unfortunate trend of ‘Put Zombies Into Anything, Especially Public Domain Works No One Owns Anymore’ Trend. (Aka: the Zombie Flavored Creativity Substitute). Don’t get us wrong; a thoughtful Zombified remake of a classic work [...]
John Sears | September 8, 2011
This sounds like a wildly inappropriate contest. Needless to say, I entered only for the slim chance of taking this dangerous hardware off the streets: Little Bit Zombie To Give Away A Zombie Killing Truck In a great promotion from the folks behind A Little Bit Zombie, they are giving their readers a chance to [...]