John Sears | April 28, 2011
On September 11th, 2001, Al-Qaeda attacked the United States. With the tragic recent release of ‘Zombies of Mass Destruction’ and the concurrent death of all American culture, they finally won. Too much like ‘The Onion’? Ok, fair enough, a more conventional ZRC Review follows. Before we get down to it though, you can watch a [...]
John Sears | April 22, 2011
It took a bit of work and quite a bit of waiting for the Region 2 DVD to get here from the UK in our heightened era of Terror Paranoia (which serves as the backdrop for many an Anti-Zombie story I might add) but the ZRC is now ready to review ‘Zombie Hotel’. (It’s sad [...]
John Sears | April 18, 2011
Well, I suppose it had to happen; there’s an arm’s race going on Anti-Zombie Easter chocolates. Groan: Can’t get your hands on a zombie chocolate Easter bunny? Don’t panic! While Think Geek can’t keep their awesome undead chocolate bunnies in stock, Oregon’s Lillie Belle Farms makes organic zombie chocolate bunnies to order — *and* you [...]
John Sears | April 12, 2011
When I see this shirt, I can’t help but think of one of the (precious few) thoughtful moments in the X-Men movies, a conversation between Mystique and Nightcrawler in X2: Nightcrawler: Excuse me? They say you can imitate anybody, even their voice. Mystique: [as Nightcrawler] Even their voice. Nightcrawler: Then why not stay in disguise [...]
John Sears | March 21, 2011
We’ve written extensively about the hit independent horror anthology ‘III Slices of Life’ before here at the ZRC; we reviewed it under a previous title, ‘Slices of Life’, attended the World Premiere in Chicago at the Portage Theatre, and have conducted considerable outreach to director Anthony Sumner and one of the stars of the film, [...]
John Sears | March 18, 2011
We were recently alerted to the existence of a fairly slick short indie film featuring Zombies entitled ‘Morbid’, and after reading BuyZombie’s take on the film and its production values, I felt that what was really *missing* from this conversation was the Zombie Rights perspective. What does ‘Morbid’ have to say about Zombies? Well, you [...]
John Sears | March 16, 2011
Monitoring BuyZombie as I often do for any news about the usually awful treatment of the Differently Animated in media, I saw this item today: In this case it’s the new web comic that I’ve found called Zomblicity that takes 2 looks at the same cast where the only difference is our main character having [...]
John Sears | February 25, 2011
Just wanted to comment upon a couple of shirts that went up at Threadless.com recently. First we have the blatantly offensive and Anti-Zombie shirt ‘The Horde’, depicting, you guessed it, a horde of Zombies surrounding a lonely protagonist: Once again we have an irresponsible ‘creative’ type pushing the discredited ‘Zombie Apocalypse’ scenario, complete with that [...]
John Sears | February 15, 2011
Don’t get us wrong; here at the ZRC we believe that Zombification, like any other medical procedure, should be undertaken only after due consideration and with properly informed consent. We also recognize and respect an individual’s wish not to become Differently Animated, no matter how ill-informed and self-destructive that particular wish might be. At first [...]
John Sears | February 9, 2011
This 5 Second Film entitled ‘Brains!!!’ probably sets a new record for shortest film about Zombies (taking it from Rise of the Living Corpse with like 35 seconds to spare). But is it Zombie Friendly? Well… no, not as such. It puts a humorous spin on the concept of Zombies demanding ‘Braaaains’; here they’re less [...]