John Sears | August 12, 2011
I really don’t know what to make of truly awful, mercenary and opportunistic ‘journalism’ like this sometimes: Rioting, looting, muggings, cars and buildings on fire – London has witnesses apocalyptic scenes on its streets over the past three days. Scenes which many said looked like those from a film depicting the end-of-the-world. … The star [...]
John Sears | August 12, 2011
I guess I should block off some time to really protest this one but good: Paramount Pictures announced that the zombie epic, World Word Z, will be released on December 21, 2012. Ahh, the ZRS shows their usual, err, flair for accuracy with this post, but we thank them for the news nonetheless. *snicker* Yes [...]
John Sears | August 11, 2011
At conventions we talk to a lot of Zombie fans, as well as, frankly, fans of Anti-Zombie media (who just need some counseling I think to reform completely) and we always get lots of suggestions. ‘Fido’ usually comes up. ‘Colin’ has been mentioned a lot lately too. For a while there we heard quite a [...]
John Sears | August 9, 2011
We’ve reported before on ‘Zombie Bohemia’ here on the ZRC blog; it seems to be a movie with both the promise of actual thinking, feeling Zombie characters and, tragically, some Anti-Zombie stereotyping as well. At any rate, the film continues to progress, and there has been a mass release of additional behind-the-scenes material: Director Vince [...]
John Sears | August 7, 2011
I am continually saddened by the level of community support for this awful project: Filming in Cornwall of Brad Pitt’s latest blockbuster was nearly brought to a halt for lack of sustenance – until a local delicacy saved the day. The 47-year-old Hollywood superstar is in Cornwall filming scenes for zombie action film World War [...]
John Sears | August 6, 2011
Sigh. The number of Hollywood stars who’ve decided to let their Anti-Zom flag fly and sign on for World War Z is depressing sometimes. Case in point: Bryan Cranston – who has shown his diversity as an actor in AMC’s incredible “Breaking Bad” – is in negotiations to join Paramount’s World War Z, a post-apocalyptic [...]
John Sears | August 1, 2011
You know, I’ve seen movies where the Undead intersect with the martial arts before, and they’re usually terrible, not just for Zombie Rights, but just, you know, as films. So when I see a blurb about a film called ‘Ninja Zombies’ I start to groan a bit before I even click on the link: “Ninja [...]
John Sears | July 27, 2011
We’ve heard this song and dance before from the ZRS and professional Zombie haters like Dr. Scholzman: “I watched some highly inconsistent Anti-Zombie movies and now have deduced *the* best, entirely fictional, all-encompassing, heavily biased ‘explanation’ of what makes Zombies tick!” Sort of like phrenology for the 21st Century: In case you missed it, Wired.com [...]
John Sears | July 26, 2011
‘Mars Needs Moms’ was a beloved children’s book that was adapted into a spectacularly poorly received animated film, released earlier this year in March. You may not have heard of the movie, and odds are you certainly did not see it; no one at the ZRC has either, although our Cultural Historian Andrew Leal was [...]
John Sears | July 26, 2011
We weren’t fans of ‘Zombieland’ here at the ZRC for fairly obvious reasons: it was (and is) a crass, violent, defamatory exercise in the on-screen abuse of Zombie stereotypes for profit. Still, given the (unfortunately) immense level of popularity it achieved, we had also resigned ourselves to sitting through another one. Apparently, that’s not happening, [...]