John Sears | December 25, 2010
Now this I have to admit is a wrinkle I wasn’t expecting: ‘Infectonator: Christmas Edition’ pares the original ‘Infectonator’ down to its bare, horrific essentials. Like the original, your goal is to spread a zombie-causing virus amongst an expecting populace. This is done by merely clicking on a screen full of innocent bystanders, spreading infection [...]
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 | December 15, 2010
Have you ever stopped to think about the *politics* of Zombies? We all know about the ‘Zombie Apocalypse’ scenario, as presented by Mr. Romero, Mr. Russo and so forth. Max Brooks has made a good living positing strategies for surviving such a grim and contrived situation, and even now his fictional triumph of the Living [...]
John Sears | December 9, 2010
I think it’s time for something a little different around here, so we’re reaching into the backlog and grabbing out a gem of a movie to review that, well, strictly speaking it doesn’t feature Zombies. I know, I know, but bear with me; it does tell a very interesting story about an individual who is [...]
John Sears | December 8, 2010
The Littlest Zombie (last reviewed here by the ZRC) has at long last gotten a second full issue of his, err, misadventures. By misadventures, I mean a bizarre mixture of savage Romero-Russo stereotyped violence and adorable antics, but if you’ve been following these reviews to date, you probably already got that. Issue 2 of The [...]
John Sears | December 7, 2010
This is another comic we spotted at The Vintage Phoenix in Bloomington, actually, and purely by chance lying on their sort of last chance table. Needless to say, I had to snatch it up after noting that it features another story of The Littlest Zombie, whose unfortunately anti-social antics we last reviewed here. A Very [...]
John Sears | December 7, 2010
While we were in Bloomington, Indiana for The Dark Carnival Film Festival, the art director and I stopped at landmark Bloomington comic book store The Vintage Phoenix for a bit of window shopping, as we usually do when we’re in the neighborhood. (It really is a fantastic old-school comic book store with an extensive indie [...]
John Sears | December 6, 2010
I was alerted to this ‘Dead of the Class’ project by our friends at the Horror Society when a plugin went berserk and dumped a ton of older posts onto their twitter feed, so there’s a certain serendipity to the whole affair. At the first, it sounded somewhat promising: Brian Cummings latest series Dead of [...]
John Sears | December 4, 2010
The Prometheus Project, also apparently named The Frankenstein Syndrome, was the big feature length film to deal with the Differently Animated at the Dark carnival this year (or so we thought going in) As the new, second title suggests, the trailer for this movie is a bit misleading, and it’s much closer to a modern [...]
John Sears | December 3, 2010
Rise of the Living Corpse is about forty seconds long and consists of one meanspirited joke at a Zombie’s expense. Not funny, Mr. Walsh. It is therefore rated Anti-Zombie.