John Sears | December 3, 2010
We saw Closure, an Israeli short film, at The 2010 Dark Carnival Film Festival. Closure marks a milestone for the ZRC, as it represents our first chance to review a zombie movie from the Middle East, and a peek at the politics and perception of the Differently Animated in a whole new region of the [...]
John Sears | November 17, 2010
Full disclosure: Helpless is a novel written by Friend of the ZRC Michelle Hartz, who often helpfully supplies us with tips and leads on potential Zombie stories. With that out of the way… When the Zombie Rights Campaign has business in Southern Illinois or Indiana, we often take a relatively Westerly route, heading down 1-39 [...]
John Sears | November 16, 2010
(Slices of Life cast and crew at the World Premiere during the Horror Society Film Festival) Slices of Life is the new anthology series from director Anthony Sumner, comprised of three of his previous short films along with an all-new framing device tying the stories together (which, in the interests of full disclosure, features ZRC [...]
John Sears | November 14, 2010
This is an oldie, and it came as a surprise here at the ZRC – I had intended to purchase this game specifically to get *away* from Zombie games, or more precisely, Anti-Zombie games, for a bit; that, and the fact that it was cheap, and that it’s a spiritual successor to the massively underrated [...]
John Sears | November 8, 2010
The last film we have to review from the Drunken Zombie Film Festival is perhaps the biggest of the indie shorts; it stars John La Zar and Adrienne Barbeau, was obviously shot on a decent budget and has a steady, confident feel throughout. It’s also in many ways the most disturbing, because the central theme [...]
John Sears | November 8, 2010
Cabine of the Dead proved to be a great disappointment to The Zombie Rights Campaign, at least relative to our earlier fond hopes for a stirring realist piece of cinema depicting the struggles of the Differently Animated to gain fair and equal access to public services or the use of facilities normally open to the [...]
John Sears | November 7, 2010
The Zombie Rights Campaign saw this film at the Drunken Zombie Film Festival, and I have to admit, found it extremely disturbing indeed, graphic and unrelenting in the horrors it demonstrates and the complicated moral dilemmas it poses for Zombie Rights. A basic synopsis, obtained from the filmmaker’s website: Chemical 12-D is the latest short [...]
John Sears | November 7, 2010
Geeky rock personalities just can’t seem to stay away from bashing the Undead. Jonathon Coulton famously made his bones with ‘Re: Your Brains’, now Kirby Krackle puts out an animated video to accompany their song ‘Zombie Apocalypse’, featuring many hateful and negative stereotypes about the Differently Animated. From a Zombie Rights perspective this video is [...]