John Sears | June 28, 2011
Emma Stone played one of the female leads in the notoriously offensive Anti-Zombie film ‘Zombieland’, so she was naturally considered a shoe-in as a candidate to play the lead in ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies’, an upcoming film adaptation of the also notorious book. However, Ms. Stone has apparently declined the role: Emma Stone passed [...]
John Sears | June 28, 2011
It’s true, apparently Alaska isn’t just the place to set movies based on atrociously murky and confused comics based on vampires* anymore: Shot entirely in Alaska, FROST BITE focuses on a small band of survivors after a zombie outbreak has overrun the world. They hole up in an abandoned grocery store that they dub Frost [...]
John Sears | June 27, 2011
What is it with the stereotype about women in failed relationships going mental, anyway? Is it a misogyny thing? Why don’t men get the same treatment by pop-culture, anyway? Regardless, it’s a trope older than dirt. Heav’n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn’d, Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn’d. More recently, [...]
John Sears | June 24, 2011
Guess what highly promising potentially Zombie Friendly all-ages film landed a composer and lots of voice talent? If you guessed ‘ParaNorman’, congratulations: you can read the post title! Two-time Grammy Award-nominated composer Jon Brion has signed to create the original score for LAIKA and Focus Features’ animated comedy thriller ParaNorman, currently in production at LAIKA’s [...]
John Sears | June 23, 2011
I was not a fan of ‘30 Days of Night‘ as a graphic novel. The story lurches around, especially toward the end, and Ben Templesmith‘s artwork should be the new dictionary definition for ‘murky’. Plus, it’s really unkind toward our allies in the larger Undead Solidarity movement, the Vampire community. We’re not talking ‘Twilight’ bad, [...]
John Sears | June 21, 2011
The ZRC has had a long and productive relationship with actress Deneen Melody, and I think we’re even bringing ’3 Slices of Life’ director Anthony Sumner around with her help. So maybe she can get us a chance to educate another filmmaker with a dicey Anti-Zombie past: It’s one of the many challenges Gomez, of [...]
John Sears | June 18, 2011
We’ve talked about this before on the ZRC blog (a phrase I’m sure you’re tired of hearing by now), but the persistence of the Nazis + Zombies horror genre keeps it coming back year after year. It also helps to illustrate a double standard in our society. If Nazis summon the demon-spawn of Satan to [...]
John Sears | June 17, 2011
Martial-arts used against the Undead has some precedent in the indie film world, for example, ‘God of Vampires’ made the film circuit a few years ago (we caught it at The Dark Carnival), and it was certainly a labor of love, mixing action movie kung-fu with Chinese vampires, though it wasn’t at all friendly to [...]
John Sears | June 15, 2011
It’s hardly revolutionary to note that the American conception of the ‘Old West’ is an extremely romanticized picture of a very dark, bloody period of history, and one that most Americans have yet to come to terms with. The fact that there’s even a *debate* over whether to acknowledge the genocide(s) of the various indigenous [...]
John Sears | June 15, 2011
What may well be the post-Romero magnum opus of Zombie Hate on Screen, ‘World War Z’, continues to chug ahead with various bits of casting and backstage news trickling out. Here’s a double dose of downer for you: According to Variety The Grey’s James Badge Dale (pictured right) is going back into battle, albeit against [...]