John Sears | April 23, 2011
BuyZombie brings us news of a ‘Shaun of the Dead’ shirt featuring some rather inflammatory imagery: Shaun Shaun Shaun and your inability to ever really do anything right. Only you would let the zombies get close enough to your beer glasses to dirty them up this way. Even so we know you get things worked [...]
John Sears | April 22, 2011
Mercifully, it omits a lot of the Anti-Zombie violence. Sadly, it doesn’t get rid of all of it, and the Scott Pilgrim-esque presentation trivializes the suffering of the Differently Animated a great deal: For shame on all involved. A sober reexamination of the original, and heinous, alleged comedy ‘Shaun of the Dead’ is what was [...]
John Sears | April 22, 2011
Truly sickening news, but then again this is a guy who makes his money coming up with torture porn: Here’s how Whannell pitched a comedy script he’s recently wrapped: I actually just wrote a comedy about a zombie virus that breaks out in a primary school but only effects people who haven’t been through puberty. [...]
John Sears | April 22, 2011
A movie supposedly told from the Zombies’ perspective is going to be on cable tonight: “AAAH! ZOMBIES!!” stars The Vampire Diaries’ Matthew Davis, Betsy Beutler (Scrubs), Michael Terry (Bones) and Julianna Robinson with Tracey Walter (I Spit On Your Grave). Turning the zombie film genre on its head, “AAAH! ZOMBIES!!” is a horror comedy told [...]
John Sears | April 17, 2011
I’d heard about this movie before, and even seen the trailer, but something about it didn’t stick for me until I watched a scene on FEARnet today, and now I’m legitimately excited. The movie is called ‘Dylan Dog: Dead of Night’, and on the surface is a fairly bland seeming, Hellblazer-ish story about the one [...]
John Sears | April 16, 2011
The Zombie Rights Campaign’s work has given me the opportunity to travel quite a bit, and go to a lot film festivals and theatre venues here in the Midwest. We’ve been to the Portage Theatre in Chicago many times for events with the Horror Society. We’ve been at every Dark Carnival Film Festival yet, held [...]
John Sears | April 15, 2011
From the 14th to 19th centuries, Bubonic plague, aka the Black Death, repeatedly struck and utterly devastated Europe, each time causing untold devastation and the deaths of millions, only to largely disappear for decades, even centuries, before returning with a vengeance to any particular locale. I mention this only to illustrate that some pestilences upon [...]
John Sears | April 15, 2011
Faithful readers of the ZRC blog (who surely exist in teeming numbers) may recall that The Zombie Rights Campaign recently pledged support for ‘Mother’s Blood’, an independent horror film, after receiving assurances that the production was a Zombie Friendly shop: Working with independent filmmakers is one of our favorite activities here at The Zombie Rights [...]
John Sears | April 14, 2011
Here’s a disturbing taste of Anti-Zombie film: not only are the Zombie characters treated badly, but the actors wishing to portray them are kept separate from those who want to play the Living characters: FLINT, Michigan — Interested in starring in a zombie flick? The writers of a zombie short filming in and around Flint [...]
John Sears | April 14, 2011
Oh yes, this sounds like one of the films playing at the megaplex in my own personal hell: Max Adler, who plays the bully Dave Karofsky on the hit Fox show Glee, already has plans for the upcoming hiatus, and it’s to play a role in a teen comedy movie about zombies. … “Comedy and [...]