John Sears | March 23, 2011
If you’re a longtime ZRC reader, you’ll know the Zombie Rights Campaign has a particular issue with the ‘Brains’, or more precisely, ‘Braaaaaaains’ stereotype about the Differently Animated. Most Americans just assume that all Zombies eat brains, want to eat brains, possess an irresistible hunger, in fact, for brains. In fact, however, the Braaaaaaaains stereotype [...]
John Sears | March 22, 2011
I have distinctly mixed feelings about this latest news on the World War Z movie front: World War Z, Brad Pitt’s movie about a global undead apocalypse, may be dying (or is it re-dying?) unless Paramount can find a co-financier. The film currently has a price tag of more than $125 million, and the studio [...]
John Sears | March 21, 2011
We’ve written extensively about the hit independent horror anthology ‘III Slices of Life’ before here at the ZRC; we reviewed it under a previous title, ‘Slices of Life’, attended the World Premiere in Chicago at the Portage Theatre, and have conducted considerable outreach to director Anthony Sumner and one of the stars of the film, [...]
John Sears | March 18, 2011
We were recently alerted to the existence of a fairly slick short indie film featuring Zombies entitled ‘Morbid’, and after reading BuyZombie’s take on the film and its production values, I felt that what was really *missing* from this conversation was the Zombie Rights perspective. What does ‘Morbid’ have to say about Zombies? Well, you [...]
John Sears | March 18, 2011
Our good friends at The Horror Society have some details on this fall’s release of the latest in cutting edge Euro-Zom movies, the third installment in the [REC] series: The original [REC] crew are back, ready to submit their ensemble cast to another fight for survival against the zombie infection, this time to the backdrop [...]
John Sears | March 18, 2011
It’s rare that I have no idea what to think about an upcoming Zombie-related project; most of the time the press information alone gives solid hints as to potential Zombie Friendliness or lack thereof. Thus it’s not at all common to read the blurb, watch a trailer, and have no clue what the ZRC reaction [...]
John Sears | March 17, 2011
I suppose now that Zombies have become a sort of lazy stock villain to be slapped into every horror concept that’s short a few ideas it’s inevitable that ethno-cultural groups will be pitted against them one by one in an attempt at niche marketing, but it’s still disheartening to see unrest at the expense of [...]
John Sears | March 17, 2011
First of course, Mr. Grahame-Smith got the ball rolling on the entire genre of ‘Mix public domain work with Zombies’, for which literature itself owes him a sound thrashing. Yes, we can lay the lion’s share of the blame for an entire subgenre of lazy, relatively unimaginative Anti-Zombie fiction at his feet, even if, of [...]
John Sears | March 11, 2011
I’ve been doing a lot of Madison related stuff here on the blog lately, and have received, shall we say, polite criticism for drifting off the main topic a bit, so I think it would be useful to outline precisely why the current struggle here in Wisconsin matters for Zombies and for the Zombie Rights [...]
John Sears | March 6, 2011
Santa Claus. Immortal giver of joy, and toys, to children, at least in the American mythos. He of the rosy cheeks, chimney spelunking and the flying reindeer, Rudolph later added by Montgomery Ward. And, for some reason, a noteworthy target of Anti-Zombie media creators. It’s becoming routine to splash Zombies into holiday stories, almost invariably [...]