John Sears | December 9, 2010
This relatively recent piece in Foreign Policy serves as a fascinating and outrageous reminder of the ways in which the academic and policy advocacy world at large continues to mistreat the Differently Animated, and also how world goverments, acting upon such misinformation, might unleash large-scale tragedy upon the Undead community. FP starts out with a [...]
John Sears | November 29, 2010
(There are some spoilers for Creepshow in this piece but, hey, there’s a statute of limitations on this stuff, as Penny Arcade said. Please be advised) Yesterday was a sad day for film-lovers and Zombie Rights enthusiasts alike, as one of the great American comedic actors, Leslie Nielsen, died at 84 years of age. For [...]
John Sears | November 25, 2010
As mentioned on the blog, we here at the ZRC spent the Thankstaking Day holiday relaxing and forcing ourselves to slog through Romero ‘classic’ films. Due to technical issues with Dawn of the Dead, we only got through Night and Dawn, missing the trifecta with Day. Not bad for refreshing the old memory though, plus [...]
John Sears | November 23, 2010
It’s truly tragic that this article detailing the ‘history’ of Zombies in America is a cut above the average; sad, in that such a shallow and defamatory, not to mention dubiously ahistorical piece is still so much better than most. What the io9 piece gets right, and almost everybody else misses, is that the history [...]
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 | October 31, 2010
This article from NPR entitled ’8 Things Everyone Needs To Know About Zombies’ is a truly awful piece of mishmash, patently obvious trivia combined with wild speculation on fashionable topics and theories mixed with outright factual errors. Not just errors about Zombies; errors about filmmaking, about the basic history of horror movies and the pop [...]
John Sears | September 16, 2010
Big review behind the cut.
John Sears | September 15, 2010
This one seems to have been lost to the dusty corners of history, but rather than being forgotten, it merely waits, dead but dreaming, for a budget and a direct to DVD release: Rumors of this zombie movie called DIAMOND DEAD from GEORGE A ROMERO and Australian producer ANDREW GATY and co-written by BRIAN COOPER, [...]
John Sears | September 4, 2010
First of all, I finally got around to verifying the proper spelling of the con, and it’s apparently Geek.kon. I’ve seen it other ways on other forms, and for some reason had fallen into the habit of writing it as “Geek-Kon” If this has caused immense personal hardship to anyone I deeply apologize. So, how [...]
John Sears | August 24, 2010
This story is shocking and appalling on multiple levels: A few years ago, a group of people dressed up as zombies for a protest march and got arrested for it. When arrested at the intersection of Hennepin Avenue and 6th Street N., most of them had thick white powder and fake blood on their faces [...]