Posted By John Sears on December 14, 2011

It’s amazing how far some people will go to create imaginary scenarios in which the Undead are the bad guys.

Even when, typically, it’s the Living in those same scenarios, who, by any reasonable standard are causing the trouble.

Case in point: the people who get trampled or hurt every holiday season jostling for scarce goodies. Won’t they be even worse in the ‘Zombie Apocalypse’?

Whatever your situation in a zombie outbreak, don’t count on looting needed food from the local mega-mart. An extensive analysis of injuries occurring in large crowds over the last several years found that from Boston to Beijing, people of all ages and walks of life actively participated in the deaths of their fellow man to accomplish their own often trivial objectives.

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If everyday citizens are killing one another just to get a better price on a flat-screen television, imagine what ugly behaviors will surface when actual survival is at stake. The findings suggest that inadvertent human violence may well be a greater cause of death and destruction than any flesh-eating zombie or lunatic with a shotgun in the coming undead pandemic.

And this is the Zombies’ fault because….?

Just asking.

Call it the Romero Principle: ‘It’s never the Zombies that beat the Living in the Apocalypse. It’s always the Living.’

Sort of a parallel to ‘Evil will always triumph because Good is dumb’, only Zombies aren’t evil, Living people (obviously) aren’t inherently good, and the whole Apocalypse idea is what’s dumb.

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Posted By John Sears on December 14, 2011

Spain’s recent revival of cinematic Anti-Zombie prejudice exposes a lengthier history of Zombie-bashing; surely we’re not the only ones who recall ‘Tombs of the Blind Dead’? Still, as odious as the ‘mock the handicapped Zombies’ Blind Dead films were, they lacked the slick, HD-ready production values* of [REC] and its sequel. Truly, and tragically, fear of the Differently Animated has come into its own in the post-modern era on the Iberian peninsula.

Now we are presented with the third entry in the [REC] series, the oddly (for a sequel of a sequel) titled [REC]3: Genesis:

For [REC] 3: Genesis the action moves to a wedding celebration, but judging by the just-released trailer it’s going to be just as good as the first two. Check it out:

Yes, for some reason the mere appearance of some Zombie relatives at a wedding is cause for a full panic, followed by subsequent dismemberment with a chainsaw, stick blender, what have you. Ugly, ugly prejudice on what’s supposed to be such a happy day.

Are all of the less ‘desirable’ relatives shunned in this fashion? Would it help if the Zombies brought expensive wedding presents? I suppose that rarely hurts. Did the bride and groom even tell the Zombies where they registered?

It seems clear that the Zombies are the real victims here. As usual.

According to IMDB [REC]3 comes out in March in Spain, so I guess the world will get to see them spin this vicious bigotry then. And spin they surely will.

*or, in later Blind Dead films, production values at all, or so say the film wags

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Posted By John Sears on December 14, 2011

Let’s get this out of the way up-front: this post isn’t about Zombies, or their rights. It *is* about putting an easily found record on the web about a particularly skeezy hotel that ripped me off while I was out and about traveling on behalf of Zombie Rights, and the large corporate hotel chain that helped them do it.

Yes, I am using the ZRC’s web reach to punish them. They deserve it. Read the following and I think you’ll agree. If you’re not interested though, by all means, skip this and read the surrounding posts about Zombies. I also don’t want anyone to think I didn’t have a great time on our trip to the Great Debate at the University of Houston-Victoria. I did! Just not the part at this hotel.

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I was going to be traveling on ZRC business to Victoria, Texas, and so I reserved a hotel room well in advance. I had been told that it was difficult to get rooms in town and that they were often full-up in places. The university, through no fault of their own I’m sure, recommended the Best Western, so that’s what I went with.

This Best Western, in particular.

Immediately when making the reservation I was struck by the price. 150 dollars a night, plus taxes, for a Best Western? Wow. I’ve stayed at nice hotels in NYC and Chicago for less. For one ZRC trip we stayed at the Intercontinental by O’Hare for a lot less than that. (That, btw, is a scary nice hotel).

Still, I went ahead and made the reservation. It seemed important to pick a hotel that was easy to get to and from, and that my local contacts would know the location of in case I got lost or something.

I checked in that day and went out for the debate, which was followed by dinner and such, and then I returned to the hotel. I was bored and hadn’t brought a lot to read so I spent some time in the lobby reading their magazines, and watched the hotel turn away other people, since they were fully booked, and be further unable to find the prospective clients a room anywhere else, because supposedly every other hotel in town was fully booked.

So I felt lucky to have a room when I went back up to mine and sat down at the desk to do some phone-blogging. Until I saw the cockroach that had crawled in while I was gone and apparently died on the spot.

I call him Westy, after the hotel chain.

Naturally, this did not please me, so I went downstairs and talked to the clerk at the desk. There didn’t seem to be a night manager per se. She claimed to be sorry, but mostly she seemed embarrassed. At the time I thought it was because a guest had found a roach in their hotel room, but now I realize the truth probably is that she was embarrassed because guests are *always* finding roaches in their hotel rooms at this Best Western.

She told me that there was, basically, nothing she could do. The hotel was full, and every other place in town was full. She never offered a refund or even a cleaning, not that it would make me feel a *lot* better, given the old rule that there are 10 roaches for every 1 you see. But she did assure me that I could speak to a manager in the morning. I insisted she leave a note for that manager stating that I wanted to meet with them, and she claimed to do so.

Now I had two choices. It was around freezing that night in Victoria, but I could try sleeping in the car. Or I could stay in the hotel and deal with it in the morning. Taking the desk clerk at her word, I decided not to try and tough it out in the car. I hadn’t even brought winter clothing, let alone blankets, so staying outside seemed like a bad idea.

Turns out I should’ve taken my chances.

I spent a good half hour searching all my bags and clothes for more roaches, taking the bed apart, looking under the furniture. Then I went to bed, slept fairly poorly for my trouble.

In the morning I got up and desperately wanted to take a shower or a bath, or both, and got my second surprise: that wasn’t happening either. Because whenever I turned on the water in the bath, bugs crawled out of the drain. Spiders, beetley things and the like.

I got a picture of just one of them.

So instead, still sweaty and a bit miserable, I simply packed up and went downstairs to talk to the manager.

Only she wasn’t there. She’d ditched me. Supposedly to go to ‘lunch’ at about 10 in the morning.

The note, obviously, did not have its intended effect… on my part. I get the feeling it did on theirs, and that what was actually written was along the lines of, ‘Angry customer in 202 found another of those roaches. Stay hidden in back tomorrow morning.’

Could I talk to anyone, I asked? No. Could the woman on duty do anything? No. Any idea when the manager would be back? No. Could they call her? Surely she has a cell phone? No. On and on it went. I had a flight leaving in 4 hours and a 2 1/2 hour drive, plus airport security, to get through. They knew this and didn’t care. I told them I’d be in touch and left.

Which is, it seems, what they counted on.

I got home and my mother, who used to work in travel, said she’d deal with it, so I handed the information off to her. I had other problems. You see, I’d gotten sick. Strangely sick. I was having regular, severe nosebleeds. I hadn’t had a nosebleed in years before this trip, and these ones were bad, and even hurt, oddly enough.

After about a week she told me that she wasn’t having any luck; Best Western corporate wouldn’t deal with her, and the actual hotel wasn’t either. So I took it back over and set to work venting my frustration and attempting to get my money back.

That’s when the fun really began.

Best Western corporate, you see, cannot, and will not, do a thing. All customer complaints no matter the nature or severity are simply referred to the hotel you make them against. If the manager of a hotel breaks down your door at 3 am and sets fire to your things, Best Western wouldn’t care. It’s the local hotel’s responsibility.

But every time you DO talk to corporate they sign you up for another spam email survey asking how your stay was. Not making that up.

So I had to talk to the same hotel manager who’d ducked me the day of my stay. Get this: she insists, simultaneously, that the room was ‘clean’ and that the roach problem concerned her so greatly she had exterminators immediately called in.

Oh, and to make up for my trouble, she’s offering me DOUBLE BEST WESTERN REWARDS POINTS.

I start calling the hotel, and I get different stories, depending on the day, but they evolve in a general direction. The hotel room is clean despite the bug infestation. The cockroach must have invaded the room, from the outside. Oh, and they very regularly spray the room, with extremely potent poison, which is what killed the cockroach.

Really? I ask. What poison? Was I exposed?

No answer. Suddenly all the nosebleeds start to seem more worrisome.

I’m sick of talking to this woman so I start calling corporate again. They give me the same song and dance, but promise to get back to me on the issue of pesticides. They don’t.

So that’s where the issue stands currently. Best Western Corporate is ducking me. Best Western Victoria Texas is ducking me. I can’t even get the name of whatever awful pesticide they exposed me to, which may have made me quite sick, though, *finally*, the nosebleeds are trickling to a stop, two weeks afterward.

And of course, they still have my money. I’ve contested the charge with my credit card, and am hoping that will be more productive.

My advice? Run, don’t walk, away from Best Western. The chain has no interest or ability to supervise their hotels, which apparently can be full of pesticides AND cockroaches and other bugs. Nobody cares. Sleep in your car or the hallway if you don’t like it. No refund, not even an attempt at a sincere apology. At best they might give you some rewards points or a few bucks back off the room. Once you’re safely back home, thousands of miles away, of course.

And of course, if you get sick, potentially as a result of staying in their hotel? They couldn’t care less.

Brother.

Hotel information (to increase chances it will come up in a Google search):

BEST WESTERN PLUS Victoria Inn & Suites
8106 NE Zac Lentz Pkwy, Victoria, Texas 77904-3129
Phone: 361/485-2300 | Fax: 361/485-2306

Manager’s email (because why not): 44562@hotel.bestwestern.com

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Posted By John Sears on December 13, 2011

We talked earlier, and hopefully, about upcoming family film ‘Paranorman’ here on the ZRC blog. A highlight:

Yes, let’s try DIALOGUE, people. Negotiate, discuss, find common ground and build upon it. This is the way to move forward, not cricket bats and haphazard massacres.

We cannot wait for ParaNorman here at the ZRC. It should be amazing.

Well, it looks strongly like I was reading what I wanted to see into the early press, because the trailer is not Zombie Friendly. At all:

*groan*

Great. Another 3D movie about hating on Zombies. Of particular interest to the Zombie Rights Movement is the continuation of the now-fairly-standard divide and conquer approach to Undead Equality: the designation of Zombies as the go-to, acceptable targets of Living anxiety and distrust, while grandfathering (or here, grandmothering) in Ghosts, Vampires, what have you.

Because everyone needs a villain, but vampires and ghosts and such have historically had better PR.

We’re working hard to change that, here at the ZRC, and we can’t do it without your help, for which we are eternally grateful.

As for ‘Paranorman’, well. I hope the filmmakers are proud of themselves for apparently taking the low road in search of box office gold.

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Posted By John Sears on December 13, 2011

You know the phenomenon where someone appears to be flattering you but in fact is making a smarmy, sarcastic insult? There’s a term for those: ‘backhanded’ compliments, and Zombies get them quite a bit. Usually it’s a way of playing up how, supposedly, unintelligent and savage Zombies are – but boy, aren’t they persistent?

Brother.

You can see another example of this from, of course, the Anti-Zombie goon squad over at the Zombie Research Society as they discuss Zombies and honesty:

This reality highlights yet another fundamental difference between zombies and humans: Zombies don’t lie. In their relentless aggression, zombies seem incapable of masking their single-minded desire to hunt and eat every living person on the planet. They want what they want, and they’re nod afraid to let it be known.

In fact, zombies are unique to most other popular monsters in their pathological truthfulness. By contrast vampires keep their identity secret. They lie through their spiked teeth about their past, their eating habits, and why they can’t make it to your beach party this weekend. Werewolves aren’t big on talking about their monthly “problem” either.

First of all, ZRS, don’t think we didn’t notice the attempt to divide and conquer amongst the Differently Animated. Shame on you. Vampires and Werewolves are the Zombie Community’s natural comrades in arms, as much as you might try to foment misunderstanding and mistrust.

Secondly, why do these ‘monsters’ owe you, the archetypical Living Supremacist bigot, honesty to begin with? Most likely you’ll just use it as an excuse to grab a stake or some silver and get to slaughtering those different from yourselves.

Because isn’t that what the ZRS is all about?

Rather than talking about the honesty of Zombies, why not discuss the dishonesty of the Zombie Research Society? Your goal isn’t to ‘research’ Zombies, it’s to exterminate them, thus eliminating a vibrant community from the planet, as well as any future academic inquiry. The ZRS doesn’t want to learn about Zombies, to interact with them, but to destroy them. Quite frankly they’d be happiest having no Zombies to ‘research’ at all.

And that’s terrible.

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Posted By John Sears on December 13, 2011

Not to fall into the ‘Argument from authority’ trap, but sometimes it is nice to get a bit of validation when someone you respect publicly endorses a controversial position you’ve taken.

Case in point: George Takei, noted actor and civil rights activist, agrees with the ZRC about Twilight and its sparkly vampires:

Thank you, Mr. Takei. Thank you. Together, Zombie Allies and Sci-Fi fans cannot fail in defeating this sparkly vampire menace.

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Posted By John Sears on December 12, 2011

Ever heard of sleep paralysis? It’s a phenomenon where a person becomes unable to move, but still largely conscious, while falling asleep or waking up. They are trapped inside their own body, helpless, often terrified and sometimes plagued with hallucinations.

It’s actually not that uncommon. A lot of people have it happen at least once in their lifetimes, and it’s lead to a lot of colorful folklore about, well, nightmares, demon possession, being trapped in your body unable to control it, and what have you.

I couldn’t help but think of that when I read about a new self-published indie Zombie novel, ‘My Zombie Body’, which attempts to characterize Zombiism in a very similar way:

Standing outside of the Wendy’s restaurant at the intersection of Conestoga Street and Arapahoe Avenue in Boulder last week, Lurig, 32, propped his sign up against his red backpack full of about 50 copies of his self-published book, “My Zombie Body.”

“It’s the story of you, fully aware and sentient, inside of your zombie body but unable to control anything,” Lurig explained as curious drivers crept by into the drive-through line.

“Everybody thinks zombies are mindless and they’re killers, they don’t know what they’re doing. But they never imagine that maybe the person is still inside there.”

Lurig’s twist on the classic genre is told through Jared, an unfortunate soul who is transformed into a flesh-eating zombie.

I have to say, this is a new one on us. Typically Zombies are unfairly maligned as being mindless; more rarely, they’re defamed as being intelligent but malevolent. Here, though? Sort of sleepwalking through life, watching helplessly as their bodies eat other people? That’s a novel way to push fear of the Undead.

Naturally we’re offended by the proposition. At the ZRC we’ve participated in many public Zombie events, including protest marches and rallies, so the idea that Zombies are automatons dedicated to eating brains and unable to really interact with the world doesn’t carry much weight with us. The ancient fear and cultural tropes it taps into though? That could catch on.

And we resent it.

For shame, ‘My Zombie Body’. For shame, Mario Lurig.

For shame.

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Posted By John Sears on December 12, 2011

It’s the season for bombarding the world with Christmas music, and for some reason society is always looking for new pop music instead of listening to some of the classics that don’t actively make the listener want to jab a chopstick into their ear, deep into the brain to quiet the noises once and for all.

Ahem.

Add a little of the old media bashing things by labeling them ‘Zombie’ and you have this piece of journalistic malfeasance:

In general, Christmas songs are like zombies: there are so many of them, they are quite difficult to kill, and they are almost all ugly. You can knock them down but they tend to pull themselves right back up again, and resume shambling in your direction. You may need a chainsaw.

This is not to say that there aren’t Christmas songs you wouldn’t mind having around (at this point, I’m not sure the zombie analogy still holds). Here are two new (and one new-ish) albums full of music you won’t feel like decapitating with a shovel.

Groaaaaaaaaaan. That’s not a ‘Zombie’ groan, that’s a ‘Why must there be so many Anti-Zombie bigots out there with buckets of virtual ink to spill?’

One of the albums described actually does feature an Anti-Zombie song, though, and it appears to be very
intolerant indeed:

This is basically one of the most fun seasonal albums ever, with pop-rock winners like Christmas Day (I Wish I Was Surfing), Jesus the Reindeer, and the should-be-a-hit Zombie Christmas (“All the angels singing/ Christmas time has come/ Oh man, you’d better run run run.”)

Why must so many people run in terror from our clients? They’re really quite nice overall. I blame prejudice and smallmindedness.

Particularly in the media. For shame.

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Posted By John Sears on December 10, 2011

It has been a momentous year for Zombie Rights. The ZRC has done outreach galore, dipped our toes into political controversy, led a Zombie Rights rally in Illinois and even participated in the world’s first (to our knowledge) Zombie Rights Debate in Victoria, Texas.

But this post isn’t about us. Standing up for the rights of the Differently Animated is our job, after all; nay, it’s actually our Calling. What’s truly inspiring for the ZRC is the effort made by so many out there in the larger world to aid The Cause, advancing positive images of Zombiism and fighting for Zombie Rights, without being professional agitators. Those brave souls are our greatest asset in this struggle.

In order to celebrate those who’ve done so much to help the Zombie Community, each year we select one Zombie, either from real life or appropriately Zombie Friendly fiction, who has done the most, in our view, to advance a more Zombie Friendly future and thereby better the entire human community, Living and Unliving alike. But before that, we have to announce our pool of nominees!

Finally, this year we’ve seen an especially high number of notable group efforts, so many of our nominees are select small organizations of brave souls. I take it as a sign of progress.

And so, without further adieu, here is the shortlist for the 2011 Zombie Rights Campaign ‘Zombie of the Year’ Award:

UK ZOMBIE RIGHTS AGITATOR EXTRAORDINAIRE

Who: Hannah Eiseman-Renyard
Where: The United Kingdom

Why We Nominated Her:

Is it a crime just to be a Zombie in public? Many would say yes, and we must regretfully label such people as Living Supremacists. But what happens when those who enforce the law also feel Anti-Zombie prejudice?

Well, the good citizens of our longtime ally across the Atlantic found out just how ugly the spectre of Anti-Zombiism can be last May when, in the course of far-ranging police actions to support, as well as shelter from criticism, the latest Royal Wedding, one group of police officers chose to arrest any Zombies they could find as a precautionary measure.

Because Zombies, according to this police ‘reasoning’, have no excuse for being out in public on a day of aristocratic celebration. In fact, they seem to be claiming that Zombies have no right to be out in public at all. Hannah’s harrowing account of these abuses can be found here. As it happened the police had sorely underestimated the resolve of these stalwart shambling souls, Hannah in particular, and we were informed of her struggle and attempts to get media coverage of these clearly outrageous police transgressions.

The ZRC was, obviously, shocked at these events, and called for justice at the time. As is so often the case it was slow in coming, but thanks to the efforts of a small band of scrappy Pro-Zombie Freedom Fighters led in part by our new friend and now-frequent ZRC correspondent and Ally of Justice Hannah Eiseman-Renyard, justice may yet be had, as the courts are slated to review these obviously unjust arrests for Walking While Zombie! We hope for a precedent-setting ruling in favor of Undead Equality and the right to shamble freely in public as one’s heart, beating or not, dictates.

For all this hard and diligent work, not to mention public courage, the ZRC is proud to nominate Hannah Eiseman-Renyard to be our 2011 Zombie of the Year.

A ZOMBIE FRIENDLY ROM-ZOM-COM MUSICAL

Who: The cast and crew of ‘Rigamortis: A Zombie Love Story’
Where: The boundless wilds of the internet

Why: We’ve all seen the innumerable Anti-Zombie videos cluttering Youtube. Most of them are awful for Zombie Rights, and kind of awful in general. What about a real, for sure, free to view and Zombie Friendly film? How about a musical no less?

Well, ‘Rigamortis’ delivered. From the ZRC Review:

From a Zombie Rights perspective, ‘Rigamortis’ is a rousing success, noteworthy for its insight and sympathy for not just Zombies but the misguided Living Supremacist fools who seek the destruction of the Undead out of prejudice. The Zombies within the film aren’t perfect individuals or poster children for Zombie Rights, but they are real, flesh and blood people, people who lack, as we say, pulses but not hearts.

Finally, we have an easy to point to counter-example to the flood of negative, Zombie-baiting Undead-hating video that washes over Youtube every day. ‘Rigamortis’ has done the online world a great service by standing up for the frequently oppressed, often marginalized Zombie Community, and we are proud to thank those behind it with a nomination for our most prestigious award.

(Part 1 of 3, all available on Youtube)

LIVE ZOMBIE-FRIENDLY THEATRE

Who: The cast and crew of ‘Z-Town: The Zombie Musical’
Where: Madison, Wisconsin

Why: It’s been a banner year for Zombie musicals! Rigamortis brought Zombie Friendly song and dance to the internet but what about the live theatrical experience? Who would fill the need for Zombie Friendly live theatre?

Well, as it so happens, that need was met right here in the ZRC’s hometown of Madison, Wisconsin in a locally originated live show, ‘Z-Town: The Zombie Musical’.

From the ZRC Review:

In fact, ‘Z-Town’ is a complex, nuanced examination of Zombie-Living relations. ‘Z-Town’ asks its audience to look at the big picture, at the Zombie Community as a class engaged in the struggle for economic, political and legal equality; it also never loses sight of the smaller scale, personal stories of those people from both the Living and Zombie camps involved in said struggle.

The ZRC got a chance to see this live and it was a very good time and an astoundingly Zombie Friendly show, opening the hearts and minds of the audience to Undead Equality. We could hardly ask for a better result!

Hence the ZRC is nominating the entire cast and crew of ‘Z-Town’ for our Zombies of the Year 2011.

A ZOMBIE FRIENDLY NOVELIST

The ZRC reviews a lot of material from a lot of different media, and one of the hardest forums for the message of Zombie Tolerance to crack has been the world of literature. For some reason the written word has rarely been kind to the Differently Animated, and even works that at first glance appear to be written with Zombies in mind turn out to have a not-so-hidden Anti-Zombie agenda.

Given that unfortunate background the ZRC was delighted when our investigation into ‘The Dishonored Dead’, a novel by author Robert Swartwood, turned up such a positive example of Zombie Friendly fiction. From the ZRC Review:

Just asking these questions about a society of the Undead is itself a daring, perhaps revolutionary move in Zombie-related fiction. After all, you cannot ask about the rightness or wrongness of a choice made without presupposing the ability to make choices; you cannot evaluate a People’s guilt without acknowledging that it is in fact made up of individuals capable of moral behavior. ‘The Dishonored Dead’ therefore starts from a position far more enlightened than that of, sadly, the overwhelming majority of Zombie fiction. The questions it asks about the Dead, about the nature and value of Life and Unlife and how they might apply to a radically different and yet fundamentally same type of humanity, these are valuable questions to ask, and difficult ones to answer.

Rare insight into the Zombie condition and an uncommon willingness to address the concerns of the Differently Animated earn Robert Swartwood a nomination for Zombie of the Year 2011. Even if, you know, technically I have no evidence he’s Undead per se; so much tolerance has to make one at least Zombie-Adjacent, right? We try to be inclusive here at the ZRC.

There you have it, Zombie Allies, our nominees for this year’s Zombie of the Year Award. We have a wide and eclectic mix: highly talented actors of stage and screen, a fellow civil rights campaigner brought to our cause by injustice, a renowned author willing to put his reputation behind increased Zombie Tolerance. Any and all deserve our respect and thanks, but only one candidate (or group thereof) will receive the award!

Be here on the ZRC blog in one week and we will reveal your Zombie of the Year for 2011.

Thanks to all our nominees and readers for a great year in Zombie Rights.

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Posted By John Sears on December 9, 2011

The Sci-Fi Channel, sorry, SyFy (like syphillis) Channel has gotten a reputation as a purveyor of b-movie direct to cable schlock in recent years, and it’s earned them a lot of fame and, let’s face it, some ratings gold too.

Now they’re releasing what has to be the least imaginatively titled Anti-Zombie film of all time on DVD and Blu-Ray after debuting it in October, while the ZRC was busy and distracted: ‘Zombie Apocalypse’, and like approximately 85% of all recent American Anti-Zombie films (slight exaggeration) it stars Ving Rhames:

Golden Globe winner Ving Rhames (Pulp Fiction), Taryn Manning (TV’s “Hawaii Five-0,” “Sons of Anarchy”) and Leslie-Ann Brandt (TV’s “Spartacus”) battle the living, feeding nightmare in Zombie Apocalypse, debuting on DVD, Blu-ray and On Demand December 27th from The Asylum.

Yes, we really did miss this one, and for that I apologize. Boing Boing covered it when it came out:

The film takes place months after a zombie plague has wiped out 90 percent of the American population and follows a small group of survivors who are fighting their way across the country to a rumored refuge on the island of Catalina.

Catalina? Why Catalina? Is someone a fan of the Kage Baker ‘Company’ novels? I mean, it’s just an island off California, doesn’t seem like such a great refuge for anything.

At any rate, I’ll have to rent this one eventually and give it the old ZRC review treatment. Gotta keep an eye on Mr. Rhames.

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