John Sears | June 15, 2012
I know we’ve been skeptical about the upcoming ‘World War Z’ film, but this article makes it sound like the real Apocalypse has been behind the cameras: It now seems that everything was upside-down on “World War Z.” “A nightmare from top to bottom,” describes one source with ties to the production, which appears to [...]
John Sears | June 9, 2012
A disturbing development from one of the web’s largest retailers, and from Cliver Barker as well, a man who I thought treated the Undead with more nuance than this: Clive Barker will rewrite the action-horror film “Zombies vs. Gladiators” for Amazon Studios. Set in ancient Rome, the film follows the aftermath of a shaman’s spell [...]
John Sears | June 4, 2012
We loved Zombie Friendly short film ‘Zombie Bohemia’ here at the ZRC, and now we can all show our support of Zombie Artists by wearing some Zombie Bohemia shirts! One of the designs is even on sale now, for the thrifty Zombie Rights ally out there. Hint hint.
John Sears | May 11, 2012
We’ve had issues with the short film work of Mad Lab Productions before; witness our review of ‘Rise of the Living Corpse’, for example. We also saw ‘Fitness Class Zombie’ at The Dark Carnival and were less than enthused. So when we were approached by the Mad Lab guys on Twitter about their new film [...]
John Sears | May 11, 2012
I can’t say I approve of either of these movies, but the ZRC would be remiss if we didn’t highlight the opportunity for some outreach at a drive-in theatre: What do you get when you mix classic zombie films and a drive-in double feature? WBEZ’s Off-Air Series gives you a chance to find out next [...]
John Sears | May 9, 2012
An interesting wrinkle. Apparently in the Zombpocalypse your choice will be to get eaten by Survivalists or, allegedly, Zombies: Given the fact that so many survivalists afraid of the ‘Zombie Apocalypse’ hoard food, I’d hope they wouldn’t also resort to cannibalism, but.. well, we’re not talking about a high empathy crowd, are we? Sad. This [...]
John Sears | May 8, 2012
In a writeup about a new ‘Walking Dead’ videogame, the NYT talks about putting ‘guilt’ back in killing Zombies. Sadly, tragically, that might pass for good Zombie press, at least from the mainstream media: But what zombies! Taking an ax to the reanimated corpse of a character’s brother in the streets of Macon, or deciding [...]
John Sears | April 27, 2012
Our friends at the Horror Society alerted us to a fundraiser for upcoming, and clearly Anti-Zombie, project ‘Zombeach’: WHAT IS THIS? This is our newest project, “Zombeach”. It is a new kind of zombie apocalypse story. With the Jersey Shore giving the area a bad rap we are aiming to bring the focus back to [...]
John Sears | April 26, 2012
Summary: Dark, twisted, gory and unrepentent, ‘A Cadaver Christmas’ is like a modern, drunken, somewhat overlong ‘Evil Dead’ set at a Community college. Zombies are very badly mistreated. Rated Living Supremacist. There are a lot of different kinds of Anti-Zombie movie (unfortunately). You have your Romero-esque social commentaries, your ‘Shaun of the Dead’-ish black comedies, [...]
John Sears | April 24, 2012
Yet another film review from our recent trip to Chicago Fear Fest! Summary: ‘Dead Weight’ strikes a new and devious blow for Anti-Zombie films – it manages to marginalize the Zombies from the, ahem, ‘Zombie Apocalypse’! Rating: Full review behind the cut.