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.
John Sears | April 23, 2012
We’re no strangers to controversy, but I admit this one caught us off guard, as we got a fairly unhappy comment on the ZRC review for ‘Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies’. I responded to the comment here, and I’m content to leave it at that, with two points of clarification: 1) The Zombie Rights Campaign will [...]
John Sears | April 22, 2012
The ZRC tried to be optimistic about this film. After all, right in the title it claims to love Zombies! Love! That’s good, right? Friendly? Tolerant? Wrong. Oh-so-wrong. Because unfortunately, tragically, this film ‘loves’ Zombies in a very perverse, yet common way. They love to HURT Zombies. This is actually a very common misuse of [...]
John Sears | April 19, 2012
The ZRC attended the ‘Zombie Bohemia’ screening at Chicago Fear Fest last weekend and as previously discussed on the blog, we quite liked the film. After the screening there was an informative discussion of the film and we have some video for you to peruse. First, a discussion of how the film came about and [...]
John Sears | April 19, 2012
Readers of the blog might be wondering by this point whether there were any Zombie movies at Chicago Fear Fest that we actually liked. It’s true, I admit; the ZRC can be hard to please, and our standards may be a tad exacting. But look no further, for today we’re reviewing ‘Zombie Bohemia’, which truly [...]
John Sears | April 19, 2012
The ZRC saw ‘Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies’ last weekend at Chicago Fear Fest, and, well, it’s pretty much just what it says on the tin: this is a movie about perhaps the greatest American president… fighting Zombies. Innocent Zombies. *sigh* Where to begin? Update: See the full review behind the cut. If you need a [...]
John Sears | April 18, 2012
‘Juan of the Dead’ was one of the titles we wanted to evaluate most for the ZRC, and fortunately Chicago Fear Fest just about dropped a screening opportunity in our laps. The film has gotten considerable attention over the last year, both from the international press and from the Zombie Rights Community. Some see the [...]
John Sears | April 18, 2012
Warning: Due to the ending of REC in particular, as well as the tightly related nature of the film series generally, it is impossible to meaningfully discuss ‘REC 3: Genesis’ without spoiling events in the first two films. If you have not seen these movies and still wish to, I strongly suggest you not read [...]
John Sears | January 20, 2012
Sometimes your so-called journalists just can’t resist a little Zombie bashing as they go about their day. Tragically, quite a few of these prejudiced scribes seem to work at Boing Boing, perhaps inspired by the bad example of Cory Doctorow, who can say. So when we were linked to a post about some Zombie Family [...]
John Sears | January 16, 2012
Some time ago Magic the Gathering came out with a new expansion set of cards called (and set in) a world called ‘Innistrad’. It’s a very gothic horror flavored fantasy scenario, with werewolves, demons, vampires and at least two very different sorts of Zombie; what you might call ‘Traditional’ Zombies resurrected by Necromancy, and the [...]