John Sears | April 13, 2011
Here at the ZRC we’ve reported quite a few times on the hysterical Zombie-bashing that results when journalists learn about Toxoplasmosis, a parasitic disorder whose precise effects are as yet unknown, but which may subtly and slightly alter behavior. Cracked put out a book flogging the disease in connection with a ‘Zombie Apocalypse’. Pop-science ‘journalists’ [...]
John Sears | April 2, 2011
If Australia is sending us what may be the most promising Anti-Zombie satire since AACTV2, then Germany looks to make up for it with a slick indie retread of 28 Days Later: It’s the story of Eloise, who wakes up in a destroyed, life-threatening world after a bad drug trip. Separated from her friends, she [...]
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 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 | February 11, 2011
What is it with reunion tours, anyway? Is it just me or are they nearly constant now. With some bands I’d almost say they just break up to boost enthusiasm for the inevitable reunion tour. At any rate, ‘Goblin’, most infamous amongst Zombie Rights advocates for their work on the ‘Dawn of the Dead’ soundtrack, [...]
John Sears | February 5, 2011
I was really saddened to hear about this story featuring an Anti-Zombie professor from my undergrad school, Indiana University: There is something keeping Stephen Watt up at night, and it’s not vampires, demons or malignant pudding, but rather a simple question: why is it that Americans love killing zombies? Watt, an English professor from Indiana [...]
John Sears | January 2, 2011
Oh, we see how it is, Mr. Pegg and Mr. Frost, and the blatant double standard is NOT appreciated: Reuniting once more, Pegg and Frost play two sci-fi/comic nerds on their way to Area 51 where they hope their adventure will turn up some evidence of alien life. Unfortunately for them, it does and it’s [...]
John Sears | December 13, 2010
I was reluctant to read this summary of the history of Zombies in American pop culture, especially since it’s from AMC (purveyors of the despicable Walking Dead grand guignol spectacle), but, shockingly, unlike NPR and the NYT, AMC actually seems to have people who know what they’re doing working the Zombie history beat, and it’s [...]
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 9, 2010
When I first heard of the ‘UK Festival of Zombie Culture’ from the Horror Society, there was the usual glimmer of hope… and as per usual, it proved to be a false hope, crushed under the harsh and well polished boot of reality. Because, it seems, this festival of Zombie Culture (also known as the [...]