John Sears | April 17, 2011
Honestly, this guy gets around. We’ve talked about him before here on the ZRC blog, here and here. Recently he penned a short blog post that went up on Boston.com, about his theory as to the allure of ‘End of the World’ fiction. It’s worth a read for a remarkably candid glimpse into what’s wrong [...]
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 12, 2011
Apparently it’s not just ‘World War Z’ that has trouble getting made these days: It had been reported that director Timur Bekmambetov (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter) purchased the rights to a film about a girl who transforms into a zombie over the course of six agonizing months, but it appears that movie is back on [...]
John Sears | April 10, 2011
The upcoming high-fantasy, big-budget HBO Series ‘Game of Thrones’, based on George R. R. Martin’s best-selling A Song of Ice and Fire series of novels, has been getting a lot of press lately, and given our culture’s current Anti-Zombie fixation, apparently Undead individuals in said show are getting a lot of attention: If you missed [...]
John Sears | April 5, 2011
This kind of speaks for itself, but what the hey: The Walking Dead Girls is a behind-the-scenes look into zombie culture in the United States and the obsession into “”Sexy Female Zombies””. What is it about Zombie Bimbos or “”Zimbies”” that are starting to gain the worlds interest? Why are zombies now in mainstream culture [...]
John Sears | April 3, 2011
I really didn’t want to have to write this post. In the wake of our original reporting on the Zombie Walk Against Governor Walker, a ‘Citizen Journalism’ site covering the Madison protests decided to copy large portions of our text without attribution as part of a slightly longer piece on the Zombie Walk. In fact, [...]
John Sears | March 24, 2011
Granted, it’s not a Zombie Friendly post and ends with a sort of verbal shrug about how Zombies might be people but killing them in games is fun, but hey, this is the closest we’ve ever seen a tech/gaming site come to acknowledging Zombies as fully equal human beings: Does anyone ever stop to think [...]
John Sears | March 22, 2011
I have distinctly mixed feelings about this latest news on the World War Z movie front: World War Z, Brad Pitt’s movie about a global undead apocalypse, may be dying (or is it re-dying?) unless Paramount can find a co-financier. The film currently has a price tag of more than $125 million, and the studio [...]
John Sears | March 20, 2011
Google pointed me toward this Opinion piece in the Ottawa Citizen by one Roger Collier today, which purports to reexamine the negative attitudes so many hold toward Zombies. Only of course, it does no such thing. The first clue was in the title: ‘Zombies were people, too.’ (The capitalization is in the original, and I [...]
John Sears | March 17, 2011
The news is going around the web about a book that the former Editor-in-Chief of Rue Morgue magazine has coming out about Zombies: The zombie phenomenon is unique in Western popular culture. From its origins in the voodoo beliefs of Haiti, it has become a key ingredient in today’s cinema, popular literature and comics. With [...]