John Sears | February 21, 2012
The Zombie Rights Campaign set out to the local independent theatre on Sunday afternoon to see ‘A Morning Stroll’, the Oscar-nominated short animated film that’s been causing some buzz. The terms ‘blood-thirsty’ or ‘Zombie dystopia’ are bandied about quite frequently, and naturally caused the ZRC considerable concern. Sadly, the film was even worse than I [...]
John Sears | February 18, 2012
Now that’s a headline you don’t see every day, isn’t it? True though; one of this year’s nominated Best Animated Short Films has Zombies in it: Pixar is riding a losing streak, Canada has two films in the running, and the contenders include everything from a bloodthirsty, chicken-chasing zombie to a kindly Humpty Dumpty. … [...]
John Sears | February 16, 2012
Well, with Zombies being associated with every negative thing from aging retail stores to cash-strapped companies to various animal parasites and even seasonal colds, I guess it was inevitable that Zombies would be tied to terrorism.. again. We saw this before in the remarkably-awful ‘Zombies of Mass Destruction’, which I had hoped would be the [...]
John Sears | February 14, 2012
We’ve mentioned before on the blog, but the ZRC is going to be in attendance at Horrorhound Columbus this March, and it’s a good thing, too! There’s a veritable bonanza of Anti-Zombie film stars (and a few Zombie Friendly ones) at the convention, particularly actors from the infamous 1985 Living Supremacist film ‘Day of the [...]
John Sears | February 9, 2012
We’ve been very wary about the upcoming US release of ‘The Dead’, but here’s your chance to win a copy and tell us just how much it’s outraging YOU: On February 14th Anchor Bay is bringing The Dead out on DVD and Blu-Ray. From today until the end of the week though you have the [...]
John Sears | February 9, 2012
Yes, Anti-Zombie movies are cropping up everywhere, and the Independent film world is chock-full of aspiring filmmakers who want to make their mark in part by demonstrating that they, too, don’t like the Differently Animated. Consider this the Kansas edition: RIVERTON, Kan. — If zombies are spotted outside of Riverton this spring and summer, the [...]
John Sears | February 7, 2012
As you have probably heard by now, Zombie Rights allies, noteworthy Zombie film actor and cinematographer Bill Hinzman passed away Sunday evening: LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Bill Hinzman, who was cast on-the-spot as a zombie in 1968 cult film “Night of the Living Dead” in a role that earned him the longlasting admiration of horror [...]
John Sears | February 3, 2012
We’ve talked about ‘Zombie Bohemia’ here on the ZRC blog before, and expressed both our hopes and reservations about the concept. We’ve also been worried by previous behind-the-scenes type updates that pushed the blood and gore rather hard. Well, a couple of updates were shared with the ZRC on facebook by none other than the [...]
John Sears | January 23, 2012
There’s a burgeoning subgenre of what you might call Zombie Romance (as opposed to the hyper-violent ‘Rom-Zom-Com’ represented by ‘Shaun of the Dead’). We saw (and loved) ‘Rigamortis: A Zombie Love Story’ and ‘Z-Town: The Zombie Musical’ last year, for example, and ‘Warm Bodies’ is well underway. Still, the more the merrier, especially if the [...]
John Sears | January 21, 2012
The long-awaited (dreaded in our circle) sixth entry in the ‘Resident Evil’ series has now been formally announced with a lengthy trailer outlining the, ahem, plot and detailing some of the graphic and tragic violence it will promote against virtual, and later perhaps less-virtual, Zombies: As teased at NoHopeLeft.com and GameStop advertising materials, Resident Evil [...]