John Sears | January 19, 2012
We’ve talked about indie (and fairly obviously Anti-Zom) film ‘The Dead’ before on the ZRC blog. Well, now it’s coming out on DVD and Blu-Ray: Been awhile since we wrote about this flick; I just learned (via Quiet Earth) that it’s heading for home video – DVD/Blu-ray – on February 14th, just under a month [...]
John Sears | January 16, 2012
The Zombie Community obviously has a lot of legitimate grievances with George A. Romero; his highly influential and patently offensive series of Anti-Zombie ‘of the Dead’ films contribute a lot of the ugly prejudices still seen in our society today. Yet he did also make ‘Creepshow’, one of the better Zombie movies, featuring, as it [...]
John Sears | January 14, 2012
My background (and degree, at least until Indiana University realizes what they’ve done) is in Political Science, and I also desperately crave original Zombie projects for the ZRC to look at, so this sounds right up my alley. In fact, I think it may have parked there long-term: Bringing blood-thirsty zombies and communists to the [...]
John Sears | January 13, 2012
So the ZRC has been somewhat bitterly bemused at the production process for ‘World War Z’. It was mired in development hell forever, got going eventually due to Brad Pitt’s dogged evangelism, ran into even more production trouble and then was radically trimmed down and altered so that the novel narrative structure and non-traditional protagonist [...]
John Sears | January 10, 2012
It’s a brand new year, and that means it’s time to plot out our next moves in the campaign for full and true Undead Equality here in America. How to reach this lofty goal? Well, in a word: outreach. Lots and lots of outreach. And outreach often means traveling to where people are and educating [...]
John Sears | January 9, 2012
The ZRC last talked about the film ‘A Little Bit Zombie’ regarding a flagrantly inappropriate contest to win a ‘Zombie Killing Truck’ featured in the movie. However, a full-length trailer was recently published that gives us a great deal more hope that the final film will be Zombie Friendly, or at least, Zombie Tolerant: A [...]
John Sears | December 30, 2011
I’m not kidding with that title, folks: Hollywood has come to Youngstown to shoot a movie in less than a week with hundreds of local actors, extras and production staff. “The Zombinator,” an independent horror flick, is in production right now and uses Youngstown and surrounding communities as its backdrop. … Myers first came to [...]
John Sears | December 20, 2011
Is there anything more soul-crushing than ‘Reality TV’? I mean, aside from the train-wreck-worthy shows where people compete at belting out showtunes in front of millions upon millions of viewers who really could get much better free music by just going to Pandora, you have shows that feature people eating live bugs or swapping spouses [...]
John Sears | December 14, 2011
Spain’s recent revival of cinematic Anti-Zombie prejudice exposes a lengthier history of Zombie-bashing; surely we’re not the only ones who recall ‘Tombs of the Blind Dead’? Still, as odious as the ‘mock the handicapped Zombies’ Blind Dead films were, they lacked the slick, HD-ready production values* of [REC] and its sequel. Truly, and tragically, fear [...]
John Sears | December 13, 2011
We talked earlier, and hopefully, about upcoming family film ‘Paranorman’ here on the ZRC blog. A highlight: Yes, let’s try DIALOGUE, people. Negotiate, discuss, find common ground and build upon it. This is the way to move forward, not cricket bats and haphazard massacres. We cannot wait for ParaNorman here at the ZRC. It should [...]