John Sears | April 3, 2011
Just so you know the origin of the above phrase when I start using it reflexively, watch this Youtube April Fool’s prank/video: The relevant portion starts at about 1:39, if you’re in a hurry.
John Sears | April 2, 2011
No, that title isn’t some sort of mad-lib, and no, I haven’t had a stroke. It is, in fact, the actual title of an upcoming short film that looks like it may just be another Atomic Age Cinema-esque brilliant satire of the ‘Zombie Apocalypse’ genre: I really wish I could give you more information on [...]
John Sears | April 2, 2011
I mean, just look at this incredibly elaborate Youtube video/recreation of the events described in notorious Anti-Zombie hate speech/song ‘Re: Your Brains’: Yeah. Isn’t that just stunning? A great deal of serious time and effort was put into this homage to intolerance, and all the ZRC can say is that we’re appalled. Appalled and stunned. [...]
John Sears | March 31, 2011
The Zombie Rights Campaign pays special attention to the way that Anti-Zombie demagogues and raving Zombie hating conspiracy theorists try to market their violence and depravity toward children. Whether it’s cutesy Anti-Zombie videogames like Plants vs. Zombies making their way into American homes, potentially Anti-Zombie messaging in children’s books or vicious pranks against Zombies alongside [...]
John Sears | March 27, 2011
The hits keep on coming from known Anti-Zombie merchant Think Geek, who apparently now sell ‘Electronic Horror’ plush dolls in both an Anti-Zombie *and* an Anti-Vampire form: These delightful monster plush are very, very hungry. After being undead for ages without a snack, who wouldn’t be? Let Count Suckula dine on your blood and he [...]
John Sears | March 26, 2011
Is there nothing Harcos Labs won’t sink to? First, infamously, they market a line of food products allegedly made *from* Zombies themselves, which is heinous, disgusting and of course cannibalistic, since Zombies are people too. Unsatisfied with cornering the market in sick, Anti-Zombie, cannibal snack products, Harcos has taken to a new ad campaign tailor-made [...]
John Sears | March 25, 2011
Congratulations, Jonathan Coulton, you’re off the hook; someone made an even more offensive and hateful Anti-Zombie music video. I’m kidding of course; he’s not off the hook. But the rest, sadly, is true, as a band called ‘Buck 65′ has decided that the best way to make a big name for themselves is on the [...]
John Sears | March 23, 2011
If you’re a longtime ZRC reader, you’ll know the Zombie Rights Campaign has a particular issue with the ‘Brains’, or more precisely, ‘Braaaaaaains’ stereotype about the Differently Animated. Most Americans just assume that all Zombies eat brains, want to eat brains, possess an irresistible hunger, in fact, for brains. In fact, however, the Braaaaaaaains stereotype [...]
John Sears | March 18, 2011
We were recently alerted to the existence of a fairly slick short indie film featuring Zombies entitled ‘Morbid’, and after reading BuyZombie’s take on the film and its production values, I felt that what was really *missing* from this conversation was the Zombie Rights perspective. What does ‘Morbid’ have to say about Zombies? Well, you [...]
John Sears | March 15, 2011
Bear with me a bit as I actually employ my degree in Criminal Justice/Political Science a bit, folks: Frequently in Anti-Zombie fiction, we are presented with a certain narrative, that of the Reluctant Protagonist Who Must Combat the Zombie Hordes. In this storyline, the protagonist, despite acting like a sociopathic madman or madwoman, looting, pillaging, [...]