John Sears | March 7, 2012
Remember ‘Stag Night of the Dead’? The UK Zombie-Slaughtering-’Comedy’ where a bachelor party goes to a Zombie killing sort of theme park and somehow sets off the Zompocalypse? Well, it’s out on iTunes in America now. The DVD release is apparently May 1st, and in the meantime BuyZombie helpfully provided the world with this trailer [...]
John Sears | February 24, 2012
The ZRC is on Facebook, so we’ve, ahem, noticed the constant, frequent, and to many users maddening aesthetic tinkering that goes on with that particular social networking site. It doesn’t really bother me, because I went into Facebook assuming it was evil, but many users hate it. So it might be a PR misstep for [...]
John Sears | February 9, 2012
In the growing Tablet pc era laptops are often seen as an endangered species* and the question of how to promote the older form factor against the very trendy tablet market seems to be driving some computer makers barmy. Or, in the case of Lenovo, into simulated Anti-Zombie violence: Behold the first absolutely wacky advertisement [...]
John Sears | February 5, 2012
Truly some of the stuff we come across here at the ZRC is so bizarre it feels like the entire universe might be pulling a fast one on us. Case in point, a lengthy blog post that attempts to use the fear of a ‘Zombie Apocalypse’ to push the concept of web-based software for dentists: [...]
John Sears | December 6, 2011
One of our trusted UK informants obtained an interview with two of the apparent leading lights of the Living Supremacist Architecture movement, and the results are a chilling look into the attempted harnessing of consumer culture to prejudice and oppression: So our solution to the idea of a zombie apocalypse is not a ‘one-off’ mobile [...]
John Sears | October 27, 2011
It’s not many movies that inspire labors of grisly love like this so many decades after their release: George A. Romero’s 1968 classic Night of the Living Dead is the kind of movie that continues to lay the chills on hot and heavy decades after its release. The good thing for us? The merch surrounding [...]
John Sears | October 16, 2011
This is one of the very strangest promotional campaigns relating to the Differently Animated we’ve yet seen: In a pop-culture world of zombie marches, video games and television shows, one regional hardware chain has taken the novel approach of actively marketing power tools and garden implements as protection against the undead. And not to leave [...]
John Sears | October 15, 2011
Every time I think I can’t detest ‘The Walking Dead’ more as an exemplar of everything wrong with our crass, violence-drenched anti-Zombie media, they manage to find a new way to offend me. Case in point, the way the show cashes in on PRODUCT PLACEMENT in its gruesome, savage pageantry, and how many sleazy corporations [...]
John Sears | September 30, 2011
In the classic science-fiction spoof ‘Spaceballs’, one of the recurring jokes is the hypercommercialization of the Spaceballs movie itself, and the bewildering variety of (sometimes just plain bewildering) merchandise that, allegedly, one could purchase related the film. (This is pretty obviously a poke in the ribs at ‘Star Wars’ which really did break all sorts [...]
John Sears | September 27, 2011
I’d been hearing for some time that the newest expansion in perennial favorite collectible card game ‘Magic: The Gathering’ was going to be substantially Zombie-themed, and I had some hope that it might, MIGHT represent some long-sought improvements to the depiction of the Differently Animated in gaming media. Whether ‘Innistrad’, the aforementioned expansion, actually does [...]