John Sears | January 25, 2012
I wonder if our UK Zombie of the Year would be willing to take a fact-finding mission to Wales? It seems they have a bit of an Anti-Zombie problem there: A HORROR author is achieving success in America with his latest novel – a tale of flesh-eating zombies set in the Gwent town of Usk. [...]
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 [...]
John Sears | December 24, 2011
Here at the ZRC we tend to be critical of the ongoing trend to just splash a bit of Zombie flavor into anything entertainment related and rake in the bucks; we even have a blog tag for it, ‘Don’t Use the Zed Word’. This comes up a *lot*. Yet when I saw this story about [...]
John Sears | December 16, 2011
BuyZombie has an informative and of course, unfortunately prejudice-filled interview up with new Anti-Zombie author Matt Darst: MD-Zombies are a very different type of monster. My dad introduced me to George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead when I was a kid. That movie scared me in a way that, until then, “creature features” and [...]
John Sears | December 12, 2011
Ever heard of sleep paralysis? It’s a phenomenon where a person becomes unable to move, but still largely conscious, while falling asleep or waking up. They are trapped inside their own body, helpless, often terrified and sometimes plagued with hallucinations. It’s actually not that uncommon. A lot of people have it happen at least once [...]
John Sears | December 10, 2011
It has been a momentous year for Zombie Rights. The ZRC has done outreach galore, dipped our toes into political controversy, led a Zombie Rights rally in Illinois and even participated in the world’s first (to our knowledge) Zombie Rights Debate in Victoria, Texas. But this post isn’t about us. Standing up for the rights [...]
John Sears | December 6, 2011
Rom-Zom-Com. You’ve seen the cheeky abbreviation, but have you considered the disturbing implications? We’re talking about a genre of fiction that involves romantic bonding over, well, the Apocalypse. Dinner and dancing? Too passe. What the dating scene needs is mass slaughter! Personally I lay this one mostly at the feet of Simon Pegg. Certainly, elements [...]
John Sears | December 1, 2011
A discussion came up on Twitter about the issue of DRM and books after I stated my distaste for the practice. When the art director got home from work we talked about it too, and both concluded that one of the chief evils of DRM on books is that books are meant to be readable, [...]
John Sears | November 27, 2011
Well, yesterday two big events occurred in my quest for ZombieWriMo glory. First, the evil one, Princess of Lies, Mother of all Treachery Michelle Hartz sneakily got to 50k words first. The second thing is that, of course, I got there as well, and have now effectively completed the ZombieWriMo challenge too. So what now? [...]
John Sears | November 15, 2011
BuyZombie informs us of a disturbing new media project to indoctrinate young children with common Anti-Zombie stereotypes (along with, presumably, their parents): The Book They sleep during the day. They awaken at night. They are among us, and yet not quite fully human. It’s a … ZOMBIE! No, wait, .. it’s a BABY! … Huh? [...]