John Sears | January 6, 2013
Entertainment Weekly, about as reliable a gauge of the Mainstream as one could imagine, has named ‘Warm Bodies’ one of its 35 most anticipated movies of 2013. Why 35? Who knows! But it will apparently be out on Feb 1st and with all this free advertising maybe, finally, some minds will be changed about Zombies. [...]
John Sears | November 18, 2012
We’ve talked about ‘Warm Bodies’ before on the blog, and the recent release of a new trailer has people talking. From a Zombie Rights perspective? Not so sure about this one. Don’t get me wrong; there’s a lot to like here, the potential sympathy and open-mindedness this film could bring to Zombies, and of course, [...]
John Sears | November 9, 2012
Our friends over at Into the Dark have alerted the ZRC to the first trailer for the upcoming (and highly troubled) major Living Supremacist film ‘World War Z’, based somewhat loosely on the book of the same name by Max Brooks. Having seen it, I have to say my earlier suspicions that the novel had [...]
John Sears | November 9, 2012
The ZRC was alerted recently to a Living Supremacist movie with a twist – it was filmed at CERN, home of the famous Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest particle collider and general super-science Ground Zero. This doesn’t sound good for Zombies or science. Not at all: If you ever thought CERN would be a [...]
John Sears | October 25, 2012
There’s a trailer out for the ‘Evil Dead’ remake and I have to say, it’s not looking good for the Differently Animated: Eww. All that graphic violence and scary music! And must we always throw around the word ‘Evil’ for Undead fellows who just happen to have been summoned via necromancy or demon magic? Why [...]
John Sears | October 23, 2012
The Zombie Rights Campaign has sadly attended its last Dark Carnival Film Festival in Bloomington, Indiana, this year, as the 2012 edition was the last that will be hosted in that fair city. We’ve been going to these things for a long time, even before the Zombie Rights Campaign started its bold mission to protect [...]
John Sears | October 10, 2012
This post is just a reminder that the ZRC is looking forward to seeing you, the Zombie Friendly public, at TWO upcoming events in the month of October! First is The Dark Carnival Film Festival from October 19th-21st in Bloomington, Indiana. We’ve been to every Dark Carnival film festival and it’s proven to be an [...]
John Sears | October 5, 2012
As activists working in the field of Zombie Rights, The Zombie Rights Campaign obviously has a lot to say about the work of George Romero. Mr. Romero’s film-making career has for decades helped to define the American, nay, global conception of the Zombie population, for better and for worse. Unlike many post-modern Undead haters like [...]
John Sears | September 24, 2012
I think this qualifies as overexposure: Biohazard: Damnation is currently slated for a September 25 release in North America, between the September 14 opening of the live-action film Resident Evil: Retribution and the October launch of the Resident Evil 6 game. In all honesty this trailer does make the CG movie look about a thousand [...]
John Sears | September 24, 2012
The concept of ‘Dayplanner of the Dead’ as outlined in its Indiegogo page is interesting, if not particularly Zombie Friendly: Zombies don’t eat people because they’re hungry, but because they’re bored. So the solution is to Entertain the Zombies. Hmm. Original, sure. But is portraying the Undead as something akin to homicidal maniacs hooked on [...]