John Sears | October 2, 2015
With somewhat heavy hearts, the Zombie Rights Campaign paid our visit to the last Dark Carnival/Diabolique International Film Festival in Bloomington, Indiana last weekend, to see if the horror film world had made any progress toward greater Undead Acceptance. We were pleasantly surprised by a few of the films on offer, and of course, grossly [...]
John Sears | February 1, 2014
The Zombie Rights Campaign will be making our annual pilgrimage back to Southern Indiana this year for a trip to the Dark Carnival Film Festival! Well, not quite; they’ve had an upgrade and a name change. Now it’s the ‘Diabolique’ Film Festival. But we still anticipate a slate of engaging and challenging, occasionally heartwarming (if [...]
John Sears | September 4, 2013
Last weekend The Zombie Rights Campaign journeyed all the way to lovely (but somewhat distant) Columbus, Indiana for the Seventh Annual Dark Carnival Film Festival. We had a good time, and I think there has been major progress toward The Cause, as we will discuss below. First, let’s give a hand to the Dark Carnival [...]
John Sears | April 16, 2011
The Zombie Rights Campaign’s work has given me the opportunity to travel quite a bit, and go to a lot film festivals and theatre venues here in the Midwest. We’ve been to the Portage Theatre in Chicago many times for events with the Horror Society. We’ve been at every Dark Carnival Film Festival yet, held [...]
John Sears | December 31, 2010
Here we have, not strictly in order, our Top 10 favorite moments from 2010′s campaign for Zombie Rights. 10) Annoying a bunch of sad, self-important nerd-fans of Mega64 It all started with a terse critique I made of a silly internet video, and turned into a feud between the ZRC and dozens of poorly socialized, [...]
John Sears | November 29, 2010
Kind of forgot about these, oops. Some good stuff in here too. First, you can see the whole set of new DC photos here as a subset of our flickr page. These shots show some of our work papering the legal advertising spaces on Kirkwood in Bloomington with our flyers and literature: Would you trust [...]
John Sears | November 23, 2010
Well the trip to The Dark Carnival was tons of fun and went off without a hitch, right up until the day after we get back and I fall terribly ill while trying to get the media uploaded and some posts written about the trip. Sorry about that. We have returned from our triumphantly successful [...]
John Sears | July 22, 2010
Today at The Zombie Rights Campaign we are privileged to review and discuss what may be the most important film to ever critically examine the plight of the Differently Animated in American Culture: Atomic Age Cinema TV 2: Atomic Boogaloo. A great deal more below the cut.
John Sears | April 7, 2010
I keep forgetting, amidst all the behind the scenes stuff, to update the blog. I am deeply shamed. We went to Horrorhound a week and a half ago, and man was it a lot of fun in the name of Zombie Rights. This year we didn’t have a booth, unfortunately, but we made up for [...]
John Sears | March 11, 2010
Just wanted to put up a quick post about the ZRC’s public appearance schedule for the year so far. March 27th -28th: Horrorhound (Indianapolis) The ZRC will be in attendance but only as spectators this year, due to, well, quite frankly, we’re not sure. Horrorhound seems to be having a lot of trouble keeping in [...]