John Sears | August 29, 2011
From a ZRC Twitter pal comes a tale to illustrate how silly the Zombie Apocalypse genre really is, by substituting another unlikely foe of Living humans for the Undead. Dolphins. Yes, dolphins: Still, Terry has been hunted his whole life, and nobody has caught him yet. Using stealth techniques learned from a lifetime of scavenging [...]
John Sears | April 28, 2011
Spoilers follow: This story at The Zombie Feed has been up in my tabs for a bit, and I’m not sure how to feel about it. On the one hand, it purports to be another one of those (fictional) I’m-becoming-a-Zombie-and-not-aware-of-the-obvious-for-some-reason stories that you see from time to time in Zombie-related fiction. ‘Resident Evil’ had a [...]
John Sears | March 17, 2011
First of course, Mr. Grahame-Smith got the ball rolling on the entire genre of ‘Mix public domain work with Zombies’, for which literature itself owes him a sound thrashing. Yes, we can lay the lion’s share of the blame for an entire subgenre of lazy, relatively unimaginative Anti-Zombie fiction at his feet, even if, of [...]
John Sears | January 3, 2011
A hilariously tongue-in-cheek sendup of your various survivalist guides for the mythical ‘Zombie Apocalypse’ was published recently by The Weekly World News, no doubt in an attempt to correct the record and help in the battle against the vicious and of course internally inconsistent and contradictory stereotypes against the Differently Animated: Worried about Zombies coming [...]
John Sears | December 26, 2010
I don’t have a huge amount to add to this review Locus posted of ‘Feed’, the first in a planned trilogy of pseudo-political dramas set in a Zombie post-Apocalypse, but there are a couple points that seem striking: 1) The Political/Media Culture in 2039 is Basically the Same as Today I mean, seriously? The ‘traditional’ [...]
John Sears | December 17, 2010
Google has alerted me to the filming of a new and supposedly more socially-conscious Zombie movie being shot now in Georgia: MACON, Ga. — First “The Walking Dead” swarmed Atlanta. Now the zombie apocalypse is infecting Macon. Shooting is underway in Macon for the film “Followed,” a socially concious monster movie in which zombies symbolize [...]
John Sears | November 11, 2010
Honestly, how many of these are there going to be? As yet the undead have not risen from their graves and stared to devour the living – but there was a time when we said man would never walk on the moon and look what happened there, eh? We must prepare for the inevitable and [...]
John Sears | July 25, 2010
So you’ve no doubt seen the big news from Comic-Con: the long-rumored World War Z movie is very real, it really does star Brad Pitt, and it is in development. All the ZRC can say for the moment is that we’re appalled. In the annals of Anti-Zombie literature, hatemonger Max Brooks looms large, having done [...]
John Sears | July 1, 2010
see more This is an awesome show of Zombie solidarity, with some undead getting together for a costume theme party. Either that, or fictional characters can rise from the dead without ever having been alive, and they come back as Zombies. Which would be awesome, but might pose some difficulties, especially as regards paperwork, drivers’ [...]
John Sears | June 29, 2010
The next auction items to arrive via the magic of the Postal Service were two autographed books from famous horror author David Wellington, who has applied his own unique takes to horror mainstays like vampires, werewolves and, yes, unfortunately Zombies in three separate hit series of novels. The ‘Monster’ line (Monster Island, Monster Nation and [...]