ZRC Reviews: “Z-Day: The Zombie Musical”
We’ve been looking for Zombie Friendly music for some time, and when we find it the ZRC always does our best to promote this relatively rare commodity. Naturally when we heard about a ‘Zombie Musical’ up for free viewing, we jumped at the chance to watch.
Unfortunately this so-called ‘Zombie Musical’ is another four minutes of Zombie Apocalypse hysteria inflaming Youtube mischief, more along the lines of ‘Zombie Apocalypse’ by Kirby Krackle than Dr. Cancer and the SKAmbies or Rainbow Destroyer.
Just check out some of these lyrics:
That summer morning was a nightmare
Flesh-eating Zombies were everywhere
I woke up quick that morning
Only to find Zombies horde-ing
My Mom’s guts and my Dad’s brains
They were sipping from my Step-brother’s veins.
Aside from seeming confused about the difference between Zombies and Vampires, along with the nature ofgerunds, what we have here is the same old Romero Zombie Apocalypse scenario.. which is made rather explicit by a segment of ‘Night of the Living Dead’ that is actually shown during the musical.
Just in case you’ve forgotten that ‘Night’ is in the public domain.
For a short Youtube video there’s a surprising, some might say ‘shocking’ amount of violence against the Differently Animated, in between the stereotype mongering and music of course; it was no doubt hard work to fit all the mayhem in, but somehow they persevered.
On the whole, to paraphrase the old saw, sure Z-Day: The Zombie Musical is a rabidly Living Supremacist attempt to set the inherently antisocial behaviors of George Romero’s early films to a new media musical format, but at least the portions are small!
Not recommended.
If you still have to see it despite our warning, we’ve included an embedded version below.
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Thanks for the honest review. It was definitely a fun couple days of shooting. We have since created another nightmare. This time the zombie is an undead former-Mormon virgin plant boy. I hope you find it a bit more original (although there are definitely strong influences). It is a dark comedy presented in 4 short episodes – Gary’s Garden. http://www.rottingsoil.com
If you dig it, please be in touch.
We always strive for honesty here at the Zombie Rights Campaign, and will take a look at your new work, but I should caution that we’re still likely to be quite harsh on anything Living Supremacist.
Looking back though, my tone was perhaps a bit more caustic than required. Thank you for your dialogue and willingness to engage in outreach and public discussion. Now if you just make some Zombie Friendly material we could all get along swimmingly.