We talked earlier, and hopefully, about upcoming family film ‘Paranorman’ here on the ZRC blog. A highlight:

Yes, let’s try DIALOGUE, people. Negotiate, discuss, find common ground and build upon it. This is the way to move forward, not cricket bats and haphazard massacres.

We cannot wait for ParaNorman here at the ZRC. It should be amazing.

Well, it looks strongly like I was reading what I wanted to see into the early press, because the trailer is not Zombie Friendly. At all:

*groan*

Great. Another 3D movie about hating on Zombies. Of particular interest to the Zombie Rights Movement is the continuation of the now-fairly-standard divide and conquer approach to Undead Equality: the designation of Zombies as the go-to, acceptable targets of Living anxiety and distrust, while grandfathering (or here, grandmothering) in Ghosts, Vampires, what have you.

Because everyone needs a villain, but vampires and ghosts and such have historically had better PR.

We’re working hard to change that, here at the ZRC, and we can’t do it without your help, for which we are eternally grateful.

As for ‘Paranorman’, well. I hope the filmmakers are proud of themselves for apparently taking the low road in search of box office gold.

Tags: Movies

This entry was posted by John Sears on Tuesday, December 13th, 2011 at 5:44 pm and is filed under Zombie Media. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.