The Dead Report Podcast

The Dead Report Minute: Diary Now Playing!

producer@thedeadreport.com (Dave Taylor) — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 07:23:00 +0000

Hey Dead Reporters, I know it's been a while since I chatted 'atcha but I've been sick as a dog. Here's a Dead Report Minute to hold you over until we can get the Diary of the Dead opening night gala show posted. We'll be seeing it in Berkeley if you want to come and get interviewed on the show!

To watch the show in HD, right click this link and choose "Save As..."

http://www.archive.org/download/TheDeadReportMinuteDiaryNowPlaying/TDRM2-15.m4v

Or you can watch/subscribe in iTunes from this link:

http://www.itunes.com/podcast?id=259686258

We've got some great new shows lined up for 2008! Some rad interviews with filmmakers and game designers, some new segments, and new equipment-

Here's a link to theaters playing Diary of the Dead:

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=91388580&blogID=351451744

Take it easy, Dave

The Dead Report: Episode 8

producer@thedeadreport.com (Dave Taylor) — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 18:52:00 +0000

In this episode of The Dead Report: We show our support for the cause with a wristband of zombie solidarity that we found at NovemberFire.com

Dave interviews Rob Sacchetto of zombieportraits.com about his zombification service and his movie parody zombie posters...

New TDR producer "The Zombiemaster" interviews Chuck Jarman of Bump in the Night Productions, makers of the worlds raddest Halloween masks and awesome horror props. Chuck fills us in on his methods, his gear, and what he's got coming up...

The Zombiemaster, by the way, designed our new TDR shirt available from cafepress.

We also announced our very first Dead Report contest!

You can read the full rules here, but here's the short version: we have a free shirt from Seibei.com to give away, and you can have it if you win. You can enter by pasting the video embed code for an episode of The Dead Report to your blog, LiveJournal, MySpace or anywhere else on the web that'll let you. Choose your favorite Dead Report episode on terrorfeed.com/thedeadreport.php and snag the embed code...

Thanks to seibei.com for the contest schwag, but GET THIS! Even if you don't win and still want their rad Intra-Mural Zombie Hunting League shirt or other zombie killing gear, you can get it for 15% off with the promo code DEADREPORT.

So go watch the show already!

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The Dead Report: Episode 7

producer@thedeadreport.com (Dave Taylor) — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 05:01:00 +0000

In this episode of The Dead Report: some Diary of the Dead sequel news and it's Spanish cousin, [•REC] is coming stateside.

We also visit Thrillville's Zombie-Rama for some fiendish fun with Will "The Thrill" Viharo, Mr. Lobo, The Twilight Vixen Review, Dr. Zombie, and a couple of robots.

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Do you love The Dead Report? Our pal and contributer Zombiemaster designed this amazing shirt for us!
http://cafepress.com/thedeadreport

Do you like other shirts? Put a monster in your closet at seibei.com

The Dead Report Minute: The Last Man on Earth

producer@thedeadreport.com (Dave Taylor) — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 03:24:00 +0000

In this Dead Report Minute: Dave will be presenting the film "The Last Man on Earth" at the Pacific Film Archive Theater on Halloween night. The film is a about a zombie-type virus that strikes Vincent Price's home town and then the rest of the world, turning people into roving packs of the undead- and hungry for the red stuff. More zombie than vampire, these creatures come from the same source novel that Night of the Living Dead got it's inspiration from: Richard Matheson's seminal zombie/vampire classic, "I AM LEGEND".

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This episode's links:

The Last Man on Earth Trailer on YouTube
BAM/PFA Special Halloween Screening: The Last Man on Earth

Dead Report Radio: Beat of the Bay

producer@thedeadreport.com (Dave Taylor) — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 03:13:00 +0000

I was on "The Beat of the Bay" radio show syndicated on several stations here in the Bay Area. I posted a shortened version of it a few posts ago, here's the full interview:

The voices you'll hear are that of KFOG News Director Peter Finch, Will "The Thrill" Viharo - the host of the Thrillville cabaret , and zombie actor Nathan Tucker of "AAAH Rosebud!" fame.

Enjoy!

http://cumuluspodcasting.com/media/KFOG/KFOG191/Fogfileszombies.mp3

© 2007 KFOG Radio

The Dead Report: Episode 6

producer@thedeadreport.com (Dave Taylor) — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 03:16:00 +0000

In this episode of The Dead Report: Joanne interviews the dead sexy dance troupe the "Living Dead Girlz", Dave Interviews the webmaster of zombiepinups.com Chad Savage, and one of the zombie models from zombiepinups.com Sin Dee. This episode is chock full of interview-ey goodness!!!

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This episode's links:
livingdeadgirlz.com; Based in San Francisco, these seven hot zombie girls came from all walks of life before they were reanimated with a lust for skimpy outfits, booty shaking and LIVE BRAINS.

www.zombiepinups.com; Show your friends that you love the sexy, ravenous undead pinups of the night! Go to Zombie Pinups and send them an e-card!

www.sin-dee.net; Zombie Pinup Sin Dee: "Take her home to Mom and Dad; take mom and dad out in a body bag" -J. Bolt about Sin Dee

The Dead Report Minute: Screamfest

producer@thedeadreport.com (Dave Taylor) — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 05:41:00 +0000

Here's another Dead Report Minute call to arms! If you live near LA, you're in luck! Diary of the Dead will be the lead film at Screamfest 07. It's playing Friday October 12 at the Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood.
Zombify yourself and join the horde at the screening!

We'd love to see video of the event if you go!

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This episodes links:
www.screamfestla.com, for showtimes and tickets
Diary of the Dead on MySpace

Dead Report Radio: FOGFILES

producer@thedeadreport.com (Dave Taylor) — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 04:39:00 +0000

Hey zombie fans and zombie friends, I was interviewed on KFOG radio here in San Francisco about The Dead Report and I thought you guys might like to hear it.

The voices you'll hear are that of KFOG News Director Peter Finch, Will "The Thrill" Viharo - the host of the Thrillville cabaret , and zombie actor Nathan Tucker of "AAAH Rosebud!" fame.

Enjoy!

http://cumuluspodcasting.com/media/KFOG/KFOG191/Fogfileszombies.mp3

© 2007 KFOG Radio

The Dead Report Minute: ZOMBIE-RAMA! (repost)

producer@thedeadreport.com (Dave Taylor) — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 03:03:00 +0000

Hey Dead Reporters, there was a glitch with this morning's post- Sorry for the dupe if you've already downloaded this episode.
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Calendar items: At the October 4th at the Oakland Metro's Tourettes Without Regrets event, The Living Dead Girlz with be performing their much loved "Devil's Picnic" routine. October 11th, WIll the Thrill will be hosting the Thrillville ZOMBIE-RAMA event; a double creature-feature with special ghoulish guests Dr. Zombie, Mr. Lobo, The Queen of Trash and the undead dancing divas The Twilight Vixen Review.

This week, we have a very special and very tiny co-host!

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This episode's links:
Info on the Living Dead Girlz event on Oct 4th.
Info on the Thrillville ZombieRama event on Oct 11th.

Check 'em out!

-Dave

The Dead Report Minute: ZOMBIE-RAMA!

producer@thedeadreport.com (Dave Taylor) — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:47:00 +0000

Calendar items: At the October 4th at the Oakland Metro's Tourettes Without Regrets event, The Living Dead Girlz with be performing their much loved "Devil's Picnic" routine. October 11th, WIll the Thrill will be hosting the Thrillville ZOMBIE-RAMA event; a double creature-feature with special ghoulish guests Dr. Zombie, Mr. Lobo, The Queen of Trash and the undead dancing divas The Twilight Vixen Review.

This week, we have a very special and very tiny co-host!

Right-Click to download this Dead Report Minute!

This episode's links:
Info on the Living Dead Girlz event on Oct 4th.
Info on the Thrillville ZombieRama event on Oct 11th.

Check 'em out!

-Dave

The Dead Report: Episode 5

producer@thedeadreport.com (Dave Taylor) — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 05:26:00 +0000

In this episode of The Dead Report: Variety reviews Diary of the Dead and we present a tribute to Romero shot by vlogger Sheleigh Bober. We discuss the phenomena of zombie walks, parties and zombie dances. TDR was dead-on-the-scene for the 2007 Zombie Prom hosted by The Pagan Alliance and we interview the emcees: TV’s Mr. Lobo --host of Cinema Insomnia-- and The Queen of Trash; star of song, stage and comic book.

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This episode's links:

Sheleigh Bober's Blog 'n' Vlog covering the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival

Slashville, Producers of short horror/comedy/sci fi, and horror movies

www.zombiereportingcenter.com & www.zombiefuture.com, the blogs we swiped the rad zombie-walk posters from.

www.zombiewalk.com, a great resource for promoters/planners/attendees to connect.

thepaganalliance.org, a pagan rights organization in the Bay Area. Hosts of the 2007 Zombie Prom.

www.1000faces.com, the website of Jared Guenther; an amazing make-up effects artist, and proprietor of the 'zombification booth' at the 2007 Zombie Prom.

www.cinemainsomnia.com, the late-night movie feature show with your host Mister Lobo. "They're not bad movies, there just... misunderstood." -Mr. Lobo

www.queen-of-trash.com, Monsters! Cleavage! Mayhem and More!

The Dead Report Minute: CineMacabre

producer@thedeadreport.com (Dave Taylor) — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 06:19:00 +0000

In this Dead Report Minute: Newsflash! The Hollywood reporter releases details on Diary of the Dead's theatrical release. ALSO! Rue Morgue Magazine will present in their CineMacabre Movie Nights series the 1986 classic "Night of the Creeps". An excellent piece of Z cinema. It's got characters named after George Romero, Tobe Hooper, Sam Raimi, John Carpenter... It's filled with rad zombies and great cheap gags. If you can't make it to the movie- you should really netflix it. It's awesome. Did I mention the director Fred Dekker (RoboCop 3, Monster Squad) will be there!?! Go to http://rue-morgue.com for more info on the event.

In the meantime, here's...

The Dead Report Minute: CineMacabre

Oh hey-
I got a few letters and postcards asking why when you click the link to watch the show, it shows up so big in IE or Firefox that it fills the entire screen. It's because The Dead Report is presented in High Definition, much larger that some computer screens. But, if you instead right click (or control click for those Mac folks without two button mice) on the link you can choose to download the file- or 'save as...' Once saved, this file can be watched in most any media player. We like Quicktime or VLC.

Alternatively, we've got a few folks who aren't so ga-ga for the HD. And that's cool, that's cool. I'm gonna integrate the YouTube player in closer with the blog later this week. This'll allow you to watch all the TDR video's we've posted right here all in one spot. Blogger's 'videobar' is just a wee bit too random for my liking...

-Dave

Archive.org is down right now...

producer@thedeadreport.com (Dave Taylor) — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 17:08:00 +0000

Hey folks-

Update: All's well with Archive.org now. They were upgrading the servers- so you should see your episode downloads go much faster now!

We use Archive.org to host all of our podcasts. The entire Internet Archive is offline today- including The Dead Report.

If you need your TDR fix you can still watch on YouTube:
http://youtube.com/thedeadreportpodcast

~~Sorry for the outage, Archive.org will probably be back up a bit later today...~~

-Dave

The Dead Report: Episode 4

producer@thedeadreport.com (Dave Taylor) — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 05:15:00 +0000

In this episode of The Dead Report; Argento and Romero get some FEEDBACK from Rue Morgue and we take a closer look at the connections between Orson Welles and George Romero- including interviews with author Richard France, director Dylan Russell and playwright Peter Finch.

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Another reason that subscribing is rad- besides the awesome fact that iTunes will auto download the show for you, subscribing lets me know that someone is watching. It's kinda like ratings for a TV show. It helps to know what size of audience we have out there in internetland...

This Episode's links:

TIFF 2007 BLOGS - Midnight Madness Blog See more of the Argento/Romero talk and get the latest scoop on the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival's Midnight Madness line up...

Thunderbird Theater Company AAAH! Rosebud! San Fransisco run ends September 8th. Berkeley, CA shows for ONE WEEKEND ONLY Sept 21 and 22nd.

-Dave

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Oh, hey-

If you are in a big, big hurry and are cool with YouTube's lower quality you can go to: http://youtube.com/thedeadreportpodcast and check out our YouTube channel. Like the show? Embed it in your LJ, MySpace or blog!

The Dead Report Minute: Zombie Prom

producer@thedeadreport.com (Dave Taylor) — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 06:52:00 +0000

This week's calendar item: Cinema Insomnia's Mr. Lobo and The Queen of Trash are serving as Master and Mistress of Ceremonies at Zombie Prom on Saturday night; Sept 8th, 9:30pm at Club Hide in SF. For more info, check out The Queen of Trash's blog at www.queen-of-trash.com

If you'd like to see events in your city covered by The Dead Report, drop us an email to producer@thedeadreport.com

We've got a kick-ass episode of TDR coming next tues/wed. Stay tuned. In the meantime, here's your Dead Report Minute:
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Why subscribe? Well, you might have noticed that these HD shows take forever to download. If you subscribe in iTunes (or similar software like the Miro Player), the shows will automatically download whenever we post them- so they'll do their thing while you're cooking or sleeping or whatever and by the time you notice, it's all downloaded and ready to go!

In a really big rush to see it? Check out out the YouTube version! It's in crummy YouTube quality, but hey! It's quick! The Dead Report Tubecast

Dave will probably delete this post!

producer@thedeadreport.com (Dave Taylor) — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 06:26:00 +0000

Tonight, we (read: ME!) got to interview Peter Finch of the KFOG morning show. He's currently appearing in "Aaah! Rosebud!" (which he also penned) -- showing at the New Langton Arts in San Francisco (it will be at the Julia Morgan in Berkeley next month.) Also featured is Dylan Russell, first time Thunderbird Theater director. They give old Sash the scoop on the current show, and things to come. Check out the most recent Dead Report Minute for more details.

(I don't want to get in to specifics about the show before the next episode airs, but you should all check out the podcast. LOVE THE PODCAST. WE WILL KNOCK HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 2 RIGHT OUT OF THAT NUMBER ONE SPOT. DAMN KIDS.

The Dead Report: Episode 3

producer@thedeadreport.com (Dave Taylor) — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 00:56:00 +0000

In this episode of The Dead Report: Zombies on TV, the Crawling Zombie toy, a review of "Living With Zombies", Sash comes back atcha' with a "Dead of the Street" interview segment, GameZombie.tv hits us with a hammer of apocalyptic precautionary advice, Indy Mogul cooks up another Backyard FX segment with three rad recipes for homemade brains for the independent filmmakers and general pranksters out there...

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This weeks episode's links:
Join The GameZombie Resistance at gamezombie.tv
Visit www.indymogul.com, the the first network for the YouTube generation!
Get your own Crawling Zombie!
Go buy Living with Zombies- it's a great read.

Musings

producer@thedeadreport.com (Dave Taylor) — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 04:16:00 +0000

While shooting my segment today (well, I guess it's not really a segment... filler maybe...), and going through a number of takes (it's kinda of like rehearsing while producing... a whole interesting thing about video v theater, which i'll save for another time...), I suggested that we have an out-takes segment or episode or extra or something. It will be fabulous when Dave has the time to do it.

In other news, Dave loves his brand new camera! So, we now have a camera that works... if only we had microphones that worked consistently.... If anyone is rich and wants to be our sponsor (or just our sugar daddy/mommy) email me! ;-D

TDR News Team will be at _Aaah! Rosebud! The Prequel to Citizen Kane_ this Friday. (http://www.thunderbirdtheatre.com/index.html) You should go. Support your local theater. Support your local theater doing zombie stuff. Support your local theater doing stuff that combines zombies AND Orson Welles. Young Orson Welles is damn hot and sexy. For reals. Check it.

Shoot. Lost track of time doing zombie research.

The Dead Report Minute: AAAH! Rosebud!

producer@thedeadreport.com (Dave Taylor) — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:43:00 +0000

This week's Dead Report Minute: AAAH! Rosebud! Zombies invade Xanadu in Peter Finch's comedic re-telling of Citizen Kane...

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San Francisco's New Langton Arts Center
1246 Folsom Street
Thursday through Monday, August 23rd - September 8th

www.thunderbirdtheatre.com

The Dead Report: Episode 2

producer@thedeadreport.com (Dave Taylor) — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:00:00 +0000

Here is your Dead Report for August 7, 2007. In This Episode: 28 Month Later news, Diary of the Dead news, a review of Fido, and footage from comicon 2007 of director George Romero in conversation with author Max Brooks.

You can right-click to download the episode, but I really do suggest clicking the iTunes link to watch it in the iTunes player.

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This episode's links:
Toronto International Film Festival
Romero and Brooks at Comic-Con 2007
Fido - Official website
Parkway Speakeasy Theater Oakland, CA

The Dead Report Minute: Fido

producer@thedeadreport.com (Dave Taylor) — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:33:00 +0000

There will be a full episode coming this weekend, in the meantime- here is a new format we're introducing: The Dead Report Minute. In this minute, a news flash and a call to arms!

You can right-click to download the episode, but I really do suggest clicking the iTunes link to watch it in the iTunes player.
The Dead Report Minute

Watch in iTunes!

This episode's links:
The Cerrito Speakeasy Theater
Fido - Official website

-Dave

The Dead Report: Episode 1

producer@thedeadreport.com (Dave Taylor) — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 05:29:00 +0000

Here is your Dead Report for July 16th, 2007; We've got two hosts now, Dave and Joanne. This episode features a segment on "Night of the Living Dead: Live on stage" produced by Sheldon Steere and a 'how to' segment by indiemogul.com. We've got a journal entry by James Dionne and the Dead Games report by Jason Morales. Sasha Taylor joins us for the Dead on the Street segment.

To watch, it's best to subscribe using one on the subscription links on the right, or right-click this link to download it and watch in Quicktime Player:
TDR Episode 1

This Episode's links:
Rage attack victim
Monroeville Mall Attack
George Romero's letter to the fans
Neca's Shaun of the Dead toys
The Primitive Screwheads
The Resisty Transmission Journal
Crazy Monkey Games; Endless Zombie Rampage
Indy Mogul, The First Network for the YouTube Generation.

Chroma Key studio is finished

producer@thedeadreport.com (Dave Taylor) — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 19:34:00 +0000

Hey folks, the greenscreen is all installed and lit. It works well but I'm gonna skip posting a test here, I don't really want it in the iTunes feed...

The Dead Report Manifesto May 2007

producer@thedeadreport.com (Dave Taylor) — Tue, 15 May 2007 05:26:00 +0000

http://www.archive.org/download/TheDeadReportManifesto/TDR_Manifesto.pdf

A public declaration of the principles, methods, and intentions of the Dead Report Podcast. It's a key to the style guide video, a standards guide for producers, and a list of our favorite blogs and sites.

Here is the 300x300 iTunes Cover Art

producer@thedeadreport.com (Dave Taylor) — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 06:24:00 +0000