Blog of the Living Dead

MOVED! MOVED!!! MOVED!!!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 02:53:00 +0000

To our wonderfully loyal readers, Blog of the Living Dead has a new and permanent home:
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noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 21:33:00 +0000

To our wonderfully loyal readers, Blog of the Living Dead has a new and permanent home:
www.blogofthelivingdead.com

Pull your parts together!
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More TV Zombies! Syfy spoofs the Undead!

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 15:19:00 +0000

The Syfy Channel is quickly attempting to take on the likes of HBO and more importantly, AMC, with their take on the almost-living, dare I say, Walking Dead.

In this 1/2-hour single-camera satire, when the zombie population of Marshall City overcomes the 30-foot barrier separating the infected people from the rest of the city, the Zombie Extermination and Removal Operations company (the Zeros) are called in to keep the peace. When they can get out of their own way long enough to focus on a case, they are pretty effective with very unorthodox methods.

Executive Producers: David Kenin and Steve Brenner
Co-Executive Producers: Chris Provost & Dave Hales

They have a Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/ZEROS/251938024603

Syfy describes themselves as:

Syfy is a media destination for imagination-based entertainment. With year round acclaimed original series, events, blockbuster movies, classic science fiction and fantasy programming, a dynamic Web site (www.Syfy.com), and a portfolio of adjacent business (Syfy Ventures), Syfy is a passport to limitless possibilities. Originally launched in 1992 as SCI FI Channel, and currently in more than 96 million homes, Syfy is a network of NBC Universal, one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies. (Syfy. Imagine greater.)

YEAH!

2.8 Hours Later IGfest 2010

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:41:00 +0000

2.8 Hours Later is a chilling night-time street game with 200 players. Survive a night in Bristol without becoming a zombie and save the city from the apocalypse.

Catch some of the Mayhem!

Remember Genesis... Super Nintendo? Oh yeah-- zombies were taking over the world.. even then!

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:07:00 +0000

Some games will live forever as Classics. Today we’ll be taking a look at 1993’s classic run-and-gun horror comedy “Zombies Ate My Neighbors.”

Developed by LucasArts, this 2-player love letter to B-movie horror flicks made its debut on the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis.

READ ON!!!

After Dark Films / SEGA Giveaway!

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:57:00 +0000

SEGA® of America, Inc. and After Dark Films have partnered up for an exciting giveaway. Ten copies of the newly released game, Rise of Nightmares, for your Xbox 360® with Kinect™ is up for grabs on their Facebook page and Twitter account (one game per winner).

READ FOR DETAILS!

T-Shirt Winners!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 21:41:00 +0000

The first Blog of the Living Dead T-Shirt contest, in conjunction with Zombie Pandemic (Online MMORG), is complete, and the winners are being contacted as we speak. Yea-- they are getting FREE awesome Tshirtbordello T-Shirts (delivered right to your door) for free.

MORE CONTESTS COMING SOON!!!

Keep on playin...
Zombie Pandemic
Want zombie paraphernalia? TShirtbordello is where you need to go!

Preparing for the Zombie Apocalypse -- We've got Maps!

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 14:40:00 +0000

With all the recent talk of the zombie apocalypse, including Floatingsheep.org's forthcoming book chapter on a similar topic, they've been worried that the older and slightly disheveled population has been put at greater risk of personal injury due to their being confused for the undead. Always eager to lend a helping hand, the Floatingsheep collective has turned to the infinite wisdom of the collective internet to map the relative prevalence of zombies and old people. It is their hope that this guide will help lower the level of zombie hunter on senior citizen violence that has plagued human kind for generations.

The brains at Floatingsheep.org are using the sophistication of geo-coded information to generate awesome maps, mined from Google Maps placemarks!

What the what?

The Walking Dead - Season 2 Trailer!

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:33:00 +0000

Mark this on your Calendar: Sunday, October 16th. Season 2 of "The Walking Dead" crawls back into our lives, after a much too long wait over the summer.

And to whet your appetite, click here to watch the Season 2 Promo.

Budgeting For The Zombie Apocalypse

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 00:23:00 +0000

The zombie apocalypse is a simple thing for which to prepare. No, it's not necessarily easy - stockpiling nonperishables, water, guns and ammo is definitely not easy - but it is straight forward. When getting ready for the host of reanimated dead to overtake the world, you need to prepare for survival and self-defense. And your pre-zombie apocalypse budget is the perfect place to start readying yourself in order to survive a zombie-filled world.

Wanna know more???

Dead Island -- Game Review

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 04:20:00 +0000

When it comes to zombie movies, there are two very specific directions a director can take.

They can either go for all-out action, like Zack Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead remake, or the Resident Evil movies. Alternatively, they can go for tension and suspense, the best recent examples of which include 28 Days Later and Charlie Brooker’s Dead Set.

Either way fans of the zombie genre will be particularly finicky and they’ve been well looked after on console through the Left 4 Dead titles, so after capturing the attention of the gaming public through a great marketing campaign Dead Island had its work cut out for it.

READ THE GAME REVIEW, HANDS ON ACTION REVIEW, SCREENSHOTS!

Zombie Netflix #1

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:00:00 +0000

We know that when you want a good, hearty zombie movie, you want it — nay, need it — now. Here are a few titles available on Netflix Instant that can immediately satisfy your zombie movie cravings whenever you get that aching hunger in your belly.

One of the better episodes of Showtime’s Masters of Horror series, “Homecoming” was director Joe Dante’s contribution to the first season. Several slain American soldiers come back from the dead, but it isn’t to eat brains and wreck havoc — no, they’ve come back to vote, to make sure that the President that made them fight and die in such a senseless war wouldn’t be back for a second term. Yeah, not very subtle, and sometimes embarrassingly so, but Dante’s still a skilled showman with several clever tricks up his sleeve — the director of Gremlins and The Howling isn’t going to bombard you with a brazen left-wing political agenda without making it, well, fun.

"Fido" is no longer available. Thanks Stephen!

Probably the best satire of American suburbia since Edward Scissorhands, Fido takes place in an alternate ’50s universe where Dad fought in the “Zombie Wars” and doesn’t like it one bit when Mom buys a zombie for little Timmy. There goes the neighborhood! Fido has a lot to say about the responsibilities of keeping a pet — especially when that pet could get loose and start eating the neighbors. While it gets a little heavy-handed in the third act (who is really the more “human” — us or the undead?), Fido is smart and funny, with a pretty astonishing performance by Billy Connolly, who stepped in to play the title role after Peter Stormare dropped out a week before principal photography was scheduled to begin.

George Romero’s first Dead movie might very well be the best in the series… and perhaps the best zombie movie of all time, period. The set-up is simple: Zombies walk the earth, and a few survivors take refuge in a house in the woods. Night’s zombies lurk about in the shadows of the trees, patiently waiting for the poor fool who thinks he can make a run for it. Rarely has a horror film created such an unrelenting sense of claustrophobia — the sight of these creatures swaying around outside the window is more terrifying than any swarming attack en mass. Though there are plenty of those moments, too, and they’re awesome.

1985’s delightful Return of the Living Dead brought a rich sense of humor to the proceedings, determined to make the audience laugh as much as scream (and it succeeded, a lot, on both counts). It was also one of the first films to introduce some new elements into the whole zombie mythos: the zombies were resurrected by a toxic gas (Trioxin!), they moved fast (and we do mean fast) and bullets didn’t really do a damn thing to stop them. Part II (1988) picks up where the first film left off, following the niece and nephew of the original film’s protagonist, and jacks it all up tenfold, delivering a strange and often hilarious zombie adventure that’s almost as good as the original — and at least twice as goofy.

Best of Netflix Instant: Zombie Flicks #2
Best of Netflix Instant: Zombie Flicks #3

Bong of the Living Dead -- OUR REVIEW!

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 18:59:00 +0000

We did our best to get into the mind of the creator Thomas Newman... and here, hot off the presses is.. our review

Here Is OUR REVIEW.

Chainsaw Maid Creator... and so much more!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 15:26:00 +0000

Takena Nagao has entertained us with several wonderful stop-motion-- claymation short film that have garnered alot of attention and critical praise.

If you're looking for Chainsaw Maid Zero-- you'll have to wait a little longer. It is available only in Japan right now... but we hope that it'll eventually make its way to the West.

Until that happens, please enjoy this "Fake Trailer" from Takena.

TAKE A LOOK!

Canadian found not guilty in Glasgow 'zombie' attack

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 14:44:00 +0000

July 6, 2011

A Canadian who attacked a man he believed to be a zombie was found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity in a Scottish court on Wednesday.

WTF???????

World War Z... Trailer

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 12:52:00 +0000

The much anticipated "World War Z". due out next year (2012), and starring Brad Pitt, Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad), has spawned dozens of fan-made trailers. A lot of negative reports have been surfacing on and off the shoot, indicating the producers, director, writer were incapable of effectively capture the true nature of the book, and have opted instead for a standard zombie flick.

That would be a shame, as the book is truly awesome, and if Plan B and Paramount Pictures (among the half dozen production companies involved) screw it up, there's going to be a pretty big backlash from the huge fan base.

But-- if you want to watch a great fan-made trailer that does, I believe, capture the rawness of the book, watch it HERE!

Are Zombies a Blasphemous Riff on the Rapture?

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:13:00 +0000

OK. There. I said it.

I've been wanting to "dig up" this subject since I started this blog, and well-- I think it's time.

Are Zombies a Blasphemous Riff on the Rapture?

READ ON... if you dare.

Zombies vs. Humans

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 21:46:00 +0000

Zombie-themed movies, TV shows and now competitions between students have launched the undead into mainstream popularity—but some political scientists and policy makers have looked into the pop-culture epidemic with intrigue.

READ ALL ABOUT IT!

Vancouver Zombie Walk

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 20:53:00 +0000

Hundreds take to the streets of downtown Vancouver Saturday afternoon, for the annual Zombiewalk!!!

Toronto, look out!!! I think they're heading east!

The Vancouver Sun has a whole bunch more photos: HERE!

Bong of the Dead -- Vancouver Premiere!

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 01:24:00 +0000

We've given alot of press to Thomas Newman's "Bong of the Dead," because we believe in it and him-- and I truly love independant films.

"Bong" premiered in Vancouver recently-- and it looked like a blast!

WATCH VIDEO COVERING THE PREMIERE!

Awesome Zombie Starburst Ad

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 14:41:00 +0000

There's something inherently funny about a zombie riding a city bus. For starters, it's a slowly dying mode of public transportation. Plus, there's a whole lot to like about this particular harried commuter zombie. The reanimated creature is up early and seems to be a good ghoul: he's got the tie loosened underneath his rubble-covered suit, and he's trying to read The Wall Street Journal with his hideously scary white button eyes.

WATCH THE VIDEO!

"Patient Zero" Needs your Help!

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:43:00 +0000

Let me lay it down for you right now. The economy is going to hell in a hand basket... no good reason to throw your hard earned cash into the huge smoldering blaze that is the stock market.

Why not place it into something you're passionate about (as opposed to your stock broker, who, let's face it, has ulterior motives to take your money. Remember, he's not gambling with his money -- he's gambling with your money).

That being said-- here is a wonderful and happy place to put your cash.

READ ON!

Films "Expire" on Netflix

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:45:00 +0000

Films do expire on Netflix. Read Eatyourchildren's explanation below...

But if you have a hankering...

Tainted Tales and Rotten Rhymes (Volume 2)

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:03:00 +0000

Poetry and Zombies... Art and the Undead... Terms that may not seem to go together, but after seeing what the living dead poets have placed on these virtual pages with their rotted hands, you just might think again.

READ ON

World War Z-- on the Big Screen 2012

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 20:46:00 +0000

"World War Z" has been added to the line up of movies to be released at the end of 2012. Paramount Pictures have locked December 21 as the release date for the post-apocalyptic horror film starring Brad Pitt. The date put it to be in competition with Johnny Depp-starring adventure movie "The Lone Ranger".

READ ON!