Zombies Won’t Die

Every time I want to hear the zombie genre is over, I call my agents,” he said. “They are consistently wrong, because every day there’s a new movie or TV movie, a new book, a new video game, a new board game. That’s the crazy part about zombies: they’re not...

Dead Things: “Dea...

Mmmm, here’s a pretty gnarly video by filmmaker Daniel Columbie:  Deadlift. Definitely a “Dead Things”...

Zombie Outbreak

This is no sudden crush, no quick fling with the undead. It’s an infatuation that began back in 1962 when Bela Lugosi starred as a Haitian Vodou master who is enlisted to zombify a beautiful young woman. In 1968 George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead, achieved cult status and...

Girls Love Gore

Girls do want to be grossed out … well, some of them. That’s what the Sony execs decided when the exit polls for “Silent Hill,” a gory horror movie based on the video game became a top grossing film when it debuted. Women made up nearly half the audience. Finally...

Zombie Farm Lads

“It’s not just that satire is dead. We knew that already. It’s that reality is dead. History is just your imagination, highly focused and often located in Japan. … And remember the children—always, always, the children. We want them to read “Silas...

They’re Everywher...

Once again, they’re everywhere.  We’re talking of course about zombies. If you haven’t been paying attention—and if you haven’t been paying attention, heaven help you—zombies are back. In films, books and video games, the undead are once again on the march, elbowing past werewolves,...