Top Notch Zombie Video Games this Year

People have shown a keen obsession towards zombie-based things ever since “Night of the Living Dead” (1968) entered pop culture. The genre evolved several novels, comics, movies, TV shows and finally video games.

Players have always been looking forward for some zombie mayhem on their video game consoles or PCs. There are several types of zombies portrayed in the games; some are slow, the others are fast and more aggressive, while some others are responsive to sound and smell.

Here is a list of zombie video games that players need to try out:

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Are You Prepared for Zombie Apocalypse?

Your team is decimated.

You’re surrounded by zombies. And they’re closing in.

Normally, you lean forward, turn off your console, step away and play again once you’ve had the opportunity to regroup.

But you can’t. Because this isn’t a video game. It’s real. What do you do?

This is the feeling that IRL Shooter are trying to create with their live first-person shooter game Patient 0. And it sounds more immersive than any video game experience ever. Welcome to the apocalypse.

“Real” zombies, guns and fear

The last decade demonstrates an unrequited love for zombies. They now permeate every aspect of culture from television, movies and videogames to maths and literature to zombie fun runs and nerf games. The undead truly seem unstoppable.

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Trent Shy Takes In Zombies

Though everyone is getting ready to tune in to the usual Xmas time Rankin and Bass (and rightly so), we would like to take this time to point you towards something just as fine but much, MUCH darker!

Claymation artist and wizard Trent Shy is back with another blood-spattered short for you cats to chew on. According to Shy, this latest bit of gooey goodness is “inspired by the films I love, grindhouse cinema, and the VHS tapes I grew up watching. No plot and lots of blood and monsters.”

To that we give a hearty and ROUSING amen. Check it out below, and keep an eye out for more from Trent as soon as he decides that it’s time to get his hands dirty again. Enough talk! Time to bleed!

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SciFi Spin on Zombies

Lean, muscular and on the money, “The Last Days on Mars” takes a familiar story and tells it so tautly that we are pleased to be on board.

The debut feature for Los Angeles-based Irish filmmaker Ruairi Robinson and written by Clive Dawson (from a short story by British science-fiction writer Sydney Bounds), “Mars” has its own take on a narrative that has points in common with Ridley Scott’s “Prometheus” as well as Sebastian Cordero’s well-received “The Europa Report.”

The film is set during the last 19 hours of an early manned mission to Mars, and the Aurora 2’s nine crew members are barely holding it together. Driven and tactless scientist Kim Aldrich (an expert Olivia Williams) is cranky about having to leave without making a major discovery, while chief systems officer Vincent Campbell (Liev Schreiber), the mission’s go-to guy, and his comrade-in-arms Rebecca Lane (Romola Garai) just want these final hours to go smoothly.

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Evolution of Zombies?

From today’s Walking Dead #118, by Robert Kirkman, Charlie Adlard and Stefani Gaudiano, published by Image Comics.

The book is really living up to its arc title, All-Out War, rather than showing one battle, it’s showing a number, happening simultaneously, some on pause, some on retreat, some moments even tranquil, a war of gins, of fists, of knives and of words. The final aspect will no doubt be the turning point for the conflict between Negan’s factions and Rick’s.

Also, cool single speech balloon double page spread, that’s heading for a T-shirt near you soon.

But there was one plot point that stuck out. Through the ten years of the comic, the zombies have remained ever thus. The George Romero model, rising from the dead after rigor mortis has set in, stumbling, jerking, slow, unyielding creatires. And in The Walking Dead, they are a given, people can work around them, thy are a force of nature that can be worked with as well as fought against.

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Micro-Zombies from Living Cells

Researchers at the University of New Mexico have engineered ‘zombie cells’ – undead replicas of animal cells that may actually be stronger than their living counterparts.

According to a report at Energy.gov, biologists at UNM’s Sandia National Laboratories have developed a method of embalming the cell of a mammal with silica to create a functioning replica of the original. The silica acts as a kind of armor plating; when exposed to extreme temperatures the original cell was destroyed… but the silica copy continued functioning.

 

Bryan Kaehr, head of the research team, says the term “zombie” is fitting because, unlike mummies, which only imitate the appearance of the living, these preserved dead cells just get up and go about their cellular business.

 

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Complex Genre Takes Stage in Sundance Film Lineup

LOS ANGELES – Genre-bending films dominated the 2014 lineup announced on Wednesday for the U.S. feature film competition at the Sundance Film Festival, the top U.S. festival for independent cinema.
The competition will showcase 16 films spanning serious and comedic efforts, with many fusing together the traditional cinematic conventions of different genres.

“They kind of struck us as surprising, a lot of the storylines this year, especially in competition. A lot of them were unexpected,” John Cooper, director of the Sundance film festival, told Reuters.

Examples of films that cross genres include the zombie romance “Life After Beth,” written and directed by Jeff Baena and starring Dane DeHaan and Aubrey Plaza, and “Jamie Marks is Dead,” a ghost comedy by writer-director Carter Smith.

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Math Says We Can Survive Zombie Apocalypse

Building on the work of another paper about how a zombie apocalypse would go down, because that’s a thing mathematicians apparently work on, Caitlyn Witkowski of Bryant University and Brian Blais of Brown University have written a paper on their mathematical findings that a zombie apocalypse wouldn’t wipe us all out, so that’s comforting.

For their paper, which was published on the arXiv pre-print server, the two sat down and binge-watched zombie movies, which makes us very jealous that we didn’t pursue a career in mathematics. They came to the conclusion that there are two separate kinds of zombie plagues: the Dawn of the Dead kind, where dying turns people into zombies whether they’ve been bitten or not, or the Shaun of the Dead kind, where a person needs to be mauled, or at least bitten, by the undead to become a zombie.

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Zombies Rise at ‘Dead Rising 3′

Some developers use the power of next-generation consoles to simulate lifelike animals you can interact with. Others employ it to recreate historical eras, complete with authentic architecture, costumes, and tools.

Then there’s Dead Rising 3, which uses the graphical might of Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox One to create an open city with nary a loading screen, filled with thousands upon thousands of undead people in varying states of decay and also provides literally 101 bizarre combination weapons with which to do things like launch pink rubber dildos with such power that they embed themselves deeply within rotting flesh.

In all honesty, though, I actually enjoyed much of Capcom Vancouver’s strange and spectacular work of zombie mayhem.
 
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Zombies Over Multiple Generations

From “World War Z” and “Warm Bodies” to classics such as “Night of the Living Dead” and “White Zombies,” the zombie horror film has been popular since the 19th century.

“White Zombies” (1932) is usually considered the first legitimate zombie film and is known for introducing the word “zombie” into the genre’s vocabulary.

However, the modern depiction of zombies is mostly due to the 1968 film “Night of the Living Dead” by George A. Romero.

Generally, zombies in older movies are depicted as slow, lumbering and unintelligent. Throughout the years, though, zombies have evolved into agile, intelligent and strong creatures, mostly shown as living humans infected with a mind-altering pathogen.

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Characters You Want to Be With During Zombie Apocalypse

The day is finally among us.The day that all horror fans dream of. Yes, I’m talking about Z-Poc. The day where almost all of Earths population is turned into ravenous brain munching zombies who want nothing more than to turn your internal organs into lunch.Ok, it’s too good to be true. Z-poc isn’t among us.(Yet) So use that dark, terrifying abyss you call your mind and imagine it is for a moment.(I know you do it all the time anyways) Imagine the world around you is being mercilessly consumed by the living dead. As the people around you are being eaten alive, you carelessly sit back and laugh and point at all of the fools who haven’t been watching zombie films(training videos as us horror fans call them) for the last twenty years like you have.

Your obsessive studying has finally paid off. You know exactly what to do in this situation, so will have no problems surviving Z-Poc. Thanks to your years of “training”, you will coast through Z-Poc like it’s a walk in the park. That and the fact that you have seven extremely badass movie characters helping you out along the way will make surviving Z-Poc as easy as beating the first level of the original Mario Brothers. And if you don’t know what I’m talking about you need to crawl the fuck out from under the rock you’ve been living under for the last twenty eight years and go play Mario.

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Immortal Zombie Films

Zombies, it seems, are everywhere — on movie screens, televisions and even walking down the streets.
How did they get there? Well, that’s a very good question.

Some posit that zombies are created by some kind of virus. Others from a voodoo spell or drug. Some say it comes from being gnawed on by another flesh-eater (which leaves the “how did it start?” question wide open).

Some don’t even try to provide a plausible explanation of how zombies are created — it’s only a movie, TV show or playing dress up, after all.

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Nastiest Zombie Movies

We list the 25 grossest, most disgusting, nasty zombie movies to have ever smeared our brains.

Zombie fans can rejoice. In the past, the popular horror movie villains may have been considered cult attractions, fodder for low budget DVD filmmakers lacking real vision, but this past weekend saw the successful release of World War Z, an honest-to-God big budget zombie epic that finally depicts walking flesh-eaters engaged in a global takeover. It’s big, it’s pricey, it’s got a big star in Brad Pitt, and it’s- wait, wait, wait, WHAT? You’re telling me it’s PG-13? Huh? Aren’t they still zombies? Aren’t they still meant to be ferocious? Aren’t they still eating flesh? What the hell is this PG-13 stuff?

 

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Tip on How To Fight Zombies

Earlier this evening I got a chance to listen to “WMMA Jam Live” a radio show about women’s MMA hosted by Stacey Lynn with special guest Tommy Toe Hold.

One of the guests on the show was “The Queen of Spades” Shayna Baszler. Among the topics Stacey and Shayna talked about include “The Ultimate Fighter,” training with Nate Diaz and the “crazy things” she saw in the UFC.

In an unrelated topic, Baszler also gave listeners advice on how to survive the zombie apocalypse.
The Queen of Spades recommended stay in a safe house somewhere with enough water and food, learn how to use different kinds of weaponry and have a badass on your team. She also recommended watching “The Walking Dead” as well as read the graphic novel. This advice was not only for taking care of zombies, but also other people you may encounter.

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Zombies are Featured TV Characters

AMC’s The Walking Dead has key ratings better than network dramas. The show gets desirable young viewers by not skimping on explicit action, gore or storytelling. So why haven’t the networks tried to imitate the show? Blame the FCC, which cracks down on explicit network broadcast content but overlooks cable
But perhaps not the young audience that commercial networks and cable crave, for them there is “The Walking Dead.”

NPR’s TV critic Eric Deggans says this flesh-eating zombie fest looks like the future of television.

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Dead Island Zombie Remake Relives Horror and Heartbreak

You remember the trailer for the zombie video game Dead Island—the horrifying 2011 spot by Scotland’s Axis Animation that won a gold Lion at Cannes, yet was so violent and disturbing that it was booed by the audience at the Palais? (Adweek still named it one of that year’s 10 best ads.) Well, for whatever reason, Hatchet III director B.J. McDonnell went and made a shot-for-shot, live-action remake of it.

The attention to every gory detail is amazing—and if the emotional impact here is slightly less, that only reinforces the genius of the original, which somehow made you care deeply about a handful of cartoon characters.

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Paintings Inspired by Zombie Movies

Artist George Pfau draws from impressionism and pointillism to create paintings of scenes from zombie movies. And, like the undead menace at the beginning of the movies who appear nothing more than feral humans, the zombies only just emerge from the landscapes.

This isn’t the first time Pfau has explored the zombie genre through art; his Zombie Index examined the notion of zombie plural and individual identity through an interactive painting. His Zombiescapes are a particularly fascinating blend of movies and fine arts. It’s easy enough to identify which painting belongs to which movies (up top it’s Night of the Living Dead), but the impressionistic style invites us to consider the zombie figures deprived of their dead faces and movie gore. Do we identify them as zombies based on their placement in the scene and their body language? Or are they transformed into living humans, perhaps out for an ordinary stroll on the square or a trip to the mall?

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Shocking Horror Films

It’s that time of year again. When pumpkins glower maniacally, people jovially ask to borrow friends’ faces for their costume and tech-savvy kids do a spot of trick or tweeting.

But what to accompany these most hallowed hours of horror? Jason or Freddy? Alien or Predator? Those bouts have been reckoned before in a cross-bred arena of franchise fetishism.

Why not go to the roots of the genre, the grimy, flea-bitten offspring sucking at the teats of gore and depravity?

Schlock horror is impolite and distasteful, insane and untamed. Often made by maverick meisters with miniscule means, their aim is to shock, offend and delight in equal measure.

Prepare to schlock around the clock as we present the ultimate Halloween all-nighter.

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Horror Science: Are Zombies Real?

Halloween is here, and as many cinephiles start watching as many horror films as they can in the month of October, you’ll start to see a trend. One of the most popular – and historically one of the most recent – monsters in horror movies are zombies. In fact, you’ll be hard-pressed to find a listing of October horror movies to watch without finding at least one or a dozen tales of the undead creeping (or rather, stumbling) in there.

Zombie popularity is at an all-time high, with mainstream television series like The Walking Dead and summer tent pole releases like World War Z bringing in serious cash to Hollywood. However, like other classic monsters that have their roots in fact (like lycanthropy being applied to people with mental illness or vampirism being attributed to an exhumed corpse whose gums had receded and fingernails had appeared to grow), one might question how much truth there is to this whole zombie thing. It was a flight of fancy, until a gruesome real-life attack happened in May 2012, which may have been caused by recreational drugs.

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Housecore Horror FilmFest Involves Scum, Zombies and Maniacs

The Housecore Horror Film Festival debuted in Austin this weekend. An offshoot of Housecore Records, the four-day long event was a combination of a series of concerts from many heavy-metal bands as well as a showcase of indie horror flicks that ranged from classic to little-seen, plus advance screenings.

“First year” was a term thrown around quite a few times over the weekend as a reminder that this was the festival’s inaugural year, and understandably so. A few screenings were delayed, while others were postponed or canceled — and occasionally zombies on the screen had to compete with goblins on the stage with only several feet of space separating the two.

Yet, despite unavoidable mishaps, for a festival in their “first year,” Housecore presented one of the most eclectic and impressive lineup of horror titles, leading this scare fiend to wonder what kind of blood splatter future years will hold.

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Why the Fear of Zombie Faces?

The horror-film appeal of zombies is rooted in an instinctive disquiet at faces that are almost human, says a psychologist.

A research project by the Open University’s Stephanie Lay found a particular fear of “near-human” faces.

It explains why blank eyes, automatons, masks and ventriloquists’ dolls are common cinema devices to instil fear.

The psychologist says a study of 3,000 people found widespread “repulsion” at near-human faces.

The finding is part of research into the so-called “uncanny valley” phenomenon in how people react to robots.

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31 Days of Zombies and Horror

Rob Zombie’s 2007 “Halloween” remake loosely applied the director’s quickly coalescing tics to the John Carpenter-directed original, recasting the blank, seemingly motivationless killer Michael Myers as a hollowed-out hick with family issues and eyes that looked as if they’d taken on a paint-huffing-induced glaze while still in utero. Yet the film, Zombie’s open concession to mainstream genre demands, while cementing his style, left cracks in it. Those minuscule fissures are blown open by “Halloween II” (2009), an ostensible cash-grab that proved, especially in its slightly but meaningfully altered director’s cut, the best horror film of the last five years.

The sequel continues the story along a path that seems logical until one realizes how few horror franchises do it, caring less for the further exploits of monsters and their victims than for the aftershocks of the original trauma. “Halloween II” presents a group of characters irrevocably poisoned by their brush with evil, among them Dr. Loomis (Malcolm McDowell), who is hawking a book to profit off his ghastly failure to cure—or even contain—Michael’s psychosis, and Michael’s sister, Laurie (Scout Taylor-Compton), who is in total emotional freefall.

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Zombies, Horror for Halloween

Halloween doesn’t arrive until Thursday, but this weekend looks like a big one for zombies and other creatures of the season. Here’s a roundup of highlights in the Mobile area.

The Magnolia Corn Maze in Magnolia Springs is open for business 5 p.m.-8 p.m. Friday, 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Saturday and noon-5 p.m. Sunday through Nov. 3. Attractions this year include Bazooka Ball, campfire sites, a range of children’s activities, a second playground and even some zombie action. General admission is $10 plus tax per person; Unlimited Activity Tickets are $15 and Ultimate Admission Tickets are $20.

Children 2 and younger admitted free. 15275 County Road 49, Summerdale; call 251-605-7216 or visit www.magnoliacornmaze.com.

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Guildford Zombie Night Brings in the Fun for Fans

This Halloween, something rather gruesome is happening in the middle of Guildford.

The Electric Theatre is hosting its first ever Zombie Night on Thursday October 31 which includes a screening of director George A. Romero’s cult classic Dawn of the Dead. Crack open the fake blood and join in the big Halloween party of the year, right here in Guildford.

Zombies will descend on the Theatre anytime from 7pm onwards so come along dressed up – the more imaginative the better, there are prizes to be won.

“Undoubtedly the zombie movie to end ‘em all” according to Time Out, Dawn of the Dead is the epic sequel to Romero’s legendary Night of the Living Dead and is without doubt one of the greatest zombie films of all time.

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Top 25 Zombie Movies on the List

The zombies have taken over. As “World War Z” hits theaters as the most expensive zombie flick ever made, we take a look at the best zombie movies of all-time.By “zombie movies” we mean the films that deal with the dead returning to life, with a couple of exceptions. As such, we’re not counting movies about demonic possession (“Evil Dead” franchise), vampire-like creatures (“Omega Man”/”I Am Legend”), or doctor-aided resurrections (“Frankenstein”/ “Re-Animator”).

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Best Zombie Movies Yet to Date

Last Sunday night, 16 million people watched the season 4 premiere of AMC’s The Walking Dead. Meaning cable TV records were shattered by an hour of television in which zombies fell through a convenience store’s ceiling, smashed into gooey bits upon hitting the ground, and, in one particular walker’s case, dangled in mid-air by its intestines. “Must-see TV” has certainly come a long way from Rachel Green’s in-vogue hairstyle.

Because of AMC’s ratings behemoth, the living dead are the coolest kids on the horror block these days, superseding the usual suspects like vampires and werewolves, both of which are currently slumming it on HBO’s forever problematic True Blood. Unsurprisingly, zombies have slowly—since, you know, they’re dead and unable to rapidly haul ass—been infiltrating the movie world, with this year’s charming comedy Warm Bodies prefacing next year’s Aubrey Plaza-led Life After Beth and, gasp, latest remake of George A. Romero‘s badass 1985 flick Day of the Dead.

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Zombie Makeup Workshop for Zombie Films

If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em! Just in time for Halloween, you will learn from Dani Spinks, San Francisco’s resident zombie expert, to apply makeup that transforms you into a walking corpse. Dani will also share her secret recipe—developed through years of experimentation—to create blood that has the consistency and viscosity of the real thing.

Dedicated to authenticity and gore, Dani is a founding member of SF Zombie Bar, owner of aGOREable designs and makeup artist for films, photo shoots and live events.

 

Each participant gets a zombie makeup kit to take home.

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The Coming of Modern Day Zombies

Oct. 18–Birth of the Living Dead, documentary, not rated, The Screen, 3.5 chiles

In 1963, George A. Romero began his own production company called The Latent Image. Romero is the man responsible for reinventing the zombie picture and creating a legacy still running strong in cinemas and on television 45 years after his Night of the Living Dead, released in 1968, brought a bleak new vision to the horror genre.

The Latent Image was a small company that produced beer commercials as well as a handful of short films for educator and television host Fred Rogers’ program Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, including one about the TV show host’s tonsillectomy. In the documentary Birth of the Living Dead, which chronicles the efforts of a small group of filmmakers to get Pittsburgh’s “first feature film” financed and produced, Romero jokes that the tonsillectomy film is one of the scariest he ever made.

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Scream Movies for 31 Days

Though they’ve lost their fear factor for me, zombie films are my favorite junk food; I just can’t get enough of them and ‘Day of the Dead’ is the peanut-butter-filled Twinkie of the lot. Romero’s original Living Dead trilogy set the standard for American zombie movies and this is the walking dead equivalent to ‘Return of the Jedi’. Scream Factory has presented the film in its most vivid form to date.

In ‘Day of the Dead’, there’s the veneer of a story focusing on a group of government assigned scientists and military personnel posted in an isolated underground mine-come-research facility sometime after the zombie apocalypse. The film follows a collection of characters who are undeniably more interesting than the throw-away ‘meat’ posing as human beings in most modern horror movies. We could go on and on about the Romero(ian) social commentaries & satirical subtexts about government conspiracy and the breakdown of civility in contemporary America but, let’s face it, the bread-and-butter here is that ‘Day of the Dead’ is the film that finally makes a zombie the protagonist!

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Zombie Films that Top the List

Zombies have always been a constant fascination in all demographics, and all kinds of formats. Whether it be in the books we read, the costumes we make, or the movies we watch, you can expect to see zombies around every corner — especially in October, the greatest month for horror monsters. Zombie films have been around since the mid ’60s when it was included in the ‘monster film’ genre. Now the zombie film has its own genre and its own separate audience that eat, breath and sleep zombies. Throughout the year there have been a lot of great, scary, hilarious zombie films and even more flops. I’m here to count down the ten best brain eating, intestine ripping, gore-filled zombie films of all time.

10) World War Z (2013)

Much more of an action flick than a horror one, World War Z still provides thrills and satisfies the zombie junkie’s needs, not to mention the zombies are faster than hell in this movie and that’s always terrifying.

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Awesome Online Zombie Movies

“The Walking Dead” returned for its fourth season Sunday night on AMC. On one hand, fans were treated to the usual dose of creeping, shuffling, bloody dead things. On the other hand, everybody has to wait a week for the next installment.

Fortunately, you don’t have to go zombie-free during that time. We’ve rounded up five of the greatest zombie short films to ever grace the Internet.

These shorts have it all, from pathos to intestines, from blood to deeply moving emotional moments. Just a warning: If you’re at work, there are extremely gross moments and strong language in some of these. Here they are, in no particular order.

“Cargo”: This short is the wordless story of a survivor and his baby daughter. It lunges at, and takes a bite out of, your heart with a well-crafted seven minutes of grasping zombies wrapped around a deep emotional core. If you thought you would never cry over a zombie movie, this might change your mind.

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Bollywood Akshay Kumar Loves Zombies and Vampires

According to Indian media reports ‘Desi Boyz’ actor Akshay Kumar is reportedly on the lookout for a ‘vampire script’.

In an interview the 46-year-old actor praised the zombie-comedy film ‘Go Goa Gone’ and said he had never imagined that somebody would ever shoot a film on the subject in Bollywood.

The ‘Khiladi’ further revealed that after watching the Saif Ali Khan production, he immediately called the producers Saif Ali Khan and Dinesh Vijan to voice his appreciation for the film.

Kumar said that he loves the concept of vampires sucking blood and is looking forward to playing a vampire on the big-screen sometime soon.

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Zombies as the Years Go By

The 1968 film that started it all. Romero’s original zombie flick featured Judith O’Dea and Duane Jones as unfortunate survivors of a zombie outbreak in rural Pennsylvania. Unlike the big budget zombie films of today, the cause of the outbreak is left by the wayside as the film depicts gory, violent scenes of zombies eating the living.

Not only did the film gross $18 million on a $100k budget, it also kick-started the entire pop-culture fascination with zombies.

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Why are Zombies Popular?

The Walking Dead returns for its fourth season Sunday night, meaning zombies will once again crawl from their graves for our weekly entertainment. However, it’s hard to say that the living dead are returning — from video games such as The Last of Us to Brad Pitt’s summer blockbuster World War Z, zombies have been a fixture in pop culture for years. Despite the numerous groans from those protesting “another zombie movie,” the zombie media invasion shows very few signs of stopping.

But where did this cultural obsession with these rotting flesh-eaters come from?

Unlike vampires — which entered popular consciousness primarily through literary works such as Bram Stoker’s Dracula — zombies lack one singular origin in our modern culture. The living dead have existed in many cultures throughout the world in a variety of forms. One of the oldest surviving works of literature, the Sumerian poem The Epic of Gilgamesh, includes a goddess cursing the dead to rise and eat the living. However, there are many differences among these concepts of the undead, and there was no real zombie genre until the 20th century.

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Canadian Zombie Film ‘Bunks’ Zombified Disney XD

TORONTO, Oct. 7, 2013 /CNW Telbec/ – Disney XD braces itself for an unforgettable supernatural ex-fear-ience with the world premiere of the first-ever Disney XD Canadian original movie, Bunks. Debuting Sunday, October 27 at 8 p.m. ET, the action-packed, zombie comedy – or zom-edy – follows Dylan and Dane O’Reilly, troublemaking brothers who accidentally unleash a curse on their camp that brings every campfire story to life. Filmed in Winnipeg, Manitoba and Kenora, Ontario, Bunks is a not-so-typical coming of age story about brotherhood, leadership and the great outdoors.

Brothers Dylan (Dylan Schmid) and Dane (Aidan Shipley) are always getting into trouble, so when their parents decide to send them to military camp for the summer, they devise a plan to sneak into Camp Bushwhack, an idyllic island camp. Posing as camp counsellors, the brothers fumble through quintessential camping activities, leading a rag-tag cabin of 11-year-olds through canoe trips, dodgeball disasters and more. But, the real trouble begins when the mischievous pair accidentally awaken a curse that brings campfire stories to life and sets a massive zombie outbreak into motion. Now, instead of just faking it, Dylan and Dane must learn what it really means to be leaders, and team up with their campers to save Camp Bushwhack.

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Palm Beach County Man’s Determination on Zombie Films

— Gary Davis is under no illusions. He knows his zombie movies are bad.

Well, it’s not that they’re bad per se, but Davis, one of Palm Beach County‘s most well-known filmmakers (you can count them on your hand), is a movie man with little more than a camera, a lot of friends and a wooded backyard that makes a nice film set.

Despite the sparse resources, his latest TV series, “2057 Return to Zombie Island,” will premier at 4 p.m. Sept. 28 as paid programming on the CW in West Palm Beach, and he has screened his films in local theaters with red carpets and fanfare.

“I want to be known as the king of Z movies,” said Davis, 59, at his home among dense pines and trashed vehicles consumed by foliage. “Not B movies. Z movies.”

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Zombie Movie Month Coming Through

Last night, I watched a zombie movie. Tonight, I’m watching a zombie movie. Tomorrow night, and for the next 28 nights, I will be watching a zombie movie. This is not normal. Not for me. Not for anybody. But it’s what I’ve done every year for the past five years, and what I will do every year for the foreseeable future. Why? Because zombie movie marathon month, that’s why.

Okay, I know that’s not really a reason. How does “Because zombie movies are awesome!” sound? About the same, right? The truth is, there’s no deep, meaningful reason that I do this to myself every year beyond the fact that I did it once, I really enjoyed it, and I decided to make it a tradition. For me, being the slightly obsessive weirdo that I am, once you call it “tradition,” you don’t really have any choice — it’s just what you do.

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Zombie Parade on Massachusetts Streets

Peppy cheerleaders, elaborate floats, eager college students and bloody zombies marched down Massachusetts Street Thursday night as the Kansas University homecoming parade and the seventh annual Lawrence Zombie Walk brought a unique mix of Jayhawk and Lawrence pride to downtown.

While the KU marching band was kicking off the parade with the Jayhawk fight song at 6 p.m., more than 1,000 zombies of all ages were dancing to eerie Halloween music in South Park, preparing for their own sidewalk parade at 7 p.m. The homecoming parade’s theme was “Jayhawks around the world,” but as the evening went on, the underworld came out, as well.

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Preview to ‘Walking Dead’ Webisodes

“The Walking Dead” returns in less than two weeks, and AMC is ramping up viewer appetite with webisodes and a new trailer.

The fourth season of the hit zombie survival series is to debut Oct. 13, but fans who can’t wait for the gory showdown to begin can check out this year’s three-webisode series, titled “The Oath” and directed by “Walking Dead” executive producer and makeup wizard Greg Nicotero. Nicotero also directed the webisodes preceding Seasons 2 and 3.

This year’s webisodes, set in other parts of “The Walking Dead” world, tell short stories about survivors Karina (Ashley Bell) and Paul (Wyatt Russell) as they desperately seek medical aid after a zombie attack. They eventually find a doctor (Ellen Greene), whose motives may be questionable.

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John Landis Discusses Zombie Popularity

It’s no secret that the biggest trend in horror movies over the last several years, even extending into TV and video games, is the zombie phenomenon. From “Shaun of the Dead” and “Zombieland” to “The Walking Dead” and even the “Left 4 Dead” game series, it’s hard to open your eyes without being catching a peek at something zombie-related. Director John Landis, the man behind the legendary horror movie “An American Werewolf in London,” has a theory about it.

While appearing at Universal Studios Orlando to debut his “An American Werewolf in London” maze as part of the annual Halloween Horror Nights, Landis shared his opinion on the rise of the the genre’s popularity. “All horror films are metaphors, so what is a zombie exactly?” he wonders. “They always talk about the zombie apocalypse, it’s a disease. Nobody talks about voodoo anymore, it’s all radiation or from the government.”

 

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Zombies Move to West End

A movie shooting right now in the Poconos is part of a planned series of feature-length motion pictures that will carry the “Zombie Killers” tag in the title.

It’s part of the ever-growing genre of movies about the undead that seemed to gain life ironically enough in Pennsylvania when George Romero shot “Night of the Living Dead” in 1968 for a reported $114,000.

“Zombie Killers: Elephant’s Graveyard,” started shooting this month in Eldred Township. Another entry into the genre with the tagline: A small community may be the last outpost of humanity in the wake of a plague that may not be new to world history. Guarded by a small band of young warriors, life and death.

While written, directed and produced by former Pleasant Valley High School teacher, B. Harrison Smith, the idea for the movie was gestating in the mind of a local businessman for years.

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Zombie Film Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone Goes to Shoot

With Escape Plan, co-starring Sylvester Stallone, heading into cinemas in Novembers, and with Sabotage (nee Ten) and The Expendables 3 already lined up for 2014, Arnold Schwarzenegger has been a bit of a busy man.

Next year, he’s expected to take a sizeable role in the new Terminator movie, which is being directed by Alan Taylor for a 2015 release. But before that, there’s another project he’s sneaking in. The man himself has confirmed on his Twitter feed that shooting has now begun on Maggie, a movie in which he co-stars with Abigail Breslin.

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From Paranormal Activity to Zombies

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures has tapped Christopher Landon to direct  Scouts Vs. Zombies as his followup to Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones, which the studio releases January 3. Landon wrote and directed that sequel after writing Paranormal Activity 3 and PA 4, and co-writing Paranormal 2. He will then take on Scouts Vs. Zombies. Landon will do a director’s pass on the Black List script by Carrie Evans and Emi Mochizuk, which was re-written by Lona Williams, whose draft attracted directors to the project.

Production begins in the spring. What’s it about? Think it through. The film is produced by Todd Garner and his Broken Road Productions, Andy Fickman and Betsy Sullenger of Oops Doughnuts, and Bryan Brucks and his Brucks Entertainment. Broken Road’s Sean Robins is exec producer. Langdon steps up to bigger budget fare after years of doing microbudget films at Paramount and working before that with Adam Goodman at DreamWorks on Disturbia. CAA and Mosaic rep Landon, who’s lawyered by Michael Schenkman.
 
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Take Part in Utah's Strategy Against Zombies

WEST HAVEN -- Twilight creeps toward night. The low rumble from the engine of an M1 Army truck is occasionally pierced by screams and revving chainsaws. A 7-year-old’s hand reaches for the butt of a gun.

A paintball gun, that is.

Haunted Hollow, at 1550 S. 1900 West in West Haven, has unleashed a new kind of terror in Utah this Halloween season, and it’s a killer … of the undead.

Haunted Hollow launched its new Zombie WarZ attraction last weekend. Zombie WarZ participants hunt zombies safari-style from the safety of a trailer turned two-story shooting gallery. Entrance onto the macabre thrill-ride comes included in your standard Haunted Hollow ticket price of $20. Zombie WarZ admission can also be purchased separately for $10 plus the cost of ammo.

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Here Comes the Zombies

MORAVIA — Humans at Honey Creek Resort State Park will have to keep a keen eye behind them on Saturday, Oct. 19, because zombies will be chasing after them.

Though there will hopefully be no real zombies walking the grounds, humans will face off against their pretend living-dead counterparts at the second annual Undeadathlon, taking place from 3:30 p.m. until around 8 p.m.

The living and the not so living will compete in games of capture the flag, a brain-eating contest and a 4K run that will test the speed and dodging ability of the humans. Participants will traverse several acres of the park, but zombies will only be allowed to run during the capture the flag game. Those wanting to be a part of the living dead team will have to keep their efforts to a walk for the 4K.

 

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Zombies Take Over

HAVE ZOMBIES OVERTAKEN Hollywood?

It seems that way, especially with television series “The Walking Dead” the toast of Tinseltown. How about the endless stream of undead movies – topped off with the tenderhearted “Warm Bodies,” a new twist of Shakespeare classic “Romeo and Juliet,” where a zombie gets a second chance at life with a kiss from a teenage girl.

Earlier this summer, megastar Brad Pitt and director Marc Forster (“Kite Runner” and “Quantum of Solace”) joined forces, entering the zombie fray with a new, epic blockbuster “World War Z.” It’s a loose adaptation of Max Brooks’ (son of filmmaker Mel Brooks) novel “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War.” The film abandoned much of a journalist’s episodic journey during a post-Zombie Apocalypse, as he tries to a piece together how the pandemic began and how it spread.

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Zombies Still Top the List at Scare-A-Con

For every person dressed as a Ghostbuster, Dalek or steampunk enthusiast, there seem to be two, even three, zombies (or zombie fans) wandering around Scare-A-Con at Turning Stone Resort & Casino this weekend.

They turn heads, displaying their latex wounds proudly and posing for photos.

Scare-A-Con promoter JV Johnson has been organizing the horror and sci-fi convention since it began four years ago. He says the zombie fans are the craziest ones every year.
 
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Friday the 13th with Zombies

Runners will encounter rocks, tree stumps and the undead along the trails of McAllister Park at the Friday the 13th Night Race.

The 5K has a zombie theme and kicks off with a costume contest at 7 p.m. Friday.

Runners should bring a headlamp. The park is at 13102 Jones Maltsberger Road. Go towww.fridaythe13thnight race.com to register.

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Why Zombies Like to Eat Brains

Fandom is a funny thing. Often, if the fervor toward a given subject — or in our case genre — is strong enough, fans become advocates, and advocates can become crusaders. That is not meant as a slight — furious debates in which film fans engage is often a reflection of thoughtful theoretical analyses. Horror fans are not immune to fierce defenses of dogma; indeed they are arguably the most stalwart.

Take Warm Bodies. In the film, a zombie falls in love with the girlfriend of one of his victims, and slowly regains his humanity through their relationship. Zombie purists have been decrying the film from trailer one, citing it as an affront to canon.

The ugly, shambling, worm-ridden truth however is that there is no zombie canon anymore. The mythos has been rehashed and reinvented so many times that even the zombie model to which we steadfastly cling is a reconfiguration. Perhaps it would be best to look at the benchmarks in the evolution of this classic cinematic monster to illustrate that there has never been a solid rulebook.

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Tom Savini Plans to Direct a Zombie Film

Tom Savini is a very unique character in the horror genre and almost every die hard horror fan knows who he is. Today comes news he has tapped Tony Todd and Tiffany Shepis two fellow genre icons to star in his second directorial debut Death Island.

Having met Tom Savini I was quite shocked by his rugged nature and his straight to the point attitude but there is no denying that his special effects contributing to the genre and his work on Night of the Living Dead remake as director are second to none. So the thought of his returning to the directors seat is pretty damn exciting.

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