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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