Paramount Makes Way for Scouts vs. Zombies

Paramount has pushed the release of its “Friday the 13th” reboot eight months, scheduling “Scouts vs. Zombies” for the date previously assigned to the horror flick. “Scouts vs. Zombies” will open March 13 while “Friday the 13th” will now open Nov. 13, 2015.

“Scouts” is a horror comedy about a trio of Boy Scouts who battle zombies in a small town, starring Tye Sheridan, Joey Morgan, Logan Miller and Sarah Dumont. It will open up against Ron Howard's “Heart of the Sea” and Disney's new “Cinderella” movie. It will also open a week before “Insurgent,” the second movie in the young adult franchise.

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Zombies are on Georgia's Yearbook

Yeah, I hear you! How do you even know who would survive that kind of calamity? Zombies are, after all, fictional creatures.

The website Estately came up with a goofy list of 11 key factors that determine what states would hypothetically survive a zombie feeding frenzy, including the state’s number of active military personnel, number of people who know how to use guns, average physical fitness, and obesity rates. When the website applied those factors to each state, Georgia came close to the bottom. On the upside, we still beat New Jersey, Mississippi, New York state and Washington, D.C. A piece of advice here: if you see zombies, run to Alaska! That is the top-rated state to survive the apocalypse. Comedian Rob Cleveland had an explanation for that.

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The Zombies are on their Way

What do zombies, fad diets and Wyoming have in common?

They’re all part of the brainchild “FatEATERS: The Movie” from producer, director, actor and Gillette native Brooke Benson.

The film is a mix of horror and comedy in the popular zombie genre. The movie portrays what happens after a fad diet pill turns consumers into body-conscious cannibals and zombies.

The crew will be in Gillette from May 25-27 at a friend’s house outside of town. They are looking for Wyoming artists to contribute to the soundtrack.

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The Epitome of Zombie Loving Moms

These are all terms frequently used in my house growing up. Questions as to how to survive a zombie invasion or in a post-apocalyptic society would arise during family meals and car rides. My mom is your definitive horror lover, an avid watcher and reader of any and all things that go bump in the night.

Zombies have always been Mom’s favorite; there’s something about these gruesome flesh-eaters that she just loves. But don’t dare ask her to read or watch Game of Thrones — for some reason, that’s “just too much” for her.

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Zombie Apocalypse Plan in Pentagon, But Not Mississippi?

Among things your seventh grader won’t learn in civics this year: The Pentagon has a plan in case of a Zombie Apocalypse.

They really do. This matters to you because last month, an online article ranked Mississippi the second-least prepared place in the country for a Zombie Apocalypse. The same article did not discuss that with Mississippi’s consistently-low educational rankings, the quality of the brains might not be up to par for the food-snobbier zombies.

On Tuesday, Foreign Policy Magazine published an article exposing the fact that the Department of Defense has a response for “counter-zombie dominance” if zombies attacked and the military had to combat them in order to “preserve the sanctity of human life” among all the “non-zombie humans.”

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Birth of the Living Dead in Retrospect

BACK in 1967 a 27-year-old film-maker by the name of George A Romero shot a zombie movie that turned out to be one of the most important horror films ever released.

Night of the Living Dead was culturally, socially and politically relevant and has been the inspiration for a raft of films starring the undead since.

Now we get a glimpse into the mind of the man behind the movie via this highly-illuminating documentary that shows the impact it had back then and is still having 47 years later.

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Zombie Influence from Movies

From its humble beginnings in 1968, the zombie film has flourished into an international phenomenon. In the hands of its inventor George A. Romero, the films were full of social commentary. Whether those themes were racism, consumerism, military infiltration, terrorism, or simply the bleak nihilistic vision of humanity; Romero made his voice heard through the grunt of the undead. Now, the popularity of the sub-genre carries its own commentary about us.

George Romero and John Russo’s partnership took the concept of the controlled undead (akin to voodoo rituals) and placed them at the top of the food chain. Throughout Night, Dawn, Day, Land, Diary, and Survival the closest we come to learning the cause of the epidemic is “a space probe.” This invites our own interpretation, though in the end, it doesn’t matter. Life as we once knew it has ended. Groups of stragglers band together in order to survive the dead and each other. The concept of family is mutated: once your husband, wife, mother, father, brother, sister, son or daughter turns they must be killed again. Governments become obsolete and our primal drives for survival are triggered. This becomes life after the dead have risen.

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