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Cracked’s 7 Scientific Reasons a Zombie Outbreak Would Fail
Here’s the latest zombie write up from the fine people over at Cracked.com about why a zombie apocalypse could not happen. This isn’t a scientific breakdown of biology and viruses or any examination of whether such a state is even possible. Rather, the article examines on how a zombie apocalypse is just not sustainable in the modern world. The article goes on to mention things like heat and cold being a factor. Wild animals make an appearance and of course, people’s love of metal pointy things that go boom. I gotta say, I’m kind of in agreement with the final conclusion. If zombies can be killed with guns, I just can’t see them rising in any serious numbers to overthrow human civilization. While … Read entire article »
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Things I Won’t Miss After the Zombie Apocalypse: Paying for Something
Whenever the idea of a zombie apocalypse is mentioned, we have images of upside down cars, billowing black smoke into a bloody red sky. We behold derelict cities, empty of bodies moving in meaningful directions. We see our world topped on its head, and in seeing that grim depiction, there’s an unspoken sadness of what has been, will never be. Well, it’s not all wailing and teeth gnashing. There are actually some good things that result from an end of days scenario. Like not paying for things. … Read entire article »
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Can Zombies Be Considered Vampires Lite?
One of the cool things about running this site is the chance to meet zombie lovers all over the world. It’s neat because zombie lovers tend to have strong feelings of their type of walking corpse and they usually aren’t shy of letting it be known. Thankfully, this site has avoided the irritating meltdowns of fast zombie versus slow zombie versus wonka wonka and it’s nice to hear the various opinions from all over. As you can imagine, I’ve heard a lot of ideas but the one prevalent idea that keeps returning over and over again is that zombies are created from zombie bites. Once you are bitten, you are dead. Ebert commented on this fact in his review of Survival of the Dead. In it, … Read entire article »
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Can Just One Zombie Be Scary?
Years upon years ago in what feels like another life, I remember hearing all the rage about a new sci-fi horror film. In it, a singular creature is set loose upon a crew of spacefacers ill equipped to deal with the threat. One by one, the crew members are picked off until a lone strangler manages to jettison the creature into deep space. The film, of course, is Alien and who would have thought that such a great movie could be made even better by addition of not just one other alien but a whole colony of them. … Read entire article »
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There’s One Born Every Minute (Zombies, of course)
Zombies, love ‘em or hate ‘em, have a particularly nasty habit of rising from the dead and eating our loved ones. Granted, they bring much joy to some people who would love nothing more than returning them from whence they came, Dirty Harry style. But for those of us just trying to get by, zombies can put a nasty funk on an otherwise good day. Video game site Kotaku has recently did a write up on the zombie apocalypse origin, noting how people have become “more” focused on the cause as opposed to the result. In summation, the article is saying that the people need to know why the dead has risen in order to suspend disbelief. The author then goes on to question some people in … Read entire article »
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Bumming Around Pittsburgh with Some Zombies
Here’s an article article from the science-fiction website io9 which displays a wealth of pictures of ZombieFest 2008 that was held at none other than … drum roll please … the Monroeville Mall. Sure, the news might be old, but the images themselves are great such as the giant brain held aloft on fold out chairs. One has to wonder the size of the head from which it was excavated. On a side note, Halloween might appear to be a distant spec on the horizon, but it is coming fast indeed. This year, we must do our best to have Pittsburgh reclaim the zombie capital of the world from Seattle. If any one is associated with the annual Halloween zombie walk over at Monroeville, give me a … Read entire article »
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Children of the Zombie Apocalypse
In the past month or so, I started a new segment on the site titled “What Would You Do?” which poses scenarios about the upcoming zombie apocalypse and how you would handle yourself in it. There’s been a whole bunch of interesting answers, but it has been Nicole’s answers that have really stood out for me because her answer isn’t just about her, but her children as well. … Read entire article »
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What is a Good First Zombie Movie?
With my daughter turning three this November, a very big day is coming onto the radar. What is that you ask? Her very first zombie movie. Okay, for the parents in the crowd who are holding their hands to their mouths in absolute horror, I won’t be introducing her to the world of zombies anytime soon. Well, that’s kind of a fib. Sometimes she watches me play Plants Versus Zombies and she also loves to play with my zombie Simpson’s figures which were a gift from a coworker. And well, she’s said the word zombie a couple of times, but I think she thinks of zombies as mutated fairy princesses as opposed to any brain eating folk. Well the big question … which zombie would you use … Read entire article »
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How Should the Zombie Genre Evolve?
Almost ten years ago, I remember seeing a clip of 28 Days Later and it was like falling in love for the first time. It just hypnotized me with images of a post-apocalyptic London and while those shots of Cillian Murphy wandering through the desolation captured my imagination, it was the feral out of control “zombies” that grabbed me by the throat. And granted, while the infected residents of a destroyed London weren’t technically zombies, I can tell you people were thinking zombies, for not only a year or so later, we saw running zombies take the streets in the Dawn of the Dead remake. Zombies were evolving. … Read entire article »
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Are We in a Zombie Renaissance?
Cory over at the Inevitable Zombie Apocalypse wrote an excellent editorial about the current state of zombie-dom. He notes that we have seen more zombie movies made in the past ten years then all the zombie movies ever made. Here’s his thoughts on the subject: In addition to the incredible variety of zombie types and zombie media that’s emerged in that time span, something else no less impressive and important to the zombie’s place in the pop culture pantheon has happened: zombies have been embraced by the mainstream. From the Resident Evil and 28 Days Later films of the early part of the decade to last year’s hugely successful Zombieland, zombies are now arguably the most popular monster in entertainment (only vampires can make a significant counter case for dominance). As … Read entire article »
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Tips to Survive the Upcoming Zombie Apocalypse
The folks over at NerdBastards.com obviously have the undead on the brain, for they recently culled a list of the top ten ways to survive the upcoming living people buffet. That’s good news if you are a member of the very inclusive living dead. It’s bad news if you are reading this. Of course, running my own zombie site, I have to raise my complaints to a couple of different items. On the section about clothing, the author mentions: … Read entire article »
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Are Zombies Losing Their Fear Factor?
This past year, I’ve seen A LOT of movies about zombies and during each of these self contained apocalypses, they appeared to have lost the fear element for me. I don’t know if it’s a result of submerging myself into the genre or maybe it’s that zombie movies are skimping on the horror elements in lieu of the shotgun. This notion occurred to me because of a dream, or rather nightmare, last night. I dreamed I was trapped in an apartment building under siege by a ravenous horde. The individual zombies were an interesting lot. Their faces were a pale green with mute expressions like they had just woken from a long nap. They almost appeared disinterested with their intent of eating us all alive, … Read entire article »
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Can the Snow Stop and Kill Zombies?
Before going home yesterday, I received an email from the corporate big brains advising employees that can work from home should work from home during the upcoming “Snowpocalypse 2: The Revenge”. It was a difficult choice for me requiring hours of thoughtful contemplation before I arrived at the conclusion that yes … I would spend the day in just my underwear slouching on the couch while dreaming of some place tropical yet considerate to my Irish complexion. So the flakes haven’t started really coming down yet, but my thoughts have shifted to the walking dead and the question of a questions: would a zombie apocalypse be put on pause, or even extinguished during the winter months? … Read entire article »
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Can’t Zombies Just Eat in Peace?
This is more of a rant than anything else, but this always annoys me when I see it in zombie movies. Here’s the scenario. A lone survivor is tip-toeing through some abandoned building when he bumps into a person crouching over another person as if administrating first aid. Our brave survivor, confused by the sight, pats the crouched man on the back only to find out – *gasp* – it’s a zombie eating a fresh corpse. The zombie growls, making sure to emphasize its own half eaten face before it charges for another kill. Pause. Zombies aren’t smart. We all know that. Their higher brain functions are dead, leaving only the reptilian mind in place. Of course, even that mind is severely damaged and instead … Read entire article »
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Nuclear Holocaust vs Zombie Apocalypse
Film School Rejects is running an entertaining article, debating the better between two undesirable events. It’s a pretty entertaining read with the two debaters going head to head in what can only described as a grudge match. It’s self-evident that life after a nuclear holocaust is preferable to a life under a zombie outbreak. … Read entire article »
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