A World On Fire – A Zombie Blog

As some of you may know already, December’s giveaway is a signed CD of Tonight of the Living Dead by 400 Lonely Things. This begs the question, what is Tonight of the Living Dead? Who better to answer this question than from 400 Lonely Things directly. From the official site: Crew and cast member Karl Hardman, under the editorial supervision of George Romero, used recordings by other composers from stock film music libraries – many of which had already appeared in other movies and television shows – and then augmented them electronically to form their own original score for Night of the Living Dead. 400 Lonely Things has extended this notion of augmentation by using mutated samples from the film itself (many with their excellent foley work intact) … Read entire article »

Prepare to step back and rewatch Night of the Living Dead but this time through sound. Introducing the December giveaway – Tonight of the Living Dead. It is journey a though George Romero’s groundbreaking apocalypse via. the melancholic notes of 400 Lonely Things. This is the December giveaway and it is a wonderful treat for your ears. Here’s a more formal description from the 400 Lonely Things website: While the film is noted for how it straddles a line between social commentary and drive-in shlock with a kind of clunky elegance, 400 lonely things’ tonight of the living dead is concerned with the more understated and haunting moments of this movie, focusing on the fragility of “barbra” and drawing out the sense of bewildering relentlessness and hypnotic inevitability of … Read entire article »