A World On Fire – A Zombie Blog

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 »

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 »

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 »