Oh yes, oh yes, fellow Romero fans–do I ever have spectacular news for you!
Though I’m loathe to give Ain’t It Cool News any kind of kudos at ALL, they did manage to sneak on (trespass?) the set of the upcoming George Romero movie, which apparently won’t be Diary of the Dead 2 so much as it will be a refination of the original Diary of the Dead.
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You know, if you had told me, just twenty minutes ago, that someone was trying to turn George Romero’s absolute classic Night of the Living Dead into some kind of cartoon, I probably would’ve laughed in your face BEFORE I kicked your ass for spreading such lies about one of my top five favorite movies. Because just twenty minutes ago, you see, I was on YouTube and I found a project that has apparently run out time wise, but the results remain. Horror-movies.ca found the same project, and even synced it up to original audio, but here are some of the results.
Strangely, despite all that I rail about remakes and “re-imaginings” and whatnot, I’m okay with this. See, the last I knew, some time ago the original Night of the Living Dead passed not into the hands of some conglomerate studio but rather into the public domain. This is probably how G4 managed to whomp up that ridiculous “Night of the Tripping Dead” of theirs, because as we all know, all a classic horror film needs to be a truly epic win is some passe drug humor.
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Ninjas versus Pirates. Call it an overused meme if you must, and by the time you get robots involved, things only get stranger and more interesting. But when you introduce zombies into the mix, well, it’s a downright unstoppable combination. Which is why I was downright amazed to discover this.
It’s Ninjas versus Zombies, folks. And by the look of things, they’re playing it straight…kind of. Check out the plot synopsis from horror-movies.ca: [Read more →]
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My position on this particular issue has been well-established for some time: I want Zack Snyder publicly flogged for the hash he made out of the George Romero masterwork Dawn of the Dead, and with good reason. Of course, this usually leads everyone to ask me just what my reasons are, so to take care of all of them in a nice and thorough fashion, I present a small essay summarizing my position on this.
To those who ask why I didn’t do this four years ago back when it came out, well, that’s fairly simple–I wasn’t writing this four years ago. So, problem solved, sorta.
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This is an important question for Watchmen fans, who are looking for anything to ponder while we wait to see what will happen with the whole Fox lawsuit fiasco. Will Watchmen be a film worth worrying over?
So far, director Zack Snyder has only a few credits to his name. One of them is the Frank Miller epic 300, and the other is a “remake” of George Romero’s Dawn of the Dead. Having seen both versions, I’m hesitant to 
characterize Snyder’s as a “remake.” More like a re-imagining, very loosely based on Romero’s film.
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I’ll preface today’s installation of my normal screamings and rantings by saying that there’s every possibility that what I’m about to say is a total crock. It’s based on one admittedly small and easily feigned piece of evidence that I don’t think anyone’s actually seized on yet, and even if by some feat of happenstance I turn out to be RIGHT, any delay may throw this prediction into a tailspin.
Anyway, looking at the poster included in the article about the start of shooting from horror-movies.ca, there’s a tagline at the bottom of the poster saying “2008, the diary continues”. Now, this could mean any of a number of things: they start shooting in 2008, which they are. They release in 2008. They COULD release in 2008. The Diary continues in 2008.
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This time around, folks, I’ve got another dose of Severely Interesting from the webcomics community. I’ve got Jenny Romanchuk here of the webcomic The Zombie Hunters, a brilliant if somewhat slow-paced epic detailing zombie apocalypse and how the world reacts. Max Brooks should take some lessons here, in all honesty.
But Jenny’s not here to talk about poseurs from the Saturday Night Live writing team trying to be zombie writers, she’s here to talk about her comic and her own observations on the zombie film industry. She’s got a lot to say, and she’s doing it in a singularly modest fashion.
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Okay, so there’s a pretty fair chance I’m gonna get sent to Gitmo for this one, but there’s just no way to resist this clever, Daily Show-esque footage of a cropped together Presidential interview complete with Lurking Background Cheney detailing the truest terrorist threat to America.
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Oh man, this looks like it’s going to be sweet. Check out the synopsis, which I found at horror-movies.ca, for The Dead Outside, a new independent zombie film coming soon from QuietEarth:
In the stark aftermath of a neurological pandemic, two strangers come together on an isolated Scottish farm. April, a young survivor with a dark past has survived alone for months. Daniel, a man desperate and bereaved clings on to the hope of life in the outside world, but the maddened cries outside are increasing- the farm is not the safe haven it once was. As Daniel clings to his own sanity, he finds that the true enemy lies much closer to home.
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Since I was just complaining recently about how vampires don’t seem to be quite the cultural staple that they used to be, I’m sort of interested in this recent development. It turns out that Last Blood, a webcomic that is not to be confused with the upcoming HBO series True Blood, is going to be turned into a movie. For reals.
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Last Blood isn’t the kind of webcomic that features lonely nerds and anthropomorphic iPods; it’s a serious affair with a zombie apocalypse and people with shotguns and…uh…I only got to page eleven, because you have to load each page on its own and it’s slow going. But the art is pretty awesome and the story looks like it’s building up to something cool.
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