Monthly Archives: May, 2007
RFID “Cadaver” Tagging – Covert Preemptive Zombie Defense?
Amidst an ocean of bad decisions, the US Government seems to be on the verge of making the right one: preemptively tagging and cataloging our innumerable dead, presumably as a hedge bet against an eventual zombie uprising. Widely reported in the mainsteam media (“Chips Help Catalogue Katrina Dead, Wired, September 2005; Body ID: Barcodes for Cadavers, Wired , February 2005″), [...]
The Zombie Transplant – How the Zombie Became Science Fiction
When people think about Zombies, they usually think about the horror genre. Buckets of blood, fake brains, gore aplenty. And why not? Although George Romero’s original zombie movies were pretty light on the gore, the people who took his ball and ran with it always pumped it on extra hard. Romero’s newest Zombie film, Land of the Dead, is one [...]
J. Michael Straczynski Writing “World War Z” Script
J. Michael Straczynski author of such amazing graphic novels as Midnight Nation and Rising Stars, is currently hard at work adapting Max Brooks’ “World War Z” into what is sure to be the best zombie movie ever. That’s right. I’m going there already.
Why Do So Many Zombie Movies Suck?
Admit it – Zombies are fucking awesome. There’s just something badass about the potential of facing down 6.5 billion shambling, half-rotting people without the capacity for free thought, pain, or self-awareness, driven only by a desire to consume. Any way you hack it, the Zombie is a literary archetype that represents something far more meaningful than the portrayals we see [...]
Read the ZombiePhiles. Before it’s too late.
Rejoice, zombiephiles and zombiephobes of the world alike. ZombiePhiles has answered your prayers. No longer will you lie awake at night, wondering if you’ll survive the hoards of undead minions that are probably closing on your location as you read these very words. Never again will you find yourself unprepared in the face of the growing zombie menace. Ssshh. Listen. [...]
