As many of you heard at the recent Comic-con, J. Michael Straczynski is, indeed, adapting Max Brooks’ World War Z into a screenplay to be produced by Brad Pitt’s movie studio, Plan B. But can Straczynski, author of the wildly popular Babylon 5, handle the weighty adaptation?
Listen up - zombies aren’t all stinky, ugly, and brain-craving. In reality, it’s a little known fact that zombie chicks are totally easy, and recent zombie movies have featured a handful of female zombies who actually approach real-life-hotness. In an effort to strengthen human-zombie relations, we’ve announced the Zombiephiles Hottest Hotties, or “Five Zombies I’d TOTALLY Bone (If I Was a Zombie Too, I Mean). Sit back and enjoy zombiephiles, and remember - becoming a zombie is a fate better than death, as long as these zombie hotties are around.
Number Nine, that softball-outfit clad zombie blonde from George Romero’s Land of the Dead is a definitively hot zombie. I mean, c’mon, just look at her! Relatively little mutilation, reasonably fresh, and you can really tell that there used to be a smokin’ hot hottie under all that zombie. In fact, Jennifer Baxter, the actress that played Number Nine, is totally smokin’ hot in real life as well.
Plus, Number Nine has a lot of beauty on the inside. Although Land of the Dead takes place years into the zombie outbreak, the first time we see Number Nine, she’s still holding her old softball bat. What dedication! She must have been holding that bat for years. I love a girl that doesn’t stray from her passions.
Zombie quizzes can be excellent for preparing for the coming zombie outbreak. The Zombiephiles want you to be prepared for the zombie apocalypse, to that end, we’ve opened a small and humble Zombie Quiz Section on the Zombiephiles.
Take the zombie quizzes and find out where you’ll rank in the coming zombie apocalypse. Or take a zombie quiz to find out which kind of zombie movie character you are.
Whichever zombie quiz you take, you’ll be able to add a badge from your zombie quiz to your website, Myspace profile or Facebook page. Remember, Zombiephiles, the zombie outbreak imminent - prepare with a zombie quiz or two.
Just when it looked like the recent wave of zombie mania had crested, out of left field (Canada) comes Fido,, a delightful romp through a post-apocalyptic 1950’s Americana - with zombies. The story of a boy and his Zombie, Fido’s premise is simple: humans, having survived a “zombie war” during the past decade, have proved the victors, and have learned to domesticate zombies, transforming them from flesh-eating zombie monsters to passive zombie slaves.
Recently fellow Zombie-phile and contributor Zombie_Kckr gave me this zombie T-shirt, which I wear incessantly while working on this site:
I particularly like the way the shirt implies that all people are, in a sense, zombies in training. Definitely the zombie T shirt for your zombie-crazed family member or loved ones.
I really think Zombie T shirts are in right now - I found a ton of them when I went looking for a picture of this one.
One caveat about this zombie t-shirt, though: It doesn’t actually have those stripes on the neck and the arms…I don’t know why they’re there in the picture.
Well, the trailer for the latest of Romero’s remake cycle, Day of the Dead, has received a lot of attention lately.
The original movie centered around an isolated military base that was home to a small group of survivors. The story Romero told wasn’t really about zombies, it was about the nature of the militaristic/industrial complex and the relationship we have with it. Zombies were just the medium he used to tell his story, which is what George Romero typically did with his zombie movies.
Problem is, not all of the attention that the remake is getting is positive. A lot of classic Romero fans thought Day of the Dead, although certainly not the best of his zombie movies, contained some of the best elements, and really defined a lot of what we know about modern “zombieness.”
So I just saw this zombie sketch piece from the British show “The Day Today” (very much like “The Daily Show” here in the States). You’ve got to give some props up to Chris Morris and “The Day Today” - Leave it to the British to bring zombies into our homes in a serious, relevant way.
A wave of Zombie survival manuals have popped up recently, this one included, telling people what they should do during an outbreak of zombies. Thing is, nobody’s talking about what people shouldn’t do during a zombie outbreak.
Fortunately for you, our Zombiephile has scoured popular zombie movies and has isolated the Ten WORST Things to Do During a Zombie Outbreak. Sit back, enjoy, and take notes, Zombiephiles.
We’re not sure why you see it in every zombie movie, but it stands to reason that the only thing worse than a zombie is a flaming zombie. Remember, it can take a long time for a zombie to burn to death - more than ten minutes, in some recorded cases. Do you really want a burning zombie lighting you and your friends on fire? Play it safe - chances are good that there won’t be any fire-fighting infrastructure during a zombie outbreak if things get out of hand.
Now, I know lots of you read last week’s Zombie Weapon Guide - Ten Zombie Slayin’ Weapons You Already Own - I hope you’ve got your zombie weapons already selected, because the zombie outbreak is right around the corner.
This week we’re coming back to zombie defense and zombie weapons, but from a different angle - Armor against zombies. You didn’t think yer buddy Chester was gonna send you out there buck naked, didja? I scoured Grandma and Uncle Ned’s place this week and I’ve come up with a pretty good list of zombie armor for the zombie weapon guide.
Zombie Weapon Guide
Zombie Armor #10:
The Ace Bandage
Found in the homes of athletes everywhere. Ace bandages make better defense against zombies than you’d think - they can fill in the in-between spaces in your zombie armor and affords moderate protection from the bites of zombies without cramping your mobility.
Sure, killin’ zombies with a shotgun just seems natural. I mean, we’ve all seen zombie movies like Dawn of the Dead, read zombie comics or zombie books like The Zombie Survival Guide. We know how to kill zombies with tough-guy weapons. You’ve got to separate the head from the body of the zombie, or destroy the zombie brain.
But in a true zombie outbreak, a widespread pandemic of flesh-eating zombies, that inevitable zombie plague, chances are that you won’t be ready. When zombies arrive, you’ll probably be sitting around at home, doing whatever it is you usually do when you’re sitting around at home. Not thinking about zombies, that’s for sure. To that end I’ve done the legwork. Consult the list, grab a weapon and start killing zombies!
Zombie Weapon #10:
The Towel/Curtain Rod
Almost every home has one. Grab it, tear it off the wall and start slapping zombies.