Posts tagged undead
Zombies Overwhelm Star Trek Convention!!
I almost didn’t select Night of the Living Trekkies for review; the cover art looks like the cheesy garbage you would find on most young adult fiction books, and the title made me think, “One more person trying to cash in on the zombie genre with some ridiculous twist.” BUT, I’ve enjoyed other Quirk novels, and I can’t get enough [...]
The Official Zombie Handbook for the UK
The Official Zombie Handbook for the UK, the long-anticipated survival manual is now available at both Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk, and it’s a great addition to any zombiephile’s collection, regardless of where you live. First, the author, Sean Page, addresses the controversy over the various types zombies within the horror genre, and defines a zombie as “a dead body that has [...]
Dead: The Ugly Beginning (Volume 1) Review
I received Dead: The Ugly Beginning as a gift, and I gave up a night’s sleep to finish it in one sitting. The story begins with a guy named Steve and his point of view, looking back on the beginning of a zombie outbreak. He receives a phone call from a friend, instructing him to turn on the local news. [...]
Jill’s Story: An Online Zombie Story
I was chatting with my friend, Lisa Conger, on Twitter, and she mentioned that chapter 8 was finished. Jill’s Story is a work in progress, and while Lisa claims to be jotting down zombie “daydreams,” I see a potential for a fantastic novella. At first, I was just going to tweet the link (http://tiny.cc/JillsZombieStory) but then I decided to write [...]
The Zombiephile Reviews Black Sheep
Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later. Written and directed by Jonathon King, New Zealand’s Black Sheep is probably the world’s first zombie-sheep movie, and most than likely, the last. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t hold a special place in this Zombiephile’s heart. A cautionary tale about the dangers of mixing genetic engineering and zombies, Black Sheep [...]
World War Z Movie Update
Well, Zombiephiles, there’s good news and bad news about the upcoming World War Z movie. The bad news: the release date has been pushed back to 2010. The good news? Another two years means that Brad Pitt’s Plan B Productions will have plenty of time to get the movie right. Although copies of the script are supposedly circulating around the [...]
