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Movie Review: Rise of the Zombies

This weekend I watched the Mariel Hemingway zombie film Rise of the Zombies. It premiered on the Syfy network in 2012, and has just been released on DVD via Netflix. Rise of the Zombies imagines a San Francisco of the near future in which the ravenous dead have risen and a band of survivors hasContinue reading “Movie Review: Rise of the Zombies”

Sauk City and August Derleth

This weekend I visited Sauk City, the hometown of the great American author August Derleth (1909-1971). He wrote everything under the sun (poems, epic novels, mysteries, science fiction stories), but is best remembered– by me, at least– as a great author of weird fiction and horror fiction…including stories about zombies. His most famous zombie tale is probably “TheContinue reading “Sauk City and August Derleth”

Gunnery on The Walking Dead and beyond

Lucky Gunner Labs has put together an accessible exegesis of the sidearm favored by Rick Grimes in The Walking Dead. Here’s part of it: It’s an inevitable truth– for some, ineluctable– that creative work related to zombies is likely to involve weapons and firearms. But how much detail ought one to give when it comes to guns andContinue reading “Gunnery on The Walking Dead and beyond”

Zombies on WGN

I had the opportunity to talk zombies and Zombie, Illinois on the Bill Leff show on WGN Radio this morning. It was great fun! Click here to take a listen.

Movie Review: The Grapes of Death

This weekend I watched the 1978 French zombie film The Grapes of Death. Some Francophone zombie fans had recommended it to me as the best French zombie film after The Horde (which is one of my all-time favorites) and a classic among French zombie fans. I was eager to check it out. The Grapes ofContinue reading “Movie Review: The Grapes of Death”