Movie Review: “Deadlands: the Rising”

Yesterday I watched the 2006 indie zombie film, Deadlands: the Rising.  It was written, directed by and stars Gary Ugarek, a zombie-film enthusiast who played a zombie in George Romero’s Land of the Dead.  It’s great to see do-it-yourselfers making new zombie films, but unfortunately this one wasn’t very good.  Deadlands: The Rising seems to  follow theContinue reading “Movie Review: “Deadlands: the Rising””

Online-community creator and Harvard psychiatrist added to ZRS Advisory Board

Ryan Leach (Co-Creator of LostZombies.com, the world’s first community-generated zombie documentary) and Steven Schlozman (Co-Director of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Associate Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Residency for the MGH/McLean Program in Child Psychiatry, and Lecturer in Education at Harvard Graduate School of Education) have been added to theContinue reading “Online-community creator and Harvard psychiatrist added to ZRS Advisory Board”

Music Review: Tonight of the Living Dead

Last night I listened to an interesting new ambient music CD called Tonight of the Living Dead by 400 Lonely Things.  Described in their one-sheet as “a collage of treated audio” from George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead, Tonight of the Living Dead is an eerie and moody meditation on the original film.  I am notContinue reading “Music Review: Tonight of the Living Dead”

Rancid: Let the Dominoes Fall

Okay, so this post is not about zombies.  (But what’s the point of having a blog if you can’t write about your favorite band releasing a new record!?!) A week ago, my favorite band, Rancid, released Let the Dominoes Fall,  their first album in six years.  I’ve been listening to it pretty constantly since last Tuesday,Continue reading “Rancid: Let the Dominoes Fall”

ZombieTargets.Net

ZombieTargets.net is a website where you can buy firing-range targets that look like zombies.  They’re just $2.50!  (If you’re like me and you live in Chicago–where just about every type of firearm is banned–you could still buy one to put on your wall.  [They look really cool]  Or maybe you could take it out to the yardContinue reading “ZombieTargets.Net”