Showing posts with label Zombies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Zombies. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 11, 2018

"The Cured" - Reviewed




 Over at Mysterious Universe, I review a 2017 zombie movie called The Cured. It's a cool movie which avoids the typical zombie-style scenarios and gives the subject a fresh, new approach...

Monday, January 20, 2014

The Zombie Book: Coming in September



Coming in September is a new book from me and Brad Steiger. Its title: The Zombie Book. The publisher: Visible Ink Press. And here's VIP's book-description:

"Rampaging, driven, killing machines. Soulless and dead. Infected and infectious. Zombies. The epidemic of the living dead is stronger than ever in today’s pop-culture, but long before exotic viruses, biological warfare, and sinister military experiments brought the dead back to life in our cinemas and on our television screens, there were the dark spells and incantations of the ancient Egyptians, the Sumerians, and the Babylonians. Blending the historical with the modern, the biographical with the literary, the plants and animals with bacteria and viruses, the mythological with the horrifying true tales, The Zombie Book: The Encyclopedia of the Living Dead is a comprehensive resource to understanding, combating, and avoiding zombies.

"More than 250 entries cover everything from hit television shows, books, and movies, including The Walking Dead, World War Z and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, to zombies’ ignominious role in folklore and mythology, such as the Greek god Asclepius, ancient Voodoo religion, and the Native American Wendigo legend. The Zombie Book: The Encyclopedia of the Living Dead examines mad cow disease, the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, the Centers for Disease Control preparing for the end of the world, and much, much more."

Monday, October 21, 2013

The Colonized: Zombies Vs Aliens



 
If, like me, you're a fan of all-things of a zombie nature, then this might interest you: a new, 90-page graphic novel (from Chris Ryall and Drew Moss) titled The Colonized: Zombies Vs Aliens, which I've written the introduction for.

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Zombies and Spanish Flu

Re the title of this blog-post: it's the subject of my latest Mysterious Universe article...

And the final paragraph of the article should be read carefully by "End-Times" nuts...

Friday, August 30, 2013

Zombies Vs. Men in Black



Yeah I know: a blog title like that (Zombies Vs. Men in Black) sounds like the title of one of those cheap and crappy movies with D-List actors that no-one has ever heard of, and which pop up time and again on certain channels - you know the ones.

But, the subject of this post has nothing to do with movies, good or bad. Rather, it's my new Mysterious Universe article which addresses the question: Are the Men in Black actually zombies?

Thursday, August 8, 2013

Conspiracies of the Dead



My latest Mysterious Universe article - Conspiracies of the Dead...

It begins like this:

"If, like me, you’re a big fan of zombie movies, and you hang out now and again with people who are into all-things of a zombie nature, you get to hear some seriously weird shit. From more than a few people who take their zombies very – as in VERY – seriously, I have heard strange tales in the last few months of supposed secret programs to mutate the rabies virus into a weapon that will, in effect, replicate in people the homicidal, cannibalistic tendencies of the dead – whether of the slow and shambling type or of the fast-running variety.

"In the 1997 movie, Conspiracy Theory, Mel Gibson’s character – a paranoid cab-driver named Jerry Fletcher, who has been the subject of strange mind-control experiments – states that a good conspiracy theory is one that can never be proved. The very same thing can be said about one of the most controversial of all the zombie-based conspiracies currently in circulation."

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Zombies 1 to 10



Over at EHow, I take a look at the world of the zombie on the big-screen...

As I note in my Intro:

"Some people prefer the slow and shambling variety. Others can't get enough of the fast-running ones. But everyone loves them. And loves to be scared by them, too. Well, most of us do. What are they? The dead-returned, the reanimated deceased, the fired-up flesh-eaters, the...oh, what the heck, let's just get straight to the point: zombies! And as well as leaving major marks on the bodies of their victims, those near-unstoppable, cannibalistic killers have done just the same on the world of Hollywood. Yep, it's time for us to unleash upon you our very own Top 10 Zombie movies."

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Cannibals, Zombies, Wendigos



There's a new article from Lee Speigel over at the Huffington Post that addresses those recent weird attacks on people of a cannibal and quasi-zombie nature.

Notably, Brad Steiger's work is cited, and which suggests a potential link with the Wendigo phenomenon. Check it out!

Sunday, June 3, 2012

It Has Begun...


Finally, after years and years of wishing for my dream to come true, it's finally happening!

The rise of the zombies...

Any day now, you'll hear the following on the airwaves: "Reports are coming in that the recently deceased are rising up and attacking the living."

Well, maybe...

And if you think I'm the only member of the Redfern family who thinks zombies are the next big menace, think again! Here's my dad (shirtless at 80 LOL) ready to do battle with one of the walking dead rising out of the ground.