Sierra Online announced several new games coming to the XBox Live Arcade this summer. One of the titles, Zombie Wranglers of course stood out to us. In the game, players will be able to choose from multiple characters with different zombie-fighting abilities. With kid-friendly graphics it looks like it could be fun!
Via Kotaku
The upcoming comic book by Alan Grant , Simon Bisley and Glenn Fabry, simply titled The Dead, has a new site up, with previews of pages (pencils and fully-colored) and cover art. They also have a MySpace up for it. The first issue will be in stores in August, from Berserker Comics. I can’t wait to read this comic!
Thanks to reader degaswater for the heads up!
In Stacy, girls who reach the age of 15 to 17 years old die and become flesh hungry zombies. The term “Stacy” was coined for them and entered the vernacular the word over. Stacies don’t die when shot in the head, they need to be hacked into 165 pieces which is called a “repeat kill”. The Romero Repeat Kill Corps is an organization who job it is to do just that, sort of like a SWAT team that repeat kills as a career. Shibukawa is a lonely puppeteer who meets a young girl who is about to became a Stacy, who takes a shine to him and wants him to repeat kill her when she becomes a Stacy. She even buys him a Bruce Campbell’s Right Hand 2, the most popular brand chainsaw for repeat killing Stacies in Japan.
There’s not a whole lot of plot to Stacy. It’s as if someone imagined a world where adolescent girls turned into a zombies, just thought of a bunch of stuff that could happen and filmed it, not that that’s not entertaining enough in this film. I’m certain there is some sort of metaphor that I’m missing here, but I just haven’t grasped it. Stacy is chock full of jokes and gags. It’s not so much a horror movie as a black comedy or slapstick (or could I coin the term “slashstick”?).
Stacy has tons of juicy gore and blood splattered all over the place. I think that 75% of the characters in this film had theirs heads cast for various special effects reasons. They definitely go over the top with the gore in a very humorous way with this flick. There’s nothing spectacular about the zombie make-up, it does it’s job, but the special effects budget was certainly a priority to the makers of this film.
Stacy was a mildly enjoyable film if only for the gore and jokes, like I said, there’s not a whole lot of plot to it. For fans of goofy Japanese cinema and gore-hounds alike, Stacy is for you. Zombie fans might dig all the genre specific gags, but they might be sick of that shtick by now too. If your time is not precious, check out Stacy for shits and giggles.
This is one of the worst movies I have ever seen. Completely a giant piece of shit. No redeeming value at all. First, you don’t even see a zombie until the movie has passed the hour mark (it’s almost two hours long – too long), and secondly…well, it’s shit. The actors are miserable to watch, there’s really no story at all, the cinematography doesn’t even exist. The sound is really bad, half of the time you can barely make out the dialog over the music. There are zombies jumping rooftop to rooftop, with bad sound effects that reminded me of corduroy rubbing together. I think I even saw zombies on horseback. The main zombie sleeps in a casket! What!?! At one point two “survivors” get back to their van and start pulling out gun after gun after gun after…and so on.
Now repeat this line, in a nasally voice pseudo-Woody Allen impression: “What’s it look like I’m doing…I’m going to war!” That’s what we’re dealing with here. The jokes are hacky. There is almost no gore at all in this movie, just lots of red syrup splashed around, so that can’t even redeem it. And then the ending, if you can call it that, was…I don’t even know what to say here. Really bad Monty Python and the Holy Grail style ending, but with none of the style or humor.
I can barely bring myself to actually write a review for this. I had really hoped this would just be a big dumb, but fun, zombie comedy. I should have known better. It’s crap. I can’t recommend a thing about this movie, unless you need a coaster for your drink.
The marketers behind the long-running Evil Dead: The Musical produced this series of awesome, “zombified” musical posters. They’re currently plastered all over Toronto and are simply too awesome for words.
Via BoingBoing
Where do we draw the line on what is and what is not a zombie movie? We just can’t decide on our own, so every Monday we’ll post a new movie to be debated by, you, our readers and ask the question: Zombie Movie Or Not? Every Sunday we’ll post our findings and possibly strike that movie off our Zombie Movie List. The week should give you enough time to rent the movie if need be or you desire.
What every reader must keep in mind is that there are two basic types of zombie that every zombie movie based off of – the Voodoo Zombie and the Romero Zombie. The Voodoo Zombie, while not always raised by Voodoo necessarily, is basically a person, either undead or entranced, that is controlled by a person or entity for the purpose of completing tasks, often killing. Romero Zombies are basically mindless, flesh-eating undead whose bite will turn victims into zombies. Now, not all movies adhere to all of these rules, but if the basics are there, you got a zombie movie.
This weeks debate is over They Came Back aka Les Revenants (2004) Directed by Robert Campillo
IS: The dead arise from their graves and plot against the living, sounds like a zombie film to me.
IS NOT: The dead rise, but they don’t eat anybody, decompose, kill anybody, bleed or make gore of any kind. Calling this a zombie movie is going too far.
Now it’s up to you, reader. What do you think? They Came Back: Zombie Movie Or Not?
The debate for Blue Sunshine, Zombie Movie Or Not?, received 6 comments and 4 non-repeating votes. With 1 votes for (maybe) and 3 votes against being a Zombie Movie, as far as this site is concerned, Blue Sunshine is NOT a Zombie Movie.
Stay tuned for next week’s debate: They Came Back, Zombie Movie Or Not?
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