Do you love zombies and limericks? Well shit, then you should check out The Little Book of Zombie Limericks by Emily White. I myself hate limericks, but this could be humorous, especially if you enjoy a good undead poem. Here is the info from her Etsy page:

I have gone and written some zombie limericks!! (poems include how to deal with a horde of zombies, zombies looking for breakfast, Macon, GA zombies, smelly zombies, turning into a zombie, and more!) Plus I have hand bound them into a lovely little self published pocket book!! The book measures 4.25″ x 5.5″. Nine original zombie limericks, and many black and white pictures, drawn by me ;). This book has 16 pages, and the cover is a caution yellow card stock. Hand sewn binding in black thread. Would make a really unique card to give a zombie loving friend (fits in a standard note card envelope), or just one of those weird little coffee table books…Or bathroom reader!

This could all be yours for $6.00.  There is also a Volume II and III available.

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Here’s the new one-sheet just released for the French zombie film La horde, by FRONTIER(S) director Xavier Gens. La horde has a February release date for France, but no word yet on any international release date, other than it’s previous screenings at film festivals abroad. Here’s the teaser trailer again, in case you missed it the first time around…

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A teaser trailer was released for upcoming French zombie flick The Horde today. The film is about a bunch of corrupt cops who go on a murdering spree to avenge a fallen comrade. Trapped inside a gangster’s hideout, they are forced to fight for their lives against an army of “bloodthirsty, cannibalistic creatures”. Looks like a zombie flick to me!

Via ShockTillYouDrop

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Now you can fight off the zombie hordes on your iPhone, or Ipod Touch, by…um, tapping them all to death. Yup, tapping…in Tapping of the Dead! Set to the metal song “Tap or Die” by the band Apokefale, written specifically for the game, you can tap your way through the apocalypse. The goal is to tap on the zombies as fast as possible to kill them all before they kill you. This app is available from Apple for only $8. Here’s the promo video for it:

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It’s been quite a week for fans of zombie video games so I’ve decided to consolidate all this week’s news into one big roundup. Yee-haw!

Valve announced some new downloadable content for their mega-hit Left 4 Dead. Once the content is released this spring, you’ll be able to play both the Death Toll and and Dead Air campaigns in versus mode. Also, they’ll be introducing a new mode of play called “survival” in which you’ll be pelted with wave after wave of zombies and compete for the amount of time you can stay alive.

Speaking of Left 4 Dead, George sent us a link to these awesome Left 4 Dead valentines, suitable for printing and handing out to your loved ones.

Prototype, the superhero zombie fighting game we posted about last month, gets a release date for June according to a company memo.

Wii gamers who wanted to play the critically acclaimed Dead Space will finally have a chance – EA announced they are working on a Dead Space game for the Wii. It is unclear whether this is a direct port or some sort of spin-off of the series, but either way it’s definitely good news for Wii fans.

Capcom also announced this week that they are officially working on a Dead Rising 2. They even released a viral video last week to get people amped up about running through a zombie horde in an American Gladiators style hamster ball.

And finally, speculation has started around a fourth Resident Evil movie. The screenplay has been written, and FX team assembled; all they need is Milla Jovovich to sign on to play Alice again. Even though the movie franchise continues to diverge from the video games, I still find them quite enjoyable. Here’s hoping for at least one more movie!

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The Ann Arbor Zombie Walk, as a part of World Zombie Day, was a great time tonight. Around 50 some zombies circled town, with a quick stop at the local comic shop Vault of Midnight. After buying a few zombie comics, the zombie horde headed back to the streets. Bambi and Colum, the coordinators, did a great job and at the end of the walk handed out prizes for best zombies, including scariest, goofiest and “best medical personnel”. Here’s the link to our photo album from the event.

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Just in time for Halloween, everybodies favorite video games are getting infected! Grand Theft Auto IV has a new zombie skin available for it. From IGN:

If you kill an infected player in a multiplayer match, you’ll become zombified yourself. According to Rockstar, telltale signs that your opponent might be a zombie include a.) looking like a zombie and b.) having the achievement “Let Sleeping Rockstars Lie.” That achievement is unlocked when you kill a Rockstar developer or pop someone who has.

Players awaiting the new World of Warcraft expansion set Wrath of the Lich King (available Nov. 13th), get an early…zombies! From GamePro:

The walking dead appeared outside major cities, and players unlucky (or lucky?) enough to come in contact with them were themselves infected with the zombie plague. Players have 10 minutes to find a healer before the plague takes hold. Becoming a zombie isn’t as bad as it sound, though. Players are granted a new status bar and zombie abilities, which last until the player is cured by a healer.

And from The Escapist:

“You can no longer cast the spells/abilities that you had as a normal character, and formerly friendly NPCs now consider you an enemy. You can, however, cast new, unique zombie spell

And lastly, zombies have come to the world of City Of Heroes and City of Villains. From 1Up:

City of Heroes and City of Villains. Having beaten off waves of werewolves, vampires, and other horrendous hordes of supernatural creatures, the heroes and villains should have little problem keeping their heads.

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Tokyo Zombie is completely ridiculous. This comic is so over the top, I’m not even sure where to start. The zombies? The awkward sexual moments? The bond between student and master? The sheep? Creator Yusaku Hanakuma, master of heta uma (”bad, but good”) manga, has made one of the most original zombie stories ever created. It starts out with Fujio and Mitsuo, two warehouse workers practicing their martial arts on their break, but slowly turns into an all out zombie apocalypse as the two make a run for it. Mitsuo falls victim the zombie hordes, while Fujio manages to escape and go on to become one of the nation’s most famous zombie ring fighters. The wealthiest members of society have taken control of what little sanctuary the humans have left and have turned the poor into their slaves and throw out whoever disagrees to the outside world of zombie mayhem. While this is a very silly book, it also seems to contain some very heavy underlying comments on the social-political nature of class warfare (seriously!). Politics, slap-stick and gore! Perfect! This has definitely become one of my new favorite zombie comic of all time.

Tokyo Zombie was just published this year in English for the first time ever by the awesome people at Last Gasp. You can get this at any local comic book store or at your local book dealer. I can’t recommend the book enough. Everybody who loves zombies should read this.

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In The Dead Next Door, the zombie apocolypse is in full swing and the Zombie Patrol, a government backed organization of zombie hunters, is on the job. Patrol officers Raimi and Kuller set off into the Ohio wilds with Dr. Moulsson to find a cure for the zombie epidemic once their fellow officer Mercer is bitten by one of Dr. Moulsson and Dr. Savini’s test subjects. They find a cult, lead by Rev. Jones, who think the zombie apocolypse is god’s will and want to help in any way possible. Finding Dr. Bow’s possible cure, being the man that supposedly started the zombie apocolypse, they need test subjects, but the Rev. Jones’ cult has rounded up al the zombies for their own devices. Raimi and Kuller must infiltrate and ultimate defeat the Jones’ cult and the zombie hordes lest they become zombies themselves.

From a viewer stand point, The Dead Next Door is in no way a good movie. The film was shot on 8mm film, so the voices and sound were over-dubbed some 15 years later. The acting is bad, the over-dubbing is worse, the special effects are not up to Hollywood standards and the story is simply lacking. If yu’ve come to enjoy a fine zombie flick, you’e come to the wrong place.

On the other hand, from and artist’s stand point, The Dead Next Door is really sweet! These guys went all out for this little 8mm film. I’ve never seen a film of this low quality with the scope and popular backing that The Dead Next Door had. Usually when you see a movie like this, there are 10 to 20 zombies at best that are recycled in every scene; they take place in one or two remote locations or obviously abandoned buildings and they try to convince you that those two settings are the entire world. In The Dead Next Door, there’s an arial shot of at least a hundred zombies and there are large street zombie mayhem scenes. It seems like the crew of this movie had the help of half of Akron, Ohio and all the time in the world to complete it.

The special effects and make-up in this film were not all that convincing, but they were goddamn ambitious. They tried everything – decapitations, dismemberings, disembowelments, gruesome throat rips, head shots, you name it. Yeah, it looked fake, but it was cool to see them go for it. It’s pretty funny to watch too and, I have to admit, entertaining.

All in all, these folks weren’t setting out to make a serious flick and they ended up making one that’ll have any good spirited party crowd howling with their beers. The Dead Next Door is definitely in the ”so bad, it’s good” catagory. If you have a good sense of humor, a Do-It-Yourself sensibility and a love of zombie films, I’d recommend this movie. On the other hand, if you’re looking for a good production done by a skilled crew with great dialog and an underlying social commentary, try something else.

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In Planet Terror, a rogue army unit is after a highly toxic gas that keeps them alive and turns men into blood-thirsty cannibal mutants. When their acquisition of the chemical goes awry, it’s released into the air of a small town, turning it’s population into the flesh-craving zombies. A small band of rag-tag misfits, including an ex-special forces soldier of legend Wray and Go-Go dancer amputee Cherry Darling, join together to survive the zombie hordes and end up in the thick of battle against the army unit that started the whole thing.

Planet Terror does an outrageously good job of paying homage to old grindhouse B-movie action thrillers of the ’70s and ’80s and contains a certain amount of tongue-in-cheek “mistakes” that will bring you back to the glory days of grindhouse. The “film” is intentionally distressed looking, more so during parts of tension, to first give it that authentic grindhouse look, but also to give the viewer a certain forebodding. The action is non-stop, as is the gore. The way reality is totally sacrificed in the name of over the top action, especially in regards to the character Cherry Darling, is typical grindhouse and leads to many smirks and cheers. I’m speaking of the way Wray fabricates a prosthetic leg/machine gun for her all while on the run and the mysterious way she fires it or it’s genade laucher (which propells her inthe air with the greatest of ease).

The special effects and make-up by Greg Nicotero (Land of the Dead, Diary of the Dead and Day of the Dead with Tom Savini’s crew) is the best in the business today and is taken way over the top with an expert blend of make-up and CGI. Every gunshot wound erupts with half a body’s worth of blood, every wound is the deepest and slimiest, every zombie-mutant bulges and oozes god-knows-what from god-knows-where.

Planet Terror is not strictly a zombie movie, but a fantastic thrill ride that any movie enthusiast could enjoy. It has a wonderful cast, a spectactular soundtrack and completely sick special effects. If you haven’t already, I’d suggest picking this one up.

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