Zombie Ketchup...

It's been reported that George Romero will bring us more dead! He's signed up to publish two original "Dead" novels that incorporate his "universe of the dead" (is that a movie title or what?)....how exciting!!!






Tormented is a new movie involving a dead dude coming back to life to exact his revenge on the bullies that killed him. It's got a bit of some supernatural qualities that tends to bug the hell out of me but it's worth mentioning. Here's the synopsis: "Justine Fielding is the gorgeous head girl of her plush suburban grammar school, Fairview High. She has just won a place at Oxford University when in-crowd hunk Alexis asks her out on a date. All seems perfect ... except that Alexis and his circle of friends aren't quite as good as they look. Led by tormentor-in-chief Bradley, the clique’s 'too cool for school’ veneer hides a pack of inventive and merciless bullies who find it vastly amusing to persistently tease anyone they consider a worthless loser.

Their main target, Darren Mullett, knows what his classmates did last summer. They bullied him to death. The overweight, asthmatic nerd was so relentlessly victimized by their cruel taunts, website intimidation, and 'happy slapping' mobile phone recordings he committed suicide. But being dead allows Darren to finally find the courage to stand up for himself. With nothing left to lose, he takes murderous revenge on his former classmates in increasingly brutal, bloody, and imaginative ways. " Watch the trailer here.

Here's the first image from George Romero's Crazies remake:

Emergency vehicles show up to the on scene location of the Silent Night, Zombie Night shoot during some confusion. I can only imagine the thoughts of the paramedics as they arrive to find zombies milling around! Ha! Speaking of SNZN, you can view some stills from the movie here...And watch the trailer here. Oh man, this is gonna be fun.

A seemingly awesome new graphic novel is currently available called The Minions of Ka. The author's are attempting to "give a brief history of how the undead orginated and continued their lineage throughout history".

Outpost 2 has secured funding to begin filming. The first film which I haven't seen yet featured the seemingly new trend of rehashing the idea of zombie Nazis.

Louisiana Tech has recently sent to the stage a play called Living Dead in Denmark which is a sequel to Shakespeare's Hamlet, featuring a zombie lord and his zombie minions taking over the world. Is this a new trend? Taking classic works of literature and injecting the walking dead? Mmmm, I likes...

The unreleased as of yet French zombie flick Mutants is making me aroused. Seriously. Look:

Here's a still from the movie and there's more here:

For a bit of fun, here's a mash up of some cut scenes from The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue and a soundtrack from the Beatles with Help Me:

Over in Boston, on Easter Sunday, a zombie outbreak occurred! Ok well it was a zombie walk. Apparently people were offended. Why? Were they making fun of zombie Jesus? According to their group they were not trying to offend. You be the judge.

The movie ZombieLand has wrapped. Now, since Woody Harrelson still believes he's fighting zombies to shamelessly promote the film, we can view some images from the set. No zombies here... just apocalyptic scenery...ok, so far so good. Now let's see some zombies from the film...please?

The subsidiary of Fox, Fox Atomic, has died. This production company put out 28 Days/Weeks Later. From this story we learned that indeed there were plans for 28 Months Later, however, with Fox Atomic dead, what will happen to the sequel? Only time will tell.

If your interested in zombie books, Permuted Press has released Twilight of the Dead by Travis Adkins for free online. From what I can tell, this is the first book of a trilogy. Here's the synopsis: Five years after the dead rose a small band of survivors has taken refuge in the fortified town of Eastpointe. When a newcomer arrives claiming to know the location of the antidote to the zombie plague, it sends the town into an uproar. To retrieve this cure, a group of survivors must venture outside the relative safety of the compound's walls and into a world ruled and dominated by the flesh-eating undead. I've highlyenjoyed most everything I've read from Permuted Press zombie related, so I totally recommend this.

And finally check out this track from 400 Lonely Things. It's called The Music Box. It's from the album Tonight of the Living Dead. The dude remixed the soundtrack to NOTLD. It's interesting and ambient in nature. A bit soothing even....go here to read more about it and listen.