You are navigating a post-apocalyptic world. Suddenly, you stumble on something as terrifying and revelatory as Charlton Heston’s discovery at the end of Planet of the Apes. A giant, bronze statue of Bob Benz with the epitaph: Bob is so Great. This could happen. If I donate $750 to “The Silent City,” a film that’s […]
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30 days of the Dead
It’s the Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos), but the folks at Dead.net are expanding the holiday to fill the entire month via “30 Days of the Dead.” Every day this month, Dead.net is offering a new song to download free. Most are soundboard recordings that never have been officially released. I’m listing […]
Getting back to zombie basics
Slate’s Tim Cavanaugh comes out firmly in favor of a fundamentalist approach to zombies in his review of IFC’s Dead Set and AMC’s The Walking Dead.. I couldn’t agree more. Cavanaugh argues that zombie films have shuffled away from some of their core values, including, most importantly, that “zombies need to chow down on raw […]