Friday, November 14, 2014

Tonight on Zombiepalooza Radio 11/14/14




Check out tonight's line up!
www.livestream.com/zombiepaloozaradio


1st hour 8:00-9:00 pm 
PM Barnes will be discussing her latest work The Wandering 1 
https://www.createspace.com/5045485



2nd Hour 9:00 - 9:40 pm EST
Author Stephen A North 

http://tinyurl.com/k448787



2nd hour 9:10 - 9:40 pm 
Author Luke Ahearn
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/222683.Luke_Ahearn




3rd Hour 10:00 - 10:30 pm EST
Author Weston Ochse 

http://tinyurl.com/l84w59b



3rd Hour 10:30 - 11 pm EST
Author S.L. Baker 

http://tinyurl.com/lstnrec



4th Hour 11 - 12 am EST
Author George L. Cook III 

http://tinyurl.com/p3lp8kk



Fifth hour: 12 - 1 am EST
Comicare, an amazing organization helping young people feel better emotionally, will be on the show Friday Night (11-14-14) here is where you can find more about their works: 

https://www.facebook.com/comicare




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Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Can you deal with the 'Anger of the Dead?'




Synopsis:
In a world ravaged by a rabies virus that turns people into cannibals hungry, Alice, a survivor pregnant, along with two other men, he strives to reach an island where the epidemic has not spread. Meanwhile, a dangerous man is on the trail of a mysterious girl, and Alice soon discovers that the zombies are not the only threat...





'Day of the Dead' Soundtrack Reissued in 'Zombie Bub Flesh and Blood' Vinyl



Alas, too late for Halloween, but this not-quite-timely Day of the Dead reissue is above being a rubbish fancy-dress-party prop anyway.
According to Instagram posts by former White Zombie guitarist J Yuenger, who has remastered the score to George A Romero's 1985 horror classic for a new Waxwork Records reissue, the fresh vinyl comes in a variety of "horrific" colours, including "zombie Bub flesh/blood red split". He's not joking either…
Aside from the new, nicely creepy colourways, much else remains the same with the presentation of John "Tales from the Darkside" Harrison's classic score. The cover art is as was, as are Romero's liner notes, who didn't appear to have anything to add.
Harrison's wonderfully Eighties, occasionally psychotic score is a bit of a guilty pleasure in the Giz office, but hey, if you invest and don't like it, you can always just whack it in the back of your vinyl box and recreate the Shaun of the Dead garden scene next Halloween. Now after us: "Throw it!" 



~gizmodo.co.uk

Universal Dead: Is the cure worse than the virus?



It is no secret that I love Zombie films, but I will admit, like many, I have become complacent over the years. I am perfectly content, in most instances, to revel in T and A, a shit ton of gore and a quick and easy story line. How did they turn? Why? Is there hope? Will anyone survive? No one knows, No one knows, Nope, no hope and no. Ninety minutes and I'm done. That is why I really had a good time with Writer/Producer Kelly Parks' film Universal Dead. Originally shown in 2010, Universal Dead, began as a 3 episode web series to gain money for the eventual feature and managed to gain quite a following, even being picked as a highlight for the 2010 Comic Con: http://io9.com/5596813/the-biggest-winners-and-losers-of-comic-con-2010
The film begins five years into the pandemic and follows top CDC researcher, Dr. Macavoy (Gary Graham) as he is being escorted by Captain Trent (DB Sweeney) to an undisclosed military base 40 miles outside of San Diego to view a presentation by renowned physicist and loony tune Dr. Vataber (Doug Jones) on what may have actually caused the outbreak. Without giving anything away, the proverbial "shit" hits the fan pretty damn quick, but not before the science behind Dr. Vataber's theory is brought to light. Ultimately, that is what grabbed me by the short and curlies kiddies, the Science! 
Parks, an avid Sci-Fi/Horror geek with a flair for the scientific, loves the Zombie genre as much as the rest of us, but could never really buy into the notion that it was a virus causing all hell to break loose. Well rest assured, because the cause behind Doomsday is hardly a virus, but a really cool spin on the Zombie phenom. It is pure and unadulterated Science Fiction baby!!!!
Parks and his partners dealt with a shoestring budget and I have to give them credit, they used the money well. They managed to shoot the film in four days using only two locations, the lighting and camera work are spot on and, unlike many independent Horror films, a great deal of attention went into the story and definitely the performance aspect of the film, which is no surprise given the impressive resumes of the films leads. DB Sweeney (Jericho and A Fire in the Sky), Gary Graham (Alien Nation the TV show, Star Trek: Enterprise, Robot Jox), Doug Jones (Hellboy, Hellboy II, Pan's Labyrinth and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer) as well as new comer Valerie Perez. Universal Dead has a little something for all of us. Blood, guns, Zombies, Mad Science, outlandish theories and manages to tie it all up into one awesome para-militaristic madhouse. With only a fifteen minute running time, Parks had only a small window of opportunity to wet the whistles of would be fans, and succeeded with flying colors.
Why have you not seen Universal Dead you may ask, well there is a cautionary tale to this fine project. However, it is irrelevant, the important thing to remember is that even after four years, Parks has the passion and confidence to know that this project is worth fighting for. Which is why it is vital to remember that a film is a long term relationship, not a one night stand. I've seen it three times now, and I have to say I have enjoyed it more each time. So, do yourselves a solid, in fact do all of us independents a solid, and support Kelly Parks and Universal Dead. Amazon link below, and follow him @KellyParks for Universal Dead updates. Oh, and beware the IMP's.


~moviepilot.com

Zombies: A fad or obsession?




Zombies are everywhere these days.
Barnes and Noble has called the decade from 2003 to 2013 a “Golden Age for zombie fiction.” In May, CNN reported that the Department of Defense had come up with an elaborate, if fictional, zombie-based contingency plan for a military response to “a planet-wide attack by the walking dead.” The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has posted a Zombie Preparedness page on its website, meant to be “a tongue in cheek campaign to engage new audiences with preparedness messages.”
But when it comes to zombies’ hold on our collective imagination, AMC’s The Walking Dead, now in its fifth season, is in a class by itself. Based on Robert Kirkman’s long-running comic book of the same name, the show chronicles the efforts of a small group of survivors of a zombie apocalypse to stay alive in the ruins of civilization. Ratings were good for the first season (2010) and have grown every year since, making The Walking Dead a cultural phenomenon. According to Variety, 17.3 million viewers watched the Season 5 premiere — a record not just for AMC but for basic cable.
Why so much enthusiasm for a show filled with gruesome violence and almost unbearable tension? Why all the interest in the end of the world?
Though the zombies are integral to The Walking Dead’s plot, they’re not what the show is really about. As creator Kirkman has said, The Walking Dead is “about us. It’s about how we respond to crisis.” Director George Romero, who kicked off the zombie genre with his 1968 horror classic Night of the Living Dead, said much the same about his film. “Zombies could be anything,” he told The Big Issue magazine. “They could be a hurricane or a tornado. It’s not about the zombies. The important thing to me is the way people react to this horrible situation, misbehave, make mistakes and screw themselves up.”
Kirkman’s dystopia swarms not only with the walking dead but also with bands of desperate — and sometimes predatory — survivors, competing with one another for dwindling supplies or food, ammunition and defensible shelter. Everyone left alive learns that distrust is essential. In the new season’s first story arc, a seeming sanctuary for the living, Terminus, turns out to be a trap run by survivors who have resorted to organized cannibalism. Yet, even forced to spend their lives in survival mode, the characters of The Walking Dead still yearn for meaning. There’s a wish-fulfillment aspect to the story, which anyone who has ever fantasized, even idly, about living through an apocalyptic event will recognize. The last people on Earth can reinvent themselves into something better, or more powerful. Society begins to reinvent itself, making The Walking Dead a study in primitive politics. Different models of government emerge — all more or less based on the chieftain model that humans lived under during their prehistory. Nobody builds bridges, founds nonprofits or splits the atom in The Walking Dead. No one mentions the United States Constitution.
Most important, The Walking Dead is a morality tale that disdains easy answers. How does a civilized person behave in a world where civilization has collapsed? Decency is still possible, the show instructs us, but ruthlessness is needed as well. To save his son in one incredibly tense episode, Andrew Lincoln’s Rick, the show’s protagonist and a decent man, has no choice but to act like a zombie himself, ripping out the jugular of a dangerous marauder with his teeth. The characters constantly face brutal moral dilemmas, none more horrifying than in the Season 4 episode called “The Grove.” An 11-year-old girl, Lizzy, can’t accept that zombies are dangerous; she’s convinced that they’re just “different.” To prove her point, she kills her younger sister with a knife and tells everyone to wait and see — Mika will be fine, only different, when she rises as a zombie. What can you do with a child like that in the post-apocalyptic world? You can’t send her to therapy or to a juvenile-detention facility; you can’t wait for her to outgrow her madness — she is dangerous. “She can’t be around other people,” says Carol, who has cared for Lizzy after the death of her parents. Carol makes a gut-wrenching decision to shoot the girl, but the viewer is left wondering: Did she go too far?
It’s probably no coincidence that the zombie craze began barely a year after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, with Danny Boyle’s hit film 28 Days Later. Boyle’s zombies weren’t the shuffling “walkers” of The Walking Dead but living people, made rabid with a virus called Rage, who ran — fast — making them especially terrifying. The film’s depiction of a London transformed into a post-apocalyptic horror show resonated with a public recently shocked by the abrupt realization that Islamic terrorists posed a serious threat to prosperity and order.
The fascination with the zombie apocalypse, I believe, is a cultural reflection of the new age of anxiety that opened on 9/11, with its fear of social collapse. As Penn State professor Peter Dendle puts it, the zombie is a “barometer of social anxiety” — and we’re plenty anxious. The Anxiety and Depression Association of America claims that anxiety disorders are now the most common mental illnesses in the country, affecting more than 40 million people.
Anxiety disorders are, by definition, neurotic, and it’s true that the world is, in many ways, better than it has ever been.
“The average Botswanan,” science writer and columnist Matt Ridley points out in The Rational Optimist, “earns more than the average Finn did in 1955.” Americans in 2014 can afford luxuries unthinkable even for the rich in the 1950s. We’re safer, too — less likely to die violently than at any time in history, Harvard professor Steven Pinker observes in his recent book, The Better Angels of Our Nature. Still, the world is providing a lot to trouble the sleep of even the non-neurotic — Islamic terrorists beheading innocent captives, debt bombs, financial meltdowns, mass shootings in schools — all of it trumpeted by around-the-clock media.
The omnipresent media regularly remind us that natural calamity remains a possibility, too, even in the developed world. In 2005, Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed local, state and federal governments and almost destroyed New Orleans. The massive 2011 tsunami in Japan, triggered by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake, wiped out whole towns and caused the Fukushima nuclear disaster. A huge solar storm missed Earth by a week’s rotation back in 2012, which, had it hit the planet, could have crashed communications and electronics globally, taking us all back temporarily to the 17th century. The worst outbreak of Ebola in history is ravaging West Africa as I write, killing thousands and spreading fast.
With such cataclysms, man-made or natural, comes the risk of social breakdown that makes us so apprehensive. Shortly after Hurricane Sandy struck the East Coast in 2012, residents in parts of New York City armed up with booby traps, baseball bats and bows and arrows to protect themselves from potential looters. As it turned out, New Yorkers managed the aftermath of that storm, which tested the cohesion of some neighborhoods, with patience and lots of community spirit — but New Orleans during and immediately after Katrina was nearly up for grabs.
Perhaps another reason that zombies haunt our cultural imagination these days is that, for more and more of us, the neighbors are everywhere. Hardly anyone fears healthy, prosperous and orderly cities, but when urban areas break down — New Orleans in the aftermath of Katrina or, more dramatically, Baghdad after the fall of Saddam Hussein — nothing is more anxiety-producing than other people. And a zombie contagion is the ultimate urban-disaster scenario. The trailer for 2013’s The Dead 2, a hit film in rapidly urbanizing India, evokes the country’s crowded cities: “1.2 billion people,” it warns, “and one infection.”
Romero made the point explicit in an interview with NPR. “I took [zombies] out of ‘exotica’ and I made them the neighbors,” he said. “There’s nothing scarier than the neighbors.” In August, CNN interviewed members of Iraq’s Yazidi religious minority, who were fleeing Islamic State terrorists — Islamist killers so psychopathic that al-Qaeda disowned them. “They join them,” one of the Yazidis said, “and they kill us.” “People you know?” asked CNN. “Yes, people,” the man responded — “our neighbors!”
Yet we also fear life without the neighbors. Humans prosper economically today, Ridley argues, because we have become so interdependent and outsource almost everything in a global web of exchange. We exchange our income for other people’s expertise every day. If we had to do everything ourselves, most of us would be miserable and dirt-poor. Ironically, people who lived 200 years ago were better prepared to survive in a post-apocalyptic environment, and, on some level, we all know it.
It’s thus unsurprising that preparing ourselves for disaster became a more popular topic just as zombies began their cultural ascent. Author Max Brooks — son of comedian Mel Brooks — first made a name for himself with his 2003 best-seller, The Zombie Survival Guide, a parody that nevertheless contained an exhaustive set of survival tips. The steps outlined on the CDC’s Zombie Preparedness Web page are no different from what you should do to survive any disaster that might prevent emergency services from reaching you soon. Amazon now devotes whole categories to survival gear and kits.
The most striking example of the trend is science writer Lewis Dartnell’s best-seller, The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World From Scratch, covering the basics of agriculture, mining, chemistry, communications and medicine — a how-to manual for things most of us don’t know how to do. “People living in developed nations have become disconnected from the everyday processes of civilization that support them,” Dartnell writes. We would need survival skills of some sort if a cataclysm strikes, and books like Dartnell’s, if studied and taken seriously, reduce our general incompetence.
Most of the world may be richer, healthier, freer and less violent than at any time in history, but the anxiety about social collapse that has made The Walking Dead and other post-apocalyptic stories so popular isn’t absurd. Our unprecedented prosperity is disturbingly vulnerable to systemic shocks. On an increasingly urbanized planet, global pandemics are terrifying. And as my work as a journalist has often shown me, residents of cities like Baghdad and Damascus can relate all too well to the predicaments that characters face in The Walking Dead. Even Beirut, an advanced city where I once enjoyed living, sees spasms of violence during which neighbors wake up one morning and start shooting at one another.
Sometimes, in other words, breakdown is more than just a dark fantasy. Learning how one can survive and — just as important — remain a decent human being in such a crisis might be worth thinking about, even if it never happens.



~dallasnews.com

Matthew Williams: Killer found eating victim




The owner of a B&B where Matthew Williams murdered a woman in an act of cannibalism has told of the horror she witnessed.
Mandy Miles, of Sirhowy Arms Hotel in Argoed, told how she saw Williams, 34, leaning over 22-year-old Cerys Yemm's body, lying in a pool of blood.
Mr Williams, who had just got out of jail, died after being shot by a Taser.
Ms Miles said: "I was in shock and I was frightened - Matthew just kept his head down - he didn't look up at me."
Initial post mortem results indicate Ms Yemm died from head injuries. Gwent Police said on Tuesday that it may take a number of weeks before the post mortem examination is completed.

Matthew Williams
Matthew Williams remained leaning over his victim's body and did not respond when he was found
Recalling what happened at her B&B for homeless people in the early hours of last Thursday, Ms Miles said she was wrapping Christmas presents in a cottage in the grounds of the B&B when her 24-year-old son came to her.
He said he had been told that Williams was in his room with a woman, which was not permitted under the rules of the establishment.
After knocking the bedroom door and getting no answer, she used the door's passcode and went in.
"That's when I saw Matthew," she said.
"He was just leaning over her and she was on the floor. I could see there was no sign of life because of the extent of blood pooling on the floor.
"He didn't say anything. I spoke to him and said, 'Matthew, what are you doing?' He just remained looking down on the floor.
"I don't know what he had done."
Ms Miles, who is studying for a degree in criminology and psychology, said Ms Yemm's neck had been injured but said she did not see any act of cannibalism.
She then held his bedroom door closed, although he did not try to escape, and called the police and made sure no residents could enter.
"I could not see his face. Who in their right mind would just carry on leaning and looking down?," she said.She said prior to the murder she had not had any problems with Williams and she is adamant he was not aware of what he was doing.
"A reaction like that, me walking in would make you stand up, it would make you lift your head.
"That told me he didn't know what he was doing."
After three police officers arrived at the scene, Ms Miles stayed downstairs with 15 other residents and said she could hear police shouting at Williams to calm down.
She did not know he had died until about three hours later.
Ms Miles has run the B&B, which takes in homeless people, for seven years.
In that time she said she has never been told of the past of any ex-offender using her establishment because the information is not passed on from the prison and probation services, she added.


~bbc.com/news

Crews continue to pull zombies out of Lake Michigan





Call them the floating dead.
Rescue crews in Chicago have been hard at work pulling zombies out of Lake Michigan after a Halloween barge sank off Navy Pier on Oct. 31. The roughly 50 zombies on the boat have continued to surface, WGN reports.
“It’s an unbelievable amount of effort from painters to costume makers,” owner John LaFlamboy told WGN Wednesday, estimating the investment in the barge to be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. “So to watch it sink was very heartbreaking for a lot of us.”
Winds above 70 mph ripped through the city on Halloween, causing 21-foot waves in some parts of the lakeshore. The Zombie Containment, a floating haunted house docked outside Navy Pier, was among the casualties of the rough weather dubbed a "Halloween Howler."
After the haunted house was damaged Friday, officials closed other attractions, including the Ferris wheel, Grand Ballroom and East End Plaza, due to the weather, the Chicago Tribune notes.








~huffingtonpost.com

New Detroit soda line based on zombie comic 'DeadWorld'




Dearborn Heights-based Caprice Brands LLC will launch its DeadWorld soda line at a Friday party at Best Western Plus Sterling Inn in Sterling Heights.

DeadWorld soda is based on the zombie comic book DeadWorld, published by Detroit-based Caliber Comics LLC

The soda line features 12 flavors, including Goon Bitters cherry cola, Graveyard Delight ginger ale and black cherry-flavored Royal Rotter. The bottle labels are illustrated mostly by local artists. 

Caprice principal Gary Reed is also the publisher of Caliber Comics. Soda will be sold in 4- and 12-packs; the 12-pack will include a mini-comic. 


Detroit-based Intrastate Distributors Inc. is the distributor.




~crainsdetroit.com


A snooze alarm with an attitude




Coming January 2015!




Synopsis:
A sheriff must rescue an estranged family from a mountain during a volcano eruption and fight off a horde of lava-filled zombies brought to life by a curse. Co-starring Danny Trejo (MACHETE, MACHETE KILLS, FROM DUSK TILL DAWN).


www.volcanozombies.com


Trailer!


Zombies vs Coyotes: Who Wins?




Another reminder from National Wildlife Federation naturalist David Mizejewski that the zombie apocalypse would be an effortless breeze for mankind, thanks to animals just ripping them right up for us: "These intelligent canids would quickly learn that they could take down zombies one by one, especially the eastern populations of coyote, which are larger and bolder due to past interbreeding with wolves and domestic dogs."
Animals eating the zombies is contingent upon the continued existence of animals. Support the National Wildlife Federation to make sure they're around when the next major outbreak occurs.



~boingboing.net

The Walking Dead Cancelled?!?





If you're one of the millions of fans glued to their television screens every Sunday night for their weekly dose of the Undead, This Walking Dead News might worry you a little.
Unknown to many viewers of the television's number 1 prime time series, DirecTV and AMC are involved in legal war regarding the renewal of their contract. According to Movie Pilot, the old deal between the two partners is set to expire during the half season break of Walking Dead Season 5.
If they don't reach an agreement any time soon or if the deal is not renewed, well, you might want to say an early goodbye to Rick Grimes and his team of Walker-killers because DirecTV isn't showing the second half on AMC.
This public dispute revolves around subscription fees. "As a subscription network, AMC depends on these for the main bulk of their income," reports Movie Pilot. No party has explicitly stated the reason behind the prevention of renewal, but what seems likely to be happening is that AMC is demanding DirecTV increase subscription fees in exchange for more content from AMC.
Of course, with the success of The Walking Dead, regularly bringing over millions of viewers, they're using the show now as a bargaining chip. They will not hesitate to use The Walking Dead as leverage in this deal. But, on the other hand, they also would not want to lose a very important source of revenue and mass viewers, if DirecTV is forced to blackout AMC, since it's the second-biggest provider after ComCast.
The two warring parties have released statements trying to lure fans into their sides. In a statement release by AMC, they said, "DirecTV's agreement to carry AMC expires midway through the current season of The Walking Dead. DirecTV has not engaged in meaningful negotiations with us, which leaves us to doubt whether a timely renewal is possible."
Undeterred, DirecTV presented one of their own. "DirecTV customers will not miss any of this year's new season of The Walking Dead or any other shows. AMC is contractually obligated to provide all of its programming for several more months and we intend to renew our AMC partnership at a price that's fair to our customers."
This is not the first time blackouts have happened and deals have fallen through before. Just recently, subscribers to Dish Network Corporation lost CNN and Cartoon Network, both from Time Warner, after the same incident occurred.
          


~crossmap.com


Are you "BLiND?'




AggieTV’s first original movie series – BLiND – is making waves. Written and directed by former AggieTV member CJ Hwang, the series premiered its third episode last Friday on the aggietv youtube page. The production is a five-part film that focuses on a group of four students attempting to survive a zombie apocalypse on the UC Davis campus. Some students who have seen the series, like second-year environmental science and management major Maverick Bellard, are thoroughly impressed with the film’s moodiness and slick, cinematic style.
“[The film] was intriguing and suspenseful,” Bellard said. “[I was amazed] that it was produced by students; it was far from amateur.”
Instead of making a zombie film that focuses mainly on violence and gore, BLiND takes a more character-driven approach to the genre, illustrating the emotional and psychological state of each survivor. The drama and tension of the series comes not only from the danger of the undead threat, but also from the interpersonal conflicts between the characters.
BLiND’s production manager, Stacy Han, a third-year technocultural studies major and aspiring Hollywood producer, expressed that the focus on the psychology and emotions of the survivors is what led AggieTV to give the film the go-ahead.
“[Director CJ Hwang] really wanted to focus on the human condition and what humans would do during the zombie apocalypse,” Han said. “He really enjoys [exploring the character’s] psychological [state of mind].”
As production manager, Han was tasked with assisting both Hwang and assistant director and third-year human development major Crystal Chen, in making sure the behind-the-scenes work was handled as efficiently as possible. From procuring sets for filming to signing off on budget reimbursements, Han stayed busy throughout the course of the series’ production. According to Han, the most draining aspect of her job wasn’t handling finances or planning premieres.
“[Rescheduling filming] was always a conflict.” Han said. “It was the number one conflict working onBLiND.”
Han went on to express that as a completely student-run production, having to reschedule filming was difficult when considering the time and effort that went into each filming day. This difficulty was further compounded by the academic and social schedules of everyone working on set. Fourth-year technocultural studies major Eugene Arai, who was a sound mixer and Steadicam operator, commented on the strenuousness nature of the schedule.
“[The shooting schedule] was mercilessly strenuous,” Arai said. “[We had schedules that were] ranging from a 10-hour long shoot that started at 5 a.m. and other shoots that ended at 2 a.m. We worked day and night, weekdays and weekends.”
Despite the difficulty in balancing the schedules of a full crew and cast, Han was appreciative of the persistence shown by everyone on set.
“I’m very proud that we were all able to sacrifice a lot of our time and sleep,” Han said. “We [were able to film] everything we wanted.”
Throughout the six-month process behind creating BLiND, the long hours, days and nights that the crew logged together not only led to the creation of a film, but also long-lasting relationships.
“The most rewarding thing about the creation [of BLiND] was the teamwork and love that accumulated within the production crew and actors,” Arai said. “We all still keep in touch.”
For more information on BLiND, the cast and crew,  you can visit http://www.aggietv.org/blind/.



~rashadhurst/theaggie.org

Is your cellphone immune to the 'Zombie Virus?' (Android & iOS)




Build your Zombie Horde!

A madman scientist with a fascination for diseases and plagues can only mean one thing: the zombie apocalypse! 
 
With the new zombie virus spreading from North Korea to all corners of the world, the dead are rising from their graves with a taste for human flesh.  No city will survive the zombie tsunami as it devours brains, infects the children, and farms the fallen corpses into more walking dead to join the groaning army of rotting bodies.   
 
Play as the deranged scientist with a mission for violence as you upgrade your virus, trigger chemical explosions, and infect every person on the planet!  The police, army, and super agents will send squads of zombie killers to stem your world domination plans, but with your own completely customizable undead crew, nothing can stop your dead march across the highway to hell! 
 
With over 120 different types of zombies to choose from, anything that those puny humans throw at you will be swallowed up in the sweeping undead horror.  Crush their last stand with hulking zombie wrestlers, slice through their defenses with an undead warrior, or vomit the virus with walking dead rednecks.  Each zombie in your arsenal is unique with special abilities you'll need to complete the zombie apocalypse and turn Earth into a churning, decaying graveyard. 
 
***GAME FEATURES*** 
Addicting, destructive zombie gameplay! 
Pure undead chaos with explosions and gore! 
Race across the world as the infection spreads! 
Earn more money for each kill, overkill, and mega-kill! 
Build your virus and upgrade your zombies to guarantee a total undead nightmare! 
Plan and equip your zombie squad before each city takeover. 
Fight epic boss battles on warships as you travel to your next future zombie capital!  

Check it out here!

Ash vs The Evil Dead: the television series!




Starz announced today the greenlight of the network’s next original series, the long-awaited follow-up to the classic horror film franchise The Evil Dead. The project reteams the original filmmakers, director Sam Raimi, with longtime producing partner Rob Tapert and star Bruce Campbell.
The STARZ Original series officially titled “Ash Vs. Evil Dead” will be 10 half-hour episodes.  Bruce Campbell will be reprising his role as Ash, the stock boy, aging lothario and chainsaw-handed monster hunter who has spent the last 30 years avoiding responsibility, maturity and the terrors of the Evil Dead.  When a Deadite plague threatens to destroy all of mankind, Ash is finally forced to face his demons –personal and literal.  Destiny, it turns out, has no plans to release the unlikely hero from its “Evil” grip.
“Starz first worked with Sam and Rob on ‘Spartacus,’ and we are thrilled to be back in business with them,” said Carmi Zlotnik, Managing Director of Starz.  “With Sam writing and directing and Bruce Campbell returning to the screen, we are certain the show will give Evil Dead fans around the world the fix they’ve been craving.”
Evil Dead has always been a blast. Bruce, Rob and I are thrilled to have the opportunity to tell the next chapter in Ash’s lame, but heroic saga.  With his chainsaw arm and his ‘boomstick,’ Ash is back to kick some monster butt.
And brother, this time there’s a truckload of it,” said Sam Raimi. 
“I’m really excited to bring this series to the Evil Dead fans worldwide – it’s going to be everything they have been clamoring for: serious deadite ass-kicking and plenty of outrageous humor,” said Bruce Campbell.
“STARZ has always been a great creative partner and we are excited to be working with them on this project,” said Robert Tapert. 
Raimi will direct the first episode. “Ash Vs. Evil Dead” was written by Sam Raimi, Ivan Raimi (Darkman, Army of Darkness, Drag Me to Hell) and Tom Spezialy (“Chuck,” “Reaper,” “Desperate Housewives”). Sam Raimi will also serve as executive producer, along with Rob Tapert (Evil Dead, “Spartacus,” Xena: Warrior Princess”) and Bruce Campbell (Evil Dead, “Burn Notice”). Ivan Raimi will Co-Executive Produce and Aaron Lam (“Spartacus”) will serve as producer.
The original Evil Dead film followed Ash and his friends who travel to a cabin in the woods, where they unknowingly release demons intent on possessing the living.  The film became an international success and is critically lauded to this day as one of the best horror movies of all time.  It also spawned a media franchise, including two sequels, as well as video games and comic books and a recent reboot that grossed $97 million worldwide.
“Ash Vs. Evil Dead” project was packaged by CAA and Craig Jacobson at Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Richman, Rush & Kaller. Marta Fernandez will serve as the executive in charge at Starz.
The series will air on STARZ in 2015.


~zombiesdontrun.net