The Inevitable Zombie Apocalypse

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The fan-funded Invasion of the Not Quite Dead has just released its first promo teaser trailer. You can find the trailer after the break. It looks to be an original take on zombies. Or “not quite zombies” as it were. (Zombie Command)

English people, the stage show How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse is touring your country. Get all the dates here. (Zombie Command)

Finally, after the break you’ll also find a video on how to kill lots of zombies in high style, via a magical zombie-killing dream machine made in Garry’s Mod, the popular Half-Life 2 mod. (A World on Fire)

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The 1980 Lucio Fulci zombie/psychic/apocalyptic insanity of City of the Living Dead is getting a new DVD/Blu-ray release on May 25. (DVD Active)

There’s a documentary on zombie culture in the works at Camelot’s DarKnight Pictures called Zombie Culture: Documentary of the Living Dead. (Horror Squad)

LA residents and visitors can go see the world premier of Zombies of Mass Destruction (review here) as part of After Dark’s Horrorfest 4 this Saturday, January 30. Celebrity guests, the director and several of the stars will  be present. Get tickets here.

And New York? You can zombie walk  through the Village this Friday, January 29 to celebrate the ZMD release. (Dread Central)

The tagline says it better than I ever could: “man and machine in the fight against the zombie apocalypse.” It’s the manga Biomega, and it’s coming February 2. (Active Anime)

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The French zombie romp Mutants is coming to VOD via IFC February 10.

In “not terribly specific, but still good to know” news, Dead Rising 2 will be released this year. Sometime. (Gamespot)

What are the preconditions for a zombie apocalypse? Your answers are here. (Pixelated Geek)

If you hipsters need some zombie-themed buttons to pin to your messenger bag, you could do a lot worse than these. (Etsy)

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It looks like Dead Rising, one of my favorite zombie games of all time (review here), is set to become a  live-action movie directed and co-written by Keiji Inafune, the same man behind the original game. See the unsubtitled Japanese trailer, embedded after the break. (Kotaku)

Speaking of the franchise, new info on Dead Rising 2 confirms you will be able to combine things via duct tape to make new things. So, kayak paddle + chainsaws + duct tape = paddlesaw! (Kotaku)

Learn more about the faux documentary Portrait of a Zombie, about an Irish family coming to grips with the zombification of their son, in this interview with director Bing Bailey. Also, Bing is an awesome name. (Reel Loop)

Kids need zombies, too, so buy your little one a zombie coloring book. (A World on Fire)

Amongst this week’s DVD releases is the Canadian weirdo zombie flick Pontypool. I’ll be picking it up asap. (Quiet Earth)

The iPhone version of Plants vs. Zombies has been pushed back (again) until mid-February. (Kotaku)

The Moline, Illinois library is having a meeting of the zombie survival club Saturday, February 13, in case you’re in town and need to learn some tricks. (Quad-Cities Online)

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The latest George A. Romero zombie opus Survival of the Dead comes to VOD April 30 (Xbox Live and Amazon platforms), then sees a limited theatrical release May 28. (Bloody Disgusting)

The utterly generic title aside, The Dead, a zombie movie set in Africa that finds two men crossing zombie-infested wastelands, looks intriguing. It’s done, the producers are seeking distribution and there’s a new trailer embedded after the break. (Quiet Earth)

Some guy at Coming Attractions has read the script for AMC’s Walking Dead pilot and he says it’s good. There are more details to be found in the piece if you don’t mind some spoilers. (Coming Attractions)

Learn the parkour and fitness skills that will save your ass come the inevitable zombie apocalypse in Zombiefit classes. (Columbia Chronicle)

Ninja zombies, a magic belt and a Karate Kid takeoff are the basic ingredients of the very silly looking Death of the Dead. See a trailer after the break. (A World on Fire)

There’s a demo available for the zombie-killing/driving game Zombie Driver. (A World on Fire)

Tower defense zombie slaughter comes to the BlackBerry platform in Zombie Attack. (PocketBerry)

Don’t know that I will make it to Minneapolis, Minnesota anytime soon, but if I do, I will hang out at  the zombie-themed bar Donny Dirk’s Zombie Den and hope I enjoy it as much as this woman did. (True to Words)

I’m pretty sure the existence of a zombie pickup line generator app for iPhone is a sign that the end times are here. If I am right, quake in fear, for such a thing does exist. (Examiner.com)

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A few tweaks are coming to Left 4 Dead 2‘s versus mode, including bots and changes to auto-spawning in finales. (Left 4 Dead Blog)

Zombie author Eric S. Brown (he writes about zombies, he is not a zombie himself, just to be clear) is interviewed about his zombie work, his non-zombie work, how he got started writing and lots more. (The Horror Fiction Review)

Take a poll to answer the burning question of which potential zombie TV series you are most looking forward to: AMC’s Walking Dead or MTV’s rumored Dawn of the Dead? C’mon, is there really any question there? (Geeks of Doom)

Are apocalyptic movies, including zombie apocalypse movies, the new Westerns? (Videopium)

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There’s a new trailer (embedded after the break, naturally) out for Zombies of Mass Destruction (review here) and an interview with director Kevin Hamedani. Word of warning on that new trailer — it kind of spoils a lot of the movies best gags. (Bloody Disgusting)

A few more details have emerged on the upcoming Italian zombie movie fun of Eaters (mentioned in yesterday’s news post, and there were two trailers in there, too!). It’s about a mad scientist screwing around with a zombie virus because he thinks it’s the next stage of human evolution. Not totally original, but considerably better than “four to ten random strangers hole up in a mall/theater/church/whatever to try and survive the sudden zombie apocalypse.” Dread Central has a more detailed synopsis and some cool images. (Dread Central)

Enjoy pictures of a scantily clad woman kicking zombie ass in these Resident Evil 5: Gold‘s “Mercenaries Reunion” screenshots. (Kotaku)

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The Walking Dead series for AMC is officially on like Donkey Kong (that’s what they call it in Hollywood, honest). The pilot has been greenlit and one of the best zombie series ever is headed for TV. (Hollywood Reporter)

What’s worse, nuclear armageddon or zombie apocalypse? Here’s a horrible thought: what if both were to occur, simultaneously? (Film School Rejects)

A virus, lots of dead people and some of them getting up to eat the survivors? Yep, that’s a zombie movie all right. It’s called Eaters and you can view not one but two trailers after the break. Or visit the official website. (via Bloody Disgusting)

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Writer/director Jonathan Levine (The Wackness, All the Boys Love Mandy Lane) has been signed to adapt Warm Bodies, a zombie romance novel. Gotta say, “zombie romance” is probably the least needed zombie trend ever. (Variety)

A Chuck Norris-obsessed janitor fights off an invasion of alien zombies in The Bloodfest Club, an upcoming movie about to start production in St. Louis. (Dread Central)

File it under dubious news from dubious sources, but some weirdo news site called ChattahBox is reporting that voodoo priests in Haiti are protesting mass burials, fearing a zombie uprising. Take that with as much salt as you like — I suggest a healthy dose, personally. (ChattahBox)

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Enjoy this very cool interview with Ian McCulloch, star of Lucio Fulci’s Zombie (aka Zombie Flesh Eaters, Zombie 2, et al) and Zombie Holocaust. (News & Star)

The Marvel zombies keep on coming, and this April Marvel Zombies 5, from writer Fred Van Lente and artist Kano, becomes the latest in the series. (Marvel)

File this under “almost certainly BS,” but ZombieZoneNews says Dawn of the Dead 2 is in the works, citing a Richard Rubinstein quote to Fangoria (unlinked…) and a Zack Snyder quote to SciFi Wire (also unlinked…). Somehow I doubt that every other zombie site on the web would overlook an announcement of this magnitude on two very popular sites, but I guess anything is possible. Can anyone provide a link to either of those supposed articles? I can’t find them myself. In the meantime, barring an official announcement from a reputable outlet, I wouldn’t hold my breath… (ZombieZoneNews)

A group of pop-culture scholars take on the eternal debate: fast zombies vs. slow zombies. (Proofrok)

A movie blogger for some small-market paper declares zombies a winner for the ’00s. I heartily agree, but must point out this is not news to us zombie fans. (The Sentinel)

Zombie site Zombiephiles is going user-generated, meaning people like you get to write the content, he gets to collect the advertising dollars. (Zombiephiles)

How’s your Korean? If you answered “Awesome” (or even “halfway decent”), then Neighbor Zombie, a new episodic zombie fiction, could be interesting to you. Its lack of subtitles serve as an effective barrier to my entry, however. (Quiet Earth)