The Inevitable Zombie Apocalypse

A daily roundup of all the undead news that shambles into view… Bookmark the home page or add the RSS feed to your reader for your daily dose of walking dead. Got news tips? E-mail me at cory.casciato[AT]gmail.com.

Ain’t It Cool News got its hands on some cool on-set pictures of AMC’s The Walking Dead. Plenty of zombies and a shot of a man (Grimes, presumably) on horseback. They’ve also got the first official shot of Andrew Lincoln as Rick Grimes. (AICN)

The so-called Zombie Girl (aka Emily Hagins, the teen who made the zombie movie Pathogen and was the subject of the documentary Zombie Girl: The Movie) is looking for some help funding her third feature, which she hopes to finish before she finishes high school. Man, I barely finished puberty before I finished high school, much less three feature films… (Horror Squad)

I missed it too, but apparently if you input the Konami code (UP, UP, DOWN, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT, RIGHT, B, A, ENTER) into Newsweek‘s site yesterday, it revealed an ongoing zombie invasion. (The Zed Word)

The browser-based zombie MMO Dead Frontier debuted its new 3D engine, currently in beta. You can find a trailer for it embedded below.

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One of the skill-boosting magazine items in Dead Rising 2 will be Playboy. Makes sense. Zombies and naked girls go together like gin and tonic. (Game|Life)

How about a video interview with George A. Romero? Been a while since we had one of those… You can find it embedded below. (Wired)

This Danish film Eastern Army has turned up that seems to have some Rage-zombie like mobs in it. It’s about a post-apocalyptic future where everyone is waiting for some mythical army to rescue them and a man who pretends to be from said army to scam some people When the real bad guys come, he has to make a decision to help or run. See a trailer embedded below. (Zombie Command)

I was just informed of a publisher called May December Publications that specializes in zombies.

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Go on set of AMC’s The Walking Dead for a chat with director Frank Darabont. Inspirations, actors and shooting conditions are among the topics discussed. (AMCTV)

New (I think, new to me anyway) trailer  embedded below for the performance-enhancing drug created zombie movie Devil’s Playground. (Zombie Command)

Author James Dempsey talks about his zombie fairy tale Zakary’s Zombies, a novel about a developmentally damaged young man who cultivates a relationship with a pair of zombies living in his basement. (Worcester Telegram & Gazette)

The world is desperately in need of a full-blown zombie apocalypse musical, so I’m glad to hear someone is working on exactly that. You can see the trailer/promo work embedded below, but you should go to YouTube and “Like” it to help the creator win a contest and make the proposal a real thing. (A World on Fire)

Aspiring zombie authors, your lucky day has arrived. Zombie Nation Publishing is a new publishing house dedicated to the undead. (The Daily Loaf)

You’ll find a new trailer embedded below for upcoming PS3 downloadable twin-stick zombie shooter Dead Nation. (Kotaku)

In the novel Shakespeare Undead, the Bard is a vampire who has to protect London from the zombie menace. (The Zombie Nation)

Mainstream media reports on a Boston zombie walk. (TheBostonChannel.com)

If you’re looking for some discussion of the various types of zombies and the whys, hows and wherefores of the undead, look no further. (Morphine Nation)

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From July 9-19, Philadelphia gets the genre film fest Danger After Dark, which will include Big Tits Zombie 3D. (FEARnet)

Capcom may be planning something for the videogame side of the Resident Evil series to coincide with the release of Resident Evil: Afterlife. (FEARnet)

Someone’s done a solid examination of the evolution of the zombie so far. (Paranormal Haze)

Someone over at MSN’s blog network took notice of Seattle’s Red, White and Dead zombie walk, coming up this July 3. (Fright Site)

There are some insightful thoughts on zombies in this piece on what will be popular next, after zombies and steampunk have run their course. (io9)

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Ah, now this is refreshing. An article about George Romero and his influence, rather than another by-the-numbers Q&A with him. (USA Today)

Prepare for Darkest Day, an upcoming infected-zombie apocalypse flick about a guy who wakes up without any memory and discovers an evacuated city. Then he discovers the army wants him. Uh-oh! There’s a sharp looking trailer below. (Quiet Earth)

You might enjoy this report on the hipster-infested zombie crawl in Williamsburg. (Fangoria)

Get a look at the cover art for Dead Space 2, the continuation of everyone’s favorite “shooting dead things … in space!” gaming series. (Kotaku)

Need a book of short stories about zombie animals? This Zombie Zoology Anthology is just the thing! (Fangoria)

I remember posting about Zombie Fit, an exercise plan geared to prepare you for the zombie apocalypse, way back in the day. Well, now the mainstream media has caught on. There’s a TV news report embedded below. (Popular Fidelity)

Also embedded below, you’ll find an amusing discussion/exploration of various zombie hybrids, from Nazi zombies to wolfman/vampire zombies. (College Humor)

If what you need to complete your life is a zombie Storm Trooper (aka Death Trooper) bust, prepare to be completed. (Dread Central)

In “is this really news?” news, the logo for the upcoming 3D animated film Night of the Living Dead: Origins has been released. There’s also a Facebook page now. (Bloody Disgusting)

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Remember, REC 2 is available via various video-on-demand services today! And to celebrate, about a million clips hit the net recently. Someone was kind enough to compile them for you. Me, I suggest just watching the whole movie. I will be doing exactly that tonight!  (FEARnet)

If you aren’t paranoid enough about disease already, have a look at this list of five real diseases that can make you act like a zombie. (io9)

This week’s Left 4 Dead 2 Mutation is Chainsaw Massacre — all chainsaw, all  the time. (Left 4 Dead Blog)

The Pride and Prejudice and Zombies iPhone game is available now. (Horror Squad)

Prefer your zombies a little more World War II-style? Well, Call of Duty: World at War: Zombies II is also available for iPhone now. (Kotaku)

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In case you somehow didn’t hear, Dennis Hopper died May 29. He was awesome in Land of the Dead (and many other fine, non-zombie films, too!). RIP Mr. Hopper. (Dread Central)

Another George Romero interview comes to be. Not much new, but well done at least. (DCist)

In the Resident Evil: Afterlife coverage parade, actor Kim Coates gets interviewed about his character, his stunts and other such things. (FEARnet)

The horror comedy Aaah! Zombies! tells the story of a group of friends turned to zombies by a chemical agent. It looks promising, it’s coming September 28 and you can see an embedded trailer below. (28 Days Later Analysis)

Atlanta is the place to be this summer if you want to be a zombie. Friday I noted that The Walking Dead was seeking zombies there in June and July, now comes word that indie zombie comedy Ace the Zombie is looking for zombies in Atlanta this summer, too. (Buy Zombie)

An interesting critical essay explores the ongoing cinematic zombie apocalypse zeitgeist. (Popdose)

The eternal question “Unicorns or zombies?” will get an answer in book form, coming September 21, 2010. I think you know which side of the fence I am on… (Zombie Command)

Enjoy some photos of the recent Boston Zombie March VI. (Amplified Reality Photography)

The rhythm/zombie game Rock of the Dead is coming to Xbox 360 and PS3. (Zombie Command)

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Magnolia is prepping a deluxe Survival of the Dead: Ultimate Undead Edition Blu-ray for release August 24. How deluxe? No clue, the specs and extras have yet to be announced. (Bloody Disgusting)

How about some George Romero interviews? I’ve got two of them (one’s a two-parter), all embedded below!

• First, he talks about Survival of the Dead with a dude named “Spider.” (FEARnet)
• Then they sit him in front of Left 4 Dead 2 to talk about it, the zombie genre’s evolution and more. Part one is at FEARnet, part two at G4′s The Feed. And it’s a more than a half hour total (don’t forget, it’s all embedded below).

Did you like the makeup and creature effects in Quarantine (review here)? Good news, the same dude is handling those duties for the sequel. That sequel is written and directed by John Pogue and is set in an airport. It starts shooting next month. (Dread Central)

Humans vs. zombies makes it to the campus of Ohio State University. (The Lantern)

The sorta-kinda French zombie movie The Pack (they’re “ghouls” who are already dead and still hungry — close enough, right?) dropped some new pictures. (Filmstarts.de)

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The mainstream will not let the Survival of the Dead-induced George Romero interview mania pass without getting in on the action! The Master talks to the Boston Globe about why zombie movies will never die and what his movies are really about. (Boston.com)

Sneak a peek of Resident Evil: Afterlife with three new images from the film. (UGO)

Zombies invade Battle Creek, Michigan (isn’t that where all the cereal gets made?) and a local blog captures the mayhem. (The Village Thinker)

Looking forward to “zombies in Africa” epic The Dead? Then this report should be quite interesting. (Zombie Command)

A new horror anthology series called Habeus Corpus is on the way, and one of the episodes is about civil service zombies. Color me intrigued. (Dread Central)

Baltimore, Maryland will get its sci-fi con May 28-31 at BaltiCon, where you can enjoy a panel discussion on the all-important zombie apocalypse preparation kit. (The Command Line)

A report from PollyGrind, a Las Vegas-based film festival, calls Zombie Apocalypse Now: A Zombie Hunter “one of the most trying movie-watching experiences … ever endured.” Sounds promising! You can read a bit more about it here. (Las Vegas Sun)

How about some delicious “zombie meat”? Okay, it’s really beef jerky — blue beef jerky, mind you — marketed as zombie meat in Japan. Yummy. (Pink Tentacle)

Coming this week to Blu-ray: Lucio Fulci’s City of the Living Dead (and a lot of other stuff without any zombies in it). (Dread Central)

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The march of George Romero interviews continues. How about another video one, embedded below? (Fangoria)

The App of the Dead social media sites and website are live. (Dread Central)

Ford is using zombies in its advertising for the Fiesta. I’ve embedded the commercial below. (Dread Central)

Some dude in Alaska pimped out a chainsaw for fighting zombies, so he’ll look awesome while he shreds zed face. Did I say dude? I meant genius. (Geekologie)

Scientists. When they aren’t busy with science, they apparently make zombie games for the iPhone. (Kotaku)

The cover art for the zombies-at-a-Star Trek-con novel Night of the Living Trekkies is available for viewing. (Zombie Command)

Within a thoroughly disheartening story about 3D tech at Cannes come the especially disheartening news that apparently Taurus Entertainment is working on a 3D remake of Day of the Dead. Because the last remake (also from Taurus!) was such a great idea… (Variety)

Chillingo has a new, cartoony, tower-defense zombie iPhone game called Zombie Wonderland coming out. There’s a trailer embedded below.

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