The Inevitable Zombie Apocalypse

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The third set visit for The Walking Dead (TV) has hit the ‘nets. This time we learn about casting, music and why it’s good the first season is only six episodes. (Dread Central)

Two clips from Resident Evil: Afterlife have appeared online. You can see them both embedded below and fans will be happy to hear that they continue the ridiculous comic-book-style action movie absurdisms of the series in fine fashion. (FEARnet)

If those clips from Resident Evil: Afterlife excited you, read what director Paul W.S. Anderson has to say about the creatures of the film, why he’s stuck with the franchise for so long and lots more. (Fangoria)

The full lineup for the Toronto International Film Festival has been announced, and among the latest announcements is Bruce LaBruce’s gay alien-zombie porno LA Zombie. (Quiet Earth)

Because one is never enough, there’s a new trailer for the slasher-meets-zombie flick Zombiefied. You can find it embedded below. (Buy Zombie)

How about some zombie eye shadow? (Buy Zombie)

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Big Walking Dead (TV) news! We have a premiere date (October 31) and a trailer (the same one shown at Comic Con, but not shitty/bootlegged now). See it embedded below and prepare for the awesome. The initial episode will run 90 minutes, with the other five clocking in at 60. (AMCTV)

In other Walking Dead (TV) news, Frank Darabont talks to MTV about Andrew Lincoln and has some good things to say. (MTV Splash Page)

And Walking Dead (TV) producer Gale Ann Hurd has a few tidbits for us, too, about why the zombie zeitgeist, whether the show will outpace the comic and what kind of departures there will be. (SFX)

What does the guy who supervised the visual effects on Resident Evil: Afterlife have to say about the film? Find out! (Fangoria)

The FEARnet series Zombie Roadkill, about a cursed stretch of road where zombie animals reanimate, is starting October 4. There’s a picture of lead Thomas Haden Church, too. (Dread Central)

The Oklahoma Horror Film Festival will show over fifty movies (fourteen features and lots of shorts) over three days from September 3-5 in Tulsa. Zombie fans will appreciate the inclusion of a handful of zombie/zombie-like films including George’s Intervention, Shellter and The Prometheus Project. (28 Days Later Analysis)

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Get a look behind the scenes of Resident Evil: Afterlife with a short video, embedded below. (IGN)

Or read all about Paul W.S. Anderson’s thoughts on Resident Evil: Afterlife. (Fangoria)

Players of the PC version of Left 4 Dead 2 will get some love in the form of bi-weekly featured community maps. The first map will be “Two Evil Eyes.” (Left 4 Dead Blog)

If you can’t wait for the Dead Rising 2 prequel Dead Rising: Case Zero, this preview will help tide you over. (Stuff.co.nz)

From October 29-31, there’s a big reunion of the cast of Lucio Fucli’s City of the Living Dead happening in New Jersey. (Cinesploitation)

An intriguing letter makes the case that the zombie apocalypse would lead to the reemergence of empires as the primary force in international politics. (Foreign Policy)

In or around Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and interested in preparing for the inevitable zombie apocalypse? There’s a Meetup group for that.

A very low budget, low profile indie zombie feature (unnamed as of yet) gets a little love from the local press in Rockford, Illinois. Slow news day? (Go.RRStar.com)

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The Walking Dead (comic) artist Charlie Adlard talks about playing a zombie in the TV adaptation and more. (Bloody Disgusting)

Or you could check out the second piece of a two-part Walking Dead (TV) set visit and learn why it was shot in Atlanta, how bad the heat sucked, tips on “Easter eggs” for fans of the comic and lots more. (Dread Central)

There’s a short new Resident Evil: Afterlife trailer available, from someplace else (Italy? My language skills aren’t so hot). I can’t get the embed to work properly, so you’ll have to head to that link to see it. (Quiet Earth)

In part two of an interview with The Dead co-director Howard Ford, we learn about the trials of shooting in Africa (cannibals, animal sacrifice and malaria, oh my!), making films as a family affair and why he chose to use slow zombies, among many other topics. (Dread Central)

Catch the buzz on Bob Fingerman’s Pariah, a thinking man’s zombie novel” about an apartment building-cum-fortress in a zombie apocalypse. (Dread Central)

The Edmonton DEDfest will run zombie film goodness from August 19-21, including Re-Animator and REC 2. Edmonton … that’s in Ontario, Canada right? Zombie I know. Geography … not so much. Oh yeah, there’s also some non-zombie horror stuff, too. (Quiet Earth)

Enjoy an interview with the creators of the comedic zombie webseries I Am Not Infected. (Balise)

The author of the Southern Gothic zombie tale The Reapers are Angels writes about the rules he used to write his zombie novel. I wish I had time to read it… (We Book)

Get an early peek at the NSFW comic Ginger Stein: Rise of the Undead, a graphic novel tale of a necronomic plague that’s quickly bringing about the end of the world, and the one woman who might be able to stop it. (Dread Central)

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.

Grab a peek at some new Resident Evil: Afterlife posters! (Bloody Disgusting)

Fangoria‘s made a list of a bunch of new zombie books coming out — including a few that even regular readers of this site may not have heard about. (Fangoria)

A touch of info on Dr. Dale’s Zombie Dictionary, from the man behind How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse. (STV)

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Read an interview with The Walking Dead (TV) cinematographer David Boyd about the similarities to Westerns, Firefly (which he also worked on, a great sign!) and other great tidbits. (AMCTV)

Zombie TV is the Next Big Thing, apparently, as SyFy has its own zombie series, called Zeros (Zombie Extermination and Removal Operations), in the works. This one tilts toward comedy. (Dread Central)

The first Resident Evil: Afterlife TV spot is floating around the webs (and TV, of course). You can find it embedded below.

Some footage from Italian TV has leaked for Dylan Dog: Dead of Night and it appears the movie does, indeed, have some zombies. Yay! Also, attractive, young Italian women seem into Dylan Dog, so all you zombie nerds that have a hard time meeting women should think about becoming fans. In any case, check out the footage via the embed below. (Quiet Earth)

The master of zombology Dr. Dale Seslick (of How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse) gets his interview on and talks about zombie pets, zombie misconceptions and the benefits of the zombie apocalypse, among other topics. (Total Sci-Fi Online)

Just caught word of The Night Shift, a horror-adventure-comedy indie film about an undead cemetery watchman, his limbless corpse companion and the zombies and other beasties he has to fight. Sounds fun, and there’s a poster to look at, or you can visit the official The Night Shift website. (Dread Central)

Although the undead have nothing to with the movie, as far as I can tell anyway, you can get some zombies in your Scott Pilgrim vs. the World videogame with a “secret” controller code. There’s a video explaining it embedded below. (Edgar Wright Here)

The haunted house/zombie docu-reality webseries Days of the Living Dead is going the Kickstarter route to fund season two, in case you were looking for a project to donate to. (Buy Zombie)

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Sit down for an interview with Shawn Roberts aka Albert Wesker in Resident Evil: Afterlife. (Fangoria)

There’s a new, free Zombie Survival Guide app for iPhone OS to test if your friends are infected or not. (Fangoria)

While we’re on the topic, enjoy this extensive report from a Max Brooks (World War Z, Zombie Survival Guide) lecture at Missouri State University. (Knights End)

Get a look at where you’ll be killing zombies in Dead Rising 2 via this Fortune City Map. (Capcom Unity)

There’s a brief report and some awesome pics from Quarantine 2: Terminal. I don’t know, could be decent! (Fangoria)

Check out the embedded trailer (below) for Zombies R Friends, the world’s first “zombie puppet thriller.” You can visit the creator’s website for more info. (BuyZombie)

Does an interactive zombie film/pizza commercial called Deliver Me to Hell sound like fun? Try it out and let me know if it actually is — I’m too swamped to mess around with it at the moment. (28 Days Later Analysis)

Life, love and the zombie apocalypse are the topics of The Quirk and the Dead, a new zom-rom-com movie whose trailer you can see embedded below. (Buy Zombie)

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Valve is making some adjustments to Left 4 Dead 2 multiplayer to make it less likely to induce “rage quitting” among players. Good for them. (Kotaku)

The co-producer of Dead Rising 2 talks about working with a Western studio, how many zombies is too many and more. (Gamasutra)

If you pre-order Dead Rising 2 from Play.com (UK only, folks), you can get a customized cover for the game box that features a zombified version of you. (Zombie Command)

The official Resident Evil: Afterlife website has been updated with some wallpaper downloads and some clips. (Bloody Disgusting)

The ultra-low budget zombie film Colin is coming to US theaters! Read my thoughts on Colin and you’ll see I think this is a fine idea. (Fangoria)

The awesome Dead of Night (read my Dead of Night reaction piece) is getting remade. Hm, not sure why. The original is still great and it’s not really well enough known to cash in on… (Fangoria)

Writer/director Gary Ugarek is using Kickstarter to try to raise $1 million dollars to make Deadlands 3. Read my review of Deadlands and/or review of Deadlands 2 before you break out your checkbook. (Buy Zombie)

Or heck, don’t listen to me and buy Deadlands 2 on DVD/Blu-ray when it comes out this October. Just don’t say I didn’t warn you. (Fangoria)

Going to be in Louisville, Kentucky tomorrow? Head to Zombiestock and be in The Zombie Movie, a low budget zom-com. (Fangoria)

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.

You probably weren’t at San Diego Comic Con, so this detailed report from the Walking Dead (TV) panel should ease the pain a bit, and get you up to speed on what you may have missed. (The Geek Generation)

Or you could could just watch the Walking Dead (TV) Comic Con panel in embedded video form below! (Bloody Disgusting)

Maybe Resident Evil is more your speed? Then this description of the Resident Evil: Afterlife footage from Comic Con should be quite exciting for you. (FEARnet)

Or maybe a recap of the Resident Evil: Afterlife panel with Wentworth Miller, Paul W.S. Anderson and Ali Larter is your cup of tea. (Dread Central)

Done with that? Now check out this continuation of an interview with Resident Evil: Afterlife producers Jeremy Bolt and Robert Kulzer. (Fangoria)

Full-length trailer for The Goon, the CGI animated zom-com movie coming from producer David Fincher, embedded below. (i09)

The classic Return of the Living Dead will make its way to Blu-ray September 14, 2010! (High-Def Digest)

Apparently, rage zombies made an appearance on the SyFy TV show Eureka recently. (io9)

Hey, English peoples! Want to be in Zombie Hood? Can you be in the Midlands (wherever that is) between September and January? Well, then get on it! (Zombie Command)

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Check out an awesome new poster for The Walking Dead by Drew Sturzan. (Ain’t It Cool News)

Or read an interview (with spoilers: you’ve been warned) with Walking Dead leading man Andrew Lincoln. (io9)

Good news! The World War Z movie is still on and Brad Pitt is attached to star. Also, Zombie Survival Guide and ZSG: Recorded Attacks have also been optioned. It’s a franchise! Supposedly the first one (WWZ) is still being directed by Marc Forster and is coming fall 2012. We’ll see. (MTV Movies Blog)

Before settling on Las Vegas as a setting for Dead Rising‘s sequel, the original plan was to set Dead Rising 2 in Disneyland. Also, you can download Dead Rising: Case Zero on Xbox Live (only) August 31 for $5. (Kotaku)

The official website of Resident Evil: Afterlife is live. I thought it had already launched, but I don’t have the patience to go through my news posts to find it at the moment. Anyway, not that much going on there at the moment beyond trailers and pics you’ve already seen, but maybe soon given that San Diego Comic Con is in swing. (Bloody Disgusting)

You might get more RE: Afterlife goodness out of this interview with two of the producers. (Fangoria)

Go behind the scenes of African zombie apocalypse film The Dead via the magic of embedded video (it’s embedded below). (Bloody Disgusting)

The folks behind the short Ay Up Me Duck of the Dead are working on a full length film called Zombie Hood. (Buy Zombie)

Apparently the latest series of the point-and-click adventure game The Devil’s Playhouse takes part around a zombie apocalypse, if the summary of episode four is to be believed. (TotalPlaystation)

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