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Archive for July 2011
July 31, 2011
July 30, 2011
Darker Projects, in association with Infected Books, has created an audio theater adaptation of AUTUMN by David Moody, available free to listen. Great writing and direction by Paul Mannering, along with high production values, make this a thrilling new way to experience this zombie classic. Click here to get started.
July 29, 2011
Great intro to a fun zombie film.
July 28, 2011
Foster the People, an indie pop band, produced this cool MAD MAX style music video for their song Helena Beat. Kids run amok at the end of the world, and they are not needy and cute as in MAD MAX III, but soulless and violent. The ending presents the initiation ceremony of the tribe. These kids, we learn, will inherit the earth, and they will dance on its grave.
July 28, 2011
It was only a matter of time. The zombie apocalypse now has a theme song.
July 27, 2011
In DEAD HEIST (2007), a gang of criminals robs a bank, but ends up under siege by police, who in turn are attacked by a swarm of zombies. Inside the bank, the crooks and the cops must join forces to survive. Gonna have to track this one down. Anybody seen it?
July 26, 2011
From the Dictator to the Betrayer, Cracked.com identifies the six character types who show up in every zombie movie.
July 25, 2011
In THE REAPERS ARE THE ANGELS, Temple helps a mentally retarded man find his home, seeking redemption in the process, while a killer hunts her, seeking revenge. The setting is sometimes oddly unrealistic and the poetic voice at times a little overworked, but it is a beautiful book–that rare literary zombie novel–that questions whether one must choose between survival and morality during the apocalypse. A must read.
July 24, 2011
In TRUE LOVE BLOOMS ON ROTTING HILL, two zombies find themselves devouring opposite ends of the same length of intestine, and fall in love. It was made in just 12 weeks by Advanced 3D students at the Media Design School. Nice work!
Rotting Hill from Media Design School on Vimeo.
July 23, 2011
In a recent interview, I was asked how I ended up in this genre called ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE.
I’ve always been fascinated with stories about the end of the world. Plague, natural disasters, asteroids, aliens, you name it. Zombies turned out to be my favorite form of apocalypse because the familiar becomes unfamiliar, everybody you know and love suddenly turns against you and is hunting you, and you must interact with and suddenly trust total strangers to stay alive.
When I was younger, there was a bit of wish fulfillment in the end of the world, plus excitement that everything in society that you relied on to support you is no longer there. Back then, the apocalypse was a challenge, a place where people shoot zombies in the head and have thrilling adventures, something a tiny (and insane) part of me longed for. Now that I’m middle aged with a family and with it have so much to lose, there is added the parental/middle class paranoia that everything you have might be taken away. Now the apocalypse is seen as a dark place of suffering and loss, not something to long for, but to experience as a fantasy of one’s worst fears come true.
Traditionally, apocalyptic stories could be found only in the science fiction section of bookstores, while the tiny horror section was dominated by Stephen King and your choice of sexy or funny vampires. There was no zombie apocalypse genre to speak of, although films such as DAWN OF THE DEAD and 28 DAYS LATER were setting it up in the public consciousness.
Suddenly, I discovered emerging zombie fiction authors such as David Moody and Joe McKinney and pioneering small presses such as Permuted Press, and the genre opened up to me as both a reader and a writer. So I started writing a novel I always wanted to read: TOOTH AND NAIL, a story about the end of the world told from the perspective of the soldiers who fought to save it. The novel was so successful—more than 11,000 copies sold to date—that I decided to write THE INFECTION, a story about five ordinary people who must pay the price of survival at the end of the world—more of the classic formula of survivors searching for sanctuary, but with some interesting twists.
Anyway, that’s why I’m here. What about you?
