tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45929252344616648132024-03-12T16:15:03.130-07:00Rigor MortisThis is what happens when you think about zombies too much.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger102125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4592925234461664813.post-55637942072301053692015-04-01T09:56:00.000-07:002015-04-01T09:56:14.895-07:00New Art from Botda<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Rigor Mortis artist Botda is creating some new works of art using the 3-D app Seene. Check out his portfolio here: <a href="http://seene.co/u/Helldresser/" style="background-color: white; color: #0068cf; cursor: pointer; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.2999992370605px;" target="_blank">http://seene.co/u/Helldresser/</a></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4592925234461664813.post-7476791905884186272012-12-25T07:23:00.000-08:002012-12-25T07:24:25.380-08:00Review: Menneskeheten – Saving the Human Race (video) by Spinal Cord<br />
I have seen a lot of zombie shorts. I’ve seen good ones, bad ones, and ones
that look like they were pieced together from all of the dull parts of<i> The Road</i>.
But never, have I ever, seen anything like For Menneskeheten (aka Saving the
Human Race). [<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIg-I0p31JE">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIg-I0p31JE</a>]<br />
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Saving the Human Race, is a Norwegian zombie short film about a 14 year old
boy with a robot side kick trying to get laid during the zombie apocalypse. It’s
quirky, odd, and funny. Mathias is the bow-tie clad, last male survivor of the
human race. He is adorable and the creator of an android companion who sports a
<i>Videodrome </i>style belly and is presumably modeled after <i>Torchwood’s </i>Ianto Jones.
Robot, Joansey, plays loyal partner, protector, and advice-giver to his maker
and it is their relationship that really dominates the short.<br />
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If you have 15 minutes to look up Grumpy cat memes on the interwebs, then
you have enough time to watch this. The zombies are mean, the dialogue is warm,
and the concept is so completely out there that this is a must see.<br />
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-Spinal Cord<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4592925234461664813.post-64027982325403180062012-11-22T15:38:00.000-08:002012-11-22T15:38:01.625-08:00Review: Rubber (DVD)<br />
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It’s a story as old as time…a drifter comes to town, spots a
pretty lady, and kills a bunch of people. Except in this case the killer is a psychokinetic
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Not only is the tire self-aware, so is the rest of the
movie, which comes complete with its own audience. Lt. Chad is the bridge
between the audience and the audience-audience and he cites that movies often
offer no reason and that, “the film you are about to see today is an homage to
the ‘no reason’ - that most powerful element of style.” </div>
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Is this an art house film wearing horror movie clothing? Is
it a horror movie that breaks conventional horror movie rules? It doesn’t
really matter; it is the only film with a serial killing tire and that alone makes
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4592925234461664813.post-55565021763572982892012-10-27T16:21:00.001-07:002012-11-22T15:35:44.631-08:00Review: Nazis at the Center of the Earth (DVD)<br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">As a group, the <i>Rigor Mortis</i> staff can bicker and
geek-slam like maniacal kittens fighting over a cricket in the house. Dread
rolls his eyes until we fear seizure, Spinal Cord raises her razorblade-like
eyebrow, and Colin clears his throat with enraged dignity. But a magical thing
happened – we agreed on something, and that something is <i>Nazis at the Center of the Earth</i>. It spread among us like a virus
and we all agreed this was an amazing moment in cinema. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Personally, I went into
it thinking, “This sounds ridiculous and Jake Busey is in it, <i>hit play!</i>” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Reistad and that right there tells you that suspension of disbelief isn’t all
that important to the filmmakers. The film opens with nubile young scientists
encountering foul play and going missing at a base in Antarctica. A search
party is formed in accordance with Horror Movie Plot Convention #367. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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out that if you can’t pretend to be cold while you are in “Antarctica,” you
should probably consider another career. A five dollar hooker can fake it
better. Then again, maybe all that hot, young blood keeps them warm. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">It is a truth
universally acknowledged, that a horror movie in possession of a good gimmick,
must be in want of a plot. However, this movie has a gimmick that really makes
the need for a plot irrelevant. Another universal truth is that Nazis look
awesome in snow. These aren’t Nazi zombies, but they would totally go out for a
beer with the guys from <i>Dead Snow</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">And so, our <s>heroes</s>
victims find themselves in a secret underground base, complete with an entirely
different climate – all the better for the actors who can’t be bothered to
pretend to be cold. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">There is expected and
unexpected gore and requisite evil Nazi scientist. The film’s genius becomes
apparent once the decaying/regenerating Nazis arrive, lead by Dr. Josef
Mengele, and the WTF moments build into a crescendo that takes suspension of
disbelief by the throat and leaves it for dead. I forgot Jake Busey was even in
the movie. That’s right, the what-the-fuckary was so great that a Busey was
cast into shadow. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Beyond that are spoilers
and I’m not going to ruin the fun for anyone - for a change the title actually
under-promises and over-delivers. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Rent it today. If you
live in Chicago rent it from <a href="http://www.brainstormmcg.com/">Brainstorm Comics</a> and tell them Colin Cthulhu sent
you. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4592925234461664813.post-51207558646072865802012-02-09T13:37:00.000-08:002012-02-09T13:37:28.701-08:002012: THE REVENGE OF REVENGE OF PRINT<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6Gujq7slPBNFqze5pgbxcKs5Q6dPXEvF7t8PoWqwkyN_CaA23jqhxWEqlmkePDAy96gS80hxz8fPX_AnQInSxpciCekHB3dCw58b4txBKoNR6QYk3wtQWMCADnMOFKivGDkQOjUiknE5b/s1600/RotRoP+LR-3.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6Gujq7slPBNFqze5pgbxcKs5Q6dPXEvF7t8PoWqwkyN_CaA23jqhxWEqlmkePDAy96gS80hxz8fPX_AnQInSxpciCekHB3dCw58b4txBKoNR6QYk3wtQWMCADnMOFKivGDkQOjUiknE5b/s200/RotRoP+LR-3.jpg" width="154" /></a></div><br />
<div>Because revenge is a dish best served as seconds.</div><div><br />
Last year, after getting tired of hearing folks glibly forecasting the death of print, a number of people in the self-publishing/small press/zines/comics world teamed up to declare 2011 The Revenge Of Print. </div><div><br />
</div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPFwq3prmtHbOmNW7eopkNMz5MlvWGijMynJdybY6gdUV5sXOlKzE-uvjMrmSYQurc3rb8qczkGuVmiPn4YjAp4eoRr4boaO5p3B5MK_UGRHmy5zzybMWsCQ0pe0R2B3h760SBSNnkwpFM/s1600/RotRoP+LR-1.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPFwq3prmtHbOmNW7eopkNMz5MlvWGijMynJdybY6gdUV5sXOlKzE-uvjMrmSYQurc3rb8qczkGuVmiPn4YjAp4eoRr4boaO5p3B5MK_UGRHmy5zzybMWsCQ0pe0R2B3h760SBSNnkwpFM/s200/RotRoP+LR-1.jpg" width="154" /></a>Organizers/sponsors included:<br />
Stores: <a href="http://www.atomicbooks.com/"><b>Atomic Books</b></a> (Baltimore), <b><a href="http://www.quimbys.com/">Quimby's</a></b> (Chicago), <b><a href="http://www.readingfrenzy.com/">Reading Frenzy</a></b> (Portland), <b><a href="http://www.leekinginc.com/xeroxdebt/">Xerography Debt</a></b>, and <b><a href="http://www.undergroundpress.org/">Zine World</a></b>, <b><a href="http://www.razorcake.org/">Razorcake</a></b>, <b><a href="http://maximumrocknroll.com/">Maximum Rocknroll</a></b>, Broken Pencil, and a number of zine libraries and distros around the world. </div><div><br />
The challenge was issued - everyone who has ever made a zine, a comic, a mini-comic, handmade booklet, pamphlet or publication - or anyone who still was making one - or even anyone who as ever thought of making one - do it. Make at least one more publication in 2011. </div><div><br />
</div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm407DnurKuxHhGFEq7VEQF-Pk__WT1B-0IGMVrYq4k2p-6B2nGLsqTnM5mGGvAHVJsOjjxseQJecw3uy492tas54GFs1RKgwnx1pUYqO9r2oNISkREhsNta0pcUGAJoadP2HAOGcsBNef/s1600/RotRoP+LR-2.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm407DnurKuxHhGFEq7VEQF-Pk__WT1B-0IGMVrYq4k2p-6B2nGLsqTnM5mGGvAHVJsOjjxseQJecw3uy492tas54GFs1RKgwnx1pUYqO9r2oNISkREhsNta0pcUGAJoadP2HAOGcsBNef/s200/RotRoP+LR-2.jpg" width="154" /></a>And the results are in. Quimby's and Atomic Books tallied up nearly 2000 titles published as part of, in response to, or in the spirit of Revenge of Print. How's that for revenge?</div><div><br />
</div><div>"Books are over." "Magazines are over." "Comix are over." "Zines are over." "Newspapers are over." Bah! Don't think so. We're over things being over.</div><div><br />
</div><div>And that includes revenge. </div><div><br />
</div><div>So Revenge of Print organizers and members are declaring 2012 The Revenge of Revenge of Print.</div><div><br />
</div><div>Once again we are encouraging/challenging/asking - everyone who ever made (or wants to make) a zine, a mini-comic, a journal, a chapbook, a magazine or any kind of self-made publication of any kind vow that in 2012, they'll make another issue/title/publication.</div><div><br />
Yes, we're still making a point. And we're using the very tools credited with the demise of print to do so - the internet!<br />
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Join the Facebook group:<br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=115370015178929&v=info" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/groups/revengeofprint/</a></div><div><br />
And who is this "we" that's issued this challenge to self-publishers past, present, and future? </div><div><br />
</div><div>"We" are, to date, </div><div>Atomic Books - <a href="http://www.atomicbooks.com/" target="_blank">www.atomicbooks.com</a><br />
Quimby's - <a href="http://www.quimbys.com/" target="_blank">www.quimbys.com</a> </div><div>Reading Frenzy - <a href="http://www.readingfrenzy.com/" target="_blank">www.readingfrenzy.com</a></div><div>Xerography Debt - <a href="http://www.xerographydebt.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">www.xerographydebt.blogspot.com</a></div><div>and more TBA.</div><div><br />
We'll be using the Facebook group as an organizing resource to provide addresses to publications where participants can send copies of their projects for review, and we'll also be listing addresses to real stores who will consign those very same titles so people can actually get copies the old fashioned way, by walking into a store. <br />
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Our list of participants has been growing rapidly. The Facebook group already has nearly 1,100 self-publishers. We're hoping you will team-up with us by helping to spread the word!</div><div><br />
</div><div>"Print lives if you want it."</div><div></div><div>Logos above are available for use and should be credited to Bojan. </div><div><br />
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4592925234461664813.post-56741341451608470762012-01-02T11:18:00.000-08:002012-01-02T11:18:12.858-08:00Big Ass Monstah AttackSorry for the silence, we've been busy working on the new project. Here's a taste.<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;">Paperback: 236 pages</span></b></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></b></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;">Pub Date: August 24, 2011</span></b></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></b></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;">ISBN: 9781934861998</span></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;">This novel is a great example of the whole being greater than the sum of the parts. While my suspension of disbelief never fully engaged, my bullshit-o-meter remained relatively silent. I found myself engaged in the story and tore through the book in two sittings. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;">I could nitpick – too many 20-something characters, first-base sexual tension, omniscient characters – but that seems unfair because this is actually an entertaining zombie novel that takes some unexpected chances. It marriages, at once, brutality and common sense with a smidge of touchy-feely without venturing over to the land of pointless nihilism. And the dog lives. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;">The outbreak occurs and Ben, a college student in Pennsylvania, contacts Kasey, an online friend living in West Virginia. They had a plan for this and begin to enact it. As one would expect in a world now teeming with the living dead, nothing goes as planned. Instead of just Ben, Kasey, who is anti-social and dealing with unspecified anxiety, welcomes a group of strangers into her home. She lives in a remote farm house nestled against the </span>Monongahela National Forest that is a survivalist’s dream home. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Conflict, of course, arrives with her visitors – internally and externally; dead and living. The characters are both stupid and too smart, but the mixture keeps this from tilting either way. <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;">Dulaney attempts to create complex characters and some are better realized than others. For comparison’s sake, Brian Keene often creates one-dimensional characters, but Colson Whitehead’s Mark Spitz was fully three-dimensional. Dulaney’s characters hover around the 2-2.5 mark. There was more character back story that was alluded to, but perhaps cut. I was left with a few questions. Or maybe she just isn’t done introducing us to her characters. I’m curious to see if they go fully 3-D with the next installment. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;">This may seem like an odd or disparaging comment, but this would also be good for a YA audience. I mean this in a complimentary way. The main character is a strong, self-sufficient young woman; someone who I think would resonate with either gender. The sex is implied behind closed doors. There is strong language, but nothing they haven’t heard before. There is violence, but it has repercussions. And no sparkly vampires. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Overall, rollicking bit of zombie lit with plenty of action, blood, and coffee. And yes, I am heartened by an apocalyptic world where coffee still exists. </span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4592925234461664813.post-61517523697150307902011-10-23T08:51:00.000-07:002011-10-23T08:51:52.491-07:00Review: Zone One, by Colson Whitehead (Review by DeadVida)<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.colsonwhitehead.com/Zone_One_files/zone%20one%20coverpic.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://www.colsonwhitehead.com/Zone_One_files/zone%20one%20coverpic.jpg" width="210" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Zone One</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">By Colson Whitehead</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hardcover:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> 272 pages </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Publisher: Doubleday </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Pub date: October 18, 2011</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ISBN-13:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> 978-0385528078</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In many respects, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Zone One</span></b> is a quintessential literary plague novel about Manhattan – complete with satire and allegories – where zombies happen to be the plague. It is obvious Whitehead is a lover of words. He also loves to evoke imagery, such as the omnipresent ash that filters down from the sky and torments the protagonist, Mark Spitz. No, not that Mark Spitz. Most of the survivors are reborn into new names and personas in the new world. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mark Spitz is the kind of average guy who lives in his parents’ basement on Long Island, yearning for a “real” life in The City. He is the kind of guy who unwittingly spends his last hours of normalcy indulging in Atlantic City debauchery. He is nothing special. In the time before the virus he is the kind of guy who does just enough to skate by – no real passions or ambitions. He goes through the motions. However, in the post-plague world, his self-preservation instincts are something special. He is almost an inverse of the “skels.” Once the world goes dead, he comes alive. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We spend a lot of time inside Mark’s head, which at times can be disorienting. Through him, and his fellow survivors, we learn how they came to be part of the effort to reclaim Manhattan. They are working on an area near Canal St., known as Zone One. They have plans to reclaim Zones Two and Three, further up the island. We also learn about the provisional government and how even in the apocalypse corporations are dictating policy. The sections regarding the government and rebranding of things like post-traumatic stress disorder are keen satire. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This is a good section regarding planning for the future, <i>“…Mark Spitz’s hosts began to air their post-plague plans and schemes. This was a rare pastime, at least in his vicinity, not easily indulged in, and Mark Spitz was surprised to hear perfectly (relatively) sane people partake. More than a jinx on deliverance, this was straddling reality with a pillow while it was sleeping and pressing down while it bucked and kicked.”</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As I said, this is also a novel about Manhattan and this exemplifies that, <i>“Omega wormed through the intestines of a starter-apartment rental tower, and floor after floor of beige carpet, noise-permeable walls, and fingerprint-smudged doorways soured his disposition. His friends in the city lived in buildings like that, and the hallway always reeked of the dead ambitions decomping behind the doors.” </i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I can see where zombie fans who want the plot to be spoon-fed with a heaping side of action will get frustrated. They will also probably need a dictionary on hand to even read the book. Fuck ‘em. If you like to think and you like zombies, give this a shot. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Overall, this is a great additional to the cannon of zombie lore. I hope Whitehead’s success encourages more writers of quality fiction to also give genre fiction a try. I’m tired of reading crappy zombies stories and you should be too. </span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4592925234461664813.post-6106156863780967392011-10-18T05:06:00.000-07:002011-10-18T05:06:51.941-07:00ZOMBIE HAIKU from Exploitation Retrospect<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="215" src="http://dantenet.com/er/contest/zombie-contest.jpg" width="320" /></div><div class="body"><br />
</div><div class="body">This year, Exploitation Retrospect has joined forces with Louis Fowler of <a href="http://damagedhearing.podomatic.com/" target="_blank">Damaged Hearing</a>/<a href="http://damagedviewing.podomatic.com/" target="_blank">Damaged Viewing</a> and Deadvida of <a href="http://livingdeadzine.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Rigor Mortis </a>to bring you the <strong>2011 Zombie Haiku Contest</strong>. </div><div class="body"><br />
</div><div class="body"><a href="mailto:editor@dantenet.com">E-mail ER</a> your best, most creative, funniest, or grossest zombie-centric haiku by 11:59 PM Eastern on Thursday, October 27, 2011. Our panel of judges will pick their favorite and the winner will be announced on Monday, October 31, 2011. (And let's not get all nit-picky about haiku. For the purpose of this contest we're defining a haiku as a three-line poem with 5 syllables in the first line, 7 syllables in the second and 5 in the third.) </div><div class="body"><br />
</div><div class="body">The winning entry will receive a <strong>Zombie Prize Package</strong> including: </div><ul><li class="body">AUTOMATON TRANSFUSION/BLACK SHEEP Double Feature DVD</li>
<li class="body">BIO-DEAD DVD</li>
<li class="body">STRIPPERLAND DVD</li>
<li class="body"><em>Paul is Undead: The British Zombie Invasion</em> by Alan Goldsher</li>
<li class="body"><em>The Zombie Factory: 27 Tales of Bizarre Comix Madness from Beyond the Tomb!</em></li>
<li class="body"><em>Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Zombie Jim</em> by Mark Twain and W. Bill Czolgosz</li>
<li class="body">RIGOR MORTIS #4</li>
<li class="body">ER: Revenge of Print Edition 2011 (upon publication)</li>
<li class="body">AMC's <em>The Walking Dead</em> t-shirt</li>
<li class="body">Autographed vinyl single of outlaw country singer Christopher Murdock's song "Fear the Dead"</li>
</ul><div class="body">You can enter as often as you like but <strong>only one entry per e-mail</strong>. Entrants must be 18 years of age or older. Each entry must include haiku and e-mail address where we can contact you if you are the winner. </div><div class="body"><br />
</div><div class="body">For more go to: <a href="http://dantenet.com/er/contest/index.html">http://dantenet.com/er/contest/index.html </a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4592925234461664813.post-25441549365349479382011-10-13T07:00:00.000-07:002011-10-13T07:00:57.858-07:00Review from Monster Magazine World<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaDv-gljp3U8P9fkU-0Zo1yVOUEQrTZC1vlBS3pbYTSd_U4CaPToAQfgd2U1MroiLNjMEaH2MHVEINysNdUtWK4_g2HfueTKpy3Ayilni9MLsBFhNHMUdlhhnafmgn4DdVGSECO33Co34/s1600/MMW+BANNER+2011+BLOOD.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="106" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaDv-gljp3U8P9fkU-0Zo1yVOUEQrTZC1vlBS3pbYTSd_U4CaPToAQfgd2U1MroiLNjMEaH2MHVEINysNdUtWK4_g2HfueTKpy3Ayilni9MLsBFhNHMUdlhhnafmgn4DdVGSECO33Co34/s320/MMW+BANNER+2011+BLOOD.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
Well, this just warms our cold, dead hearts:<br />
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<i>"<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">After taking a look at the first few issues of <strong>RIGOR MORTIS</strong>, it is quite evident that this talented group of creators will be raising the zombie freak flag for some time to come.</span>"<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">"What immediately struck me when I first looked at the mags was their resemblance to the underground comix of the 1960’s. Mind you, that was only in appearance – the content is wholly contemporary, albeit with just a hint of nostalgia for the good ol’ zombie days."</span></i> <br />
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<a href="http://monstermagazineworld.blogspot.com/2011/10/rigor-mortis-read-it-before-they-come.html">http://monstermagazineworld.blogspot.com/2011/10/rigor-mortis-read-it-before-they-come.html</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4592925234461664813.post-42133374422647909042011-10-10T17:44:00.000-07:002011-10-10T17:44:31.785-07:00Review: Autumn, by David Moody (review by DeadVida)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.djmoody.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/autumn_medium.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://www.djmoody.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/autumn_medium.jpg" width="214" /></a></div><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> </w:Compatibility> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif";">Autumn</span></b></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif";">By David Moody</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Paperback: 320 pages </span></div><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin</span></div><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Pub Date: October 26, 2010</span></div><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">ISBN-13: 978-0312569983</span></div><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">I had almost picked <b><i>Autumn</i></b> up a few times, but something else always grabbed my attention first. I finally bought a copy and was pleasantly surprised. Unlike standard American zombie fare Moody doesn’t rely on nihilism, incessant action, scientific “fact” to explain the plot, or excessive gore. No, instead, he presents an apocalyptic world that has a building, slow creep that gets under your skin. The instinctive fear of the dead is enough…and then Moody begins ratcheting the terror in an atmospheric way.</span></div><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Without warning, a virus strikes and within minutes billions are dead. In a fictitious city in the north of England, a handful of survivors congregate in a community center. They are grieving and damaged from what they have seen and who they have lost. They are cold, uncomfortable, and confused. Days go by like this. This was a great and effective set up because without a lot of details about the characters it was easy to empathize with their reactions. What do you <b><i>do</i></b> after 99% of the world dies before your very eyes? Fear and non-action are dangerous. </span></div><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">And then <i>some</i> the dead started rising. Everyone is ready to freak out. “Aggggggggggg, zombies!”, right? Well, yes, but they simply stumble around and didn’t react to the survivors. Again, very creepy, but not terrifying. Moody has gone back to our base fears about the dead. The waiting for something to happen begins to drive some of the survivors to the edge. Some want to barricade the doors and never go outside again, no matter the short-sightedness of that plan, and others want to find more suitable accommodations. </span></div><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ultimately, three people leave the community center: Michael, who worked in corporate computers, Emma, a nursing student, and Carl, a mechanic who has lost his partner and young daughter. They have no special skills and their personalities feel genuine. They are just people – annoying at times, showing signs of PTSD, and struggling in the new world. After much driving and bickering, and as a trio they do bicker, they arrive at a farm in the middle of nowhere. </span></div><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">They attempt to make it defendable and stock up on provisions from nearby villages. Instead of ever making this sound idyllic, Moody constantly reminds us of the stress these people are under simply waiting for something to happen. And, of course, eventually it does. </span></div><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Overall the book is very light on action, but very heavy on tension. The set up and build was very effective and as soon as I was done with the book I ordered the second in the series and pre-ordered the next ones. </span></div><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Interestingly, this book started as something the author posted on the web and gave away for free. I think that as a genre, horror is definitely benefiting from the way the web and self-publishing is allowing quality work rise to the top and discovered by fans. We always want more fresh blood, right? </span></div><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4592925234461664813.post-45462071935315763092011-08-24T05:48:00.000-07:002011-08-24T05:48:48.271-07:00Z.E.D.: Zombies! Emergencies! Disasters! - SAMPLER PDF<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://leekinginc.com/rigormortis/ZED/zedsample-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://leekinginc.com/rigormortis/ZED/zedsample-1.jpg" width="247" /></a></div><i>Dear Friends of Rigor Mortis,</i><br />
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Battling the apocalypse and zombie hordes is a never-ending challenge. We discovered a manuscript that we <i>had </i>to publish, as a matter of public interest. It will address some of those survival issues other guides tend to omit - like DIY cannibalism, skin care tips, and the realities of someone going from couch to bad-assed zombie killer (note: Dorito-breath does not deter zombies, just girls). In addition to all these handy tips that may save your life (or make you want to take it), is a recently unearthed (literally) comic starring horror comic legends. They will show you how to DO the apocalypse like it is fashion week.<br />
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You can download the issue with the following options:<br />
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<b>Higher res PDF:</b><br />
<a href="http://www.4shared.com/document/Gh2x0vns/ZED_PDF_Sampler.html">http://www.4shared.com/document/Gh2x0vns/ZED_PDF_Sampler.html</a><br />
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<b>Higher res image files:</b><br />
<a href="http://www.4shared.com/file/kTEn4hbZ/ZED_ALL_COMIX_SURVIVAL_KIT_160.html">http://www.4shared.com/file/kTEn4hbZ/ZED_ALL_COMIX_SURVIVAL_KIT_160.html</a><br />
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<b>Low res PDF:</b><br />
<a href="http://www.leekinginc.com/rigormortis/ZEDSampler.pdf">http://www.leekinginc.com/rigormortis/ZEDSampler.pdf</a><br />
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<b>Or view the individual images at:</b><br />
<a href="http://www.leekinginc.com/rigormortis/ZEDart.htm">http://www.leekinginc.com/rigormortis/ZEDart.htm</a><br />
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We are still conjuring the print edition and will let you know when it is ready to be released upon the world.<br />
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For now, laugh, cry, and cringe as we present snippets from Z.E.D.: Zombies! Emergencies! Disasters!<br />
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Blasphemously,<br />
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The Editors of Rigor MortisUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4592925234461664813.post-13867495760742936452011-08-14T17:01:00.000-07:002011-08-14T17:01:04.042-07:00Review: Deadline, Newsflesh, Book 2 (Review by DeadVida)<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> </w:Compatibility> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.orbitbooks.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Grant_Deadline-MM1-166x300.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.orbitbooks.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Grant_Deadline-MM1-166x300.jpg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Review: Deadline (Newsflesh, Book 2)</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">By Mira Grant</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Orbit Press</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">ISBN: 9780316081061</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">SPOILER ALERT – If you haven’t read <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Feed</b> (Newsflesh, Book 1), stop! Go read <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Feed</b> now…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Done? Good. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Taking your narrator and killing her is damned risky. Mira Grant did this in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Feed</b>, leaving her readers to wonder how she would approach the telling of the next book in the Newsflesh trilogy, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Deadline</b>. The answer is much better than the television standby of having her twin show up. Instead, Grant made the narrator’s brother, Shaun, “a crazy person” who is able to talk to his dead sister, George. This could have been trite, but Grant managed to pull it off. In a sense there are two concurrent narrators, but this is more Shaun’s story. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Where <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Feed</b> was more a political zombie thriller, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Deadline</b> is a medical zombie thriller. A researcher with the CDC, first introduced in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Feed</b>, arrives at the <span class="st">After the </span><em><span style="font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">End Times</span></em> media compound in Oakland. Within minutes there is an outbreak and half of the city is blown-up. Shaun and what is now left of his crew escape, taking the CDC researcher with them. As the initial stages of a global conspiracy are revealed, Shaun shakes off the grief that has been paralyzing him and begins seeking revenge for his sister’s death. As a blogger and reporter he does this the only way he knows how – by exposing the truth. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The series is set a generation after the initial outbreak, so existence is highly controlled. Everyone is paranoid, tested and tracked, because <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">everyone</i> is infected with the Kellis-Amberlee virus. Some even have secondary reservoir conditions, with concentrations of the virus infecting specific systems. It is these reservoir conditions and some statistical improbabilities that begin uncovering the larger conspiracy first revealed in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Feed</b>. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Grant manages to describe a large amount of technical and medical information without losing lay readers. She blends the actual, with the probable and improbable in such a way that the reader is left guessing what is truth or fiction. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
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</style> <![endif]--> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">At 608 pages this is actually a compulsive read. The worst part in the book is the cliffhanger ending and knowledge that I will have to wait a year to find out what happens to Shaun and the rest of the <span class="st">After the </span><em><span style="font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">End Times</span></em> crew in the final book, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Deadline</b>. On the bright side, Orbit has begun releasing short stories related to the universe Mira Grant has created.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Highly recommended!</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">For the true fan check out <a href="http://www.thefeedbook.com/">http://www.thefeedbook.com</a> and the novella, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Countdown</b>, <a href="http://www.orbitshortfiction.com/2011/08/countdown-a-newsflesh-novella">http://www.orbitshortfiction.com/2011/08/countdown-a-newsflesh-novella</a>.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4592925234461664813.post-5619503569769574432011-07-31T03:29:00.000-07:002011-07-31T03:29:26.522-07:00Review: Rebirth, by Sophie Littlefield (review by DeadVida)<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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</style> <![endif]--> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://sophielittlefield.com/dystopian/images/rebirth-200.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://sophielittlefield.com/dystopian/images/rebirth-200.jpg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Rebirth</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>By Sophie Littlefield</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">Books set in post-apocalyptic worlds tend not to offer shreds of hope. In fact, that seems to be something of an antithesis in modern zombie lit. The characters are often as lifeless as the doomed planet. The world Sophie Littlefield created in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Aftertime,</i> and now revisits in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rebirth</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Survivors</i>, a short story bridge between the two books, is a bit different. Instead, she gives us a compelling protagonist, Cass Dollar, who effectively shows the parallels between the once dead landscape and the once deadened woman, both of whom struggle for renewal. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">Littlefield’s earth was destroyed by bio-warfare attacks. Cass suffered at her step-father’s hands and then her own. Yet we see each fighting toward life – be it a sprig breaking ground again or the broken pieces in Cass fighting against her innate self-destruction.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Survivors, </i>a short story, details the arrival and integration of Feo, a young orphan, into the encampment run by Dor and introduced in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rebirth</i>. It was made available pre-pub as a free ebook and is available now from the publisher or ebook vendors. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rebirth</i> picks up a few months after <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Aftertime</i>. Cass, Smoke, and Ruthie, Cass’s young daughter, have finally settled into a family life. Cass’s fragile sense of trust is broken when Smoke volunteers for a revenge mission. As a reaction to Smoke’s abandonment, Cass volunteers for a mission of her own to rescue Sammi, Dor’s daughter. Cass uses her immunity to the plant responsible for creating the zombies, or Beaters as they are called here, to gain entrance to the compound holding Sammi. In Littlefield’s world, the only thing more dangerous than zombies is fellow survivors. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><i>Things I love about this series:</i></div><ul><li><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span>The end of days was geo-political and came about because of plant-based bio-terrorism. The US faced famine and the government created a genetically modified plant, kaysev, which is nutrient-rich and can grow wild. Beaters are not the walking dead, but people affected by a variant of the plant. This is a clever and original take. In a sense, the “zombies” are secondary to whatever happened in the world that led to the famine, but in this new world this all seems like ancient history. </li>
</ul><ul><li><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>Theory and rumors are accepted and people just get on with living in hard times. I enjoy that there is a construct of backstory that is never entirely explained. The viewpoints of the characters matter over the omniscience of the narration. </li>
</ul><ul><li><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"></span></span>The survivor groups are varied and fluid. The main encampment is more a shanty town, rather than the usual claustrophobic clusterfuck of stereotyped survivors in a fortified compound. </li>
</ul><ul><li><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"></span></span>The main character, Cass Dollar, is a woman and mother. Cass is weak and strong at the same time. She fights a three-front war against Beaters, malicious survivors, and herself. She constantly makes questionable decisions, but Littlefield does a good job showing the character’s faulty logic without diminishing or over-explaining her. </li>
</ul><ul><li><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"></span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rebirth</i> manages the delicate balance of real character development, a believable universe, action sequences, and genuinely creepy scenes (instead of easy gore). </li>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.leekinginc.com/rigormortis/art/RM4.1-4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://www.leekinginc.com/rigormortis/art/RM4.1-4.jpg" width="310" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal">After we finished <a href="http://www.leekinginc.com/rigormortis/rm4.htm">Rigor Mortis #4</a>, we realized how little of the art was online. We decided to create an <a href="http://www.leekinginc.com/rigormortis/rmart.htm"><b>art gallery</b></a> for <i>Rigor Mortis</i>. Often there are extra pieces that are not used or are modified for the layout. We've decided to include those here as well. We’ve also decided to include art that was deemed to scandalous to include in the print edition. While photocopy has been our medium of choice, there is degradation of the artwork. Please <a href="http://www.leekinginc.com/rigormortis/rmart.htm">take a look</a> and see for yourself what a true master of the cross-hatch can create with a little ink, Bristol board, and fear for his life. </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4592925234461664813.post-25671145191289326292011-06-29T17:08:00.000-07:002011-06-29T17:10:34.000-07:00Review of Rigor Mortis from BuyZombie.comWe received a review from Paul Skow with <a href="http://www.buyzombie.com/">Buy Zombie</a> that made our day. <br />
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And, Paul, just so you know, we are working on that long-winded thing. You should see the raw drafts!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4592925234461664813.post-43459932786658882972011-05-20T06:00:00.000-07:002011-05-20T12:44:51.353-07:00Review: The Horde (La horde) 2009 (Review by DeadVida)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTk2NjUyNTczN15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwODc5MDQ1Mw@@._V1._SY317_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTk2NjUyNTczN15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwODc5MDQ1Mw@@._V1._SY317_.jpg" /></a></span></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Horde</b></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b> (La horde) 2009</b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">The Horde</span></b> is like <b><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Reservoir Dogs</span></b> meets <b><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Dawn of the Dead</span></b> (2004), but in French with subtitles. It starts off with a gang of crooked cops seeking revenge for the killing of one of their own by an international gang of ruthless thugs. However, when they are quickly outnumbered by the horde of undead, the enemy of my enemy becomes my friend and all that. This is probably for the best because they are all so unlikable that it is unlikely the audience is going to side with either group. The violence displayed, by both the living and the unloving is brutal and atavistic. The color pallet is rich in gore, grime, and decay. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Four off-duty (we assume) cops, three male and one female, arrive at a high-rise squat in what appears to be the outskirts of Paris. Almost immediately things start going wrong and the in-fighting begins. They are there to rescue one of their own and seek revenge for the murder of another colleague. They are immediately taken captive by a multi-national consortium of thugs, lead by two Nigerian brothers. This results in two casualties and a whole lot of screaming. Then dead people start doing things dead people aren’t supposed to do and there is a whole lot more screaming. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The tenement building is an effective location and the director and cinematographer make good use of the darkness, cramped corridors, bouncing sounds, and overall feeling that hope has long been abandoned here. Eventually the foes make an uneasy truce in an effort to escape the dead gathering outside the building looking for a hot lunch. As they descend from the top floors, they encounter other residents of the building, both living and dead. The atmosphere is always tense and claustrophobic. The gore and violence are prolific, but in a few scenes it is taken to an almost artistic composition. It is slightly jarring in that the shots become more about creating an iconic image without regard to things like continuity (blood, what blood?). The final scene, as they burst into the relative light of a freshly apocalyptic world, makes you think, “Ah, I can finally breathe again!” And then being one of them mind-fuck-European-type movies you gotta suck that breath all back in again. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Things this movie taught me – there is apparently a held believe that simply being Nigerian will protect you from zombies. The US does not have the market on crazy Vietnam vets. Zombies hath no fury like an adulterous woman left knocked up and scorned. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Solid zombie fare with fast zombies, lots of gore, and great atmosphere. </span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4592925234461664813.post-22636103346514622792011-05-14T04:20:00.000-07:002011-05-14T04:20:38.377-07:00Excerpt from Rigor Mortis #4 - Mother, Jugs, and Peens: Great Moments of Gratuitous (and Confusing) Nudity in Horror<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.leekinginc.com/rigormortis/rm4motherjugsandpeens.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://www.leekinginc.com/rigormortis/rm4motherjugsandpeens.jpg" width="242" /></span></a></span></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #990000;"><a href="http://www.leekinginc.com/rigormortis/rm4.htm">Excerpt from Rigor Mortis #4</a></span></b><br />
</span><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"><b> Mother, Jugs, and Peens:<br />
Great Moments of Gratuitous (and Confusing) Nudity in Horror</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: small;"><b> </b></span><span style="font-size: small;">We here at RM HQ are really just 13-year-olds who can drive cars and buy cigarettes. As proof of our unrelenting puberty we are now going to talk about genitals. That’s right, a whole article devoted to jugs, willies, knockers, boners, melons, weeners, chesticles, peters, and nips. Collectively, we are able to evaluate the subject matter rather impartially. No, really. We know the difference between nudity as art and nudity as sloppy script filler. As a group we are male and female; gay, straight, bi, and tri; and like it vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry. We have a gender trespasser who is the vegan lovechild of Xena and Quentin Crisp, a gay man who will happily play with a nice pair of knockers, someone who would do Godzilla with the right lighting, as well as an otherwise straight man who would be no more if Johnny Depp showed up on his doorstep. We’ve given it away and made people pay (one way or another). Some of us (Dread, perhaps) would fuck Clint Howard (but with your dick). Hell, Dread would do you for a pack of cigarettes. Make it two packs and gas money and he’ll even leave you the key to the handcuffs and feed the cat on the way out. We’ve been there, done that, and got the t-shirt. That said, we are still geeks sitting at home on a Saturday night snickering about titties and johnsons, so make of that what you will. So grab your handi-wipes and let’s get on with the show…<br />
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<b>CEMETERY MAN</b><br />
In CEMETERY MAN, observant viewers (Hell, even lazyass viewers) saw some of Rupert Everett’s first surgical “enhancements” (and we don’t mean his purported facelifts). Cemetery Man watchers get an eye-full of ol’ Rupe’s dangly, dingly balls of delight (well, that depends on who you ask). For the low cost of a rental you too can get, oooh, about four inches from it yourself. <br />
For chicks who prefer dicks, lusting after the brooding, hunky actor was only fair; usually female Horror fans are visually assaulted by inexplicable boobs. Unfortunately, chicks still won’t get a total break here since ol’ Rupe tends to prefer burritos to tacos. But hey, it’s horror and a zombie film no less, so Grrls gotsta take what they can, right? Junk is junk, no matter where ya put yer trunk. <br />
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<b>ZOMBI 2</b><br />
Ask any ZOMBI 2 fan what the best scene is and, no doubt, they’ll tell you, “Duuude, that zombie vs. shark scene is, like, totally awesome!” See, what they won’t admit is the real reason they are watching is not because of some terribly choreographed “battle,” but to watch Auretta Gay get ready for her big peril scene. Right before the famed fight, that perv Fulci lovingly framed and richly composed angles of Auretta Gay strapping on her scuba gear, clad in only a g-string, camera, and her ta-tas, She then dives in, swimming before the camera thrusting...her fins...blowing...lotsa bubbles...and opening herself up...to a lot of trouble. You get the idea. It’s like soft porn, just with a zombie vs. shark framing device.<br />
No longer will the curious wonder where exactly those scuba straps go when they disappear between the legs of a woman, for all has been answered. Now, we at RM agree that a fresh pair of jablonskies never hurt nobody and we’re all for their loving (and semi-realistic) depiction onscreen. But let’s call a duck a duck, and say that shark fight is only sloppy seconds to Auretta Gay gearing up at 0:31:33. Not that any of us actually checked the DVD, we just heard this was maybe where it was. Scuze me...we have a bad-assed shark fight to wank...err...watch.<br />
28 DAYS LATER<br />
Director Danny Boyle penetrated...deep...inside the insecure sensibilities of some fanboys when not only did he bust out with the running-and-they’re-not-even-really-zombies to confound our Zed academics, but then bam, he took Str8t male fears of the willy-next-door to the next level. Yes, there was A WHOLE, NAKED ADULT MAN WITH HIS DING DONG OUT IN FULL PEENAGE VIEWAGE!!! OMG! Not just a quick flash, Hell, not even a pair of boobies to soften the 6” blow, but a WHOLE, NAKED MALE BODY FRONT AND CENTER. <br />
Z connoisseurs who thought they were being all, like, daring and European watching CEMETERY MAN’s wank attack went into Grand Mal seizures (requiring heavy metal therapy) when Boyle presented what amounted to BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN (well, without the horses and actual sex). It was a junk assault of an unprecedented scale. Not content with merely serving up La Tamale Murphy, Boyle made sure that the scenes of said protuberances were essential to the story so the poh thangs had to stare down that one-eyed monster. Oh, the humanity! <br />
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<b>RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD</b><br />
Remember when you were a little kid and your sister used to play with her Barbies and they’d be all like all nekkid and she was too little and uncoordinated to put their clothes back on? She’d still dance them around and put them in all kinds of acrobatic poses. You would think to yourself, “I wonder if a real woman looks like or could do that? Like a real woman with boobies and stuff?” Still not sure what stuff even was. <br />
And you’d (remember this is about you) keep this dirty secret in your head until your friend Nikolas showed you “discreetly torn pages” from his dad’s secret porno stash. The pages were crumpled in his pocket and the guys would gather all giggly until that old biddy teacher came to see what you heathens were up to. WHAT? This never happened to you? Uhm...me neither...we just uh...heard about these things. <br />
See how distracting that damned stuff is?? Where were we? Okay, it is years later and some of you are still wondering what a real woman looks like. But no worries, peeps, Dan O’Bannon, director of Return of the Living Dead, put not only a nekkid chick in his film, but a real, grown woman with real grown woman breskies. Furthermore, he saw fit to pay homage to that Barbie look you swear holds no part in your early sexual development. Though come to think of it, she looks a lot like the Barbie your sister gave a haircut to and then colored on with her markers, but whatever, we’d be shaving...umm…splitting hairs at this point to fuss. So, Fanboys, put down yer Mountain Dew cans cuz we think ya’ll need to stand at attention and give Mr. O’Bannon a hand (if you can spare one) for giving Horror cinema one of the more superfluous “anatomy” scenes around. <br />
Think we’re just being a meenie-weenies? Pretend that was a dude strolling through the fog looking like he just got back from Brazil. Better yet, imagine him dancing on that slab. Yep, thought so. Gratuitous cooch-meter has officially exploded and awaits replacement.<br />
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<b>ALIEN</b><br />
Now, first thing you should know is that we worship Ridley Scott’s ALIEN. Coincidentally (or not), Dan O’Bannon was also part of that team, so there’s our other flimsy excuse for including this. That said, we do hafta call attention to Scott’s remarkable POV frame composition during the climax of the movie. You know the one – where we get to see Ripley squeeze into her spacesuit in her barely there panties. We’re all down for saucy compositions, but considering the artisans involved in this film, you really wanna tell me that was the best angle they could shoot from?? The best angle that had shit to do with the rest of the movie. We guess in space no one can hear you masturbating in the bushes. Sure, with the ALIEN’s tongue extension scene, we’re supposed to get there’s sexual-bestial-alienial-something happening, but most folks ain’t looking for sub-text that deep. Was this supposed to prove that Jonesy wasn’t the only kitty on board?<br />
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<b>PLANET TERROR</b><br />
We’ve never understood why the male members of the audiences get their tighty-whities in a bunch when some dude goes tripod onscreen. Like, damn, ya’ll do have one, right? You have seen it before??? It does look remotely like the one onscreen, right? And it won’t, like, you know, jump off the screen and attack you. You know that, right? So what’s the fuss? <br />
Now, you want to have a real reason to squirm over wanton, nasty tubular man-things, we give you PLANET TERROR.<br />
Remember the scene where ol’ hottie Cherry peg leg is about to be “propositioned” by Tarantino’s character? Director Rodriguez was even a nice guy and shot from behind so you “real” men could actually watch Tarantino’s dripping, melty, oozy thingies in comfort. You weren’t looking directly at a real nutsack dropping its wet, slopping chunks on the floor. No, it’s a gooey, drippy, mutated nutsack shot from behind and that makes all the difference in the world. It was gratuitous, but sheer genius! Real men could watch and even say they loved the movie without worrying anyone would think they’re Gay! WHEW! However, we’re still a little too speechless to comment on the testicles-in-a-jar collecting angle. Believe whatcha want, but we do have a threshold.<br />
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<b>HELL OF THE LIVING DEAD</b><br />
Gotta love them liberated Europeans. They’ll find any damned reason to flash some skin…like, say, strolling through a cannibalistic village. Words can be lost in translation, but the language of jablonskies is international. There’s no need for scholarly analysis, no need for a storyline, cuz like a zap from a ray gun, one flash of ta-tas and Fanboys forgive things like plot holes, crappy editing, and bad dubbing. It’s a curveball of epic proportions even the toughest critics have a hard time fighting. It’s like titty Kryptonite. Oh, and the movie has zombies, but really, it is about the all-powerful jablonskies. <br />
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<b>THE ROAD</b><br />
Since the film is meant to be all, like, serious we’ll try to be nice <attempting face="" serious="">. It’ll be difficult because A) men are a scarcity when it comes to gratuitous displays on film, so any display is basically gratuitous (thanks Hollywood double standards!) and B) It’s an apocalypse film with Viggo Mortensen, who we all know is an actor <serious inflection="">, so when he puts down his backpack and whips out his mansack, we gotta treat those moments like sacred cows. Even fanboys who would normally tremor at the mere hint of impending trouser snake stop and think, “But they’re Viggo’s nads. This must be art, so it must be safe to watch. Art won’t make me gay, right?” (Actually, it will, but that is an article for another time.)<br />
John Hillcoat, the director, somehow managed to talk Aragorn, we mean Viggo, to show some skin not once, but twice in what appears to be frigid water. Any dude will tell ya, frigid waters and his little me’s don’t mix. There’s always a game of hide-and-seek that happens once somethin’ a little chilly hits the little willy. But nooo...not ol’ Viggo. Shot from behind on both occasions, in scenes that could’ve easily not been in the film, but whateverz, viewers get to see ol’ Viggo sporting a pair of low hanging fruit. We now all know where exactly Viggo carries his manpurse. <br />
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<b>PIRANHA (2010)</b><br />
Sweet jesus this film is like the visual equivalent of state fair novelty foods. It is steeped in self-aware irony, childhood nostalgia, dipped in some kind of fat, sugar, and then more sugar, and yet we still shove it in our mouths with reckless abandon. And…it has so much wanton nudity that we don’t even know where to start. <br />
There are tits in just about every scene and even dialog about said tits. There are wet t-shirt contests, bikinis, and two of the main characters act like porn stars….wait for it…because they are porn stars. We sat down to watch this in our respective bunkers within a day of each another and, without the added help of telepathy, knew this film begged to be added to the gratuitous genitalia hall of fame. <br />
To the director, hats off, sir. We have never before seen a penis eaten and then regurgitated. Had to freeze frame that shit, we did. (For proof of this please see page 72.) Oh, and the scene where the victim is eaten by the piranhas and her implants float gently away in the currents…sheer poetry. It was like that plastic bag scene in American Beauty, only, like, deeper. <br />
Lastly, your homage to the mermaids of Weeki Wachee was simply inspired. We had no idea mermaids had lesbian tendencies and were fans of Brazil. We did figure out your tricks – you hid the scuba tanks in their breasts, didn’t you? Sure, sure, some members of the audience were fine with the suspension of disbelief that beautiful, horny chicks can indeed survive underwater by simply gyrating against one another, but really, they should have drowned after the first two minutes. But no, you stretched that scene out as far as you could, you naughty boy. <br />
We kinda wanna go watch this again now…<br />
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<b>So dear readers, here are three Pubic Service Announcements from the miscreants here at RM:</b><br />
1) Bazookas, while wonderful things, do not excuse poor acting and abysmal story development.<br />
2) Cinematic penises will not hurt you. However, that one in your hand right now will make you go blind. <br />
3) Is Godzilla a top or bottom? Discuss. Defend your argument. <br />
</serious></attempting></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4592925234461664813.post-53635598700349264572011-05-13T17:11:00.000-07:002011-05-13T17:11:31.317-07:00Review: Infection, by Craig DiLouie (by DeadVida)<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd269/permutedpress/Book%20Covers/62808_469487024523_635974523_6863032_4541195_n-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd269/permutedpress/Book%20Covers/62808_469487024523_635974523_6863032_4541195_n-1.jpg" width="211" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">INFECTION</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">By Craig DiLouie</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Paperback: 296 pages</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Publisher: <a href="http://www.permutedpress.com/">Permuted Press</a></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Pub date: February 22, 2011</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">ISBN-13: 978-1934861653</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Imagine if you will standard (almost) zombie fair – outbreak, unexplained violence, mass chaos, group of unlikely survivors banding together – only the story is somehow the unlikely lovechild of <b>THE BREAKFAST CLUB </b>and H. P. Lovecraft. In that description I offer praise, as well as some criticism. There is a lot to like here and the overall story and pacing engaged me as a reader. Some of what I found original was also some of what frustrated me, so make of that what you will.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The story starts with 20% of the world’s population screaming and then going into comas. A few days later they awaken and begin attacking the rest of the population. We then meet a group of survivors, and their stories are told in flashback as the novel progresses. This was handled well and the flashbacks even managed an organic, at times nightmarish, feel. We meet Ethan, the high school math teacher, dealing with his missing wife and child; Paul, the former reverend, who is searching for god; Anne, the most inscrutable character at first, who is carrying more baggage than most; Sarge, an Army man just back from Afghanistan and fighting a new war he understands even less; Wendy, a young cop from Pittsburgh unsure of herself; and Todd, a high school junior who seems to cope better than most because of his age and ability to disassociate and skill with FPS games. Together, they attempt to find safe haven and eventually flee Pittsburgh in Sarge’s Bradley tank as the city burns. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The survivors go against zombie movie conventions and attempt to take refuge at a hospital. It is here that the book kicks into high gear and deviates from the standard viral zombie storyline. At the hospital we learn that there are “things” now infesting the earth – worms, parasitic monkey-like creatures, and “demons.” The characters offer theories, but these are never explained and their “otherness” felt Lovecraftian to me. I couldn’t tell if I liked this and the possible explanation or if it was superfluous. Regardless, they are creepy. I mean, as if fighting deranged, infected humans wasn’t enough! Furthering the creep factor is that children aren’t infected – they are simply killed and eaten.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Each character has had his or her purpose in life destroyed or altered, and DiLouie attempts to show the characters as they struggle with this new reality. They each try and find reasons to live, knowing they have the very real option of just giving up. The individual characterizations were decent, especially given the amount of action in the book. It often seems that authors choose one or the other. In my option, action is meaningless if there is no investment in the characters. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">It is dealing with who the characters were and who they are now, as well as the almost forced intimacy that steers this into <b>THE BREAKFAST CLUB </b>territory. I mean, we all know that they went back to ignoring each other on Monday, right? These characters had nothing in common before and the sense that they were one big family after two weeks felt contrived. As individuals, DiLouie put a great deal of effort into their characterizations. I wish he would have done the same with the individual and group dynamics.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">This passage is a good example of what many of the characters are going through, “We try and live with as little pain and as much pleasure as possible. But pain makes us realize we are alive. We truly live one moment to the next when we live with pain. When pain stops, we become afraid. And we remember things that we do not wish to remember that are themselves painful.”</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">I am curious if there is a sequel planned and if certain things will be explained. Overall, this is a worthwhile addition to the genre. </span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4592925234461664813.post-66305803604535857362011-05-04T03:25:00.000-07:002011-05-04T03:26:31.588-07:00Review: Aftertime, by Sophie Littlefield (by DeadVida)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2fapi8uSJHjt7AsAAH49EaW3d3PqEUjxdvKfqRTtX9640soGVEHcYcbGchkbp-GozU-mD6Iw6mPjoe7nZpemgzniIdDaqaO0n_W30FLW9Ddiy59jfi0H-6SdVk8ICYtS5UadHDWw9vqs5/s1600/aftertime-200.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2fapi8uSJHjt7AsAAH49EaW3d3PqEUjxdvKfqRTtX9640soGVEHcYcbGchkbp-GozU-mD6Iw6mPjoe7nZpemgzniIdDaqaO0n_W30FLW9Ddiy59jfi0H-6SdVk8ICYtS5UadHDWw9vqs5/s1600/aftertime-200.jpg" /></a></span></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Aftertime</b><br />
By Sophie Littlefield<br />
Paperback: 384 pages<br />
Publisher: Luna<br />
Pub Date: February 15, 2011<br />
ISBN-13: 978-0373803361<br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I’ve got a thing for well-written damaged characters, as well as unreliable narrators. They make you work a little harder, and for that they usually tend to force you into their worlds. In <b>AFTERTIME </b>the damaged physical and psychological worlds Sophie Littlefield has created are adroitly crafted. <br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Cass Dollar is a Grade A damaged character surviving in a broken world. She is a survivor in every sense of the word. She survived a childhood of abuse, an adulthood where she self-abused (with alcohol and sex), and now the Aftertime, filled with violence, death, and famine. She has been sober for a while, so she is aware of her addiction, but at the same time the reasons she felt the need to numb herself are still there, still demanding succor. <br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Creating a realistic world after cataclysmic events is harder than it looks, and Littlefield’s earth walks that fine line of familiarity and unknown. Bio-warfare has caused massive world-wide famine and ecological destruction with plant species of all kinds wiped out. This leads the government to try and help by creating genetically altered plants with complete nutritive values. That goes awry and one of the plants, the blueleaf, leads to fever, madness, and cannibalism. Those who live past the fever are called Beaters and they are just one threat to the existence of the survivors. <br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The behavior of the Beaters is genuinely disturbing. Within the first few pages I realized that the content was going to offer some real horror when Cass watched a deranged woman appear to start to kiss someone. “The woman shook her head and only then did Cass realize she’s sunk her teeth into the man’s flesh and was tugging at it. Tearing at it. Trying to rip off a shred.” The Beaters like to eat flesh and usually start by eating pieces of their own. Nibbling at their own arms. <br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Cass awakens and struggles to remember what has happened to her. Miles from home, she begins a dangerous and solitary walk back to her small town and eventually meets survivors. Again, as a complicated character she vacillates between wanting to reject everyone who comes near her and wanting acceptance, between strength and self-doubt. Her primary goal is to find her daughter, whom she had already lost once in the Before. The four miles between the school the survivors have made home and the library where Cass last saw her daughter are dangerous, and the enigmatic Smoke offers to escort her. As is often the case, the society of the “living” is as dangerous as that of the zombies (not actually dead in this case, but still zombies in my book). <br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Smoke is a little too good to be true at times and slightly two-dimensional. I hope that in the subsequent books he is given as much complexity as Cass. Overall, this was a worthwhile, compelling read and a world I look forward to exploring further. Recommended.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4592925234461664813.post-27429214589606678972011-05-02T16:19:00.000-07:002011-05-02T17:53:06.799-07:00Review: FUKITOR & SATANIC TERROR (by Dread Sockett)<div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>FUKITOR & SATANIC TERROR</b><br />
By Jason Karns<br />
Website with galleries of art on display: <a href="http://fukitor.blogspot.com/">fukitor.blogspot.com</a><br />
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<div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Jason Karns’ <b>FUKITOR </b>and <b>SATANIC TERROR</b> take me back to the days when I gathered my lunch money and hoofed it downtown to this one bookstore that was crammed with every damned type of periodical imaginable. Stuff was haphazardly arranged and shoppers could find something from five years prior sitting on the shelf next to something stocked that day. You never knew what was buried underneath the piles. Comix-wise, I got my introduction to undergrounds during one of these treasure hunts. While my friends were yacking about <b>SPIDER-MAN</b>, I’d suck the air out of conversations when I’d mention (even then old) titles like <b>FANTAGOR </b>or <b>FAT FREDDY’s CAT</b>.<br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT88d0Zj-XT_TFYP66V5WT-EA6H-HjYmM-ISdnIurv856132d8y5Zr5njuPxpmSjWLbei1XQ09tmBdNqOjxmQ_sZnlDdWr5Qs4ihkD84NUhQBCnpTDQJfa30yUuCSGs0Y5BnMuLApEaRF0/s1600/FUKITOR+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT88d0Zj-XT_TFYP66V5WT-EA6H-HjYmM-ISdnIurv856132d8y5Zr5njuPxpmSjWLbei1XQ09tmBdNqOjxmQ_sZnlDdWr5Qs4ihkD84NUhQBCnpTDQJfa30yUuCSGs0Y5BnMuLApEaRF0/s1600/FUKITOR+2.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size: small;"> Fast-forward a few years…I had hoped with the whole indie/zine thing I’d be just as awed by the crazyass worlds only small press-type books could deliver. Those individual slices of creativity, unfettered by profit, that you could turn to remind you there was someone out there who was still willing to think outside the box. Unfortunately, I came into zines (from fanzines – and yes, there is a difference) during the big autobio comics period where everything was about someone’s trip to the grocery store or their ruminations at the coffeemaker. Yawn. </span></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
There is none of that shit here. THANK. FUCKING. GAWD. Take a look at the titles and if you can’t get past them, then leave now. Like an insect with bright warning markers on display, if you tread past the titles and get stung, you have no one to blame but yourself!</span></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
So believe it or not, I have actually wondered, in one of my more... uhm.. “creative” mindsets, what would happen if someone threw Fellini, Burton, (old) Waters, some Euro-trash-exploitation-sleaze, a generous amount of Horror and straight-up porn into a blender…and goddammit if Jason Karns didn’t do just that! </span></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg044HNySS_9JsXEObPVbNd3sRlVBoUrn7PS4v_Atodlv8JpcJy91p3oTHF98s_B7AziOtfY-W95j7OqFBrNrgUYD5YgCVukQqAhii98RUiKM67j7WQPHb6Drhhyphenhyphen9qgRd2T3QKYtg8lc_s/s1600/FUKITOR+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg044HNySS_9JsXEObPVbNd3sRlVBoUrn7PS4v_Atodlv8JpcJy91p3oTHF98s_B7AziOtfY-W95j7OqFBrNrgUYD5YgCVukQqAhii98RUiKM67j7WQPHb6Drhhyphenhyphen9qgRd2T3QKYtg8lc_s/s1600/FUKITOR+3.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
In <b>FUKITOR </b><b></b>#3, the “SICK FUCKS AND SLASHERS” issue, we have “TOMB OF THE SICK FUCKS,” where greedy treasure hunters get more than they bargained for when the dead rise and do more than get their revenge. Guts get chewed, heads shorn off, and blood sprays everywhere while they get their maggot-spewing grooves on. In “SUBURBAN SLASHER MASSACRE,” an escaped mental patient goes on a rampage at a sorority as the girls scream, “Like, oh my fucking god!”</span></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
In <b>FUKITOR </b>#1, the two-part “POSEUR HOLOCAUST” blasts metalheads and Goths and in “DUNGEON OF BLOODY DEATH” a couple gets captured by undead monks who bring back the Inquisition, and what a show it is indeed.</span></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5KO4fOjZGrBZr4AHtFVKhS38Xqwtmb5nac_qxStjkyYfAnKsK4a7j3wMkYpZQm5NBML2fsDuswK4CVyUzS7vMp8RopBOcwldGiJ1Ybdl-G74FKTmOWV_-Opkv2GWeJQGe7CQy-clC8pi4/s1600/FUKITOR+SATANIC+TERROR+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5KO4fOjZGrBZr4AHtFVKhS38Xqwtmb5nac_qxStjkyYfAnKsK4a7j3wMkYpZQm5NBML2fsDuswK4CVyUzS7vMp8RopBOcwldGiJ1Ybdl-G74FKTmOWV_-Opkv2GWeJQGe7CQy-clC8pi4/s1600/FUKITOR+SATANIC+TERROR+1.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
<b>SATANIC TERROR #1</b> is my favorite issue, next to Fukitor #3. I mean, damn, how can you not love something titled “THE THING WITH TOO MANY DAMN EYES”?? It doesn’t even matter that those eyes are each attached to toothy penis-like tentacle things that attack people and do “other things” to them after stupid scientists open a portal. In “BLOODY BUTCHERS OF THE DAMNED” watch NAZI ZOMBIES rise and wreak more bloody havoc on some party kids.</span></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
ARTWISE: Karns has his stuff nailed. If we were talking some action/drama stories I’d want to see much more refinement and better composition. Here, he illustrates everything perfectly; I wouldn’t want to see anything different. His production is tight, with color covers and interiors(!), something I’d usually be all over (especially being so rare in small press), but here, I’d LOVE to see his compositions in B&W just to view his line work. Karns’ work is chaotic and hyper-detailed, with his characters’ expressions reflecting just the right look to add whoompf! to punchlines. The bumped-up production values actually work against his art’s presentation at times by obscuring details. That’s my one bone to pick.</span></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
As I re-read this, I kept imagining Karns’ at his drawing board chuckling his ass off and channeling a wink into his pages because he’s clearly having fun with his comix and readers. I would definitely recommend Karns’ work to lovers of REALLY offbeat fuck-you comix that don’t give a damn. They’re offensive, definitely NSFW, but clearly aware of themselves so that you can’t help but chuckle along with the surreal, absurdist world they plunge you into. Once you’ve read one, you quickly realize that the Underground is indeed still alive and well – you were just too distracted by all the other poseurs and their tales of coffeemaking. </span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4592925234461664813.post-82547836334442295612011-03-27T16:56:00.000-07:002011-03-27T16:56:20.688-07:00Cover for Rigor Mortis #4<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV7KKnItwhjQ_2uqW_aNOfLJJJ6GJvfuqDsj9vqwMVz6Tm4lx_zcf6tylMSicg9SA66q_FATEV0htEPutBaI0JabOidG_9iBR32ErACcpoT6QSHiBvjAzz9gd3TNN5yzINzb6AUwSopHdi/s1600/rigormortis4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV7KKnItwhjQ_2uqW_aNOfLJJJ6GJvfuqDsj9vqwMVz6Tm4lx_zcf6tylMSicg9SA66q_FATEV0htEPutBaI0JabOidG_9iBR32ErACcpoT6QSHiBvjAzz9gd3TNN5yzINzb6AUwSopHdi/s400/rigormortis4.jpg" width="243" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Issue #4 will be out in April. </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Pre-order now:</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> <a href="http://www.leekinginc.com/rigormortis/rm4.htm">http://www.leekinginc.com/rigormortis/rm4.htm</a></b></span> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4592925234461664813.post-5217198789475561132011-03-13T11:20:00.000-07:002011-03-13T11:22:06.736-07:00Review: Feed, by Mira Grant<div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><m:smallfrac m:val="off"> <m:dispdef> <m:lmargin m:val="0"> <m:rmargin m:val="0"> <m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"> <m:wrapindent m:val="1440"> <m:intlim m:val="subSup"> <m:narylim m:val="undOvr"> </m:narylim></m:intlim> </m:wrapindent> </m:defjc></m:rmargin></m:lmargin></m:dispdef></m:smallfrac></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.orbitbooks.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Grant_Feed-MM.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://www.orbitbooks.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Grant_Feed-MM.jpg" width="198" /></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Feed</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>By Mira Grant</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Review by DeadVida</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Website: <a href="http://www.thefeedbook.com/">www.thefeedbook.com</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">I’ve been pondering this review for several days. <b><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Feed</span></b> isn’t your typical zombie novel. In fact, the name is a clever nod to the content, which has less to do with flesh eating than one might think. No, this is a zombie novel of very little zombie action, not much gore, and a world that manages to cope with zombies. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Unlike most zombie novels, <b><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Feed</span></b> takes place 25 years after the start of the infection. For the majority of the novel the zombies are largely secondary to the plot. It is the changes that the zombies have had on society, politics, and the media that are the focus. The universe and characters that author Mira Grant creates are so detailed and well-conceived that suspension of disbelief was a breeze. The meticulous research on virology, media, and technology pays off and is well used. Furthermore, the narrator is a woman whose power comes from simply being strong, smart and doing her job. No superhero antics, no silly lingerie scenes, no rape threats because the author didn’t know how to otherwise infuse drama, no random comments about her boobs, and no denying her gender. There aren’t pointless action sequences to keep the pubescent mind interested – yes, Jonathan Mayberry, I’m looking at you. There aren’t any goofy gimmicks that distract and detract from the slipshod writing – yeah, that’s a shot at you, Brian Keene. No, here you have actual character development and a writer that carefully crafts a solid back story alongside the current narrative. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Her post-infection Earth of 2039 was oddly realistic. In 2014, scientists developed cures for cancer and the common cold. Unfortunately when the two cures meet, the Kellis-Amberlee virus is created, which in turns causes people to get sick, die, and reanimate in order to spread the virus. The virus infects everyone; it is just a matter of if and when it goes active. Death is an automatic cause for viral amplification. Being bit, scratched, or bled on by an infected person will also cause someone to turn. Standard zombie stuff that remains effective in the right hands. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Set in 2039, the new world has changed beyond the obvious. There are zones of varying degrees of safety, Alaska has been abandoned to the dead, and mammals above 40 pounds are also carriers. As the outbreak in 2014 occurred, traditional news media “protected” people by denying what was happening. This caused the expected deaths, outrage, and backlash. Bloggers on the other hand got online and told the truth as they saw it and, in some cases, saved lives. By 2039, old media has been shoved aside and bloggers are the dominant media. Grant creates a comprehensive and well-realized description of this new structure. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">The main protagonists are George (Georgia), a “newsie” blogger, Shaun, George’s brother and “Irwin” blogger, and Buffy, a “fictional” who writes poetry and provides their IT support. And yes, there are some well-utilized pop culture references in the book. The trip is selected to report on the campaign of a presidential hopeful. It seems like the opportunity of a lifetime for the young reporters. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">There are elements of political thriller, but the world in which <b><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Feed</span></b> is set makes this a zombie novel. The unfolding of the storyline and pacing offered a slow burn of tension that ultimately paid off. As I said, there is little in the way of zombie action, but when it does happen it is swift and merciless.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">As I completed the last of the 600 pages I wanted more. I wasn’t ready to give the characters up yet. The good news is that this is the first book in a trilogy and book 2, <b><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Deadline</span></b>, is set to release in June 2011. Highly recommended. </span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4592925234461664813.post-85043448024488792132011-02-25T15:49:00.000-08:002011-02-25T15:49:34.350-08:00Review: Pat the Zombie<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/images/dyn/cover/?source=9781607740360&height=300&maxwidth=170" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.randomhouse.com/images/dyn/cover/?source=9781607740360&height=300&maxwidth=170" /></a></div><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Pat the Zombie</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Review by DeadVida</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">I am a fan of <i>Shaun of the Dead</i> and <i>Zombieland</i>, gallows humor, and ridiculousness. That said, I find the current wave of zombie humor books rather revolting. They are tired and sad, and for the most part appeal to the pabulum tastes of non-horror fans. Also, as Dread Sockett so eloquently put it in his magnum opus to Nazi zombies in the last issue, “usually when genres are at the point of spoofing they’ve exhausted other means of expression.” Personally, I just want to kill this crap and get back to the scary shit and heady sub-text that zombies can, in fact, offer. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">When I saw that yet another zombified classic was coming out, in this case <i>Pat the Zombie</i> (a spoof on the children’s classic <i>Pat the Bunny</i>) I groaned inwardly. It just seemed like the jump the shark moment zombies have been building toward the last couple of years. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">A couple of weeks ago an unsolicited review copy of <i>Pat the Zombie</i> landed in my mailbox. Again, I love zombies, funny stuff, and am familiar with the source material. I opened the box with as much impartiality as I am ever likely to muster. It is from 10 Speed Press and the packaging is spot-on. The press release promised me, that as a mother, who hates the “saccharine sweetness” of children’s books, that I would find this a “guilty pleasure.” Let me disclose right here that I have watched <i>Chasing Amy</i> and <i>Simon Says</i> (staring Crispin Glover!) with my pre-schooler. You would think I would be their target market, right?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Wrong. This would have been funny as a panel in <i>Cracked</i>. As an actual book/gift product it is just stupid. The whole joke is on the cover. From there just becomes someone laughing at his own joke, but with a really grating laugh, and then over-explaining the joke. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">My fear is that this means we are just a short step from the dreaded sexy, yet misunderstood, teen zombie. Gag me with a femur bone. </span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4592925234461664813.post-4163681440440217852011-02-06T14:52:00.000-08:002011-02-08T09:14:39.007-08:00RIGOR MORTIS REVIEW EXTRA: ZOMBIE HOLOCAUST (1980)<div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">RIGOR MORTIS REVIEW EXTRA: ZOMBIE HOLOCAUST (1980)</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">By Dread Sockett</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwcS-P4_upzSxK0d124KnlXAcwCmanrjEypH-mRNYRIxHguTroRLjnAs3d3La6H7AE5kAdcJ7JBlwCoQC9iuIm28Q7OsRbN-vwqxcUKY51UyNeTF6ijW1sLoFbDDV08FHp0kkbbdMmh40G/s1600/zh.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwcS-P4_upzSxK0d124KnlXAcwCmanrjEypH-mRNYRIxHguTroRLjnAs3d3La6H7AE5kAdcJ7JBlwCoQC9iuIm28Q7OsRbN-vwqxcUKY51UyNeTF6ijW1sLoFbDDV08FHp0kkbbdMmh40G/s320/zh.JPG" width="224" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span id="goog_1014899549"></span><span id="goog_1014899550"></span>While researching and going through endless VOODOO ZOMBIE films for an upcoming article in Rigor Mortis #4, I came upon a delicious little gem, <b><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Zombie Holocaust</span></b>. It was originally going to be included in the VZ piece except, well, there's no Voodoo in it. I was so smitten with Voodoo overload, I went so far as to write this damn thing as an entry and then realized I'd been so distracted by boobs, latex guts, and general crackassery that it didn’t even belong in the damned article.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">So because we're all generous and stuff here at RM, and because there's oooh, only about a zillion other reviews of this half-baked film and ok, fine, because it was already written, I thought I'd toss this in for tits...erm...SHITS & giggles. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Look at it as a freebie-preview of the upcoming article…even though it won't be in it…and, uhm, has nothing to do with the subject of said article. Hell, it's the thought that counts right? Just shut up and think of this as a bloody valentine from all of us at Rigor Mortis. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">There’s a lot to love in this hot…messy…piece of work. Just don't hate me for recommending it because I'm telling you from the start, it's so bad it's good. Director Marino Girolami can’t be bothered with such trivial nonsense as narrative coherence and other technicalities in his film, but this is what makes ZH an entertaining romp. Not only that, but viewers will have déjà vu when locations and sets, as well as some of the actors, "reappear" straight from from Fulci's <b><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Zombi</span> 2</b>. It’s the Italian version of Hammer Films’ <b>THE REPTILE/PLAGUE OF THE ZOMBIES</b> film shoot that did the same thing by way of recycling not only the same sets, but actors as well, though with much classier and coherent narrative results.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">We have something of a genre mix here. Not content with merely aping the Romero zombie model, the filmmakers pillage themselves and drop in a dose of the cannibal jungle exploitation scene, topped off nicely with lots of over-the-top gore. ZH’s strongest point is that it is clearly exploitation, nothing more or less. Hell, it doesn't even worry about aping the cannibal jungle genre that well. It just starts flinging familiar things at viewers and all they hafta do is open up and say ,"Aaah!". I sat recalling films like <b>JUNGLE HOLOCAUST</b> thinking damn, that was actually a good movie now that I've been exposed to (one of) the bowels of the cannibal film scene.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">THE SORTA STORY: Body parts show up missing at a hospital. Not only that, patients are in their bed and fine one minute and the next suddenly missing internal organs, to the horror of the nurses. This little inconvenience gets the staff in a tizzy, naturally. This reaches its apex when one of the help gets caught ravenously chewing away at some poor sap's heart like he's trying to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop. In an eyeball rolling scene that thankfully occurs at the beginning of the movie, said cannibal hospital staff gets caught but manages to escape out a window. The only problem is the window is, oooh, several stories up and as he hits bottom, his stand-in dummy's arm clearly pops off only to miraculously reappear in the real actor's next scene. This dear reader, tells you the madness that awaits you. And if you can get your groove on with that interesting editorial inclusion (or oversight) then ZH has yer name written all over it.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Diva-doctor Lori and Peter set off for the remote island Kito to follow the clue left behind from each body part theft: a mysterious symbol. They arrive with their expedition team and are immediately set upon by the cannibalistic natives who are so hungry for flesh that when they catch victims they don’t even bother to make sure they're dead, but immediately start ripping them apart and consuming them. The director bathes in the gloriousness of his native exploitation by not only featuring them running about spitting out a bunch of native "language" (read: gibberish), but he makes sure you know they're cannibals by giving us lots of lingering shots of them chewing away at various internal organs ripped from the kindasorta deceased. The film certainly delivers the gore in this respect and fans of excess will love it for this. The ridiculousness of the native portrayals not so much. But hey, if this was a PC film, there'd be no point in watching, right?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">The natives continue to pick off the expedition team to the horror of the Asiatic "help," who thanks to the usual wonderful Italian post-dub rant on in a combo Pidgin English and Asian-something, I think. Nice. It's one of those scenes where you just know if filmmakers had Black natives, the dub would consist of variants of "ooga-booga". But not to worry, those of you who insist on subtext. One of the expedition party, the lead in fact, who happens to be Black, is named... get ready for it... <b><i>Mulatto</i></b>. No, <i>really</i>. I had to replay that just to make sure I heard right and now, you won't hafta bother. We're helpful like that here at RM.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">The zombies show up and this eventually leads the remaining crew to a mad scientist conducting experiments with brain transplanting out in the jungle…. in a shack. Our diva doc gets captured but I’ll let you discover for yourself the what-the-Hell wrap up to that segment. Though I will say, the meaning(ish) of that mysterious symbol is revealed and the filmmakers, not ones to miss an opportunity, show us in very revealing angles how the symbol relates to the now nude Diva doc. Think of the questionable POV swimming scenes in ZOMBIE LAKE and you'll get the idea.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">The zombies are pretty interesting. I wouldn't say they're as awesome as the creator's seem to suggest. Nor do I think the Italians really revolutionized the Zed scene the way that angle gets pushed. But still, for a gore and zombie combo, it works. Even when the Zeds are seen running around trying to stab people. The high point though has to be when a zombie gets his head ground through with the blades of a motor boat engine, followed closely by the brain transplant-scalp scene earlier.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Even compared to contemporary standards, ZH holds up well with the gore thrown at viewers. Camera angles lovingly frame every bloody consumption for full impact. And when that silly thing called a “story” threatens to get boring, the film throws in not only boobies of our lounging, barely clad diva, but also works that native thing so viewers can argue about the PC-ness of their handling. The natives would almost be hilarious if their depiction didn’t give viewers an “Oh no they didn’t” response. I couldn’t help but think back to those Mondo Cane type exploitation films. If you want what amounts to a hot mess of a film, here’s your answer. Just don't ever say you weren't warned.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1