Tag Archives: zombies
Now Fear This: Dawn of the Dead
The internet as a whole has not been kind to Zack Snyder. Small wonder, when the man’s job appears to be nothing more than screwing up beloved comic book characters and misunderstanding feminism so hard he accidentally created a singularity … Continue reading
Now Fear This: Pontypool
Words are constantly on the precipice of meaning. For a word to have value, it has to be specific enough to differentiate it from all other words, yet versatile enough to come up more than once or twice in a … Continue reading
Lifetime Theater: Blue-Eyed Butcher
Mention a Lifetime movie to someone. Anyone. You’re going to get the same reaction. A frown followed by a brief complaint that every Lifetime movie is the same: noble, put upon woman deals with abusive man. What I’ve been learning … Continue reading
Now Fear This: Stake Land
About a year ago, I made a joke on Twitter that all one has to do to create a genre is to append “punk” as a suffix to any word (and thus I ushered “dentalpunk” into the world). My annoyance … Continue reading
Now Fear This: Fido
One of the great joys of art is the exploration of a new world. Books, comics, and of course movies have the power to create a place big enough to be lost in, and nothing is more satisfying when that … Continue reading
Over Our Dead Bodies…
It was the last refuge. Where vampires, werewolves, and innumerable other creatures that went bump in the night had succumbed to the Twilight phenomenon, I could at least take comfort that the zombie would remain uncompromised at the hands of … Continue reading
Liner Notes: Undead On Arrival
I was out walking one day. I think I was around chapter 16 in Mr. Blank, and was noodling through aspects of the story when a title popped into my head. Undead On Arrival. “Well, shit,” I thought, “I’ve got … Continue reading
