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Thursday, July 24, 2008

How to Defeat a Zombie Army Webvideo

EgadPit has created this funny zombie music clip using Garry’s Mod for Valve’s Source engine.

The music is Queen’s Don’t Stop Me Now - which has become the number 1 music choice for all zombie killing since the fantastic Shaun of the Dead movie.

Check it out!

posted by Sean at 1:10 pm  

Friday, July 11, 2008

Bum Lee’s De-Animator Game Review

De-Animator Screenshot 2

“It is uncommon to fire all six shots of a revolver with great suddenness when one would probably be sufficient…”

Bum Lee is a is an animation artist and freelance illustrator, who, in 2004, developed this cool little Flash zombie shoot-em-up game. In the screen shot above, you are the weedy silhouette on the left, and, on the right, is the shambling hordes of animated walking corpses. You need to take your trusty six shooter and mow them down before they reach you.

The Meat

Like all fun games, the interface absurdly easy to use and the pay-off is immediate; just click away to your hearts content while the body count rises and the levels rack up.

The animation is also very well done, body parts fly off your enemies in reaction to your shots, and the scripted sequences (the death scenes) are fantastic.

The Bones

Allthough the game has some loose references to H.P. Lovecraft’s novels (Specifically the fantastic - Herbert West: Reanimator) , and provides links to his various fiction works - it would have been nice to have that feature more prominently in the game.

The Taste

De-Animator is a minimalistic 2d zombie shoot-em-up game, it’s very fun, addictive and a good time-waster.

You can get to the game by clicking on the screen shot at the top of this post - try it out!

Pro-Tip : Use the undocumented shift-key to switch weapons, also, shoot at their feet.

posted by Sean at 9:26 pm  

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Stubbs the Zombie Soundtrack Review

Stubbs the Zombie Soundtrack Cover

Those smarties at Wideload Games achieved two things when they developed Stubbs the Zombie; a top-knotch, darkly humorous game AND an outstanding soundtrack.

I got my copy of the soundtrack bundled with the original Stubbs the Zombie game, back in 2005. The game features a lot of the music on the soundtrack - so it was an amazing bonus, one I still listen to today.

The Meat

Now, I would be the first to say that I’m not a music expert, but I do know what I like, and its this. The soundtrack features covers of various songs from the 50’s and 60’s - such as “My Boyfriend’s Back” by The Angels, “Mr. Sandman” recorded by The Chordettes and my personal favorite The Wizard of Oz- “If I Only Had a Brain“. These classics are re-recorded and spun by fantastic bands like: Death Cab for Cutie, Cake, The Dandy Warhols, The Flaming Lips and many more. Phantom Planet’s The Living Dead is the only original recording on the soundtrack, but its a very welcome addition.

Here is the complete track listing.

  1. Ben Kweller - “Lollipop
  2. The Raveonettes - “My Boyfriend’s Back”
  3. Death Cab for Cutie - “Earth Angel”
  4. Rose Hill Drive - “Shakin’ All Over”
  5. Cake - “Strangers In The Night”
  6. The Walkmen - “There Goes My Baby”
  7. Rogue Wave - “Everyday”
  8. The Dandy Warhols - “All I Have To Do Is Dream”
  9. Oranger - “Mr. Sandman”
  10. The Flaming Lips - “If I Only Had a Brain”
  11. Clem Snide - “Tears On My Pillow”
  12. Milton Mapes - “Lonesome Town”
  13. Phantom Planet - “The Living Dead”

The Bones

No bones with this one, it is a little hard to get the soundtrack in stores - but you can thank the zombified deity of your choice that online distributors, like Amazon.com, still carry it.

The Taste

Its good, real good, I still listen to it - and I’ve had it for 3 years. Get your teeth into it.

posted by Sean at 9:55 am  

Sunday, June 8, 2008

Stubbs the Zombie Game Review

Stubbs the Zombie Game Cover

Stubbs the Zombie is a fantastic video game which was released by Wideload Games in 2005 for both the Xbox and the PC. The avatar and anti-hero is Stubbs the zombie; initially a traveling salesman, Stubbs was brutally murdered by his girlfriends father after their union was unexpectedly blessed with fruit. Now, 26 years later, Stubbs has risen from the grave driven by a thirst for revenge and brains.

The Meat

Stubbs digs himself up in the city of Punchbowl during its opening ceremony in 1959. Punchbowl is a fictional retro-futuristic 1950’s city with lazers, hovercars, robots and a hell of a lot of civilians, police and military - ripe for the biting.

Whenever you kill somone with Stubbs they has a chance of returning to life as a zombie under your control. These zombies, when not specifically given an order, will lurch around and bite any humans they encounter - turning them into zombies as well; like some sort of cannibalistic pyramid scheme.

In order to facilitate the creation of your own zombie horde, Stubbs has many inventive and fun options to choose from when killing the humans who get in his way. Stubbs can: Tear off people’s arms and beat them to death with them, Fart so corrosively that nearby enemies are stunned with sheer horror, throw organs pulled from his own ribcage that explode with damp furiousity, possess enemies with his left hand that detaches and runs around by itself and even bowl his own head at the enemy.

Stubbs weapons are slowly revealed to him throughout the story where they are necessary to get him out of more and more sticky situations and game itself is filled with lots of dark humor which makes it very entertaining and funny.

The Bones

Because Stubbs is a zombie he is unable to speak, except for saying the word “Brains”. This is wholly sensible behavior for a zombie and is to be expected, but, it makes it very difficult to understand the reason Stubbs does things when he literally doesn’t tell you. Wideload games did their best and Stubbs is a very emotive character but every so often Stubbs does something that is not well explained that left me lost and trying to understand why I was in this particular situation and what i needed to do to get out of it.

The Taste

Luckily, if you missed this gem of a game the first time - it is available on Steam and the Xbox Live Marketplace! For approximatly $20 you get all the brain eating, organ throwing, head bowling action you can possibly handle.

Get and play this game, if you haven’t already. Its offbeat humor, engaging retro-futuristic environments and the fact that you actually play a zombie controlling hordes of undead makes this game a must-play if you are any sort of a zombie fan.

posted by Sean at 6:57 pm  

Friday, May 16, 2008

Zombie Strippers! Movie Review

Zombie Strippers! Cover

I have noticed a trend in the reviews I have read for the Zombie Strippers movie; reviewers either love this film to bits or HATE it with a passion so intense - that it is usually reserved for people who club baby seals, or those who make bad fan-fiction. These intense reactions left me wondering if the reviewers saw the same movie that I did, or if there are two copies of this movie floating around - inducing feelings of hatred or devotion in anyone interested enough to watch them. Though probably not.

For me, this film stirs a resounding emotional ‘Meh’.

However, I did enjoy watching this film because it appears that I – quite accidentally – stumbled upon the only way to watch it without feeling the need to go online and pour my disgust or admiration into an IMDB forum post.

So on the weekend, five friends and I sat down with a bottle of Vodka, Zombie Strippers - and proceeded to drink every time we saw a breast.

The Meat

Zombie Strippers delivers what it promises. If you went into the film expecting anything else apart from a movie containing zombie strippers; like: a coherent plot, good acting or a script that doesn’t feel like its written by an adolescent with an echasketch - you’re going to be sorely disappointed. It might be possible to produce a coherent script which rivals the classics AND contains stripping zombies, but I have my doubts.

The film also has one hell of a make up and computer graphics artist team; the zombies, wounds and all, look very impressive and the death scenes are particularly well done.

The Bones

The synopsis for this film is “Worldwide media sensation JENNA JAMESON and Nightmare on Elm Street’s ROBERT ENGLUND star in ZOMBIE STRIPPERS.”, notice that Jenna’s name comes first - even before the movie title… you know you’re very desperate when you’re trying to sell a film by using a porn star pornographic actress’s name like a major selling point.

This desperation really shines through when the film gets one of the actresses (I’m not going to tell you which one, but you can guess) to trot out her vagina in the first twenty minutes of the movie.

Unfortunately, it seems that Jenna gives the best acting performance of all the cast members for the entire film. Shame on you other cast members, you have been out shone by a porn-star and they are not traditionally chosen for their acting talent. I am secretly harboring the hope that these other actors were deliberately trying to act terribly so that the film would earn a place amongst the B-movieso bad it’s good‘ cult classic category.

However, the truth is, no actor is going to shine with this script. This script would have made more sense if they cut it up, put it in a big hat and pulled out the order of the scenes randomly.

The Taste

When it comes right down to it, I didn’t completely hate this film: it had its funny moments, its good moments and its cringingly horrible moments.

I recommend that you see it, if only so you can say that you have - just don’t forget your friends or your vodka.

Zombie Strippers was definitely the best zombie stripper film i have ever seen.

posted by Sean at 10:35 pm  

Sunday, May 11, 2008

International Zombie Day

It has been brought to my attention that we have yet another zombie day coming up. So find May 27 on your calendars and mark it down as International Zombie Day.

Act like a zombie, watch zombies movies, play Resident Evil, attend a Zombie Walk. Just be sure to… brains…

Join the Facebook Group

posted by frog at 9:05 pm  

Friday, May 9, 2008

The Zombie Emergency Procedure.

Zombie Emergency Jpg

Three important rules which could save your life!

This is one of those elusive pictures which has done the rounds on the internet so much - that it is now impossible (or at least extremely difficult) to track down the original creator and give credit when credits due.

If you know the original creator drop us a line!

posted by Sean at 11:17 am  

Saturday, May 3, 2008

More modified Zombies

More Modified Zombies on Modblog — Mod Zombies

posted by frog at 1:41 pm  

Friday, May 2, 2008

Hockey Zombie Comic

Single panel of Hocky Zombie

Hockey zombie is a comic about just that - a hockey player who is suddenly turned into a zombie after a strange encounter in the underworld.

He then returns to earth and attempts to fit Hockey, drinking beer and not eating peoples brains into his unlife.

The comic story arc is not updated anymore - but new unrelated comics are periodically released on the site. The discontinuation of the main arc is disappointing as i really enjoyed the story and it ended very abruptly.

See the Hockey Zombie story arc by clicking here.

You can also read one of my favorite comics by clicking here.

posted by Sean at 8:59 am  

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Australian Perth Zombie March 2008

Perth Zombiewalk 2008 Photo by Richard Giles

Perth’s first Zombie March/Zombie flash mob was unleashed on the city last weekend (Saturday, April 5) to the surprise and horror of Perth’s weekend shoppers. Although initially there were concerns that the event would be rained-out the sky cleared to a brilliant blue just before the zombies emerged.

At noon the moaning Australian zombie horde emerged from the backstreet’s to drag themselves through the city center, including a jaunt through the Perth Train station and finally to the James Street mall.

The zombie walk had a great turnout, and many people demonstrated great ability with makeup, dripping blood, shambling and lurching at unsuspecting terrified onlookers.

The event was organized excellently by Perth’s flash mob group http://www.do-or-diy.com/, and here’s hoping that there will be many more of its type.

Well done!

You can check out pictures of the walk here.

Movies are also available here and here.

posted by Sean at 10:32 am  
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