Imagine my excitement when I learned of the existence of an off-Broadway musical based on the Evil Dead 1 and Evil Dead 2 movies.

Now imagine my gut-wrenching horror and regret when I realized that there was absolutely no way I was going to be able to see the show before it closes.

If you have not seen the Evil Dead films, I can only assume that you have stumbled upon this page by accident. I certainly consider the movies to be essential watching material even if you are just slightly interested in horror.

In the films five college students travel to an isolated cabin to spend their spring break holiday. While at the cabin the students find the Necromonicon E-Mortis (Book of the Dead) and unwittingly unleash previously slumbering demons into the nearby forests. Ash, played by Bruce Campbell then needs to take care of the situation by systematically slaughtering all of his friends who becomes possessed zombiefied creatures.

Although its a little jarring to see the role of musical Ash being played by somebody other than the great Bruce Campbell - I really can’t expect Bruce to be good at everything, and - from what I have seen floating around youtube, Ryan Ward (current actor playing Ash in Toronto) is doing a great job.

The fact that these fantastic movies have been turned into a musical - and popular musical at that - gives me great plesure and increased hope for the possibility of seeing Reanimator the musical in the not-to-distant future.

I seriously suggest you get your butt to Toronto before the show closes on September the 6th - and be sure you get tickets to the “Splatter Zone” - where the first three rows of the theater get covered with flying zombie blood.

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Apparently, there is production of the musical planned in Norfolk Virginia for 2009 - so all hope is not yet lost for me yet.

For those unable to visit the production there is a less than legal way of experiencing the same show, that is if that show was mono, vhs quality, in your living room and you were stealing it.

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!

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-movie ‘so 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.

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.

Valentines day has come and gone, and even though the walking legions of the undead are not necessarily associated with this day - its our belief that zombies need love too, and we are prepared to help.

The first thing you need is a pickup line. Pick up line #23 (illustrated above) “I love you for your mind” will send your chosen partner swooning with your obvious grace and style, if you don’t let them see the burning hunger in your eyes. (or eye, or sockets)

If the ravages of time have left you minus vocal cords, or a jaw, this handy message is also available on a shirt and on a sented candle. Convenient yes?

I would like very much to attribute the above picture and or the pickup line to someone, but unfortunately i have been unable to find a source. If you know or are the source of this picture, please send us an email.

Good Luck! (use deodorant)

The Meat

You. Yes, you. Stop what you are doing right now and go find a copy of Fido. I mean it. Don’t even bother reading the rest of this review, we will all wait for you. Do not miss out.

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Many years ago, a cloud of radiation engulfed our planet. These space particles caused the reanimation of dead bodies - Zombies! Creatures with but one destructive need, to devour the flesh of the living and so, we were forced to defend our homeland. The Zombie Wars!. Mankind pitted against legions of the unstoppable undead. But, in our darkest hour - a savior - Zomcom! Zomcom disovered that if the brain was destroyed, the zombie was destroyed, never to reanimate. And so the Zombie wars - were won!

Zomcon built security systems like the perimeter fence that surrounds our towns in a wall of protective steel. But even within the fence, danger lurked. Lingering raditation ensured that anybody who died became a zombie! And then - a breakthrough! the domestication collar. With the collar in place, the zombies desire for human flesh has been contained. Making the zombie as gentle as a household pet.

Thanks to Zomcon we can all become productive members of society. Even after we die. Zomcon a better life though containment.

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Fido is set in a post apocalyptic society, 5 years after the Zombie wars in the 1950’s. Its a beautiful fenced community, nobody locks their door and everyone has a flower bed, a white picket fence and a domesticated Zombie slave. In this community young Timmy’s mother (played by Carrie-Anne-Moss) has just rented a new Zombie (played by Billy Connolly) from Zomcon. This zombie comes into a family with a distant father, a mother trying to hold the family together and Timmy, who is bullied at school and holds opinions of zombies which differ from the norm and changes all their lives.

The Bones

The cinematography in this movie is fantastic and the performance by Billy Connolly, who can only communicate through facial expressions, grunts and roars really brings this movie to life.

The Zombies are portrayed as your standard lurching type and although the makeup used makes the zombies look like people with skin conditions, little touches like torn mouths make a big difference.

If you are into dark comedy see this movie while you can, i highly recommend it.

Zombies are terrifying, there is no denying that, but do they also Rock Out?

Jonathan Coulton seems to think so, and illustrates this point with his song Re: Your Brains.

“Re: Your Brains” plays out a fictional conversation between your average middle management type person, and a previous co-worker who is now a zombie. The Zombie is negotiating a settlement for eating the survivors.

Here is a video-clip which has Jonathan Coulton’s song played out using The Forsaken in World of Warcraft.

On a different note, Songs to wear pants to wrote a song regarding the best and indeed only way to deal with zombies.

Here is a video clip with the mentioned music with clips from the show Supernatural.

It should be mentioned that neither of these songs are especially recent, however both are good.

It should also be mentioned that the creatures in the Supernatural video clip are not zombies. In fact, in the three seasons of the show they have vanquished exactly one Zombie.

It is still, in my opinion, the only video clip which does the song “Shoot the Zombies” justice.

Here is another instructional webvideo on being prepared for the possible zombie incursion this Halloween. Although there has been a bunch of informative videos on this topic recently, you can never be too prepared.

This one is brought to you by the nice people at commoncraft. They care about you and your brain.

Video: Zombies in Plain English

Halloween is upon us for another year and, it seems to me, that this would be a perfect opportunity for a zombie foothold situation. Could the little girl dressed as a fairy be a zombie? Yes. What about the teenagers in the darkness with toiletpaper? Perfect candidates. The supervisional parents dressed as zombies, playfully biting anyone who gets within reach? The zombie is a crafty creature and will often appear even in the most unlikely of places.

Take my advice and stay inside and protect yourself.

However, if you have to go outside, the conscious people at Videojug are thinking about you and are hosting an informative movie with five easy steps on “How to Survive A Zombie Apocalypse”

I can find very little information about this movie. I know that Brigadier Johnny Barbra is played by Jonathan Blyth (Log) of disappointment.com and the law of the playground. The zombie footage used was of the London Zombie Walk, in leichester square, as documented by The Zombie Diaries. I have not seen The Zombie Diaries yet, but I hope find and purchase a copy soon. Expect a review when I do!