Filthe Clothing

Filthe is a company that has a bit of an undead theme to it. As shown they enjoy dealing with zombie ex-presidents and animals in a fun style! A few of the styles are already sold out so if you are interested I’d pick them up quick! Always one for helping support the creators of the undead!

Interested? Hit up the Official Filthe Site today!

Trailer for Zombie Smash

I wish I had an iPhone. I mean I love that I have a reviewer for iPhone games now, I’m just jealous that I’m not the one that gets to play them. All of these games need to somehow be ported to X-Box Live. (Yes, I live in a fantasy world.)

ZombieSmash! is a Survival Comedy game for the iPhone and iPod touch, featuring undead-themed castle defense and entertaining, physics-based gameplay. The game casts players as Joey, a lone survivor pit against a herd of writhing, unrelenting zombies – to defeat the undead masses, players must use their fingers to flick and smash them until they’re un-undead.

You can find out more details at the Official ZombieSmash! Website.

Alice in Zombieland by Nickolas Cook and Lewis Carroll

With all of the other classic pieces of literature that were out it only makes sense to mix up the names of a blockbuster from last year with a blockbuster from this year in the realm of movies to give us Alice in Zombieland as a book!

Can Alice escape Zombieland before the Dead Red Queen catches up to her? When little Alice falls asleep, she finds herself in an undead nightmare of rotting flesh and insanity. Following a talking rat, she ventures further into this land of zombies and monsters. There’s also something else troubling poor Alice: her skin is rotting and her hair is falling out. She’s cold and there’s the haunting feeling that if she remains in Zombieland any longer, she might never leave and forever be caught between life and death. Have a seat at the table for the Tea Party of your life and explore the wondrous adventure that is Zombieland.

Available from Amazon!

Zombacant Bloopers

Zombacant is an independent web series we’ve been showing off as we’ve seen episodes come online. If you haven’t been following it at all you might want to check out the Zombacant round-up post, with links to the first 3 episodes as well as the final 4 for the first season. It’s a fun little series and of course anything done humor in mind is going to have some bloopers. Hope you enjoy!

In NJ on March 20th? Alice Jacobs is Dead screens at Saturday Nightmares

On March 20th, smack dab in the center ot the Saturday Nightmares Expo which will be on from March 19th-21st you’ll have a chance to see the amazing zombie short film, Alice Jacobs is Dead. This is a film I have hyped in the past and really am glad it is getting more screening opportunities as I feel it’s one of the better zombie themed ideas out there.

Side bonus? This is the same day that they will be welcoming George A. Romero and the casts of both Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead as well as the main star of Alice Jacobs is Dead.

Tickets and information can be found at Saturday Nightmares or the Official Alice Jacobs Is Dead website!

Second Trailer for Ay Up Me Duck Of The Dead

We recently showed off the first trailer for Ay Up Me Duck Of The Dead which is coming out on the official website on Wednesday 17th March 2010. Yes 1 week from today! What better way to celebrate a week away from release but with another trailer?

Waking up in the street after a heavy night on the town, Johnny makes his way to work, unaware that he is alone in the city. Barbara waits for a bus that never appears, deciding to walk to work through deserted streets and dark alleyways.A chance meeting between the two survivors is just the beginning of their worst nightmares.

So be sure to keep watching the official website for the full film to come out!

REVIEW: 400 Lonely Things – Tonight of the Living Dead

400 Lonely Things have taken one of the greatest horror films of all time, George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead and have sampled bits and pieces from the soundtrack of the film and have created an aural sensory overload of impending doom, fear, and psychosis all in one big fell swoop. Memories and images from the 1968 zombie film eerily crept in and out of my head while listening to the nine-song album.

At first listen, I did not even know what to make of it, as there are definite samples and portions taken from the film (of which Romero had crew and cast member Karl Hardman create under his supervision from pre-existing recordings in stock film music libraries that had already been used in other films and TV. shows) and 400 Lonely Things have used samples from the film itself and remixed them (many samples intact with their Foley work) and created Tonight of the Living Dead, a project a year in the making. Accompanying this surreal and unique project is a 12-page booklet of “treated imagery” taken from the film itself.

“It Begins” was the most noticeably sampled bits of music from Night of the Living Dead that I can remember and this reworking of the original score gave me the most chills. Highly atmospheric and utterly creepy, I liked this song the most. It created a feeling of impending doom and horror, sounds crawling in and out on different levels, the sampling of the original soundtrack sprinkled with sound-bytes of modern-day technology.

Just when the song fades out, the smoke dissipating, “Tonight” takes over, creating another feeling of uneasiness, keeping the listener on edge, probably in much the same way that Romero kept his audiences as they sat in the movie theaters watching Night of the Living Dead for the very first time in 1968. This track is more than twice as long as the opening song, running at just over eight minutes, and is broken up into segments with similar but completely different sounds and elements of eerie tones.

One thing listening to this album will do is have you yearning to pop in Night of the Living Dead on DVD again and seeing if the sounds heard on the CD can be found within the film. Maybe that is what 400 Lonely Things intentions were, not only paying homage to a great film but finding another medium and audience in a more modern era for fans of horror to look back upon and appreciate. In the day and age of sampling music from hip-hop and jungle to techno, ambient, and rave/hardcore, Tonight of the Living Dead has an almost regality to their style of music, one of classiness and austere reverence to the genre of horror.

Night of the Living Dead was as much a zombie film as it was a journey into psychological warfare on the mind. Dealing with the impossible, the unimaginable, and the truly unthinkable. Tonight of the Living Dead recaptures that nightmare in each and every song. “This Old House” continues with the whole mood of the album and builds upon the prior track, “Tonight”, but once “The Music Box” begins, I felt that the album takes a turn for the better. The song is over thirteen minutes long, building up until the five-minute mark and then easing back down from the climax, until the track just goes dead silent.

“No Answer” is some more of the same, probably the track I enjoyed the least, but “Crickets Window” won me over with the sampling of, you got it- crickets, but is accompanied by some of the darkest samples in the whole album. The song builds up, layer upon layer of new impending doom taking the listener farther and farther into a long winding tunnel of terror. There even seems to be sounds very reminiscent of our dear friend Jason Voorhees and the soundtrack that Harry Manfredini made famous in the Friday the 13th slasher flicks. This track totally blew me away. “Crickets Window” could easily be the soundtrack for every nightmare you have had and will ever have. As we started with crickets chirping, we end with crickets chirping.

With “Cellar Company” there are noticeable Foley sounds from the film, looped in and out, creating a break almost from the intensity of some of the prior songs. Again, not one of my favorites and after “Crickets Window”, it really lacked the intensity I was hoping for. But not to worry, “Another Fire Always Smiles” wraps up the whole gut-munching zombie mix, reminding listeners of a time when films did not have happy endings, in much the same way that life really is and can be, a tragedy in the making.

With most of the album blowing me away and thrusting my head with drab, gothic black and white imagery from Romero’s classic Night of the Living Dead, I had to go to the 400 Lonely Things website and take a peek at the imagery that is to accompany this album. Its truly awesome, as well as the music video that accompanies the track “Tonight”

Check out the website for 400 Lonely Things and get this album at Amazon. You won’t be sorry…well, come bedtime, you just might be!

Resurrection: Zombie Epic by Tim Curran

While the book cover may throw you this is not a zombie shirt! It definitely has the look and style of one though doesn’t it? I like how they are running a combination of both a classic and modern cause combined on where the undead virus has come from.

The rain is falling and the dead are rising. It began at an ultra-secret government laboratory. Experiments in limb regeneration-an unspeakable union of Medieval alchemy and cutting edge genetics result in the very germ of horror itself: a gene trigger that will reanimate dead tissue…any dead tissue. Now it’s loose. It’s gone viral. It’s in the rain. And the rain has not stopped falling for weeks. As the country floods and corpses float in the streets, as cities are submerged, the evil dead are rising. And they are hungry.

Available at Amazon!

Mac Users Get A Little Gift Of The Undead This Year

Through Steam this Spring the ever popular Left 4 Dead 1 AND 2 will be coming to Mac users everywhere. That’s not all though there are a ton of little bonuses.

• Cross Platform Ownership – Buy it for PC your license is good on a MAC, and vice versa!
• Cross Platform Gaming – You can go head to head or partner up with other players, even if they own it on another platform! PC vs MAC!
• It’s more Left 4 Dead – Who doesn’t want more Left 4 Dead?

[Source: Left 4 Dead Blog.]

REVIEW:Zombies: A Record of the Year of Infection by Robert Twombly by Don Roff illustrated by Chris Lane

Zombies: A Record of the Year of Infection is a fun and very interesting read. Don Roff not only does a wonderful job making this book believable but he also gives well thought out information. This book was so believable I thought Robert Twombly was the real author.

The book is written in first person as a journal kept by Dr. Robert Twombly. He is a blood specialist, living and working out of Seattle, Washington. One day, while working in his lab, he starts noticing a panic out on the streets. While he investigates the alarm he learns that a Virus from an unknown origin is infecting the people everyone around the world. One by one everyone outside of the lab turned into mindless flesh eating zombies. Though it is unclear how a person becomes infected, the virus makes its way inside the lab. Robert’s co-workers slowly begin getting infected with this virus and pass away. A few minutes later their eyes open and begin to attack the living. When Robert realizes the problem in his lab there are only three living people left. A shorter time later he is the only one left alive in the building.

Twomnly kept a journal through the first stage of the infection. Zombies: A Record of the Year of Infection is the result. It is said at the beginning of the book that no one knows what happen to Dr. Robert Twomnly. But as you read his final entry, you’ll understand why.

Zombies: A Record of the Year of Infection is a book I would recommend to anyone interested in zombies. It is well written and well thought out. Everything from the virus to the way he describes the infected is wonderful. I love the illustrations, done by Chris Lane; they fell real and in-dept.

There are a few flaws that I’d like to point out. Often, in his journal entries, there are some incomplete sentences. He starts off making a point, doesn’t like the word he used, crosses it out and doesn’t finish the sentence. Also, the cost of this book at a bookstore is ridiculous. It retails for $19.95 and trust me this book is not worth that price. It is in the humor section if you’re searching for it but if you plan on buying it Amazon would be your best bet.