In all it’s subtitled glory this is the trailer for this zombie movie coming out of India simply entitled, Zombie. Bollywood is being infected by the undead in this planned trilogy and Indian star Luke Kenny is going to be both producing and starring in this film.

The film is a Zombie origin film. Indian audience will empathize with the journey of a human being as he is faced with a seemingly insurmountable predicament.

[via: Twitch Film.]

Lucio Fulci’s ‘Zombie’ Is Reinfecting Theaters On October 21-22 2011

Earlier this year we were able to give you a heads up that Zombie is being re-released. Digitally remastered and looking 110% more beautiful then ever before.

It gets even better.

For a limited time (2 days only) in October there is going to be screenings at a ton of theaters of the remastered version. If you are a zombie fan and you can get yourself to one of these screenings I HIGHLY suggest it! (Fortunately being in Chicago I’ve got a slightly wider range of dates to try to see it on!)

ALBUQUERQUE Guild Cinema (Oct. 28 & 29) ATLANTA Plaza Theatre AUSTIN Alamo The Ritz (Oct. 24 & 31) AUSTIN Alamo S. Lamar (Oct. 30) BOSTON Coolidge Corner Theatre CHICAGO Music Box Theatre (also Oct. 28 & 29) CLEVELAND Capitol Theatre (Oct. 15) DALLAS Landmark Inwood Theatre DENVER Landmark Esquire DETROIT Landmark Main Art HOUSTON Landmark River Oaks JACKSONVILLE, FL 5 Points Theatre KANSAS CITY Tivoli Cinemas LAS VEGAS Theatre 7 (Oct. 31) LOS ANGELES New Beverly Cinema MESA, AZ The Royale MINNEAPOLIS Landmark Uptown (Nov. 4 & 5) NEW YORK CITY Landmark’s Sunshine

OTTAWA, ONTARIO Mayfair Theatre PHILADELPHIA Landmark Ritz PITTSBURGH The Oaks Theater PORTLAND, OR Hollywood Theatre SACRAMENTO Crest Theatre SAN ANTONIO Alamo Westlakes SAN DIEGO Landmark Ken Cinema SAN FRANCISCO Roxie Theater (Oct. 29 – 31) SEATTLE Landmark Egyptian ST. LOUIS Hi-Pointe Theatre ST. PETE BEACH, FL The Beach Theatre TORONTO The Revue Cinema (Oct. 22 & 31) TUCSON, AZ The Loft Cinema WASHINGTON, D.C. Landmark E Street Cinema WICHITA, KS Warren Old Town Theater (Oct. 24 & 25) WINCHESTER, VA Alamo Drafthouse Winchester WINNIPEG, MANITOBA Park Theatre Cafe (Oct. 13) YELLOW SPRINGS, OH Little Art Theatre (Oct. 22)

[via: Blue Underground.]

Making Lucio Fulci’s Zombie “Beautiful”

I somehow completely missed this in my never ending search for everything undead. Fortunately I stumbled across this Fangoria article that included a video of how Lucio Fulci’s classic film Zombie is being updated for a proper re-release on DVD and Blu-Ray. This is such a classic zombie movie that seeing it in a cleaned up format is something that will either ruin or make the film. I think this is one of the cases that will make it. They clearly have gone over the film with love and care and it shows!

A behind the scenes look at the 2K restoration process of Lucio Fulci’s ZOMBIE for the upcoming Ultimate Edition Blu-ray and DVD from Blue Underground.

ZOMBIE! – The Outbreak Released

You’ve got the t-shirt (or two or three), now get your hands on ZOMBIE!‘s much-anticipated debut album, “The Outbreak“!

Fourteen horror rock tracks that will get under your skin instantly — these are really solidly-written, well-put-together oldschool punk songs that were made for singing along and ripping faces off. I’m especially into “Hack Slash” and “Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things,” but there really aren’t any duds here. ZOMBIE!, for the uninitiated, is Eric Weiss, a musician, writer and the guy behind Murder Gear clothing. And, yes, he does all of the instruments, vocals and production on the album.

“The Outbreak” will be available on iTunes and Amazon MP3 for download, but if you download through Murder Gear you get it for just $4.99, plus the awesome album art by Corefolio along with a whole PDF insert, with a lyric sheet, plus more Corefolio art and comics. Highly recommended for horror punk fans and zombie fans.

More The Walking Dead Toy Images Emerge

We already told you that The Walking Dead Toys were on the way. In fact in our initial post we even were able to show you one. This time around though let’s add 3 more into the mix shall we? Rick, another zombie, and a prototype of Michonne! I included the original image as well for those who didn’t want to click through to the first post on The Walking Dead’s toy lineup. I’ve also included some images of the box art for the figures!

[via: Figures.com.]

Zombie, Ohio by Scott Kenemore

While I usually wait until books are up for sale instead of pre-order I can’t help but want to encourage all of our readers to support Scott Kenemore, a Chicago based zombie author who has a flair for putting together solidly entertaining zombie books.

When rural Ohio college professor Peter Mellor dies in an automobile accident during a zombie outbreak, he is reborn as
a highly intelligent (yet somewhat amnesiac) member of the living dead. With society crumbling around him and violence escalating into daily life, Peter quickly learns that being a zombie isn’t all fun and brains. Humans—unsympathetic, generally, to his new proclivities—try to kill him at nearly every opportunity. His old friends are loath to associate with him. And he finds himself inconveniently addicted to the gooey stuff inside of people’s heads.

As if all this weren’t bad enough, Peter soon learns that his automobile accident was no accident at all. Faced with the harrowing mystery of his death, Peter resolves to use his strange zombie “afterlife” to solve his own murder.

Skillfully combining the genres of horror, humor, and film noir,

Zombie, Ohio weaves an enthralling and innovative tale that any fan of the current zombie craze is sure to relish. Followers of detective and horror fiction alike will find something to love about Zombie, Ohio—a tale of murder, mystery, and the walking dead.

Available for pre-order at Amazon

REVIEW: ZOMBIE (aka ZOMBIE 2)

It’s funny, as a zombie fan I have never laid my eyes on Lucio Fulci’s Zombie until just recently at a zombie film festival held in Chicago. For those familiar with the film, its actual title is Zombie 2 because it was the sequel to Romero’s Dawn of the Dead, which was renamed Zombie for the theatrical foreign release. However, since the film was also released in the States they renamed it Zombie. Plain and simple, it’s complicated. The film is about a reporter and the daughter of a murdered scientist who come to an island to try to solve the murder, specifically due to a zombie encounter in New York. On the island they discover that there is more than just strange experiments going on but that the dead may be coming back to life because of voodoo.

I want to start off by stating that the acting and the dubbing were terrible but this isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Of course, when the voices are completely off synch it is distracting and it took me out of some of the moments but I warmed up to it. It felt more like a corny, Grindhouse type film and it added to the overall tackiness. The acting was also not good because it was either overdone, really overdone, or too bland but I can handle bad acting. In fact, with these Grindhouse films, I want bad over-the-top acting because it makes the movie going experience better.

Specifically what I love about the film was the way it was shot an executed. I think one of the best sequences in the whole film was when the zombie Conquistadores rose from the ground and started to attack the town. Not only was it reminiscent of Night of the Living Dead but also it was easy to tell that Carpenter would use a similar montage when filming Vampires, so I would argue that there is a sort of Western theme playing throughout the film. The score was very hypnotizing and low-key and there was a constant state of worry and fear because you could hear the drums banging deep in the jungle. In other words, the score played a HUGE part in the movie… more so than most horror movies.

Lets talk about the gore. From what I know, Fulci is probably best known for creating some of the best and grotesque scenes of mutilation and this film is no exception. It took the gore to a new level and you could see how the zombies bit the skin of the neck and pull back, tearing it off the body. Blood pumps out of the open wounds as zombies much away at the arms and legs of their victim. It was all so brutal and painful to watch, but as a zombie fan I was very pleased by this. If you are looking for a gory movie, look no further… you have found it.

Zombie is just one of those movies that’s meant to entertain and it does it’s job. From the time the ‘abandoned’ shit arrives to New York, to the ridiculous amount of nudity, to the zombie fighting the shark, all the way up to epic showdown in the church, it had me completely enthralled. Even more so, it takes place on a tropical island so you are taking two of my most favorite things in the whole world and throwing them into one movie, so obviously I would end up loving this film.

If These Walls Could Talk, They’d Fucking Scream Music Video

Zombie! (A band that I’m sure is pretty obvious has similar tastes in the undead as everyone that reads this site) has released a music video for If These Walls Could Talk, They’d Fucking Scream. The best part? It’s using some fun zombie footage from the independent film Evening of the Flesheaters!

If you’re curious about the movie itself and why it was so fitting for a music video?

Seth (Matty “Awful” MacNasty of the Scottish punk band ‘The Real McKenzies’) and Jesse (Peter Clark – Hand, Scalpers) have the most boring, brainless, dead end jobs in the world. They are video store clerks. And dealing with unusual, difficult, and even dangerous customers is nothing new for them. But one fateful evening everything will change. Suddenly they will be surrounded by flesh-eating zombies…rotting corpses returning to life and looking for more than a good movie to rent…and the video store will become a bloodbath of eye-popping, limb-tearing, innard-eating gore. Will Seth and Jesse survive? Will they defeat the army of walking monstrosities? Will they even notice that another boring shift has turned into an EVENING OF THE FLESH EATERS?

You can find out more about Zombie! at their official page – http://zombierocks.com/!

BONUS – They sell a lot of zombie themed merchandise over at Murder Gear!

REVIEW: Pathogen

What do you get when you give a 12-year-old girl a camera and a boom microphone? You get a great spirited, old school zombie movie! Yes, 12-year-old Emily Hagins, decided to make a zombie movie called Pathogen, which is about a group of kids who try to survive when the town’s water supply was poised with a virus that turns people into zombies. There are so many things that I liked about this movie and being a fan of independent zombie movies… this film was no exception.

The film is so simple and it brings the phrase “it’s something in the water” to a whole new level and I think it really captures that phrase. I couldn’t help but think that this movie was somewhat inspired by Cabin Fever although this movie really made you paranoid of the water. After the prologue, when there is a montage of people drinking water and playing in the sprinkler… it overwhelms you with that “oh no!” kind of moment. I love it. I also like how the story progresses and how it wasn’t just about one singular character but rather 2 or 3 different stories that intertwine into one.

What I really enjoyed about this movie were the zombies… because they were old school. Their faces were white, with dark circles around their eyes, blood coming from their mouths, and noses and they walked slowly! They were a throwback to the old school Romero zombies that I loved so much and it was great seeing this in such a young girl’s movie. It let know that there are people out there that still enjoyed and paid homage to the originals.

I did see a lot of things wrong with this movie, mostly technical and had I not known the situation it would have taken me out of the film but once I found out about the director and the hardships I quickly forgave all that. Surprisingly, this movie was edited on iMovie and the editing was very smooth and fluid… again, surprisingly.

Pathogen was amazingly done for such a youthful writer and director and I was pleased to see that this was a throwback to the original zombie movies and not those fast-running, steroid-induced zombies that you see nowadays. This movie stayed to the basics. I kind of felt that Pathogen was like a “Goosebumps” book only a lot darker but it still kept the childhood audience. There were some really bloody scenes and some scenes that I didn’t expect. It was on overall joy to watch this movie and I really think that Hagins is a rising director.

Available at Cheesy Nuggets Production