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FANGORIA will host a free screening of the satirical dark comedy/mockumentary AMERICAN ZOMBIE at New York City’s Two Boots Pioneer Theater (155 East 3rd Street and Avenue A) on Saturday, July 5 at 11 p.m. The festival favorite follows writer/director Grace Lee and fellow non-fiction filmmaker John Solomon (playing themselves) as they set out to capture the struggles of Revenants, i.e. high-functioning zombies, living and working in Los Angeles. As Grace strives to get to know the zombies “on their own terms,” John is eager to uncover their darker side and rallies to get the crew permission to shoot at a three-day, zombies-only retreat called Live Dead where the shoot takes an unexpected—and dangerous—turn.
The Fango/Pioneer AMERICAN ZOMBIE screening will be a free show; to obtain tickets, send an e-mail to fangoscreening@starloggroup.com. You must list “AMERICAN ZOMBIE” as your subject line. Offer is good for you and one guest. Plus tell us your full name and whether you want to be added to the FANGORIA newsletter list so we can tell you about future Fango screenings and events. Names will be checked at the door. Offer is first come, first served, and we will confirm your RSVP. The screening is sponsored by Cinema Libre Studio.
AMERICAN ZOMBIE has been called ”Highly original and funny” by Salon.com, while SLUG (Salt Lake Underground) magazine described it as “Fresh, entertaining and creatively awesome.” The San Francisco Chronicle summed up AMERICAN ZOMBIE best as “A winner all the way”; see our article on the film in Fango #272. Mark your calendar for Fango’s free showing of AMERICAN ZOMBIE on July 5, and check out the movie’s trailer and official website here.
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Derry’s historic city walls could soon be over-run with hordes of flesh-eating zombies, if Ulster film director George Clarke gets his way.
Mr. Clarke wrote, produced and directed ‘Battle of the Bone’, the North’s first ever kung-fu zombie movie, which is set for release next month.
The film is one of a trilogy of films in the pipeline and depending on its success, the director could soon base a sequel here in the heart of the city.
‘Battle of the Bone’ takes a surprising slant on the contentious marching season. An army of the undead invade Belfast city centre as Orangemen and nationalist protestors clash, forcing rival gangs from both sides of the community to team up and fight for the greater good. The low budget gore-fest has already attracted global media attention, much to the delight of its director. Speaking to the ‘Journal’, George Clarke (30) revealed: “‘Battle of the Bone’ has got everyone talking. It’s a fun spin on the usual heavy Troubles themes that dominate films from Northern Ireland, so we thought we would make the mother of all Troubles movies, with an absurd kung-fu zombie storyline!
“The ideas are now flowing for a trilogy of films and we’ve suggested that filming in Derry, around the walls, would be a great idea. We like to keep things home-based and Derry’s Walls are very historic and feature in the Troubles in their own way, so they would be a perfect place for a sci-fi horror twist,” he said.
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The zombie apocalypse seems to be starting in Indiana County. At least for Clyde residents.
Filming for the movie “12/24,” a zombie horror film that is set during Christmas Eve, is ongoing in the area around Holiday Lake.
The independent film studio Gargoyle Entertainment, of Pittsburgh, is shooting scenes for this project around the lake, using many residents’ land as sets. The shoots have been going on for the last few weekends, and are to resume tonight, (as in Saturday night) with about four days of shooting to go before they take a wrap.
While scouting for sets, the Clyde area was suggested to Matt Bonacci, partner in Gargoyle Entertainment and producer of the film, by Bonacci’s brother, a resident of the area.
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A new crop of campy zombie ads are cropping up on Broadway, promoting Evil Dead: The Musical. While the posters are all very clever, their presence only reveals what I’ve long feared: the Disneyification of our beloved brain-eating zombies. These cute versions of the undead are everywhere nowadays, and getting campier by the minute. Click though to see the slow decomposition of zombies, from funny versions of the living dead to the Broadway soft-shoe undead.
It used to be that the only time you were bothered by over-zealous silly zombies was on Halloween during the annual Thriller resurgence. Maybe it was Shaun of The Dead that opened the door for the last four-year craze of the undead on stage. I blame Shaun’s good humor and fantastic writing of real characters that allowed other people to view zombies (more recently in a fun and friendly way).
But instead of making a better zombie comedy or another lovely gory zombie classic (such as the 2002 new rage spin 28 Days Later) filmmakers unleashed a string of so-so camp or shaky handy cam gimicky undead flicks, each one sadder than the next. Fido, Planet Terror, Zombie Strippers were all great, but their undead hordes leaned harder and harder on the crutch of camp to get through each take.
We need to be forward-thinking with our precious zombie commodities, people. And what has this campification and blatant misuse of zombies brought us? The Broadway zombie. I love Bruce Campbell and wouldn’t mind seeing him singing and slaying on stage, but unfortunately he’s not in it. And the Bruce-substitute is surrounded by happy dancing undead. Pass. Also passing on Re-Animator: The Musical, Zombie Prom and Z: A Zombie Musical.
Our last hope for a zombie attack we can take seriously is the forthcoming World War Z movie — which is really a post-zombie narrative, since it takes place after the zombie war.
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When it comes to zombie movies, opinions are pretty binary; there’s no middle ground. You either love them or revel in all of their bloody, undead gruesome goodness, or you can’t stomach them. Or, maybe you can stomach them but hate them anyway. Either way, there’s no arguing this point: without Night of the Living Dead they wouldn’t exist at all.
Now out in a 40th anniversary special edition, George A. Romero’s low-budget black-and-white fright fest is the granddaddy of the ghoul genre. And even after all the Day of the Deads, Dawn of the Deads, and Shaun of the Deads, it still holds up as being as terrifying as it is influential. There’s no need to go too deeply into the plot because that’s really not the point here. Essentially, the dead have come back to life and they are roaming the earth looking for brains to snack on. Meanwhile, a group of strangers hole up in a house in the middle of nowhere, board up the windows, lock the doors, and pray. Some of them fight back too.
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What do you get when you combine the best (or at least most coherent) superhero universe in comics history with a race of mindless, flesh-eating monsters? Duh! Marvel Zombies! This weekend at Wizard World Philadelphia we talked to Marvel talent consultant C.B. Cybulski, who gave us some good news about the popular horror-tinged Marvel series.
If you were traveling near the University of Alabama campus earlier today you may have seen a strange sight walking the streets.