Source: http://www.theuncoolhunter.com/
PLAGA ZOMBIE (Zombie Plague) is the first movie of the living dead of the Argentine cinema history and it was produced by a group of 17-year-old artists with an old video camera. The budget was really low and it was charge of the production company FARSA. As time goes by and little by little ZOMBIE PLAGUE has turned into a cult classic.
Here is the trailer of PLAGA ZOMBIE:
Source: http://blog.wired.com/
From rumor to fact in just one day: Sega confirmed that The House Of The Dead 2 & 3 Return is indeed inbound for Wii in Spring 2008.
And the timing’s pretty good, too, considering that the Wii Zapper has just been released. I wonder what versions of the game they’ll port? The arcade originals? Or will they take the Dreamcast version of 2 and the Xbox version of 3 (pictured) and move them to the Wii?
The latter seems like the easiest thing to do, considering all the experience Sega has taking Dreamcast games to the GameCube hardware…
Source: http://palgn.com.au/
The Resident Evil series is undoubtedly one of the most successful franchises of all the last two generations. Spanning multiple consoles with a number of spin-offs, it’s been a staple of Capcom, with the most recent Resident Evil 4 being one of the greatest games of all time. People seem to like killing zombies, and Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles on the Wii may scratch that itch.
For those of you who have played any of the Resident Evil: Survivor games of the past, this style of shooter will be very familiar to you, although Umbrella Chronicles is significantly different (and better) then those games. It’s an on-rails shooter, a genre that’s usually reserved for games such as Time Crisis and House of the Dead. We had some fun playing Umbrella Chronicles today, as we were shown how to play by one of Nintendo’s friendly representatives. They had it set up with the ‘Crossbow’ from Link’s Crossbow Training, so that shooting at the screen seemed more intuitive. Of course, you can play with just your Wii remote as normal, but it did feel very natural using the extra peripheral to help us aim and feel like we were shooting an actual gun.
In the particular scenario we played, our characters were on a train, and zombies started attacking by the bucket-load. Shooting them is as easy as aiming and pulling the trigger, with the Wii remote and Zapper substituting perfectly for a light gun. The zombies all varied in size and style, some of them were missing bits of their face, others were particularly obese, and some of them crawled toward you. The variety in zombie was nice to see, even though they all end up being shot dead in the end.
As it is of course on-the-rails, you have no say in the direction that you move. You point and shoot, sometimes aiming at items that you can collect such as weapons or health. There were also other enemies including slugs, and by holding down the Z button and swiping the remote, you actually take a swing with your knife. This is the best way to defeat slugs when they crawl on your face, or to stab zombies that get just a bit too close to you. It’s not a massive addition to the gameplay, but it works.
There are parts of the game where you must counter-attack in a certain way. This works similarly to RE4, where you must press the corresponding button at the right time or shake the Wii remote when it tells you to so that you can avoid attacks from your enemies. They don’t come up too frequently, which does make the gameplay a little bit more interesting when they are used. You can also throw grenades if you have them, to blow those zombies back to the hell they came from.
A lot of the areas were of course very dark, but luckily, it’s a horror game, so dark is definitely a good thing here. There was a surprisingly good amount of detail in the environments, and while not stunning, the graphics definitely do their job effectively in immersing you in the zombie-filled world. We especially liked moving across the roof of the train, only to be surrounded by a bunch of icky slugs all jumping at you at the same time.
Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles looks like a great addition to the series. It probably won’t turn heads like RE4 did, but it’s been designed with the Wii in mind, and succeeds greatly in getting the player really involved in what they’re doing. It’s great that this Wii exclusive ended up being made, as it shows that Capcom are keen on bringing Resident Evil to the masses, not just to the ‘hardcore’ gamers that the series usually targets. We are looking forward to this one.
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment unleashes the successful sci-fi horror action film Resident Evil: Extinction on January 1st.
The third installment of the $300 million box office videogame-based series follows genetically-enhanced warrior Alice (Milla Jovovich, Resident Evil) and her fellow survivors – played by Ali Larter (Legally Blonde, TV’s “Heroes”), R&B sensation Ashanti (John Tucker Must Die), Mike Epps (Roll Bounce) and Oded Fehr (The Mummy, Resident Evil: Apocalypse) – in a last attempt to save Earth from a fatal virus.
The high-paced battle against zombies, and the corrupt Umbrella Corporation, forces the team to use their wits and brawn to uncover the truth and defeat the deadly enemy before mankind becomes extinct. The Resident Evil: Extinction DVD features a collectible bronze-colored foil package and will be available for a suggested retail price of $28.95 (DVD), $38.96 (Blu-ray DiscTM), and $24.94 (PSP).
Additionally, Resident Evil and Resident Evil: Extinction will all be available for the first time on Blu-ray Disc as part of a new high definition trilogy box set containing all three films in the franchise. The Blu-ray High-Def three-pack suggested retail price is $89.85 and also features collectible foil packaging.
Synopsis:
Hiding in the Nevada desert, Alice (Jovovich), Carlos Oliver (Fehr) and L.J. (Epps) join forces with new survivors of the Raccoon City disaster – Nurse Betty (Ashanti), K-Mart (Spencer Locke) and Claire Redfield (Larter) – to create a formidable force ready to defeat flesh-hungry zombies and save Earth before time runs out. Trekking though the desert and ruins of Las Vegas, the group must elude the sinister minds of the Umbrella Corporation, who are tracking their every move from the corporation’s sleek research facilities below the very ground Alice and her team are traversing.
With hordes of zombies, killer crows and gruesomely-mutated creatures in their path, the survivors are up against menacing odds. And Alice having been subjected to a biogenic experimentation has become genetically altered with super-human strengths, now must employ these skills as never before to ensure that the last of the human race survives.
Source: http://dvd.monstersandcritics.com/
Really, there’s just no stopping the undead these days, with the zombie plague continuing to spread everywhere from terrifying movies like “28 Days Later” or the hilarious “Shaun of the Dead” to numerous comics including the runaway Robert Kirkman hits “Walking Dead” and “Marvel Zomies.”
You can add another graphic novel to the list. “Zombies Calling” is a 104-page graphic novel and the first to be released by newcomer Faith Erin Hicks through SLG Publishing. The story follows three university students who’re trapped in their school due to an invasion of the undead and have to fight their way out using only their knowledge of zombie films. As the story is set in Canada, there are no guns available with which to fight the zombies. Additionally, the heroes aren’t athletic types, meaning they’ve no potentially lethal cricket bats lying around. Instead, the students are forced to use kitchen utensils like sporks, which, Hicks told CBR News, can be deadly in the right hands.
Though a new face in the printed comics world, the Nova Scotia-based Faith Hicks works in a Canadian animation studio and has created more than 900 pages of Webcomics, one of which, “Ice,” was nominated for a Joe Shuster Award.
“Zombies Calling” is a book filled with respect for zombies, but at the same time skewers the genre in a very novel way. With the graphic novel shipping to comics stores this week, CBR News caught up with Hicks to learn more about the inspiration for “Zombies Calling” as well as her Webcomics background.
Source: http://www.comicbookresources.com/
Wait a minute, ZOMBIES? Yeah that’s right player, ZOMBIES. You get the point, another zombedy and this looks right sweet. Tie me up and call me Shirley cause I can still keep watching and watching and watching these things.. Don’t call me Shirley. This baby is slated for release in DVD form on June 15th, 2008.
“The most important night of every senior’s life is cut abruptly at the hands of a high-radiated satellite that unexpectedly crash the party and turns everyone to flesh-eating zombies. It’s up to the popular chick, Cassia; the Drama-Queen, Donna; the Jock, Brett; the weirdo, Ernie; and the geeks, Brewster, Herman and Chubsy to put their social differences aside and join forces to survive their Prom night from the entire senior class of zombies. It’s kill or be killed. Will they survive the night…or will they be the main course. This prom night, a pimple is the least of their worries.”
Source: http://www.quietearth.us/
Granddaddy of gore George A. Romero attended a very special screening of Diary of the Dead in London over the weekend, and revealed that — contrary to reports in the trades — he has no plans to shoot a sequel… yet.
“I’m not sure where that came from,” Romero said when IGN put the question to him. “I wouldn’t mind continuing the discussion, but nothing is decided yet. Euphoria seems to have set in even though the film has only screened about six times.
“The only way I can see it being worthwhile is if we use the same characters, which would be the first time I have done that. I don’t have an idea yet, but if the idea and the money can meet somewhere in the middle, it’s possible.”
Romero was speaking at the Film4 FrightFest All-Nighter at the ICA, where his film screened alongside the similarly horrific Planet Terror, Frontier(s), Inside and the exploitation classic Savage Streets.
But the highlight of the night was undoubtedly Romero sticking around to discuss his work. Of Diary, he said his decision to shoot a low-budget zombie film using digital cameras was a direct response to the failure of his previous Dead flick.
“After what happened with Land of the Dead I wanted to get away from Hollywood and do something small and independent,” he explained. “The idea came about from the media explosion that’s happening at the moment — we’re all reporters now so that idea was buzzing around in my head.”
He was also asked if he would do the same as his Diary characters and stay filming whilst a Zombie holocaust raged around him. Romero quipped that he would, but would try and cut a movie deal first.
He also advised the audience to listen closely next time they watch the film as the voices of Stephen King, Guillermo del Toro, Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, Quentin Tarantino, Tom Savini and Wes Craven can all be heard on the soundtrack. He also surprised everyone and admitted that his dream project would be a, bizarrely, a Tarzan movie.
Before leaving, he also revealed his favourite characters from all five zombie films. Living, he went for the sheriff from Night of the Living Dead, if only because he gets to utter the immortal, “They’re dead — they’re all messed up.” And of those not alive, Romero rather predictably plumped for Bub from Day of the Dead, a hugely popular choice that was met by whoops and cheers from the audience.
Source: http://movies.ign.com/
If you didn’t know it already, books about film can really be a mixed bag. Sometimes you get a winner (Chas Balun’s Gore Score) sometimes you don’t (Rough Guide to Horror Movies), and sometimes you get something that’s really indescribable (Necronomicon: Journal of Horror and Erotic Cinema). But sometimes, not often, but sometimes, you get a book that is so far beyond all of the above descriptions you really don’t know what to think. Book of the Dead is such a title.
Book of the Dead is much more than just a book about film though. As its subtitle suggests it is a complete history of not only zombie cinema, but interest in the living dead as a whole. This book starts out with The Magic Island and Caribbean mythos of the living dead and quickly moves to and through every era of film dealing with re-animated corpses.
The amount of information in this volume is absolutely astounding. With chapters on everything from the poverty row flicks in the 40’s to atomic zombies to Romero’s apocalyptic trilogy to the Italian cycle, also splatter cinema and SOV get their own credit here as well. And the way the author handles the material is very professional, giving in depth criticism and insights into each era’s most astounding zombie films.
Also for your money, the author has been kind enough to include a load of extra’s. There are two separate sections in the book that include a massive amount of pictures, posters, and lobby cards of some of the best living dead films ever made. Not to mention the inclusion of a zombie film compendium in the back, which features a mini review of just about every film related to walking corpses.
All in al this book is not only a definite buy, but I say buy two of them, because if you’re like me, you’ll be using one for reference and the other as a pristine one time read. There is nothing to not recommend this little ditty, outside of some of the authors opinions on the films he talks about (Night of the Creeps is glossed right on over, while White Zombie gets two pages dedicated to its subtext). Other than that though this is the perfect book for anyone even mildly interested in the tawdry history of the zombie film. Till next time folks, Shawn out.
Source: http://mattstaggs.blogspot.com/
A MOB of zombies paraded through central Melbourne yesterday — and no, we’re not talking about inebriated racegoers.
More than 100 people seeking relief from horse racing took part in the second annual Zombie Shuffle.
Brought together at noon by “viral” messages on the internet and mobile phones, the posse of undead staggered and moaned their way from Carlton Gardens, down La Trobe and Swanston streets to Federation Square and Southbank.
Among the more imaginative participants were a blood-spattered socialite in a pink dress and hat, a chef, a flight attendant and a door-to-door evangelist.
Eyes fell from sockets, a woman carried someone’s severed head and a credit card protruded from someone else’s. Blood was sourced from tomato sauce, food dye and red cordial bottles, or special-effects make-up kits.
RMIT visual arts student Sera Hocquard, 20, of Brunswick, came as a bloodied bride, and her friend, Kat Weir, 24, was a schoolgirl sporting a hideous neck wound.
Ms Hocquard said the Cup Day link was a happy coincidence — the shuffle has been held on other dates in Sydney, Brisbane, Ottawa and Toronto — but she liked the idea of “being part of the counter-culture with the races going on”.
But she was mainly in it for the fun. “I had a blast.”
Ms Weir said she liked dressing up “so this is a good excuse. It’s a good excuse to be covered in blood and have a good time.”
Christian, 33, an artist from Yarraville who dressed as a “generic zombie”, growled “brains, brains”, a quote from the movie Return of the Living Dead.
He wore a tattered, blood-covered white shirt and torn tie, and carried a sign: “Do not let the Armageddon fall into the wrong hands”.
He was asked the purpose of the march many times yesterday. “And the answer is always ‘brains’.”
“We did debate whether we should go to Myer, but we decided against it,” he said. “The unwritten rules are: don’t hurt other people, don’t mess with kids, don’t scare kids, don’t hurt property. You can scare people but don’t attack them.
“The idea is just to have fun. Did we ever. Looking forward to next one, definitely.”
Source: http://www.theage.com.au/
It’s the end of the world as we know it. An epidemic is spreading around the globe, infecting humans and turning them into zombies. Only a few people are still alive - by normal standards.
Such is the premise of lastdaysjournal.com, a new social networking site and alternate reality game launched in mid-October.
The network is meant to connect the uninfected and help them survive in a world full of zombies.
The site encourages users to create alter egos through which to write a story of survival, said Kuka Hiko, the creator of lastdaysjournal.com.
“It’s a vehicle for people to come together and write a story,” Hiko said.
Hiko said he created the site with high school and college students in mind, to provide them with a venue they can use to write stories and where others can read their work.
Members of the site can post blogs, photos, video and audio clips, which are intended to provide other survivors with information on their location and status.
Though some visitors to the Web site might laugh at the idea of an imaginary world overrun by the living-dead, Hiko said he thinks the site will take off because people are already familiar with the zombie and apocalyptic genre through films such as “28 Days Later” and “Dawn of the Dead.”
“It’s already a world that people are familiar with. People can literally hit the ground running and just have fun,” Hiko said.
Since lastdaysjournal.com is still in its early stages, there aren’t many registered users, but Hiko said the joined members are very active in the site.
“Only a few users a day jump on, but the ones that stick around have a lot of fun,” Hiko said.
In a society addicted to networks such as MySpace and Facebook, some college students may be reluctant to add another social-networking account.
Casen Fernald, a freshman from Quad Cities studying accounting, said although the idea of lastdaysjournal.com sounds interesting, he wouldn’t be interested in joining.
“It wouldn’t be something that I’d be opposed to, but I’m not into it too much,” he said.
Source: http://media.www.siude.com/
