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Writer-director Jason Horton writes in to inform us work is complete on his indie zombie endeavor Edges of Darkness. Three tales woven into one, “Darkness” concerns itself with a zombie apocalypse and, naturally, those trying to save their asses from the undead.
Story one focuses on a pair of vampires (you read that right) and the young girl they are slowly bleeding dry while they ride out the zombie outbreak. An obsessive horror writer fuels tale two. Stuck with his wife, he maintains his sanity by writing, using the limited power they have to keep his word processor going. But soon he finds out there’s a high price to pay. And, wrapping things up, Heather, a headstrong gal with a niche for survival, takes in a mother and her son, unaware the latter has been targeted by renegade priests who want to see the boy dead.
Annemarie Pazmino, Shamika Ann Franklin, Alonzo F. Jones, Michelle Rose, Kelly Murray and Jay Costelo star. Horton co-wrote and co-directed the film with Blaine Cade.
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They ooze fake blood, moan and stutter through the streets in search of their favorite dish: “Brains!”
But don’t be alarmed.
Hundreds of zombie-loving visitors from across the U.S. are in Grapevine for Texas Frightmare Weekend, a celebration of horror flicks at the Hilton DFW Lakes hotel.
The event kicked off Friday with a quarter-mile zombie walk from Salt Water Willy’s in Grapevine Mills to the convention site. Motorists on Grapevine Mills Circle were stunned as they encountered about 400 slow-moving pedestrians, their clothes torn and bodies decorated with faux injuries.
Once inside, the gory guests can expect to be treated to chat sessions with actors, writers, directors and special effects artists. Many classic movies are being screened, and George Romero is being feted for the 40th anniversary of his, ahem, brainchild, Night of the Living Dead.
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It’s not Romero’s best, but it’s not bad.
But what is Romero’s best? And everyone else’s? The zombie movie is a surprisingly rich genre, if you’re into that sort of thing. And if you’re not, you should be.
Here’s our pick for the best zombie films ever:
1. Night of the Living Dead (1968): The first is still the best. Shot in glorious black-and-white, Romero’s tale of the dead rising and, you know, EATING PEOPLE, is every bit as scary today as it was then, no matter how many great zombie films have come since. From the first scene in the cemetery to the soul-crushing ending, a terrifying classic.
2. Return of the Living Dead (1985): This spoof of Romero’s movies is hilarious, truly - the line “Send more paramedics” will slay (no pun intended) anyone who’s ever seen it. Director Dan O’Bannon obviously loves the films he’s sending up and has fun with other pop-culture icons, too: two of his characters are named Bert and Ernie. Love that. Sometimes it’s just fun to walk around and say, “I can smell your brains!”
3. Dawn of the Dead (1978): In which Romero uses his zombies to take a bite out of the shopping-mall culture (pun intended that time). A lot of people prefer this to Night, and there’s an argument to be made in that regard. But without the context of that first mind-blowing experience, this wouldn’t strike quite so strong a chord.
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The award-winning undead anthology ZOMBIE TALES rises from the grave-and this time it’s monthly! The premiere issue gathers top writers Steve Niles (30 DAYS OF NIGHTS), Joe R. Lansdale (JONAH HEX), and ACADEMY AWARD® nominee Kim Krizan (BEFORE SUNRISE, BEFORE SUNSET) for a trio of undead tales that will rot your head away!
“I am so excited we decided to bring out the undead monthly with ZOMBIE TALES. Having horror guru Steve Niles along with Joe R. Lansdale and Kim Krizan to jumpstart the ongoing series with such gory brilliance is spectacular,” said Mark Waid, BOOM! Studios Editor-in-Chief.
Steve Niles of 30 DAYS OF NIGHT fame headlines the first issue, joined with writer Joe R. Lansdale, who is best-known for his work on DC’s JONAH HEX, and anchored by ACADEMY AWARD® nominated screenwriter Kim Krizan, who makes her comics debut with her tale. Variant covers will ship for every issue. Each issue of ZOMBIE TALES will unearth these stories of the undead with different master storytellers and spectacularly rendered art by some of the top comics artists every month.
This new ZOMBIE TALES ongoing series marks BOOM! Studios’ third monthly ongoing title, fitting perfectly alongside its best-selling monthly, FALL OF CTHULHU, and the recently announced CTHULHU TALES. BOOM! Studios’ horror titles have helped define the company, from its smash hit ZOMBIE TALES one-shots to BOOM!’s top-selling trio of CTHULHU TALES one-shots, making BOOM! Studios is the “go-to” publisher for quality horror and thrillers.
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Bitten by a zombie, his fate sealed, a character in George Romero’s new film mutters to a friend, “Shoot me.” The friend first points a video camera at the man, then a gun.
Romero’s latest zombie film uses the same handheld, subjective camera approach as “The Blair Witch Project” and “Cloverfield.” Calling into question the morals and motives of whoever is filming, it makes the case that YouTube and MySpace are as frightening as walking dead.
“If Hitler were alive today, he wouldn’t have to stand out in that square. He could just put out a blog and he’d have millions of followers,” Romero told The Associated Press in an interview. “It’s completely uncontrolled. It’s not information, it’s opinion. And it’s scary. You can get an audience no matter what your opinion is.”
In “George A. Romero’s Diary of the Dead,” opening in limited release Friday, footage is purported to have been filmed by survivors of a wave of zombies, then pieced together with news clips and scenes from surveillance cameras. The cameraman at one point decides he can’t run to help his friends off-screen because he’s busy charging camcorder batteries.
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We get the zombies we deserve. Over five films and four decades the director George Romero’s slack-jawed undead have been our tour guides through a brainless, barbaric America that seems barely hospitable to the living. They lurch across a bigoted civil-rights-era countryside (”Night of the Living Dead,” 1968), claw at a suburban shopping mall (”Dawn of the Dead,” 1978) and wander dazed in an anxious post-9/11 world (”Land of the Dead,” 2005).
Romero is now 68, and his influence has long saturated the cultural mainstream, but he has exhumed his living dead yet again for “Diary of the Dead,” opening Friday in the United States, next month in Britain and in May in Japan. The zombies’ - and Romero’s - current bugaboo? The blogging, uploading, navel-gazing infotainment age.
“It’s scary out there, man,” Romero said, gesturing at a laptop as he sat in his apartment here, chain-smoking Marlboros. “There’s just so much information, and it’s absolutely uncontrolled. Half of it isn’t even information. It’s entertainment or opinion. I wanted to do something that would get at this octopus. It may be the darkest film I’ve done since ‘Night of the Living Dead.’ ”
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