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A search has started in south west Scotland for a pack of “zombies”.

People from Dumfries and Galloway have been asked to turn up for an open casting session for a horror film to be shot on location in the region.

The Dead Outside is the first feature-length project by Dumfries-born director Kerry Anne Mullaney.

The session to find actors and extras for the film - to be shot in March - will take place in the Gracefield Arts Centre on Saturday afternoon.

Producers Mothcatcher Films, from Edinburgh, are seeking a number of people for the low-budget project.

They include a boy aged between four and six with “longish” hair and a girl aged between 16 and 22 with long brown hair.

They are also searching for people over the age of 30 to play “mortally-wounded zombies”.

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1. Arm yourself. The first thing you always do is arm yourself. Never walk anywhere, drive anywhere, or even fall down anywhere without a weapon. If you can’t find a gun in your immediate vicinity, get a large, heavy, blunt object (a sturdy golf club works, or even a towel hanger–bats, clubs, and the like work too). This is the precursor to everything else. You cannot survive zombies if you can’t defend yourself. Take all your nails, hammers, screwdrivers, screws, and any other relevant hardware, including rope. If you don’t have these things, steal them from next door. If they don’t have them, then you’re screwed. Sorry, you can’t even barricade yourself in your home without nails and a hammer. My advice is to hide and take a lot of sleeping pills so you don’t wake up. The zombies will get you eventually. Or, well, plan better next time.

2. The biggest rule of all: regardless of the type of zombies you are dealing with, if you have to fight, hit them in the head. Always. Period. If you have a gun, DO NOT shoot them in the chest or the leg and think they will stop. No, go for the head. It saves bullets and energy.

3. Get in your car and take your family and any living neighbors with you. This is crucial. If you want to survive, you need reliable people with you.

4. If anyone you encounter is bitten, shoot them. This sounds cruel, but the infection travels through bites, exposure to infected blood, saliva, and yes, even other fluids–it’s an STD too. If you absolutely must take someone who is infected with you, keep a close eye on them and the second they die, or seem to have died, shoot them or hit them in the head. The first rule of surviving this is realizing that people who have become zombies are no longer the people you once knew. Your zombie mother is not your mother. It’s an evil demon using your mother as a carrier for its sickness.

5. Once in your car and with those you trust who aren’t infected, drive and do not stop. Again, this sounds cruel, but one huge mistake you can do in your survival is stopping for people you don’t know. They could be infected, or stopping could ruin your ability to do the next steps.

6. Go to a gun store or anywhere you think there will be guns. Gun stores are best because they carry a wide range of weapons and ammo. Take everything you can. Everyone should have a rifle, a sidearm, an extra sidearm, and then another sidearm, and ammo for all of them. Shotguns are good, high powered rifles are good, but basically anything that has the potential to break through a human skull works. Automatic weapons are best, if you can find them. You need more ammo than you do guns, so make sure you take more ammo than seems necessary.

7. Leave the gun store and don’t linger. If zombies are about, you can’t risk sitting around shooting them. Get in your car and move. There is no time for revenge here.

8. Find a supermarket. Steps 6 and 7 can be skipped if you have one of those super stores that has everything (i.e. Walmart).

9. Take over the supermarket. Sweep the entire place, lock all the doors, clear out anyone inside that is infected or a zombie, and take it over.

10. Barricade all the windows, doors, etc. If you think you had done a good job, you haven’t. Supermarkets have a lot of shelfs, metal, etc. All this should be used to get all those windows barricaded and the same goes for doors. Do it more than you think is necessary.

11. Provisions. The hardest part. You’ve got yourself a supermarket. Congrats. But you’re not over the hump yet. Zombie infestations can last days, weeks, months, even years. You have to be prepared. First things first. Eat only produce and foods that require refrigeration first. Leave all the canned goods alone. You’ll need those canned goods. This is the time to have your last really good meals because, well, there’s a lot of food in there, and if the power goes out, well all that produce and meat goes bad. Enjoy it while you can. This might be the last bit of fresh food you’ll have for a while.

While you’re enjoying this, find the second in the supermarket where there are seeds. A lot of supermarkets have potting soil and the like. Get all this and hoist up some stuff to help you plant things. Start planting anything and everything you can on the roof that is edible. Plant all of it and don’t screw up. Your life depends on it.

Next, water. There is bound to be a lot of bottled stuff in a super market, but you can’t rely on that as a valid source, and fresh water is always better anyway. Find all the buckets, etc. and put them up on the roof where there is room. These will be used to catch rain water. They’ll be beneficial in the long run to provide fresh water to you when you need it.

Congrats, if you’ve done all the above, you’re set! You can now survive. Just ration out the canned food and make sure everyone get only what they need and you’re good to go.

12. The last thing is this: be prepared for other people to figure out where you are. Be prepared to face the harsh decision to turn people away, or to kill people who are infected. If someone shows up and you decide to bring them in, check them thoroughly. That means a full naked check. They might not appreciate this gesture, but if one of them has been bitten you will be glad for the small bout of rude behavior. People who are infected should be given these options:


a) Turn around an never show up here again.

b) No choice at all. Shoot them. Your survival depends on keeping the infection out.

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Zombies are known to eat their victims alive. The comic book industry could be next.

While films such as “I am Legend” and “28 Weeks Later” show the public still has an interest in zombies, local comic writers and sellers say the undead are due for a crash.

“There is a lot of fear in the zombie industry right now,” said J.C Vaughn, who writes “Zombie Proof,” an independent comic book. He said his table at the recent Big Apple Comic Book Convention received healthy traffic, but was much quieter than expected. Next door, a female artist listlessly sketched zombies while oblivious comic fans walked by. “There is just so much material out there. Our book is based on humor, so we should be OK, but the other guys? I don’t know.”

Devin T. Quin published his first zombie title — “Robots R’ Cool, Zombie’s R’ Jerks” — through his Brooklyn-based company Dead Fish Comics. The first edition sold 3,000 copies. Since then, interest has fallen.

“If it was 2005 again you could sell zombie comics to anybody. Back then it was the new great thing,” he said. “In the future I don’t think I can do any more of it because there is such a glut. I want to find other ideas.”

But there’s still life in the zombie phenomenon. Marvel Comics made a killing on its surprise-hit “Marvel Zombies” series, where Spider-Man and Captain America are reborn as the undead. Its latest edition, released in October, has sold around 92,000 copies. And in October, roughly 100 Williamsburg hipsters dressed as zombies for a yoga session But how long will it last?

“I thought we would have seen interest peak in zombies, but it seems there is still an audience,” said Chris Ryall, editor of IDW Publishing, who produces titles including “Zombies: Feast,” “Dawn of the Dead” and “Zombies vs. Robots.” “You just have to be careful not to burn people out. We just look for fresh takes on it, or if there is something new they’re trying to say. Not just the same old apocalypse.”

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Have you ever wondered why zombies always seem so attracted to malls in the movies? Oh wait, I get it now, it’s got to be all the consumerism. Well, true to the stories, zombies invaded a Madison mall on Black Friday, but not to consume brains.

No, these zombies were there to “encourage” folks to, “Shop….Shop…” As Madison’s finest zombiographer, I nearly escaped with my life and credit line maxed out. These zombies were out in protest of what is sometimes viewed as mindless and unnecessary consumerism. Handing out papers explaining some of the views behind Buy Nothing Day.

While serenading the passersby with a zombie carol, security took over, doing a much better job than in the movies. In all fairness, these were very complacent zombies who saw their welcome warn and lurched back from whence they came.

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Some may argue the sight of zombies roaming the streets of Cardiff after dark is a common sight.

But for once the rising of the undead at a city nightclub to the sound of Michael Jackson’s Thriller was not entirely alcohol-induced.

Blood-dripping zombies gathered at the nightclub to try to break the world record for the largest “zombie walk”.

Although they failed, organisers say the 282 zombies who turned up could have set a Welsh record.

The current “zombie walk” world record was set last year when 894 ghouls rose from their graves at the Monroeville shopping mall near Pittsburgh, USA.

Last month an estimated 1,100 people gathered at the same mall - which was the setting for the zombie film Dawn of the Dead.

But 29-year-old Antony Lane, one of the Newport film graduates behind the Welsh zombie-fest, said that gathering had yet to be verified by the Guinness Book of Records.

He said they had been hoping over a thousand people would take part in the Cardiff event on Wednesday night and had set up a Facebook and a MySpace page to publicise it.

Despite not reaching the world record, Mr Lane said he thought the event may have set a Welsh record and hoped the evening had made plenty of money for charity.

He added as well as fundraising, the event in Cardiff was an opportunity to scout for extras for a film his company, Indywood, plan to shoot next year.

“Zombie Gatherings have become an institution in the States as a way of raising money and awareness, so I figured why not give Wales a chance to beat the record,” he said.

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.


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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.


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A Park. Yoga. The East River. 100 Zombies.

I LOVE NEW YORK!

Brooklyn. All the great stuff happens in Brooklyn.

Seriously, name me another American city where this could happen.

Okay, maybe San Francisco, but you know all the Clowns hanging out in Golden Gate Park would want to get in to it, and then you’ve got the big Red Noses and the big Clown Orange Floppy Feet getting in the way of the eternal quest for BRAINS.

Although clowns are slowed down by their big orange clown floppy feet, which would give the zombies a change to eat them. And probably get really really high, given they are San Francisco clowns and all probably have like, X and other stuff in their clown pockets, and that’s a really terrifying thought — zombies on X… “We love you. We want to eat your brains and we love you…dude and little dudette.”

But no… No, this is pure.

A Park. The East River. Yoga. And 100 Zombies.

Also a book The Zen of Zombie: Better Living Through the Undead if you care, but really, if you’re an actual zombie, all you need is BRAINS.


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