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Today George Romero’s Survival of the Dead launched a huge attack on the web by opening up several different things. They have official launched a Twitter and MySpace page and also tossed in a pretty cool behind the scenes video. Check out that video below and be sure to stick around for more as we hear it.
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Writer-director John Hughes, Hollywood’s youth impresario of the 1980s and ’90s who captured and cornered the teen and pre-teen market with such favorites as “Home Alone,” “The Breakfast Club” and “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” died Thursday, a spokeswoman said. He was 59.
Hughes died of a heart attack during a morning walk in Manhattan, Michelle Bega said. He was in New York to visit family.
A native of Lansing, Mich., who later moved to suburban Chicago and set much of his work there, Hughes rose from ad writer to comedy writer to silver screen champ with his affectionate and idealized portraits of teens, whether the romantic and sexual insecurity of “Sixteen Candles,” or the J.D. Salinger-esque rebellion against conformity in “The Breakfast Club.”
Hughes’ ensemble comedies helped make stars out of Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Ally Sheedy and many other young performers. He also scripted the phenomenally popular “Home Alone,” which made little-known Macaulay Culkin a sensation as the 8-year-old accidentally abandoned by his vacationing family, and wrote or directed such hits as “National Lampoon’s Vacation,” “Pretty in Pink,” “Planes, Trains & Automobiles” and “Uncle Buck.”
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Smallville is jumping on the zombie bandwagon.
Yesterday, we told you about the upcoming Medium-Night of The Living Dead mash-up. Now comes word that Clark Kent will be dealing with the undead in a season nine episode of Smallville.
The ep, called “Rabid,” will see a virus infecting the city of Metropolis that turns people into zombies. Click through to find out which two Smallville regulars will get infected.
The series most appealing ladies (sorry Chloe!) Tess Mercer and Lois Lane will reportedly be infected by the zombie plague. Actor Cameron Bancroft (24) will play Dr. Coats, a virologists working to either strengthen or stop the plague – we’re really not sure yet.
After Marvel Zombies, the Zombieland hype and the upcoming Star Wars zombie novel, I might be sick of the walking dead once this ep makes it to air. I’ll still watch it, of course. I wouldn’t want to miss watching Clark possibly use his heat vision to decapitate a walking corpse.
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Despite what many of you may think, being a zombie is hard work, especially if you live in Japan. It’s not just about shuffling your feet and moaning unintelligible noises, it’s so much more than that!
The Ultimate Horror Maze is a 900 meter long labyrinth at Japan’s Fuji-Q Highland amusement park, infested by zombies, and largely regarded as the world’s longest and scariest house of horror. However, the maze was shut down temporarily so the zombies could attend a zombie boot camp after they were accused of not being scary enough.
Check out the video below to see how the zombies were put through their paces by a hyped up task master.
Source: http://www.examiner.com/
Within the past 10 years, zombies have become one of the most prominent creatures of the night. The Resident Evil movies and video games, I Am Legend, 28 Days Later and its sequel 28 Weeks Later are just some of the big blockbusters in popular culture. This does not even begin to address the high number of B horror flicks like Zombie Strippers that are on the market capitalizing on the horror trend. With the genre as huge as it is, where do zombies come from?
The origin of the zombie resembles nothing like that is portrayed in current movies. The term zombie originally comes from the West African based religion of Voudou (also known as voodoo) in the form of the word “zumbi” on “zonbi” which means departed spirit or ghosts. A zombie was originally a body without a soul; a dead person brought back to life by voudoun sorcerer. Without any will of his own, it mindlessly served the sorcerer as an animated corpse. The idea was still considered frightening to be depicted in movies, as far back as 1943 in the classic movie I Walked With a Zombie. However, the movies also served to perpetuate stereotypes of Voudou as an exotic religion with only dark magics from the peoples brought over from West Africa and settling in Cuba, Haiti and among the creole in Louisiana.
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