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This poster and synopsis for the upcoming horror comedy OC Babes and the Slasher of ZombieTown. The night seems like any other for Sean and Ed, filled with rejection. That is until a half eaten woman runs into the bar and warns them about zombies outside. Once they lock the bar up they start dropping like flies. They soon notice though that not everything is what it seems and not all people are who you think they are.

OC Babes and the Slasher of Zombietown is a low budget horror/comedy that is full of horror pop culture. the film is intercut with George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead to help tell the story. This movie is an exercise is low-budget film making in that it was shot in less than 24 hours. It is good, old-fashioned exploitation film making at its finest.

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“In light of recent disturbing events like the global recession, the outbreak of H1N1, the ban on Canadian seal products, I fear a zombie attack is imminent,” explains Rosie Magellan of British Columbia, Canada. “So I’ve developed a Zombie Emergency Response Plan, or ZERP as I like to call it, for my community.”

“After the zombie movie Shaun of the Dead came out on DVD”, she continues, “I frequently heard the actors from the film stressing the importance of having one’s own plan for a zombie attack. I didn’t give this much thought because, well, they’re actors. What do they know? I mean, I have a Ph.D. in Comparative Syntax of Extinct Languages so I’m confident in my knowledge of everything. However, given the downward spiral in the state of the world, it’s only logical that zombies will be the next plague that hits us. My apologies to those young men for doubting them”

I am sitting with Rosie in the living room of her wood frame bungalow. She lives in a village on a lake, nestled in the central interior of British Columbia. “I feel compelled to share this information with my American cousins. Even though we live in different sociolinguistic regions, there may be certain aspects of our ZERP that you can apply to your own.”

“The nearest city”, she tells me, “is 96.315168 miles away, I converted that from kilometres, so we’re a bit isolated. This means we’re on our own in an emergency. We have three seasons: winter, not quite winter, and July.

With this in mind, there’s one feature of a zombie we can use to our advantage. Zombies lack the ability to feel physical discomfort so would be unaware they were becoming hypothermic. Lacking the sense to come in out of the cold or put on a coat, they would eventually develop hypothermia in cold temperatures. The effects of hypothermia are weakness and loss of muscle co-ordination. This would slow down the zombies, even immobilize them if temperatures were cold enough, providing a safe and easy opportunity to knock their brains out.”

Rosie picks up a book that looks strangely like an owners manual for a Plymouth Voyager. “My husband and I each wrote sections of this”, she says, and begins to read.

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Capcom’s Captivate 09 event featured a slew of games, but the highlight of the show was undoubtedly Dead Rising 2. The original game was one of the Xbox 360′s early standouts and a knowing homage to American zombie movies, and it’s hard to believe that the game is now almost three years old. Capcom R&D head and Dead Rising 2 producer Keiji Inafune has entrusted development of the sequel to Canadian studio Blue Castle Games, which was on hand at Captivate 09 to walk us through the game.

Dan Brody, CEO and general manager of Blue Castle, gave us a tech demo that offered highlights of a few key features that will be in the sequel. Like in the game’s predecessor, anything and everything can be used as a weapon, but the team is keen to up the ante with even more zombies and new weapons. Brody talked about maintaining the constant feeling of dread and being “out of your element.”

Dead Rising 2 introduces you to a brand-new location, the Vegas-like Fortune City, and a new hero, motocross champion Chuck Greene. The demo that we saw started out on a street where 1,000 zombies were enjoying a night out on the town, and moved into a small gaming lounge filled with rows of slot machines, card tables, and undead patrons. Taking control of Chuck, Brody picked up a baseball bat and begun laying into some hapless undead. Chuck will have plenty more weapons at his disposal, and we saw him taking hold of an electric guitar, machine gun, chair, roulette wheel, and even a slot machine.

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