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Filmmaker George Romero birthed the modern zombie, and now he’s finally ready to reveal all the secrets of the walking dead. In his first novel, Romero will explain the full capabilities of the undead and how the zombie plague began.
UK publisher Headline has signed Romero for a book delving into the mythology he helped create, simply titled The Living Dead. The book will explain what zombies can and cannot do, and will finally give us Romero’s take on the origin of zombies and how the world at large reacts.
Headline will publish The Living Dead in July 2010.
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When Woody Harrelson escapes the living dead in “Zombieland,” a new movie opening this Friday, should he head for the hills or the mall? A recently published research paper suggests that he’s probably better off hiding in the mall to save his delicious brain.
The world is full of things that move in zombie-like fashion, such as particles flowing through a turbulent fluid or the unpredictable price changes of the stock market, so physicists seek insight into this behavior by creating so called “random walking” models.
Physicist Davide Cassi at the Università di Parma in Italy looked at how long an entity hiding in a complex structure could survive if being pursued by predatory random walkers. Cassi’s paper, recently published in the journal Physical Review E, is the first to describe a general principle of a prey’s likelihood to survive over time while hiding in an irregular structure.
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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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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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