EW Spotlights World War Z
The upcoming film adaptation of Max Brooks' World War Z scores the cover story for the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly.
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New Trailer: World War Z
From domestic bliss to the zombie apocalypse in 150 seconds in Paramount's new trailer for World War Z.
Word War Z opens in theaters on June 21, 2013.
A New Dead Is Dawning...
... in the new Zombieland - The Series poster.
New On DVD: Zombie Genocide - Legion Of The Damned
New this week from World Wide Multi Media is Zombie Genocide: Legion of the Damned.
"Chaos is rampant as a biochemical terrorist attack rages in several heavily populated cities in the US. The world will never be the same as the virus spreads quickly across the continent turning thousands of people into a horrific flesh-eating army of the dead. A group of strangers band together to defend their loved ones from being consumed by the rampaging, frenzied zombie apocalypse. A man stuck in a traffic jam narrowly escapes to warn others of what's heading their way; best friends fight to return home and save their families; a mother and son in hiding desperately seek to escape the horrors of what awaits outside; while a father tries to reunite with his wife and child. As each human stands to fight and survive, the army of the dead continues to multiply. Not for the squeamish, Zombie Genocide: Legion Of The Damned is full of zombie gore galore."
Zombie Genocide: Legion of the Damned is available on DVD now.
Zombie Apocalypse Marathon!
AMC's Zombie Apocalypse Marathon of every episode of The Walking Dead, from start-to-present, begins tonight at 8pm ET. With breaks during the day, this will run up through Sunday night's third season finale.
Check out the full schedule here - The Walking Dead Zombie Apocalypse Marathon.
New World War Z Poster
World War Z just got a brand new teaser poster... and it's a wild one. Guess again if you think that a helicopter is going to be your ticket to escape the unstoppable horde of the living dead in World War Z's version of the zombie apocalypse.
World War Z, the adaptation of Max Brooks groundbreaking zombie apocalypse book, stars Brad Pitt, and will be released in the U.S. on June 21, 2013.
On Sale: Shaun Of The Dead
A quick heads up on iTunes Cult Classics sale - For a "limited time", they have Shaun of the Dead available for $9.99 in HD, along with some other interesting titles that are well worth checking out like The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai, Blue Velvet, The Warriors and Big Trouble In Little China. Check them all out on iTunes.
New On DVD: Eaters
New this week from Entertainment One is Eaters, "presented by' Uwe Boll directed by Marco Ristori and Luca Boni and starring Alex Lucchesi, Guglielmo Favilla, Claudio Marmugi and Rosella Elmi.
"A new breed is rising... The world, devastated by the Great Epidemic, is overrun by hordes of living dead. Three men - a lone scientist and two zombie hunters - may be humanity's final hope. Searching for a cure amidst a wasteland of carnage and slaughter, they encounter an insane artist, a group of neo-Nazis, and a mysterious teenage girl, who could be the daughter of the feared Plague Spreader himself."
Eaters is available on DVD now.
New On Blu: Oasis of the Zombies (Remastered)
New this week from Redemption in a remastered edition is Oasis of the Zombies (aka The Treasure of the Living Dead aka La tumba de los muertos vivientes), written and directed by Jess Franco, and starring Manuel Gelin, France Lomay and Jeff Montgomery.
"Once established as a master of the Euro-erotic horror film, Jess Franco continued to explore more traditional modes of filmmaking, setting familiar genres on their ears with his singular brand of reckless creativity. Made during the living dead craze of the early 1980s, Oasis Of the Zombies is one of only a handful of motion pictures to explore a most peculiar subgenre of the movement: the Nazi zombie film.
In telling the story of a cache of German gold - lost in the desert, sought by a group of teenagers, protected by the walking dead - Franco demonstrated his characteristic lack of restraint, shamelessly inserting stock footage from a bigger-budget war picture, allowing his camera to dwell on the worm-eaten orifices of the shriveled undead and, of course, lacing the action with his trademark style of lyrical eroticism. The resulting film is a decadent exercise in grindhouse filmmaking that is more audacious than frightening, illuminating one of the more peculiar facets of Jess Franco's uniquely warped cinema."
Oasis of the Zombies: Remastered Edition is available on Blu-ray and DVD.
New On Blu: Zombie Lake (Remastered)
New this week from Redemption in a remastered edition is Zombie Lake (aka Le lac des morts vivants), directed by Jean Rollin, written by Jess Franco, and starring Howard Vernon, Pierre-Marie Escourrou and Anouchka.
"One of the most bizarre films in the living dead craze of the early 1980s, Zombie Lake feasts without restraint upon the carcasses of a variety of cinematic genres: the WWII picture, the sexploitation film, gore horror, and even the romantic melodrama. Conceived by one master of erotic horror (Jess Franco) and pseudonymously directed by another (Jean Rollin), Zombie Lake weaves the tale of a contemporary French village haunted by water-logged Nazis slain by the Resistance. With little regard for narrative subtlety, the film veers from a shamelessly exploitive (as when a women's volleyball team skinny-dips in zombie-infested waters) to the tearfully sentimental (depicting a young orphan girl's psychic connection to one of the walking dead). Beneath its garish surface, however, Zombie Lake embraces several themes that run throughout Rollin's body of work, showing that this eclectic artist could not help, investing even a playful film such as this with his personal sensibilities."
Zombie Lake: Remastered Edition is available on Blu-ray and DVD.
45th Anniversary Night Of The Living Dead Screening
Tonight in Pittsburgh, the Senator John Heinz History Center is hosting a 45th anniversary screening of George Romero's Night of the Living Dead along with a contest to find the city's best zombie.
This event is being held in support of their new exhibition of 1968: The Year That Rocked America.
The fun starts in just under an hour so, if you're thinking of going, you better run like the living dead are chasing you!
"Watch "Night of the Living Dead" at the History Center… if you dare. The 1968 cult classic, which revolutionized the horror genre, was filmed in and around Pittsburgh by the "Godfather of Zombies” George A. Romero, and celebrates its 45th anniversary this year. Frightfully fun snacks and refreshments, including alcoholic beverages, popcorn, and retro candy, will be available for purchase.
- 5 - 7 p.m.: Behind-the-scenes tours of the History Center's new exhibition, 1968: The Year That Rocked America
- 7 p.m.: Pittsburgh's Best Zombie Contest and "Night of the Living Dead" screening
The winners of the inaugural Pittsburgh's Best Zombie Contestwill be crowned the Zombie King and Queen of Pittsburgh, and will each receive a prize package including a ScareHouse prize coffin with two RIP passes to The ScareHouse 2013, and merchandise from House of the Dead, Pittsburgh's premier zombie store. To enter, just show up dead and ready to scare!"
Find out the full info on their event page.
New On Blu: The Video Dead
New this week from Shout Factory, on a double bill with TerrorVision, is The Video Dead, directed by Robert Scott and starring Michael St. Michaels, Roxanna Augesen, Rocky Duvall and Sam David McClelland.
"On a quiet, tree-lined street, evil has arrived in a most ordinary way, an old television set. It receives a single channel, one that not only shows the same film over and over – a horror film where zombies rise from the grave to kill – but also frees the gnarled, evil monsters….and once out, they’re not going back! They like the real world. They’ve already killed five people and want more blood…and a new family is moving into the neighborhood!"
Extras include:
TerrorVision / The Video Dead is available now on a Blu-ray/DVD combo set.
New On Blu: Mimesis - Night of the Living Dead
New this week from Anchor Bay is Mimesis: Night of the Living Dead, directed by Douglas Schulze and starring Sid Haig, Courtney Gains, Allen Maldonado, Lauren Mae Shafer and Taylor Piedmonte.
"Why watchia horror movie when you can live one?
What begins as a horror convention after-party for a group of fans will quickly become a genuine flesh-and-blood nightmare: Trapped inside an isolated farmhouse, they must now survive attacks by hordes of hungry zombies while desperately attempting to escape. But is this gore-soaked siege a twisted prank, an elaborate trap, or has Night Of The Living Dead actually come to undead life? Sid Haig (The Devil's Rejects) and Courtney Gains (Children Of The Corn) star in this award-winning shocker from co-writer/director Douglas Schulze that walks the razor sharp line between edgy homage and depraved reality... then proceeds to rip its guts out."
Mimesis: Night of the Living Dead is available now on Blu-ray, DVD and iTunes.
Can Warm Bodies Do It Again?
Warm Bodies was the #1 film at the box offic in America last week. Is zombie love strong enough for them to do it again this week?
New On DVD: Midnight Movies Vol. 9: Zombie Double Feature
New this week from Blue Underground is Midnight Movies Vol. 9: Zombie Double Feature, a two disc set that includes Hell of the Living Dead and Nightmare City.
Hell of the Living Dead, from 1980, was directed by Bruno Mattei and stars Margit Evelyn Newton, Franco Garofalo and Selan Karay.
"An accident at a chemical plant unleashes a horrific virus, and an elite SWAT team is sent to New Guinea to investigate. But when they arrive on the hellish island, they discover a plague of flesh-eating zombies as well as a beautiful female reporter who practices nude anthropology. Can the commandos survive this cannibal rampage, uncover a shocking government secret, and still find time for the occasional cross-dressing before the ravenous hordes of the living dead infect the entire world?"
Nightmare City, also from 1980, was directed by Umberto Lenzi and stars Hugo Stiglitz, Laura Trotter, Maria Rosaria Omaggio and Francisco Rabal.
"When a radioactive spill causes mass contamination, thousands of infected citizens are transformed into bloodthirsty undead fiends. But these are not your standard stumbling gut-munchers; this is an all-out attack by fast-moving, flesh-ripping, ass-kicking maniacs that can only be stopped by a bullet to the brain. Get ready for an all-you-can-eat buffet of gunfire, gore and gratuitous aerobics where zombies run, chaos reigns and heads explode. This is Nightmare City!"
Midnight Movies Vol. 9: Zombie Double Feature is available on DVD now.
On The Warm Bodies Red Carpet
The Warm Bodies cast talks all things zombie at the premiere.
Be The Cure
Warm Bodies wants you to #BeTheCure.
"A funny new twist on a classic love story, WARM BODIES is a poignant tale about the power of human connection. After a zombie epidemic, R (a highly unusual zombie) encounters Julie (a human survivor), and rescues her from a zombie attack. Julie sees that R is different from the other zombies, and as the two form a special relationship in their struggle for survival, R becomes increasingly more human -- setting off an exciting, romantic, and often comical chain of events that begins to transform the other zombies and maybe even the whole lifeless world."
Warm Bodies, based on the book of the same name by Isaac Marion, opens in theaters tomorrow.
New On Blu: White Zombie
New this week from Kino is a remastered edition of the classic 1932 film White Zombie, directed by Victor Halperin and starring Bela Lugosi, Madge Bellamy, Joseph Cawthorn and Robert Frazer.
"After becoming an overnight success with his starring role in Tod Browning's Dracula, Bela Lugosi struggled to find roles worthy of his acting talent, without parodying his depiction of Bram Stoker's notorious count. Independently produced by Edward Halperin, White Zombie was one of the rare films that provided Lugosi with just such an opportunity. In spite of its budgetary limitations, White Zombie manages to be a remarkably atmospheric treatment of the Haitian zombie myth, which would evolve into one of the most popular and enduring subgenres of the horror film.
This Kino Classics edition, produced by Holland Releasing, has been mastered in HD from a 35mm fine grain print and is presented in both a digitally restored and an unenhanced version (with the natural film grain intact)."
White Zombie is available now on Blu-ray and DVD.
New On DVD: Zombie Ed
New this week from Brain Damage Films is Zombie Ed, directed by Ren Blood and starring William C. Cutting, Kelly Petering, Trista Robinson and Myles Mclane.
"Can Ed become the zombie he was born to be?
Loser Ed has a lame job, a beater car, a crappy apartment and no hope of a girlfriend. Ed doesn't think things could get any worse for him until the day he woke up and found he had gone zombie. Shockingly Ed finds he is a good looking, athletic and successful zombie but can't enjoy his new zombie life because he is afraid the loser Ed, still living inside of him will come out and ruin everything. Things heat up for Ed when his hot zombie girlfriend gets him involved in the zombie equal rights movement. Ed has a chance to make life better for zombies everywhere but will he risk it all to become the zombie he was born to be?"
Zombie Ed is available now on DVD.
Warm Bodies: "So Alive"
New TV spot for Warm Bodies:
Warm Bodies opens in theaters on February 1st.