Posted on 12.14.06 by Nathan Shumate @ 10:36 am
 There’s nothing so fun as getting all uppity and academic with pop culture. That seems to be the idea behind Paffenroth’s book from Baylor University Press, subtitled “George Romero’s Visions of Hell on Earth”:
This volume connects American social and religious views with the classic American movie genre of the zombie horror film. For nearly forty years, the films of George A. Romero have presented viewers with hellish visions of our world overrun by flesh-eating ghouls. This study proves that Romero’s films, like apocalyptic literature or Dante’s Commedia, go beyond the surface experience of repulsion to probe deeper questions of human nature and purpose, often giving a chilling and darkly humorous critique of modern, secular America.
Nominated for a Stoker Award, too. 195 pages in hardcover, $13.57 from Amazon.com.
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Posted on 12.08.06 by Nathan Shumate @ 10:04 am
 Also new this week, a triple-disc set of Italian bad/goodness from Shriek Show:
Black Demons: Finally, the seldom seen 1991 zombie film from Umberto Lenzi arrives stateside, uncut, digitally re-mastered, and in English for the very first time. The Black magic rites and powers of Voodoo and the Macumba are used to reanimate the corpses of zombified, revenge-seeking, black slaves. Acting out of retribution, the zombies tear, rip, and bite anyone in their path of vengeance.
Demons III: The Ogre: Cheryl, an American author, goes on holiday with her husband and young son to an ancient, cursed Italian villa. Cheryl slowly and shockingly begins to realize that an evil, demon-like creature that haunted her childhood nightmares is real and alive; inhabiting the dark, cavernous cellar of the old mansion they are living in!
The Other Hell: When a brutal series of murders plague a convent, a priest is brought in to investigate the tragedies. As the remaining nuns become increasingly disturbed, he must wonder if this is the work of a psychopath, or that of the devil. Bruno Mattei, of Hell of the Living Dead and Claudio Fragasso of Zombi 3 unite again to ensure this tale of “nunsploitation” and possession rises above the rest.
Look, I’m not telling you that you SHOULD watch it, I’m just letting you know it’s available should you choose to do so. $17.99 from Amazon.com .
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Posted on 12.06.06 by Nathan Shumate @ 10:29 am
 Hot diggity! New out this week: Not just a zombie film, not just a post-apocalyptic zombie film, but a WESTERN post-apocalyptic zombie film.
Eighty-five years ago, a viral outbreak turned three- quarters of the population into the walking dead. Those who survived had to take up a new trade. That’s how the hunt began…
For lone bounty hunter Ryn Baskin (Clint Glenn), there are three hard rules of survival in this lawless land where the severed fingers of every flesh-eating zombie are worth their weight in gold: Kill the fresh ones first. Then pick the rotting ones off one-by-one. And most important of all, you can outrun them if you never let them lure you inside. But when Baskin is betrayed and left for dead by a gang of sadistic outlaws, he must pursue a new breed of brutal killers across a gore-drenched frontier. The infection is spreading. The plague is growing. And for one man who would not die, vengeance is now waiting within a fortress of gut- ripping horror between THE QUICK AND THE UNDEAD.
Because the DVD is from Anchor Bay, you know it’s fully loaded: Presented in widescreen, with audio commentary with writer/producer/director Gerald Nott and producer/actor Clint Glenn, plus deleted scenes, outtakes, a making-of documentary, trailers, etc. $20.19 at Amazon.com .
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Posted on 12.05.06 by Nathan Shumate @ 9:51 pm
Sure, we all think we’d make a bitchin’ zombie, if it were to happen to us. Problem is, by the time it ever happens to you, you kinda won’t care how Savini-esque you look.
 Artist Rob Sacchetto has seen a need, and created a solution. For $80 plus shipping, he will work from your headshot (no, not kind that puts down the living dead, a photograph of your head) and return to you an original 8×10 illustration of you as a flesh-craving zombie. This is, quite frankly, a service I’ve never seen advertised anywhere else. I love living in the future.
Check out examples at ZombiePortraits.com.
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Posted on 12.04.06 by Nathan Shumate @ 11:21 am
 Since it’s hard to talk about zombies without talking about George Romero, let’s do that. Or rather, let’s let this 1993 book from Wallflower Press do that.
The Cinema of George A. Romero: Knight of the Living Dead is the first in-depth study in English of the career of this foremost auteur working at the margins of the Hollywood mainstream in the horror genre. In placing Romero’s oeuvre in the context of literary naturalism, the book explores the relevance of the director’s films within American cultural traditions and thus explains the potency of such work beyond ’splatter movie’ models. The author explores the roots of naturalism in the work of Emile Zola and traces this through to the EC Comics of the 1950s and on to the work of Stephen King. In so doing, the book illuminates the importance of seminal Romero texts such as Night of the Living Dead (1968), Creepshow (1982), Monkey Shines (1988), The Dark Half (1992). This study also includes full coverage of Romero’s latest feature, Bruiser (2000), as well as his screenplays and teleplays.
I wouldn’t exactly call Monkey Shines “seminal,” but to each his own.
224 pages in paper, twenty bucks even from Amazon.com .
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