Zombies Are Forever
Dedicated to all things Zombies, Zombies Are Forever serves as a HUB for the average joe to come and get prepared before the Zombie Apocalypse begins. Good luck and aim for the head!
April 19, 2011
Buy The Dead for $10
The Walking Dead is without a doubt the best Zombie-related TV show ever made, so while you wait for the 2nd season for the next 6 months, or until October, you can now relive the Dead for only $10 through Amazon. That's right, the budget concious Zombie-lover can now get the wonderful 1st season of the show for 75% off its original price of $40. The DVD includes a bunch of bonus features including tips on how to make your own Zombie make-up, interviews and a whole bunch of behind the scenes making-of footage. Now, I don't know exactly how long this deal will last, but this is about as low a price you're going to get, so if you like Zombies, and if you read this blog you probably do, then you should probably get this. I know I just did.
You Can Get It By Going: Here.
April 13, 2011
Two Guns Are Better Than One.
Duel-Wield-Taxodermy-Cowboy-Squirrel! FTW!! |
March 24, 2011
Comin Back Alive
Best garden statue ever. |
Greetings fellow Zombie slayers! I have to apologize for being on hiatus for so long. A lot has happened in my life concerning Zombies and I would like to share it all with you. Most recently, I downloaded the Undead Nightmare pack for Red Dead Redemption. I'm here to tell you that it is pretty awesome. Unbeknownst to me, there are cooperative matches you and three other friends can do together. Imagine for a moment a scene in the Kurt Russell movie Tombstone or Eastwood's the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Now picture yourself and three of your friends running around in those movies, shooting Zombies. It works like Call of Duty's Nazi Zombies, where you have wave after wave of Zombies with increasing difficulty. Its really fun and surprisingly difficult.
In other news I watched four Zombie films over my Spring Break. The four were: Lucio Fulci's Zombie, Wild Zero, and Romero's Diary of the Dead and Survival of the Dead. The verdicts: all of them were awful! However, they were saved by the fact that I watched them with friends and laughed the entire time. The the movies had such potential. At least I had high expectations for them. But Fulci's Zombie failed because the characters in the film are so stupid! In fact, the characters in all of those movies are stupid except for Wild Zero. The characters in Wild Zero are at least fitting to the crazy storyline. Don't get me started on Romero. The guy has lost his way. Perhaps ever since Day of the Dead. But Survival and Diary are so stupid! The only scene worth seeing is with the Amish guy in Diary who owns a ton of Zombies. Coolest character ever!! Yeah. So thats about it. I'll hopefully get back into the swing of posting every week. Hope you all are well and free of Zombie viruses.
February 26, 2011
Japanese Punk Rock Band Fights Off the Horde
Every once and a while I would like to do posts where I shed some light on Zombie movies that you probably have never seen before. Wild Zero is one of those movies. This movie is about a wannabe rocker named Ace and the band he idolizes, Guitar Wolf, fighting off the Zombie horde in Japan. It brings a different idea to the table in regards to how the Zombie apocalypse starts out, because in this movie the apocalypse is started by an alien invasion. Its funny, its rockin', its a good Zombie flick for the collection.
Should you happen to want to buy this movie immediately after watching the trailer, go here.
Should you happen to want to buy this movie immediately after watching the trailer, go here.
February 19, 2011
And Just Like That, It Was A Movie...
"WE'RE GOING TO HOLLYWOOD!" |
Lets see here, the Dead Island trailer was released on Tuesday and it already has a movie deal. Its amazing how influential the internet is. You get a video to go viral and you may never have to work again.
The film rights to Dead Island were snatched up by Sean Daniel of the Sean Daniel Company (he produced The Mummy, Dazed and Confused, and The Wolfman) and Union Entertainment for an undisclosed price and they are now looking for a writer. Apparently they want to shoot the film like Christopher Nolan's Memento, so in reverse chronological order similar to the trailer.
That sounds awesome to me! I can't think of any Zombie movie that has ever been shot like that. For those of you who have seen Memento, you can imagine how interesting it would be to watch a similar film about Zombies. I'm a movie snob at heart and I feel that movies shot in the "Memento style" are for the thinking man, or woman. It takes patience and thought and it really draws you into the film in a unique way by requiring you to think instead of the traditional mindless viewing. With that being said, if they get a good writer, director, and actors (fat chance), this film could be on the fast track to Zombie fame. But please Hollywood, if you are going to do a film that carries the drama and emotion that the trailer did, don't give us a mindless Zombie slasher with lots of blood.
Check out full articles here and here.
UPDATE!!
IGN has updated their article saying that game producer Dead Island has not yet sold the rights and pretty much hulk smashed Hollywood saying, "We are looking for quality above all else for a movie based on Dead Island. We want to do it the right way as film realizations of games (or vice versa) usually fail to deliver what the fans were looking for. We will not go down this route with Dead Island. Deep Silver profoundly believes in the quality and value of its Dead Island IP." I'm glad to hear that they want a quality movie and not just a bunch of money!
And you? Does your heart start to race just thinking about the Dead Island movie? Suggestions for Hollywood?
February 17, 2011
Dead Island-The Future of Zombies?
The best vacation you ever had. |
There is going to be limited guns and ammo, which means that combat is going to be mostly melee. "Knives, machetes, bats, broomsticks, pipes" is what you'll have to work with. Which reminds me a bit of Monolith's Condemned: Criminal Origins. In that game you had to search around eerie buildings trying to solve murders and fight off serial killers with mostly melee weapons that would degrade over time. Sounds like Techland is going for a similar combat system. So for those of you who haven't played Condemned, that type of combat is intense and makes for a lot of "OHSHIT!" moments when your weapon breaks halfway through a fight; hopefully we can expect the same from Dead Island.
Another big plus for this game so far is that its going to have four player cooperative, which I think we all can appreciate in a Zombie game. Killing zombies is great fun--add a few of your buddies and you have yourself a Zombie slaying bonanza.
We had a thread before under the Were Zombies Over-saturated This Year? post I did a while back, and in that post we were talking about how to keep Zombies games/movies fresh and exciting. I would be interested to see Techland's take on storyline. I hope its not just another unexplained Zombie apocalypse on a resort island with a few modifications to gameplay---LAME. However, if the trailer is any indication as to how the game plays, I would say this game is going to explode heads.
But what say you fellow slayers? Sound good?
February 14, 2011
Happy V-day From ZAF...
So its a little late, but I figured some of you out there might appreciate a Valentine's Day love song from a Zombie no matter how late in the day it is. Its got some funny-ish lyrics and its not hard to listen to. I hope for those of you who have significant others, you had a good Valentine's Day watching Sean of the Dead or playing L4D2. For the rest of us, raise your fists high in the air and savor the money you didn't have to spend on V-day gifts. Enjoy!
February 11, 2011
Zombie Apocalypse--LEGO Style
This is just precious. |
Peep their 2009 photos: HERE and for 2008 HERE
Do any of you find yourself creating your own Zombie Apocalypse, be it with drawings, paintings, action-figures (miss those days...), or food?
February 04, 2011
ZOMBIE SURVIVAL GAME!!
Yes. Another game is being made about Zombies. This news may cause some people to sigh pitifully as they whine, "Another Zombie game??" But for most of us, the die-hard fans of Zombiedom, we raise our fists in sweet victory and cry out, "BRING IT ON!!!"
Now, about that game. At this point it is called "Class3" (what a lame Zombie title!) and is being developed by Undead Labs exclusively for Xbox Live. It is said to be an "open world zombie-survival game". Just the thought makes me want to shout from atop a mountain. Is this not what we have been wanting for years? A game that actually lets you travel around a city to survive?? To quote IGN, "The team [Undead Labs] is looking to answer the big question: What would you do in the face of the zombie apocalypse?" What potential! I'm not quite sure if it is going to be an Xbox Arcade game or not, as it is exclusively for Xbox Live. If it is, that is a little disappointing. There is only so much that can be done with arcade games. I think for the concept of this game to be fully fleshed out, it needs to be an actual on-console title. This is definitely a game I will be keeping my eyes on however. Check out the full IGN article here.
What would you want from an "open world zombie-survival game"?
January 29, 2011
Coming Soon: Undead Monkeys
Hopefully it will be worth downloading. |
What do you think about 'Ascension' and Undead monkeys? Lame? Cool? Just another Zombie to pwn?
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