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G.O.R.E. Score: Resident Evil 4

Original Release Date: January 11, 2005 Platforms: Wii, iPhone, PlayStation 2, GameCube Publisher: Capcom “Resident Evil 4” is the first video game I ever played (and beat!) that heavily involved zombies, and I may have spoiled myself – it’s visually stunning, incredibly challenging, and actually has a storyline that engages the player from start to […]

G.O.R.E. Score: Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars

Original Air Date (USA): December 19, 2009 Run Time: 60 minutes “The Waters of Mars” is a recent “special” (a.k.a. extended episode) of the British science fiction series “Doctor Who.” For those who aren’t intimately familiar with the Doctor Who (DW) series, the titular character is an alien known as a Time Lord who has […]

G.O.R.E. Score: The Last Christmas

Original Release Date: November 15, 2006 Total Number of Issues: 5 (Miniseries, collected graphic novel) Publisher: Image Comics Happy Holidays to everyone! In the spirit of the season, however you choose to celebrate, Slight of the Living Dead would like to share with you a very special Christmas-themed G.O.R.E. Score review: the quirky graphic novel […]

G.O.R.E. Score: Zombies Can’t Dance

Original Release Date: October 2009 Total Track Time: 46 minutes Website: Zombiescantdance.com “Zombies Can’t Dance” is an ambitious project blending music and visual picture elements to tell its story of the zombie apocalypse. Creator Luke Kuzava has crafted a very unique way to tell his story, and the story itself is very unique as well. […]

G.O.R.E. Score: Re-Animator

Original Release Date: October 18, 1985 Run Time: 95 minutes Straight out of the 1980s came “Re-Animator,” an amazing film that somehow took zombies, gore, comedy, and an unknown cast, threw it all together, and created a one-of-a-kind experience for zombie and horror lovers everywhere. H.P. Lovecraft wrote the serialized story “Herbert West: Re-Animator” back […]

G.O.R.E. Score: Star Wars: Death Troopers

Original Release Date: October 13, 2009 Publisher: LucasBooks REVIEWER’S NOTE: It is nigh-impossible to talk about this book without giving away some pretty spoiler-iffic stuff, especially in the “Star Wars Characters and Locations” department.  I have made the actual Scoring spoiler-free, so if you don’t want to know any of this pertinent info, skip down […]

G.O.R.E. Score: The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks

Original Release Date: October 6, 2009 Total Number of Issues: 1 (Standalone Graphic Novel) Publisher: Three Rivers Press “The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks” is a graphic novel that gives a “visual” chronicling of some of the recorded zombie attacks from Max Brooks’ quintessential first book, “The Zombie Survival Guide.” This release has taken some […]