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Zombie Fans Stagger through “The Walking Dead” Conventions
From The Wall Street Journal: Actor Parker Wierling played the bit part known as “Asthma Boy” in AMC ’s “The Walking Dead,” uttering two lines in a single episode last year. He isn’t exactly Hollywood royalty, but on a recent Saturday he was signing autographs for his fans at $20 a pop. Welcome to “Walker […]
G.O.R.E. Score: Patient Zero
Original Release Date: March 3, 2009 Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin A lot of zombie novels in the stores these days present themselves as “standalone” stories; that is, they make it clear through the story-telling process that the story you are reading in that book is all the story you’re going to get, and the ending […]
G.O.R.E. Score: Night of the Creeps
Night of the Creeps (1986) Original Release Date: August 22, 1986 Run Time: 88 minutes There’s a lot of shady stuff that goes on at night. At least, that’s if you believe everything the movies tell you. Night is where “Fright” happens, when a “Comet” will come crashing down on you, and now it’s when […]
G.O.R.E. Score: Battlestar Galactica: Cylon Apocalypse
BSG Cylon Apocalypse (2007) Original Release Date: February 1, 2007 Number of Issues: 4 (mini-series; collected graphic novel) Publisher: Dynamite Entertainment Zombie crossovers: they’re all the rage these days. Differing slightly from the zombie mash-up, where the undead are inserted in a known story as the story itself is re-imagined, the zombie crossover is a […]
G.O.R.E. Score: Night of the Comet
Original Release Date: November 16, 1984 Run Time: 95 minutes “Night of the Comet” is a very unique movie. To the average viewer, it probably appears to be just another kitschy ‘80s horror film. But for those select viewers “in the know” about this movie’s director, Thom Eberhardt, and what his true intentions were in […]
The G.O.R.E. Score 