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G.O.R.E. Score: Pontypool
Original Release Date: March 6, 2009 Run Time: 95 minutes When spending a few moments recently aimlessly surfing the online zombie boards and forums, as I tend to do in the vast majority of my ever-dwindling free time, I kept stumbling across the same word, a word that didn’t make any sense to me: Pontypool. […]
G.O.R.E. Score: Comes the Dark
Original Release Date: July 16, 2010 Publisher: Library of the Living Dead Press Being a horror critic that focuses specifically on zombie stories, I hear a lot of discussion from zombie fans about what they like and what they don’t like, and they generally tend to fall into two distinct categories. Many fans seem keen […]
G.O.R.E. Score: Homecoming
Original Air Date: December 2, 2005 Run time: 58 minutes “Homecoming” was an episode of the two-season television series “Masters of Horror” that aired on Showtime from 2005-2007. Each episode was directed by a (self-proclaimed) Master of Horror; “Homecoming” was written and directed by Joe Dante, who has directed a number of movies, most notably […]
G.O.R.E. Score: Het Madden: A Zombie Perspective
Original Release Date: November 29, 2009 Publisher: Zilyon Publishing “Het Madden: A Zombie Perspective, Book One: Wrath 2012” not only wins the award for Longest Book Title I’ve Seen in Quite Some Time, it’s also a very entertaining read. Written and self-published by first-time author Cal Miller (co-founder of the fledgling Zilyon Publishing, under the […]
G.O.R.E. Score: Zombies!: Eclipse of the Undead
Original Release Date: May 16, 2007 (collected) Number of Issues: 4 (Mini-series) Publisher: IDW Press I think I may have been spoiled by “The Walking Dead.” I feel like a lot of the zombie-centric graphic novels I read these days just don’t feel like good story-telling to me, and I wonder if that is due […]
G.O.R.E. Score: I Sell the Dead
Original Release Date: January 16, 2009 (USA) Run Time: 85 minutes Lately horror fans have been treated to an influx of decidedly above-average smaller, or “independent,” film releases. Offerings like “Dead Snow,” “Let the Right One In,” and “Pontypool” have shown fans of the genre that, thankfully, there are filmmakers out there that are bucking […]
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