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ZOMBIES. A-Z BRAINY GUIDE

[Nov. 8th, 2009|08:00 pm]

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Found this Article in Entertainment Weekly and enjoyed it very much:

A is for ANDREW: The disappointingly mundane middle name of George A. Romero, the mad maestro behind 1968's Night of the Living Dead and it's five (so far) sequels.

B is for BRAINS: While your average zombie will happily nosh on arms, legs, or intestines (be they upper or lower), 1985's Return of the Living Dead singled out this sweetmeat as their repast choice.

C is for COMIC BOOKS: AMC is developing a show based on the comic The Walking Dead. The giddy, gory Marvel Zombies has proven that even superheroes get cravings. Hulk...eat...brains!

D is for DEAD: if it's a zombie movie, there's a good chance it has this word in the title. See: Dawn of teh dead, Shaun of the Dead, and...

E is for EROTIC NIGHTS OF THE LIVING DEAD: Think you can't mix '80s soft-core porn and zombies? Think again.

F is for FULCI: As in Lucio Fulci, Italian gore-teur whose infamous 1980 epic Zombie, a.k.a. Zombie Flesh Eaters, a.k.a. Zombi 2, featured an unforgetably awesome underwater smackdown between a pasty-faced zombie and a real live shark.

G is for GOBLIN: The colorfully named prog-rock band who performed teh doom-drenched soundtrack to teh European version of the 1978 classic Dawn of the Dead.

H is for HEAD SHOT: How do you kill a zombie? Well, you can try kindness. But we'd suggest shooting it in the head.

I is for iPHONE: Can you really put a price on preparedness for the inevitable zombie appocalypse? Of course not! So why not cough up 99 cents for the Zombie Survival Kit iPhone app?

J is for JACKSON: as in Peter Jackson. Sure, we all think of the hirsute Kiwi directir as the visionary behing the Lord of the Rings trillogy. But before he got rich and respectable, he was a zombie nerd. Exhibit A: his gooey 1993 cheapie Dead Alive a.k.a. Braindead.

K is for KARO SYRUP: the key ingredient in fake movie blood for any makeup F/X artist. Essential for splatter and viscosity.

L is for LAND OF THE DEAD: Usually a ghetto for no-name actors, teh zombie genre got a dose of A-list (okay, maybe B-list,) cachet with 2005's Land of teh Dead, which starred Dennis Hopper, John Leguizamo, and the dude from The Mentalist.

M is for MONROEVILLE MALL: If you take Exit 57 off the Pennsylvania Turnpike, you'll find yourself at the most hallowed landmark in zombie-movie lore- the shopping center from George A. Romero's consumerist satire Dawn of the Dead. Come for the Auntie Anne's Pretzels, stay to photograph yourself eating fake guts. But please don't tell them we sent you.

N is for NAZIS: What could be nastier then zombies?How about zombies that sport jackboots, swastika armbands, and iron crosses? Remarkably, there have been at least three Nazi-zombie films: 1977's Shock Waves, 2008's Outpost and 2009's Dead Snow.

O is for ORANGE UNIFORMS: Michael Jackson's "Thriller" video brought zombie choreography to teh masses-which ultimatly included Day-Gloclad Filipino prison inmates, who re-created MJ's moves in a 2007 voral hit.

P is for PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES: "It is truth universally aknowledged that a zombie in possesion of brains must be in want of more brains." So begins this year's unlikeliest publishing sensation, a tea-drinking, fleash-eating riff on Jane Austen's romantic literary classic.

Q is for QUARANTINE: A Hollywood remake of the terrifying 2007 Spanic POV chiller [REC], in which a TV Journalist is trapped in an apartmen complex full of infected cannibals. Also: teh only zombie movie we can think of that begins with Q.

R is for RUNNING ZOMBIES: Zombie geeks are a pretty peaceful lot. Except when it comes to the heated debate over fast-versus slow-moving zombies. While Romero's old-school series espouses the lumbering-undead model, younger directors such as Zack Snyder (2004's Dawn of the Dead remake) and Danny Boyle (2002's 28 Days Later) feature zombies that make Usain Bolt look like a slow poke.

S is for SAVINI: Ever felt queasy watching a zombie film? you can properbly that Tom Savini, the makeup F/X/ legend whose credits include 1978's Dawn of teh Dead and 1985's Day of the Dead.

T is for "THEY'RE COMING TO GET YOU BARBRA!": The most famous line in zombie-movie history is uttered by Russell Streiner. who's attempting to creep out his scardy-cat sister (played by Judith O'Dea) in 1968's Night of the Living Dead. In a deliciously sick, ironic twist toward the end of the film, it's Streiner who comes for his Sis, after being turned into one of...them.

U is for UMBRELLA CORPORATION: the nafarious bioengineering firm responsible for the zombie plauge in the Resident Evil Videogames and teh Milla Jovovich-starring big screen spin-offs

V is for VAMPIRES: Yes they're also undead but in a dreamy, come-hither, mooning-over-sulky-chicks sort of way. We'll side with teh Zombies in a street fight, thanks.

W is for WOODY HARRELSON: We all remember his cold-blooded shooting spree in Natural Born Killers, and now weire never going to forget seeing the country-bumpkin barkeep from Cheers blasting away teh undead.

X is for X-FILES: Given the hit show's monster-of-the-week nature, it was only a matter of time before Mulder and Scully wanted to beleive in Zombies. The episode in question; a doozy from 1999 in which they investigate a possibly zombie-related conspiracy with teh assistance of Lance Henriksen's Frank Black.

Y is for YOUNG ZOMBIES: Kids. They won't just eat you out of house and home in zombie movies- they'll eat you, too! One of teh many taboo-trashing scenes in Night of teh Living Dead had a yound girl in a flowered dress taking a chomp out of her fathers arm as a snack.

Z is for ZOMBIE SURVIVAL GUIDE, THE: If you want to tie a sheep shank knot, the Boy Scout Handbook is your best bet. If zombies are attacking try Max (son of Mel) Brooks' tongue-in-cheek guide to making it through World War Z.

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